Here is a baker’s dozen of photos from the peak of today’s winter storm, taken in downtown Northfield. Let’s call it the Great Thunder Snowstorm of 2009. See the album…
Category: <span>Life</span>
Looking out my window, it’s snowing so hard, I can barely see across Hidden Valley Park. And in the past ten minutes or so, there’s been lightning followed by claps of thunder within 15-30 seconds. Thundersnow! Looking at the Weather Underground radar for Northfield, there’s an even heavier band of snow heading our way. Here’s an animated screen capture from 12:31 to 12:52. Cool!
I missed these two events last night at St. Olaf: The F-Word: What Are Feminists Moaning About? “Learn about feminism from Katie Asher ’09.” Vagina Wellness. “Wellness Center Event. Learn…
The National Civic Review, the quarterly journal of the National Civic League (“Now in its 98th year of publication”), has its Winter 2008 issue out. The issue has a 6-page…
I know I do my part to create and spread Northfield-related faux news but I also spend a fair amount of time debunking items that people see fit to alert…
It’s Fat Tuesday. It’s the day to show your…beads. This year, I’m making an extra effort to show my spirit during this celebration.
As a bit of brief background for the Lutherans in our audience, Fat Tuesday (also known as Shrove Tuesday or Fausnacht Day) is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, or the last day before Lent. In places of sizable Catholic populations (and warmer weather) people often celebrate by wildly dancing in scanty costumes to spicy music. (continued)
Malt-O-Meal (MOM) now has a news blog, a M-O-M information blog, and a recipe blog. They’re using WordPress 2.7, they have comments enabled, RSS feeds, social bookmarking links, and two…
Suzie Nakasian has a blog post on Northfield.org promoting tonight’s 3rd Annual Northfield Winter Stomp (a “community contra dance”) at the Northfield Armory. Here’s the slideshow from last year’s event:
Greenvale Township’s three supervisors met briefly Tuesday night to sign the final draft of an annexation agreement with Northfield after nearly seven months of negotiation.
The annexation agreement, among other things, indicates how much Northfield would reimburse Greenvale for the property taxes the township will lose when 530 acres of undeveloped farmland goes onto the city’s tax rolls. Northfield is annexing the land to attract industrial developers in the hopes of widening the tax base and creating jobs.