About twenty years ago, Northfielder Rob Martin (Rob Martin Insurancy Agency) hoped to build a 43-foot steel sailboat from scratch in three to five years in a lumber yard in…
Category: <span>Businesses</span>
I noticed this banner above an empty Heritage Square storefront yesterday. “Coming soon. Northfield Urgent Care.” Anyone know which chain will open here and who the local owner is? Some…
The StarTribune website posted a “Northfield First” story this evening. One of the biggest lessons the children have learned, Martin said, is that they are valuable members of the community.…
I’m running my own social experiment on Twitter, trying to get people to tweet about items of local importance on Tuesdays, using the hashtag (label) #TLT for Tweet Local Tuesday…
Not THIS city…Lancaster, California. The City Council in that community voted to take $500,000 from a reserve fund to stimulate consumer spending…and locally. Anyone who spends $300 at a business…
Chris Heimerl from Eagan-based Spooky All Natural Gourmet Hot Sauces also had an aisle stand at Just Food Co-op on Saturday. After I snarfed down several of his samples (“made…
I stopped by the Lorence’s Berry Farm aisle stand at Just Food Co-op on Saturday where Gayle Lorence was giving shoppers tastes of their strawberry jam and raspberry jam, spread…
Chanting “Save our town, or we’re going down",” students from Prairie Creek Community School held a “Northfield First” rally on Bridge Square yesterday. See the album of ten photos, the full-screen slideshow, or this slideshow… and following that, a 25-second video, and a 5-minute video.
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