City staff and various business dignitaries were on hand for this morning’s groundbreaking ceremony of the new KFC with owners Kim and Gary Tiedeken of Faribault. It’s being built in…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
Kari Eliason has a guest column in today’s Nfld News: Parents have questions about late starts. Allen Koch has a letter to the editor, too: Late start is affecting the…
I’ve been taking macro photos of the fall colors in the past couple of weeks, mainly in the Carleton Arb but also around the wetland NW of the Skoglund parking…
I wonder how Northfield’s public education leaders will react to President Obama’s $4.35 billion "Race to the Top" fund competition. So far, the NEA is not happy. Among other reasons, they really don’t like charter schools, a fact noted by the Sunday Washington Post editorial titled Charter Success: Poor children learn. Teachers unions are not pleased (reprinted in the Strib today with the watered-down title More proof that charter schools work). More background: (continued)
I drove by the skatepark in Babcock Park this morning and noticed that most of the structures had been removed. A Bobcat was there, open, but unoccupied. Anyone know what’s…
Update 9 pm: at 2:58 today, I posted the headline of the 1:48 PM Nfld News story titled: Summa admits poaching petition, won’t face jury with an excerpt of the first three sentences and the blog post title “Summa admits guilt; criminal charges dropped.” (continued)
Tracy mentioned in her blog post of last week’s Friday Memo that there "… are rumblings that another restaurant will be locating in the space held by Sweet Lou’s Waffle…
We got this email from Victor Summa over the weekend. I’ve added the links and photos.
Here’s a challenge for LG. It’s called using our history … retaining our meaning.
In the 9[26]09 N News there’s an article on the Palmer Fossum vintage tractor collection being auctioned. [see] the auctioneer’s E page on the collection. The Fossum farm is east of town on 100th street. (continued)
I got this email from a local resident:
I think it would be interesting to post something about St. Olaf’s decision to bring in Karl Rove on October 1st to speak. I am actually quite appalled that our hometown Lutheran college would do such a thing. Ann Coulter was one thing- she’s an over the top media freak who makes money by being just so. Karl Rove, kindly known as "Bush’s Brain" is a criminal with little regard for the law or the betterment of our society. Frankly, I think he’s evil and should be in jail!
The slightly defaced poster on the wall of the GBM (my photo above) has more to say, as well as the blog post on Oleville, by the Political Awareness Committee (PAC) of the St. Olaf Student Government Association (SGA) . (continued)