Sacramento recently held their annual Chalk It Up! festival in support of funding for arts education. (See neighborhoods.org’s Flickr album for more photos.) I blogged about this a couple of…
Author: <span>Tracy Davis</span>
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for weeks, ever since I received a brochure in the mail about the conference. The image on the front of the brochure made…
A few years ago, when I served on the EDA, we invited Geralyn Sheehan to present the concept of Asset-Based Community Development. “Community development” is a rather catch-all term which…
See the Secretary of State’s website here. This is a link only; comments are turned off. 9:20 pm update by Griff: The City of Northfield is posting its primary results…
Just Food Co-op featured their third annual “Eat Local” challenge, running from Aug. 15 to Sept. 15. Just Food Co-op is challenging community members to eat 80 percent of their…
Many of our discussion threads veer off in the direction of, “What Northfield really needs is a ____________.” Now would be a particularly significant time to devote a whole post…
Please excuse me for abusing my bully pulpit here on LoGro, but I’d like to promote an out-of-town event with a highly local connection. Today’s Star Tribune included the review:…
I attended the “meet & greet” event yesterday afternoon which was held for the three finalists for the Economic Development Manager position. The three candidates, shown with faces toward the…
When roaming around for Crazy Daze this morning, I picked up a couple of books at Monkey See, Monkey Read and noticed the very cool bike proprietor Jerry Bilek had…