The Northfield Historical Society is having their annual auction on Saturday night… dubbed the Magical History Tour (PDF poster). The Fab Five? I’ll be there taking crowd/socializing photos like I…
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The Rueb ‘N’ Stein held its annual Halloween bash on Saturday night. Click photos to enlarge and see one of these photo albums for 4 dozen more: Picacasa, Flickr, Rueb.…
After the Laura Baker auction on Saturday, my wife Robbie and I headed to the Contented Cow and there we discovered a couple of my Locally Grown colleagues. Co-host Ross…
Sean Hayford O’Leary IM’d me about this cool tool on MPR’s website: Select a candidate. By answering a series of questions about major issues, you can quickly learn which candidates…
I attended the taping of MPR’s In the Loop show tonight at their new UBS Forum, a public meeting space. The About page for the show says: We like to…
I was told that Led Zeppelin was performing this Thursday at The Grand but now I see Ross’s post on the NDDC blog that it’s actually Reve du Faun. I…
We’ve added a tag cloud (see this Wikipedia explanation of a tag cloud) to our upper right sidebar. Northfield.org has this Flickr photo gallery tag cloud: We still have Categories…
This is for real. In a community in the southwestern U.S., city councilman Mark Easton lives in a neighborhood with a beautiful view of the east mountains. At least, he had a view, until someone built on the lot below his house.The new home was 18 inches higher than the ordinances would allow, so Easton went to the city to be sure they enforced the lower roofline ordinance.
Easton and his new neighbor exchanged a few words, which were not pleasant. In the end, the new neighbor had to drop the roof line, no doubt at some expense.
Recently, Mark Easton called the city and informed them that his new neighbor had installed vents on the side of his home. Mark didn’t like the look of these vents and asked the city to investigate — and look what they found…..
I took these fall color photos in Cowling Arboretum, aka “the Arb yesterday and today. Click to enlarge and see the full album of a couple dozen high res photos…