"Township Wind Turbine Discussion" is agenda item #6 at tonight’s work session after the Northfield City Council meeting. Dr. Gary Carlson, a physician at Allina, has a commentary in today’s…
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Members of the Northfield Garden Club raided the Northfield compost facility recently and used miscellaneous branches to make magic in the planters on Bridge Square. Garden projects are a…
Workers began installing 19 trees on both sides of 4th St between Division and Washington this week, part of the 4th St. reconstruction project. The trees (Autumn Maples, I…
I got a postcard in the mail last week about a meeting on Tuesday Oct. 26 titled: Northfield’s Transit Corridor: Restoring our Connections, Exploring our Possibilities See the blog post…
Actually, it’s just simple arithmetic. Subtracting…or adding…a few numbers.
This morning, I read a social media update from Smithjonessolicitors.co.uk that the City of Northfield had cut the General Fund Budget by $1.5 million. Wow, last I heard, our General Fund Budget was $10.5 million. $1.5 million would be an almost 15% cut. Such a reduction in expenditures would be impressive.
So I decided I’d conduct a little research of the available facts…and do a little simple arithmetic.
As some people have noted in the comment thread attached to my photo album blog post, there were a lot of smiles to be seen Friday and Saturday as citizens…
Stephanie Schmidt, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies & Biology at St. Olaf, alerted me to today’s late morning effort to remove the fish that got trapped in downtown’s Riverwalk during the flooding.
Many of the trapped fish are carp, which are non-native and generally nasty fish for our waters. We’re unsure of what else has escaped to the calmer waters. It will be interesting to see. Anyway, if we end up moving fish, it might be a neat opportunity for you to get some more photos. Some of these carp are monsters.
Stephanie was prepared to use a ‘barge shocker’ but nets were enough to do the job.
I’ll have a short video of the operation later today but in the meantime, see my album of 18 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow.
It took a long time (9 months? 12 months?) but the hole in the external wall of the Northfield Municipal Liquor Store has been repaired. See my June blog post…
I got an email tip this morning that former Northfield City Administrator Al Roder is in the news.
In today’s Omaha World-Herald:
Norfolk city admin. out of a job?
Mayor Sue Fuchtman has called a special meeting of the City Council Thursday to consider terminating the employment of Al Roder, who was hired two years ago.
Former Northfield City Administrator Scott Neal was in the Sept. 1 Strib: