Former NAG Executive Director Rebecca Tofte (AKA Becky Bazan) was visiting with Contented Cow manager Julie Bixby on the Cow’s upper deck on Wed. eve. She’s been living in Burnsville…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
Thursday’s Table is a program of the Northfield Community Action Center designed to provide a hot and healthy meal to people in Northfield who could benefit from a free,…
NUMC pastor Clay Oglesbee stops by my confessional at the GBM on a regular basis.
As a sometimes-blogger, plain talker, insightful observer, and a regular guy, he’s the kind of preacher that an atheist like me can relate to.
Plus, he’s quite easy to make fun of.
To wit:
So it was not good news for me last week when I heard that he’s been promoted to District Superintendent (southeast MN region) for the Methodist Church, as it means that he and Mary Lynn, the woman he’s been primarily been sleeping with for many years, must depart Northfield…. a requirement of the Church.
Here’s the press release:
We’ve been talking about the new roller hockey rink in Riverside Park for over a week. I took these photos of two Northfield High School hockey players using it…
As the price of gas keeps escalating, I’m starting to see a lot more bikes downtown, including more weird ones like the Xtracycle that I blogged about last week. Left:…
Work has begun on the Water Street parking lot this week, part of the 5th Street and Water Street Parking Lot Improvement Project. What’s it going to look like? I…
Many downtown businesses and organizations have climbed on the America in Bloom — Northfield bandwagon. Others have had flowers for a long time. I zoomed around Division St. over the…
NY Times columnist David Brooks wrote a column earlier this month titled: The Neural Buddhists: The cognitive revolution is not going to undermine faith in God — it’s going to…
NCO board member and LWV Council Observer Jane McWilliams alerted me last Friday that the City of Northfield’s web site has undergone a change. I phoned City Administrator Al…