It’s only been two weeks since Leif Knecht, Knecht’s Nurseries and Landscaping, won the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce’s Businessperson of the Year award for 2010. But already, the weight…
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It’s nice to see the grass greening up around Santa’s house on Bridge Square, not to mention the Muni Xmas window that’s still on display. But I’m eager for the…
The City of Northfield is hosting a meeting with community event organizers tomorrow night, Wed. March 24, 7 pm. It’s not clear who from City Hall will be there and who’s invited (it’s open to the public) because other than the date and time, there’s no meeting information available that I could find. I’m told that packets have been sent out to various stakeholders. I don’t know why the general public can’t have access to them.
The issue was on the Council Work Session agenda for March 9 and the proposed changes are detailed in the packet PDF, pages 9-32. I’ve excerpted some of the text here for convenience (see below).
Update 3/25/10: photos from last night’s meeting:
I would agree, even if you opposed it. See this post on Ben Smith’s blog on Politico, The mother of all Biden moments. And Press Secretary Robert Gibbs tweets that he agrees with VP Biden. Here’s the video:
Our guest this week was Northfield Deputy Police Chief Chuck Walerius, talking about the new CodeRed emergency notification system for Rice and Steele counties (brochure/FAQ PDF) and the test of the system coming up on April 15.
You can sign up now so that the system alerts you via landline phone, cell phone, text message and email. Just visit either the City of Northfield Police Dept. page or the Emergency info page and click on the CodeRed logo/link. You’ll be sent to a special Rice/Steele page on the CodeRed.com website. (I’m deliberately not linking to it from here in case the URL changes.)
The old Bagel Bros. space on Division will soon be some kind of restaurant. Yesterday, a Lampert’s truck delivered lumber and over the weekend, the interior was painted. You would…
Robbie and I were in Willie’s Shoe Repair on Saturday when proprietor Randy Malecha showed us his latest creation: a leather belt for the upcoming production of the Stephen Sondheim…
I spoke with Community Resource Bank CEO Don Kuehnast on Thursday who confirmed that they’re intending to move their downtown branch to the Phoenix Building at 7th and Division. A…
I’ve been working with Gretchen Falck to revamp the website for her Forza! studio into a blog site. She’s been blogging since January. At her studio on Professional Drive (behind…