I was in Duluth last weekend and the local news headlines were all about the $6.5 million City budget deficit mess, at a level that’s attracting statewide coverage (MPR last…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
Last August I blogged Ray ‘Jake’ Jacobson’s presentation of his Harvest sculpture to an NDDC downtown forum. The sculpture was given a temporary home at MOM in November. This…
I met with Minnesota historian Bruce White last week who will be using this photo of Northfield’s Bridge Square in the header (rotational banner photos) on his soon-to-be unveiled blogsite.…
The Friday Memo, written by interim Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and many of the department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. Although…
Two years ago, right about this time (10 am or so), THE hailstorm hit. See my one year-anniversary blog post, as well as this one titled Northfield’s ‘06 hailstorm featured…
While taking photos of the outdoor pool’s climbing wall last week, I noticed the commemorative plaque and flag pole for what’s now called Old Memorial Park. The plaque reads: On…
The City of Northfield’s outdoor swimming pool has a new $32,000 climbing wall. It arrived damaged back in June and its replacement was supposed to be in place in…
Anyone know what’s going on with the external construction/repairs at the Northfield Middle School? I took these photos earlier this week while biking the great bike/walking paths around the school.
In last week’s Strib South: Dakota County hopes to bring kids to table: Kids who eat family meals have fewer risky behaviors. The more often children eat dinner with their…