The Fieldhouse Sports Bar and Grill in River Park Mall has a sign on their door that today, Aug. 18, is their last day. I blogged their opening in December,…
Category: <span>Businesses</span>
The Rare Pair‘s Krin Finger and Jill Enestvedt were pictured and featured on the front page of the Strib Business section on Sunday in a story titled Keeping the goods…
In today’s Wall Street Journal there’s an article titled “Fastest Dying Cities Meet for a Lively Talk“. Eight of the ten cities labeled as America’s fastest dying by Forbes.com met to share ideas about turning their fortunes around.
I’m always interested in new ideas, from growing or dying cities, so I quickly dove into the piece. However, much to my shock, one of the cities was Springfield, Massachusetts.
Nicole Maloney of Sweet Pea’s Loft, has a new Cash for Clunkers (CARS) car – a Kia Rio. She managed to get her old POS into the dealer before it…
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin (AKA ‘Regi’) was featured on The Story last week in a piece titled The Fight to Farm. (The Story is distributed by American Public Media (APR), the parent…
In last week’s NY Times: Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative. “In an economic downturn, the do-it-yourself ethos extends to families burying their own loved ones, sometimes in their backyards.” I had no idea. Are there Northfield area death midwives (home funeral guides)? Do our local funeral homes (Bierman Funeral Home; Benson and Langehough Funeral Home) provide support for family-directed funerals? Have any congregations provided support for home burials? (continued)
I completely dropped the ball last week on taking photos during Crazy Daze. But fortunately, KYMN’s Tim Freeland picked it up and went all the way for the score. See…
Ross’ post to his NDDC blog about tomorrow’s Crazy Daze reminded me to put up some slideshows from previous events. Crazy Daze 2003 was one of only 4 community events…
EDA President Rick Estenson lent me his copy of the August Money magazine. The cover story is titled the “100 Best Places to Live in America“.
Number one is Louisville, Co, number two is Chanhassan, MN, number three is Papillion, NE, number four is Middleton, WI, and number five is Milton, MA. (Hmmm, I used to wrestle against Milton in high school; we called them the rich kids.) There’s several Minnesota towns in the top 100. In fact, the upper Midwest is very well represented in the list.