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Chanting “Save our town, or we’re going down",” students from Prairie Creek Community School held a “Northfield First” rally on Bridge Square yesterday. See the album of ten photos, the full-screen slideshow, or this slideshow… and following that, a 25-second video, and a 5-minute video.
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We have our first two non-profit advertisers on Locally Grown, sharing the banner ad space on the upper left sidebar. Lisa Carey, Community Membership and Outreach Coordinator for the Cannon…
It was just us co-hosts yesterday, primarily doing a post-mortem on Ross’ trip to Chicago for the National Mainstreets Conference with its 2009 technology-related theme, Becoming Main Street 2.0. (And what is Web 2.0? ) See the live-blogging organizers did during the conference. Ross has posted to his NDDC blog about the conference here, here, and here and on LG here and here.
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Due to some last-minute scheduling problems, I’ve cancelled tonight’s Live chat on Northfield business. I’ll post an update as soon as I get it rescheduled. My apologies!
I’ve had my Meebo group chat window on the LG Live page (1-to-1 chat with me) for a while but people don’t seem to find it. So after last night’s…
The Northfield Blogosphere Roundup is a good way to see the latest information on many of the area’s blogs. The updates included here show blog posts added approximately within the previous 48 hours. See Northfield.org’s blogosphere aggregator page for an automated, comprehensive listing.
Business
- Just Food cooperative grocery store on Water Street: Local Farmer Panel Discussion Friday- PLEASE PREREGISTER
Friday (March 6) from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Just Food is hosting “Feeding Minnesota in Winter: A Local Farmer Panel Discussion (more).”
Last week, the Strib hosted a one hour live chat with its opinion journalist, Lori Sturdevant, on the topic of the state deficit and other issues at the Legislature. I…
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for February was a mixed bag, according to Google Analytics. Site visitors set a record, going past 8,000 for the first time; pageviews and visits were down 8-10%. That may be because I’m now able to prevent pageviews and visits by me, Ross, Tracy and Bonnie from adding to the totals.
I’m comparing Feb. to Dec., as we lost the stats for a good chunk of January when I forgot to replace the code in the footer during the site changeover to a new theme. I’ve since installed a plugin to prevent a reoccurance (continued)