In late Feb, I attended the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota‘s (BikeMN) third annual Minnesota Bicycle Summit on Capitol Hill, noting that I was “trying to get smarter about the state…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
A crew from the Weather Channel was broadcasting from Bridge Square last night as it started to snow. I took these photos shortly before 6 am. It seems like we…
Last year at about this time of April, I wrote in a blog post “I noticed yesterday that dozens of new trees had been planted along South Highway 3…” and…
Many Northfield area well-wishers and maybe a few of the occasionally arrested turned out for Northfield Police Sergeant Mark Murphy‘s retirement party at Northfield City Hall Council Chambers yesterday afternoon.…
Northfield Police Sergeant Mark Murphy stopped by my corner office at GBM on Wednesday and gave me the news: he’s retiring today. I later found the details of his retirement…
Back in February, the Heritage Preservation Commission approved Jim Bohnhoff’s sign request on behalf of Northfielder Dale Gehring’s new business, Cannon River Outfitters. See the Feb. 28 packet, pages 4-8:…
Some news on the two Northfield-related citizen engagement projects that I’m working on: Left: my photo of the NDDC’s Ross Currier, navigating icy sidewalks last week to distribute invitations to…
I went to the premiere of Genesis: The Art of Creation at Carleton College’s Weitz Cinema last night. ‘Genesis’ is a Paul Krause documentary about Northfield artist Fred Somers and…
Last month, the Northfield News posted this to their Facebook page: There is something blissfully naughty about getting intimate in public. In high school, we necked in the back seat…