City Staff and the members of the Northfield Planning Commission are pleased to announce the launch of a project website, www.NorthfieldPlan.org, which is designed to receive public comments and provide…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Last week (January 3rd) the Wall Street Journal had an article by John J. Miller (a writer for the National Review) that discussed the past, present and future purposes of…
ArtOrg Exec. Director Dave Machacek saw my post about art on the walls of local businesses and gave me a heads-up on this 6 minute Google video, created by ArtOrg board member Greg Mattern who works at HDMG, a video post-production house in Eden Prairie.
Click play to watch. 6 minutes.
This video shows the creation of a 104-foot print on October 14, 2006 for Northfield Minnesota’s first Day of the Dead Celebration. Over a dozen Latino artists were assisted by a 20,000-pound, 50-year-old “Buffalo Springfield” steamroller.
In steamroller printing, a relatively recent and infrequent occurrence in the world of visual arts,
Left: On page 3 of this month’s Northfield Entertainment Guide (NEG), local businesses that display local artists on their walls are listed. Click image to enlarge the screenshot.Right: Fred Somers…
I’ve gotten considerable support and a good measure of criticism on my recent blog post, Loss of virginity announcement: Barbara Cew, 19. So here’s a straw poll to give me…
I’ve closed the Jan 5th straw poll on ethanol. Not a bad response: 76 votes tallied on the question: “Do you support or oppose the proposed ethanol plant in Bridgewater…
I met with Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin at the Rueb yesterday afternoon (click photo to enlarge), getting up to speed on his plan to create a Latino enterprise/economic development center for the…
Yesterday’s NDDC downtown forum focused on the state of retailing downtown. Anne Bretts, managing editor at N.org, has blogged about it: What would lure you downtown? (It’s an opinion piece,…
California rail transit agency Caltrain wants to replace its diesel locomotives with efficient Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) rail cars, whose benefits include faster speeds, lower fuel costs, and lower maintenance,…