Blue Moon (band-members Ross Currier, Jerry Johnson, Wendy Nordquist, Lance Heisler and fiddle player Inga Johnson) performed on the outdoor patio at the Contented Cow last night. The weather was…
Category: <span>Life</span>
I was riding my bike past Rock Fields on Wed. night this week when I noticed a game of girls fast-pitch softball going on between Northfield and a team from…
It was a picture-perfect weather for a performance by the Northfield Community Band (under the direction of Claire Larson) on Bridge Square last night, the first concert in their 2008…
Griff just called me on the phone. He was racing down the highway in response to a Fluff Alert. I told him to slow down and I’d step up to…
In keeping with the Locally-Grown-as-Gossip-Blog theme: A friend who moved to Silicon Valley [from New York] in the late 90s said the worst thing about living there was the low…
Our guest today was Randy Jennings, local citizen, long time Northfielder, and eloquent critic of Locally Grown. We mostly discussed his criticism of the recent controversial blog posts and comment…
Northfield’s civic blogosphere got a boost in the summer of 2004 when a group of government leaders from the U.K. visited Northfield. (We hosted them at the Contented Cow, naturally.…
I blogged about my high-tech hearing aids over a year ago. So it’s time for another report from the front lines of impending geezerhood, but this time, the topic is…
Minnesota Public Radio’s Public Insight Journalis (PIJ) project hosted a moderated discussion last Friday night in their UBS Forum. A group of about 20 citizens selected from their PIJ…