It was no surprise to me that the Northfield City Council voted 5-1 tonight to reject Ames Park as the location for the skate plaza. Betsey Buckheit was the only one to vote in favor of it. The real surprise was in the post-vote discussion where they opted to take over the criteria setting and planning process for a skate park location from the Park & Rec Advisory Board (PRAB). I briefly chatted with PRAB Richard Vanasek after the meeting who seemed stunned by the latter.
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
Page 29 of the June 1 City Council agenda packet summarizes the history of the skate park location as it relates to Ames Park. On April 29, I emailed each…
Fire destroyed much of Al Linder’s townhouse adjacent to Hidden Valley Park last evening, part of the Valley Pond Townhome Association. His townhouse is on Hidden Valley Drive, right around…
The Dundas Dukes beat Highland Park 13-6 in a non-conference slugfest last night at Memorial Park in Dundas. Among the highlights was Dukes manager Bill Nelson taking a screaming liner…
The Dundas Dukes play Highland Park tonight, 7:30 pm at Memorial Field in Dundas. And the Northfield Knights play Cannon Falls, 2:00 p.m. Sunday at Sechler Park.
The City of Northfield put up the hanging flowers around downtown this week, including the pedestrian footbridge. Crews are installing the brick paver crosswalk in front of the Post Office…
In the May 22 Friday Memo, Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski announced the new CGI Communications videos (Northfield Video TourBook). They’re now viewable, linked from the left sidebar of the City’s home page or via this link on CGI/eLocalLink. Unfortunately, unlike YouTube and every other video service on the planet, they don’t provide the embed code for the videos. (continued)
Yet more experimenting with the comment feature
I know, I’m a glutton for punishment, but since I’ve already wasted umpteen hours today on trying to implement the IntenseDebate commenting system, I might as well try one more. …
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