In Saturday’s Nfld News: Firefighters want to air concerns to Northfield council In a Dec. 28 letter, 27 of the department’s 32 firefighters asked that the City Council schedule a…
Category: <span>Gov’t & Policy</span>
In this week’s Nfld News: Redistrict? Council wants to eliminate wards A discussion about how Northfield should go about redistricting took a left turn Tuesday as the city council approved…
Several downtown locations (businesses and public spaces) were tagged with graffiti over the weekend. I’m not sure when it happened. The last time there was a big…
Randy Jennings has a guest column in yesterday’s Nfld News titled What is economic development? Yawn? Nosiree. It is a benign title for a hard-hitting piece. (I assume the headline…
In today’s Northfield News: Burglaries in Northfield down by 40 percent in 2011 While calls for service are up through the end of last week, crime overall is down, most…
Ross Currier has sent this to City of Northfield Mayor Mary Rossing and other members of the City Council. Mary – I am writing to you not as executive director…
In January, Rice County Solid Waste will start accepting many more types of household plastics via the single-sort curbside recycling bins. See their PDF flyer for details. Items include: All…
Teen smoking is declining, according to a recent Monitoring the Future press release: The 2011 national survey results from the Monitoring the Future study show decreases in teen smoking in…
In last Sunday’s Strib, Eric Wieffering’s business column was titled Vibrant economies aren’t found only in cities. Citing the recent Trade-Center Hierarchy in Greater Minnesota report by the University of…