Northfield City Administrator Al Roder publishes a memo to the mayor and city council each week on Friday. It summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. The Friday…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
If you’ve had enough of American Folk Music, maybe you’d like some more contemporary blues. I haven’t heard the CD pictured at left, but I’ll admit I’m interested. Of course,…
There’s been a lot of talk lately about Northfield’s City Charter, and whether it needs changing. A couple of months ago, we had Charter Commission Chair Peter Dahlen on our…
We bailed on doing a show/podcast this week. There was just too much good stuff on TV, plus we’re trying to delay hitting our 100-show milestone because then it means…
Former NAG Executive Director Rebecca Tofte (AKA Becky Bazan) was visiting with Contented Cow manager Julie Bixby on the Cow’s upper deck on Wed. eve. She’s been living in Burnsville…
Thursday’s Table is a program of the Northfield Community Action Center designed to provide a hot and healthy meal to people in Northfield who could benefit from a free,…
NUMC pastor Clay Oglesbee stops by my confessional at the GBM on a regular basis.
As a sometimes-blogger, plain talker, insightful observer, and a regular guy, he’s the kind of preacher that an atheist like me can relate to.
Plus, he’s quite easy to make fun of.
To wit:
So it was not good news for me last week when I heard that he’s been promoted to District Superintendent (southeast MN region) for the Methodist Church, as it means that he and Mary Lynn, the woman he’s been primarily been sleeping with for many years, must depart Northfield…. a requirement of the Church.
Here’s the press release:
We’ve been talking about the new roller hockey rink in Riverside Park for over a week. I took these photos of two Northfield High School hockey players using it…
…to celebrate the birthday of Harry Smith. Harry was known as a filmmaker, a visual artist and, at least to some, “the greatest living magician”. I first learned about him…