In this week’s show, Ross and I interview the new Executive Director of the Northfield Arts Guild, Michael Fallon. Click photo to enlarge. Click play to listen. 29 minutes. Our…
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And that’s just nuts (sorry). In today’s NY Times: With One Word, Children’s Book Sets Off Uproar: The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature,…
About three years ago my wife read the novel Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns and pointed out a passage that astounded me at the time. Why? Because in…
Clay Oglesbee, lead pastor at the Northfield United Methodist Church, started a blog in January called Soul to Sole. His blog is part of the church’s Healthy Souls fitness project,…
I was poking around my photo archives earlier this week for the post on the Crossing and I stumbled on this N.org blog post from January 7, 2005. It struck…
What’s wrong with these prayers? “Let us pray for the safe return of our troops.” “And now let us bow our heads in prayer and ask God for a bountiful…
There’s a relatively new non-profit organization in Northfield called Ice Now “promoting the need for a new, multi-sheet, multi-purpose, skating facility.” Many of the recent letters to the editor in…
St. Paul film director Ali Selim was at the Southgate Theater here in Northfield on Monday, introducing and then discussing the feature film Sweet Land for an audience of…
I took this photo of Hayes Scriven at the Community Volunteer Festival last Saturday. Click to enlarge. Hayes has been the interim executive director at the Northfield Historical Society for…