I’ve done five faux (fake) news articles here on Locally Grown since last October, three of them (and part of a 4th) satirical. How can one tell a fake piece?…
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Northfield City Administrator Al Roder will be our guest on next week’s podcast episode of Locally Grown. What questions might you want us to ask Al when we record our…
Earlier this week, the Northfield Hospital Board approved a plan to sell cigarettes in the Hospital Auxiliary Gift Shop. (Board minutes are here but January’s minutes are not yet online.)…
Sean Hayford O’Leary has generously offered some (not all) of his technical and design sensibilities to Locally Grown. He’s already hauled out the duct tape, chewing gum and bailing wire…
I’ve added a Meebo chat window to the right sidebar. Whenever I’m online and don’t mind being interrupted, you can start a chat session with me. No need to…
Rep. David Bly joined us in the KRLX studios yesterday for a legislative update. We made sure we got to Adam Gurno’s and Pat Allen’s questions and then we focused…
Our new 25B House Representative, David Bly (House web page), will be our guest on next week’s podcast episode of Locally Grown. David’s got a new look to his DavidBly.com…
Greg Carlson’s family, friends, colleagues and fellow Ole alums held a surprise party for him last night at the Northfield Golf Club. He was formally notified that he’s a 2007 recipient of the St. Olaf Alumni Distinguished Service Award (DSA).
Greg and his wife Nancy were captured near Farmington, blindfolded, and brought to the club with no clue as to what was going on until the gathered crowd began singing a special version of Um! Yah! Yah! (Click photos to enlarge.)
Among the many perpetrators were left, Jeff Carlson, brother and business partner; left and right center: Justin Stets, business partner; right: brother and songwriter Gary Carlson (apologies for the lousy photo).
Gary composed special lyrics to the song I’ve Been Everywhere and I captured the audio:
Click play to listen. 3 minutes, 43 seconds. Gary’s promised to send me the text of the lyrics and when I get them, I’ll post them here.
Update, Sunday, Jan. 14, 9 PM: Here they are. Thanks, Gary.
There’s a man who hails from Northfield, everybody knows his name,
Last week (January 3rd) the Wall Street Journal had an article by John J. Miller (a writer for the National Review) that discussed the past, present and future purposes of…