Real Joe was a blog that I published from August, 2000 to December of 2005. Its tagline: Important stuff. Plain talk. Ordinary guys. The word ‘Joe’ in our culture is…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
With the Jan. 4th departure of Northfield Public Safety Director/Police Chief Mark Taylor (see the Dec. 28 rehash of the Dec. 6 story in the Nfld News), the Northfield City…
Back in November, I saw a Thanksgiving essay in the NY Times, The Prayer of an Unconventional Family by Anne Lamott and noticed in the footnote that she had a…
A couple weeks ago I noticed that St. Olaf sociology professor Mike Leming was featured in Felicia Crosby’s Just Curious column in the December 2012 Entertainment Guide (I’ve extracted it…
President Obama said yesterday in the wake of the Connecticut school mass shooting: “We’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this,…
Jessica Paxton, KYMN Radio host and Rich Larson, Left-Handed Entertainment have been doing the promo for Friday’s “Trashy Little Xmas Show” at the Grand. Rich devotes his Positively Division Street…
According to Google Analytics, Locally Grown’s traffic for the month of November, 2012: Visits: 17,593 Unique Visitors: 10,312 Pageviews: 31,007 If you’re a potential advertiser and would like to access…
A week or so ago while doing the dishes and listening to an NPR podcast on my smartphone (see, I’m hip), I heard this Weekend Edition music interview, Dozens Of…








