I didn’t believe it either. I mean we’re not talkin’ hockey here. But check it out for yourself at the Globe and Mail. Apparently with the rise of the Loonie,…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Yesterday’s warm temperatures probably brought back memories for some of you oldtimers here in Northfield. From the Wikipedia entry on the Armistice Day blizzard of 1940: The morning of 11…
Today is Veteran’s Day and there’s a service this morning at 11 am at the Northfield Area Veterans Memorial in Riverside Park. (I can’t be there so if you go…
Yesterday, I took the photo on the left of Mary Rossing, proprietor of Present Perfect, holding up the number ten in her store. I’ve taken more than a few…
My wife Robbie told me that she saw Ron and Jane Currer making a sign for Sweet Lou’s Waffle Bar when she visited their Graphics Mailbox store earlier this week.…
The World Bank recently published a study, “Where is the Wealth of Nations?: Measuring Capital for the 21st Century”, which is generating a lot of buzz. Why? Because, in trying…
In City Administrator Al Roder’s Friday Memo for this week, published today, he wrote: In October, the library experienced a 9% increase in circulation over the same month in 2006.…
Tracy and I are going to restart our tomato tossing. That’s right, that messy expression of differing opinions on the arts and economic development is going to be revived. Not…
Two local mediators filed suit against the City of Northfield in Rice County late Wed. afternoon, claiming that they’ve been unfairly bypassed from consideration as potential mediators for the Northfield…