I caught Just Food Co-op’s Marketing and Member Services Manager Joey Robison in a rhapsodic moment earlier this week while she was talking to a group about Just Food’s Winter…
The Northfield Blogosphere Roundup is a good way to see the latest information on many of the area’s blogs. The updates included here show blog posts added approximately within the previous 24 hours. See Northfield.org’s blogosphere aggregator page for an automated, comprehensive listing.
At a meeting at Plaza Morena Restaurant in Owatonna on February 17 2009, a diverse group of restaurant and food business owners from Red Wing, Waseca, Albert Lee, Owatonna and Faribault meet to discuss an organizing process to secure higher level of cooperation and organization in the food business owners sector of the Southern Minnesota region (more).
Some of the snow shovelers in downtown Northfield during yesterday’s thunder snowstorm: Top: Jerry Bilek, Monkey See Monkey Reads Middle: Cathy Collison, Glass Garden Beads Bottom: Dean Kjerland, ArtOnWater, Kurt…
The National Civic Review, the quarterly journal of the National Civic League (“Now in its 98th year of publication”), has its Winter 2008 issue out. The issue has a 6-page…
Megan Rossow (left), "Petey," the parrot, and Leah Erickson display locally produced merchandise at the Cannon Valley Veterinary Clinic
Local governments and independent non-profits can be resources for business owners in need of support, especially in today’s tougher economic times. In Northfield, however, not everyone agrees on what the government and non-profits should do in order to offer the most help to the most business owners. The Representative Journalism Project attempted to collect more information about the matter by issuing a survey in January to 60 business owners or managers from a variety of fields. (continued)
Malt-O-Meal (MOM) now has a news blog, a M-O-M information blog, and a recipe blog. They’re using WordPress 2.7, they have comments enabled, RSS feeds, social bookmarking links, and two…
Yesterday’s Strib ran an AP article about how the Vermont Country Store catalog has started selling sex toys and related items. Target also sells a whole line of sexual health…
Over the past few weeks, Griff and Ross and I have been talking with specific community members about the idea of becoming Contributing Bloggers on Locally Grown. A few of…
The Northfield Perkins is now open 24 hrs, Thurs. through Sat. Presumably, that means the wee hours of Sunday morning, too. Have other Northfield restaurants in times past been open…
