Jeff Wald, writing in his Nfld News column Wald’s Weekly Word, has a column this week titled Students banned from NHS game in which he wrote: NHS Activities Director Tom…
Category: <span>K-12</span>
Update log: 10/27 9:30 a.m., 10/31 2:30 p.m.
Jesse Streitz received informal encouragement from the Northfield Economic Development Authority (EDA) on Thursday morning to move forward with plans to build a Goddard School for Early Education off Professional Drive.
Streitz, former mayor of Dundas, said he would plan on returning to the EDA in the future to ask what the board can do to help finance the endeavor, possibly through a Master Development Fund loan.*
Buying the land and building the school would cost about $1.9 million, he said. The school would eventually employ 20 people and enroll about 134 students. He told the EDA he hoped to break ground between January and March and operate the school at “half-capacity” at first.
I snapped these photos at last night’s Northfield School Board meeting. The Board recognized the PRIMEtime Grant Collaborative and its PRIMEtime Fellows — Northfield High School students who volunteered to…
Bert Sperling has been generating “best places” lists for some time now. His lists are deemed more accurate and credible than many, owing to the proprietary algorithms he uses in…
I see some confusion on the Northfield Public Schools’ website regarding policies on cell phone use. The Parent FAQ page says cell phone use is permissible between classes and at…
Last fall, Northfield Union of Youth Executive Director Josh Hinnenkamp posted a comment here on Locally Grown about youth drug use and it included these two paragraphs: How can adults…
In yesterday’s Strib: Workers, employers welcome 4-day week. Public employers are at the forefront. In Minnesota, cities from Albertville to Zimmerman, counties and schools are making the switch or considering…
There are eight candidates for four seats on the Board of Education for the Northfield Public Schools, ISD 659. The candidates and the (known) links to their web sites/blogs: Kevin…
While taking photos of the outdoor pool’s climbing wall last week, I noticed the commemorative plaque and flag pole for what’s now called Old Memorial Park. The plaque reads: On…