A year ago, Tracy announced that we’d begun using a service called Gravatar (globally recognized avatar) that allows people who add comments here to put a face to their name.
Many of you who regularly comment have already set up your Gravatar. For example, here’s a snapshot of 8 comments attached to the Sweet Lou’s post:
A reception was held at the State Capitol yesterday afternoon to close out the Sesquicentennial and thank everyone involved. (I blogged a photo album of the event here.) The program included the official sealing of the Sesquicentennial Time Capsule.
Our legislators, Sen. Kevin Dahle and Rep. David Bly, signed a Sesqui banner (I missed the deed) which will evidently be placed in the time capsule, to be opened in 50 years for the State’s bicentennial.
I surprised Mayor Mary Rossing in her store Present Perfect this morning with my video camera. I mostly asked her questions that had to do with Monday night’s City Council meeting, which you can read a bit about here. We touched upon her changes in meeting procedure, her tactics on facilitating meetings and her outlook on information exchange in Northfield and on the financial health of the city’s businesses.
Just like last year, we got a holiday greeting card from Morgan Weiland and Cameron Nordholm that included their photo. Who are they? We have this blurb on our About…
The Northfield Entertainment Guide and Locally Grown bring you the second annual
Best of Northfield 2008
VOTE FOR THE BEST!
Every February, the Northfield Entertainment Guide (NEG) will bring you the best of Northfield as determined by you, the reader.
Vote by filling out this online survey or by filling out the paper forms around town and putting them in the drop boxes or dropping them off at By All Means Graphics, 17 Bridge Square.
If you own a Northfield-area business and would like some ballots and boxes, contact us and we will get you the stuff.
I had coffee last week at the Goodbye Blue Monday with Jeff Holte, a former Northfielder and a colleague who I worked closely with back in the 80s.
In the summer of 1986, Jeff and I were hired by an education division of McGraw-Hill (based in Eden Prairie) to help launch MIX, the McGraw-Hill Information Exchange, an online network for K-12 teachers and schools. We were among the pioneers using online networks not only to connect teachers but to offer classroom projects that connected students with other students around the world.
Hope y’all have a very happy (and safe!) New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. I’ll be incommunicado for today and tomorrow, celebrating my 35th wedding anniversary with my sweetie.…
Northfield’s Meredith Fierke is getting more than a little attention from the Twin Cities media lately. She had her CD The Procession favorably reviewed last week by Culture Bully’s Jon…