I noticed this sign in front of the CarTime Auto Center at the intersection Hwy 3 and Hester St. in Dundas. It’s a little known fact that General Manager Jared…
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Sisters Ugly, the contemporary clothing shop owned by the mother-daughter team, Diane Sinclair and Jenny Sinclair, is moving to the Nutting Block building at 3rd and Division, recently vacated by…
A multi-course, pay-to-play, disc golf complex called Castle Rock Disc Sports will open this spring in Castle Rock, about 10 minutes north of Northfield on Hwy 3. It will offer…
Christopher Sawyer, President of College City Beverage, stopped by my morning office at Goodbye Blue Monday earlier this week to seek our help with finding a photo of their 1982-87 warehouse/headquarters. I then paid a visit to their current HQ in Dundas to see the photos they have of their other buildings.
Christopher later emailed me this:
We are looking for a picture of the building we moved into on the corner of Hwy 3 and 19 where the Movie Gallery, Caribou, Subway, Taco Bell and Country Inn are located. We moved into that building in 1982 and moved out in 1987. We are putting together a showcase of all of the warehouses that CCB has been located and this is the only one we cannot find a picture of. Thus far, we have talked with the City of Northfield, Northfield Library, Northfield Historical Society, the lending bank, realtor, and Rice County Historical Society.
Here are my photos of the photos that they do have:
Above: my photos of the CCB warehouse photos
Above: my photos of CCB’s plaques of Tom Blaisdell and ‘The course called Life’
Above: my photos of (left) CCB’s location at 1720 Cannon Road, 1988-2006 (currently Upper Lakes Foods); (center) CCB’s current location at 700 Railway St S, in Dundas; (right) Christopher’s dad, Jim Sawyer, at the 2006 Chamber holiday party.
Christopher also emailed me this history of the company:
Hodge-Podge que’, the antiques and collectibles store at the corner of 5th and Division, closed on Monday. Owner Jerry Nord told me everything’s packed up and ready to be taken…
I stopped by the Northfield Beef O’Brady’s on Thursday night to check in on Northfield Skating School’s Olympics party that Director Carey Tinkelenberg had organized. I was a bit late…
A week or so ago, local filmmaker Paul Krause, Dancing Sun Multimedia, previewed his new documentary, Harvest, for local media, including freelancer Alyssa Ford who’s doing a story on it for the Star Tribune this week. I weaseled my way into Paul’s studio in downtown Northfield for a photo and a sneak preview.
“Harvest” chronicles the creation of Ray Jacobson’s sculpture of the same title. From the initial drawings to the final installation on the riverfront, the film reveals every step required to craft the three thousand pound, bronze sculpture.
First National Bank of Northfield (FNB) is the second area bank this year to have federal regulators intervene. (Last month, it was Community Resource Bank – blog post here.)
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal agency that regulates nationally-chartered banks like FNB, has a statement posted to their website that says in part:
The complaints are pouring in to Northfield City Hall about Whitestone Cleaner’s sandwich board that reads “Drop your pants here.” Some of the citizens are particularly incensed that it’s right across the street from the Main Street Moravian Church.
There are several Northfield area businesses using similar sexual innuendo in their advertising. And others are using scatalogical innuendo.
“This trend is a blight on our city and it really frosts my balls,” said Red Ruffensor, Executive Director of the Northfield Convention and Visitors Bureau. “I will be asking the Northfield Planning Commission to tighten up the sign ordinance.”
The list of area businesses and their slogans which offend some: