Nicole Maloney of Sweet Pea’s Loft, has a new Cash for Clunkers (CARS) car – a Kia Rio. She managed to get her old POS into the dealer before it…
Category: <span>Gov’t & Policy</span>
I was shocked to read in yesterday’s Northfield News (Transit study suggests tunnel under highway) that the Bolton and Menk consultants have drawn up conceptual plans for putting a tunnel under the Hwy 19 railroad tracks by Malt-O-Meal. When Tracy blogged about Hwy 3/Hwy 19 transportation study open house a few weeks back, I had no idea that we’d be paying consultants to look at a tunnel. This seems like a wildly extravagant idea and a waste of money to study, no matter if it’s local dollars or Federal dollars. Or am I missing something? (continued)
Close your eyes, children of Northfield. Last Saturday, I took this photos of Northfield Municipal Liquor Store’s Bob ‘Fat Bastard’ Stangler proudly displaying the Cycles Gladiator wine that according to…
There are now six temporary skatepark structures set up at Babcock Park and judging from the crowd there last night, it appears to be a hit. See the…
We picnicked at Sakatah Lake State Park last weekend and I noticed that they’ve set up a collector/detector gizmo on an ash tree for the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). In…
The City of Northfield has been hit with a disability and gender discrimination lawsuit, filed by former Economic Development Manager Charlene Coulombe-Fiore.
Posted to the Nfld News website at 3pm today: Former employee alleges discrimination in federal suit (continued)
We were all pretty perky for this week’s show, handing out some kudos here and there while we discussed a bunch of local issues that I can’t quite remember as I write this.
I do remember having fun, though, so be sure to listen anyway!
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
The routing of the new trail ($245,000 from the City’s Master Development District Fund) from the Mill Towns Trail bridge through Riverside Park will evidently necessitate the removal…
Despite what you see in this photo, I’m not the type who would verbally abuse a cop. But this article in yesterday’s NY Times about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., As Officers Face Heated Words, Their Tactics Vary, made me wonder what the line of tolerance is for our local men and women in blue. Should they ignore the verbal abuse as long as no threats are being made? Does the setting matter (public vs private)? How about if the comments are coming from a youth? (continued)