The Friday Memo, written by Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and many of the department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. This week’s…
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I took these photos earlier this week of the Woodley Street reconstruction / (CSAH 28) roadway improvements project. The City Engineer’s web page for the project has an Aug. 2008…
Our guest this week apparently was Ward 2 Councilor and blogger Betsey Buckheit, discussing the state of the Northfield City Council now that she’s served for 100+ days.
I say ‘apparently’ because I wasn’t there and my lame colleagues neglected to take a photo. Here’s a recycled one from Betsey’s appearance on the show back in November.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes. You can also download the MP3 or subscribe to the podcast feed, or subscribe directly with iTunes.
The Northfield City Council discussed truck parking in the Babcock Park (rodeo grounds/dog park) parking lot at Monday’s meeting. I wasn’t there but caught a bit of the discussion on…
The Friday Memo, written by Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and many of the department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. Although it’s…
The Northfield Police Report (released Friday) shows that 19 young people were busted for either underage drinking or possession of marijuana / drug paraphernalia on the West Side of downtown…
It’s time for my annual whine about those who ride bikes on the downtown sidewalks. (See the Sep. 2007 blog post w/ 32 comments and Sep. 2008 blog post w/ 26 comments). City Admin Joel Walinksi has an update in the April 17 Friday Memo:
To improve safety regarding sidewalk bike riders in the downtown, the community service officer will be dedicating more time to public education involving those bike riders that disregard the city ordinance. Additionally the Public Works/Engineering folks will also be looking at signage or stencils that (continued)
On Thursday morning, I noticed that these cars had been hit by an official PD tagger. Welcome to the Thursday 2am to 6am fundraiser! Notice my red arrow on the…
This bur oak tree on South Hwy 3 across from Target/Cub/Applebee’s is on the agenda for Monday night’s council meeting. See p. 26 of the Packet (PDF).
I love oak trees like one but it seems pointless to go to such lengths to keep it when the whole south section of Highway 3 from Woodley/246 to Cty Rd. 1 is mostly a commercial strip with little thought to aesthetics/nature. (continued)