NCO board member Doug Bratland works at Carleton College and has created a set of Carleton Community Connections web pages that … provide an easy way for Northfield residents to…
Category: <span>Education</span>
In the midst of the Truth Debate about climate change and global warming, one guy tries to spread the word using YouTube. Watch the first couple of minutes and see…
It’s been a winter wonderland here in Northfield and much of Minnesota since Thanksgiving. I took some photos yesterday afternoon along the Ann Sipfle Memorial Ski Trail in Carleton’s Cowling…
I wasn’t able to go; nor were Griff and Ross. We’d welcome anyone who attended the informational meeting to comment with their observations and any details they’d care to contribute.…
Northfield High School students Vy Nguyen and Hannah Dvorak were featured in separate articles in this week’s StarTribune. Hockey provides window between different worlds: Vy Nguyen, a Northfield senior, links…
(I’m going to experiment making one podcast blog post do double duty, ie, both a preview and a postscript.) Our guest this week: Suzie Nakasian, Secretary of the League of…
Andrea Een is one of my regular GBM window office colleagues. She’s an Norwegian-American Hardanger fiddler (her website), an Associate Professor of Music (violin and viola) at St. Olaf, and…
There’s a growing awareness nationwide that encouraging kids to walk and bike to school may pay off in several ways. Besides all the Norman Rockwellesque feelings the idea engenders, potential…
The World Bank recently published a study, “Where is the Wealth of Nations?: Measuring Capital for the 21st Century”, which is generating a lot of buzz. Why? Because, in trying…