In this weekend’s Northfield News article titled Railway cancels ads for ethanol, there’s no mention of Prairies to Power, the local coalition of ethanol plant supporters that was supposedly behind…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
Like most blogs that have the comment feature enabled, we get hit by the automated comment spam scripts every day. The WordPress spam protection, Akismet, works very well… 6,976 spam…
The front page of today’s Northfield News had this article by managing editor Devlyn Brooks: Spring means home and garden time: Garden show this weekend; seasonal stories inside. Here’s an…
My co-host Tracy Davis blogged about Northfield’s coffee culture a month or ago (Creativity and the “Coffee Quotient“). Evidently, the Strib’s South section editor, Dennis Buster, read it and it…
In Wednesday’s Northfield News, there’s a letter to the editor titled Mill Towns bike route isn’t safe from Andrea and Gary Iseminger questioning the safety of the bike lanes for the Mill Towns State Trail as it passes through Northfield.
Do they have a valid argument? I’m not sure. See their letter below.
While on a walk yesterday in the Upper Arb, I noticed this memorial near the rec center. (Click photos to enlarge.) Text on the plaque in the center photo: In…
In this week’s Business Week, Jon Fine’s Media Centric column is titled Down And Out In The ‘Burbs: Turns out it’s tough to make local work on the Web. There…
I thought the saga of St. Olaf’s sale of WCAL to MPR ended over a year ago (See this Northfield News article from Feb. 2006 titled: Regents approve plan for…
I spent the past two days Grand Rapids, doing some consulting for the Blandin Foundation and KAXE – Northern Community Radio on how to best foster the development of citizen…