There’s a billboard for Cannon River Tree Care (formerly H&H Tree Care) on S. Hwy 3 near Kwik Kopy, across from Target. The business is owned and operated by Jon…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
As construction continues on the access to and from the new Peggy Prowe Pedestrian Bridge (AKA DNR Bridge #66549) for the Mill Towns Trail in Northfield, it’s not clear where the trail will go as it enters downtown Northfield. And then what? It’ll be years before there’s a connection to the Cannon Valley Trail in Cannon Falls, so it would seem that getting bikers into downtown at the Riverwalk / Sesquicentennial Legacy Plaza would be ideal. But how? (continued)
Paula Granquist featured author and artist Steve Swanson on her KYMN Radio show, ArtZany! Radio for the Imagination, last Friday morning. Swanson, a retired St. Olaf professor of English and…
It’s been six weeks since RepJ reporter Bonnie Obremski departed Northfield. Lots has been happening behind the scenes since then to figure out how to best continue RepJ. Here’s the plan.
With continued support from the new Center for Sustainable Journalism at KSU in Georgia, there’s going to be a Northfield version of Spot.Us, a community-funded reporting project operating in the Bay Area of California under the guidance of founder David Cohn. Their software platform is open-source and, with a lot of help from Ruby on Rails guru, Jared Mehle, I got it up and running yesterday. (continued)
On Thursday morning, the boys at Witt Bros. were replacing tires on cars that had their tires slashed in vandalism spree in the Sibley School neighborhood the night before. In…
This parakeet was hanging around our backyard birdfeeders in the Hidden Valley Park neighborhood yesterday.
In the NY Times earlier this week: As Storefronts Become Vacant, Ads Arrive. “Rather than let abandoned retail spaces look like pockets of poverty, landlords are renting the windows out…
More experimentation with the commenting feature
I’m giving the commenting system Intense Debate another try. (I ran into a glitch back in January.) It requires that previous comments be taken off-line while the synchronization takes place.…
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