The cover of the latest issue of The New Yorker makes a powerful statement. It’s worth ten thousand words on the economic challenges that the local economies of our communities…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Since we moved last fall, I’ve been buying gas at the Cenex station on South Hwy 3, despite its branding problem (note the three different names in the photo: Cenex,…
Carlelton dedicated this memorial to former professor and dean Shelby Boardman last Saturday. It’s northeast of the Hill of Three Oaks, east of the rec center. See the May 21…
While slinking around town with the guy I’m sleeping with, I spied the newcomers’ group at the Contented Cow. I rudely slunk off again without getting names, but I told…
I’m heading to the Minnesota Journalism Center at the Univ. of Minnesota later this morning for a conference titled New Pamphleteers/New Reporters: Convening Entrepreneurs Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and…
The Northfield Downtown Development Corporation (NDDC) hosted a tourism forum yesterday morning at the Archer House. L to R on the panel: Kathy Feldbrugge, Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce; Michelle…
As usual when we don’t have a guest, we’re more than a little scattered, and today was no exception. We did the usual community fluff up front, followed by some…
In addition to admiring Jane’s conscientiousness, I like seeing women ‘of a certain age’ empowered with laptops. (This was posted from tonight’s Planning Commission work session on the Comp Plan.)
I didn’t attend last night’s Northfield City Council meeting (agenda PDF; photo is from earlier this year). I was told this morning by a citizen who attended the meeting that…