Exec Director Hayes Scriven has posted to the Locally Grown membership sideblog about Saturday’s NHS annual meeting and ball. Here’s a look back at the 2008 and 2009 events:
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Our guest this week, Northfield City Councilor Jon Denison (4th Ward), fresh from a week with fellow Northfielders at the Blandin Community Leadership Program retreat.
We focused on communications issues, natch, but also touched on the Northfield Safety Center. In November, Jon was the only councilor to vote against the plan to reuse the existing Safety Center location for new fire station and build a police station at a new location.
The Northfield Anytime Fitness health club, currently in Heritage Square on S. Hwy 3, is moving to the middle portion of the Phoenix Building at Division St and 7th next…
Chip DeMann is the new retail store manager for the Northfield Historical Society. I heard him on Wayne Eddy’s KYMN radio show yesterday say that the NHS retail space currently…
Perkins is a Northfield-based trucking company that specializes in “long distance highway transportation and rigging services for heavy, oversize and time-critical shipments and projects.” I noticed yesterday that they’re putting…
Local landscaper Leif Knecht, former mayor Keith Covey and I spoke at open mic at last night’s Northfield City Council meeting, asking the Council to find a way to incorporate…
I saw a guy wading hip deep across the floodwaters at the footbridge below the Hwy 19 Lyman Lakes dam yesterday afternoon. Alas, I didn’t get there in time to take his photo. The ‘lake’ is covering most of Laird Field.
For a comparison of this year’s high water on the Cannon River, see the June 2004 floodwaters album, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
In today’s Pioneer Press: Northfield teacher charged in St. Paul ear-biting attack: A Northfield, Minn., middle school teacher faces a felony assault charge after prosecutors say she bit off part…
There’s a semi-secret open house today, 6 pm at City Hall (see mtg PDF) on the big 4th Street East reconstruction project (see the Division to Nevada corridor map PDF).…