Bonnie and Tom McKown (above) invited my daughter Gilly to take backstage photos at today’s Rock n Roll Revival 2007 performance. Here are a half-dozen (click to enlarge). See the backstage…
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My daughter Gilly took photos of Wednesday’s dress rehearsal for Rock ‘n Roll Revival 2007 which started Friday night at the Middle School. Click these photos to enlarge. Left: Madelyn…
In Wednesday’s Northfield News, reporter Suzanne Rock wrote an article titled Lansing lot eyed for new liquor store: 6-0 vote to start negotiations
And then there was one. Reservations about a new municipal liquor store and dissatisfaction over possible locations didn’t keep the Northfield City Council Monday from unanimously selecting a site for a future liquor store. Councilors Noah Cashman and Jon Denison expressed concern with the proposed locations. And Councilor Jim Pokorney said he wasn’t sure it was the right time to build a new store.
However, the council’s 6-0 vote Monday night gave city staff the authority to negotiate for the purchase or lease of the property in the 600 block of Division Street. The other site considered is just across the street adjacent to the Econofoods grocery store. The 600 Division site, the former Tires Plus location, is owned by David and Heidi Lansing. David Lansing is the son of Mayor Lee Lansing. The mayor recused himself from Monday’s discussion, as he has previously during other discussions about the property.
In same issue, the Northfield News editorial criticized the decision. And in today’s paper, former mayor Keith Covey and Alex Beeby have letters to the editor on the issue. See below for the text/links to all three.
Last week’s blog post about class size at the Northfield district’s elementary schools continue to zoom along, with over 50 comments attached. Join the conversation there and don’t forget: there’s…
A bunch of us locals have been pushing Web 2.0 stuff onto our fellow citizens since the launching of the civic blogosphere project back in the summer of 2004. The…
Yesterday, I spent an hour at the James Gang Hideaway visiting with Thor Henning Lerstad, News Director for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK). He’s visiting Minnesota this week to “study best-practice examples of Consultative/Participatory
(Last September, I spent an hour at the James Gang Hideaway visiting with a colleague of his, Jørgen Jensen, a journalist with Danmarks Radio (DR), Denmark’s national broadcasting corporation. He also wanted to learn about all the citizen journalism/community media/civic blogosphere stuff we’ve been doing here in Northfield for the past decade.)
Northfield.org’s Anne Bretts was kind enough to pick him up in the Twin Cities and bring him to Northfield for the day… and return him. How’s that for Minnesota hospitality? I brought him to lunch at Northfield Rotary (“Hey, everybody, a real live Norwegian named Thor!”).
I’ve included Thor’s email to me and Anne below in case others are interested in what he’s up to. Now we just need a similar visit from a journalist in Sweden to complete a Scandinavia trifecta and maybe top it off with visits from journalists in the other Nordic countries of Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
I do consulting work for the Citizens League but I’ve also been a member since 1989. (They also were the fiscal agent for the grant that started the Utne Reader…
My daughter Gilly took about 300 photos of tonight’s dress rehearsal for Rock ‘n Roll Revival 2007 which starts this Friday. She’ll sort through them all on Thursday night and…