Joel Walinski wrote in the Friday Memo for July 10: As noted below, approximately 50% of the Babcock Park Rodeo Grounds parking lot was overlayed this week. Local skateboarders…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
When I saw in last week’s Nfld News (River trail, bridge are on course) that $240,000 is being allocated for the 600 feet from the new Mill Towns Trail (MTT) bridge through Riverside Park to 5th St. and Water St., I wondered where that money is coming from. And as I dug a bit, I discovered that it’s also not easy to figure out where the money came from to pay for the $820,000 for the bridge.
Help is needed! (continued)
One of my favorite loops to walk in the Carleton Arb is the one that’s adjacent to Wall St. Road and Spring Creek Road in the Upper Arb. They’ve been…
The Carleton Arb is currently featuring visual and gustatory delights in the form of blackberries and wildflowers. And if you time it right, there are pretty women there to help…
Eric Johnson and Ben Witt were showing very little concern for the nation’s fossil fuel-based economy on Thursday morning outside GBM. Ben has the complete story on a Milltown Cycles…
There’s a new street sign up on a pole in Bridge Square, part of the ongoing wayfinding and streetscape-related improvements to downtown Northfield.
Northfield is full of civic-minded folks so I thought I’d alert y’all to the National Civic Summit which is being held in downtown Minneapolis next week, July 15-17. The two-day…
The White House is hosting a H1N1 Summit today and sent out an email (text below) urging communities to begin public H1N1 preparedness/awareness campaigns. As far as I can tell, there’s no H1N1 preparedness happening in Northfield. There’s no information on the City of Northfield’s Emergency Information web page, nor on the Northfield Hospital’s Emergency Communication & Disaster Planning web page, nor on the Northfield School District’s site. (continued)
[I’m going to be doing more experimentation with video here on LoGroNo so brace yourselves—it’s not likely to be pretty. You’ll notice a major audio goof in the first 10…