Northfield City Administrator Al Roder publishes a memo to the mayor and city council each week on Friday. It summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. The Friday…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
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My buddy, blogger, and another NCO co-founder Bruce Morlan mentioned to me this weekend that he’s thinking about moderating an online forum on planning commission-related issues. Bruce has done some…
I’ve started work on a Historical roots of Locally Grown web page, with miscellaneous photos. I started this when I noticed that 1) NCO Board Chair David Gonnerman blogged about…
Northfield News columnist and former editor Maggie Lee celebrated her 87th birthday last week and wrote a column about it titled Birthday tradition still going strong. It reminded me of…
I noticed the sign above The Art Store being taken down this week. The store closed at the end of the year. I took the photo of owner Ann Marie Boyle during the holidays.
What are her plans? See NDDC Executive Director Ross Currier’s blog post titled Ann Marie Rides into the Sunset that he posted on Dec. 20.
Flashback: here’s a video clip of Ann Marie talking about downtown events for the 2005 Harry Potter book release.
In a ceremony at the Northfield High School auditorium yesterday, former State Senator Tom Neuville was installed as a 3rd Judicial District judge. It was his last day as a…
My wife Robbie and I moved to Northfield in 1974, just after we got married. We raised all four of our kids here. We’re new empty-nesters but we plan to…
Tracy and I interviewed former Northfield City Councilor Dixon Bond and former Mayor John Stull today. (An attorney for Ross called to let us know he’s on medical leave.) Stull…