During this week’s show, Ross, Tracy and I touch on miscellaneous Northfield-related issues, including the fiber task force, the Comprehensive Plan, and school district class sizes at the elementary level.…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Michael Blaha at Organic Arts told me last week that my favorite web hosting company, Tiger Technologies, is carbon neutral. See their environmental policy for more. Here’s a defintion of…
Bart DeMalignon sent me a story and pictures from Kanab, Utah. It’s called “Cost Effective Speed Control”. They put decoy police officers in parked cars in hopes of encouraging observance…
I got an email from our tech wizard Sean Hayford O’Leary this afternoon, alerting me to this notice on the Ole Store website. The building itself was evidently sold a…
City crews were removing the snow from downtown this morning. Click photos to enlarge. Anyone know how much snow we got here in Northfield? How do you know? I’m guessing…
Northfield School District Superintendent Chris Richardson did a volunteer shift of reading/storytelling at the Community Volunteer Festival a couple of weeks ago. From the looks on the faces of the…
Thing are looking very different on the south side of the St. Olaf campus these days. Left: The east/west ring road to/from Old Main has been moved below the hill,…
In Wednesday’s Northfield News: No quick fixes for class size troubles: At a Feb. 12 school board meeting, several parents expressed concern over how big some classroom numbers have become,…
Sisters Ugly held a sneak preview at their new store on Bridge Square last night. Center: Co-owners Jen Sinclair and Diane Sinclair. The store opens today. Click photos to enlarge.…