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I’m undecided on the issue. The School Board votes on Oct. 25. Background: District: Northfield Public Schools Board of Education Hosts Open House and Information Session on YMCA Facility Proposal…
I took this aerial photo of Memorial Park in Dundas during the Sept. flooding. It’s the home park for the Dundas Dukes Class B amateur baseball club.
(Someone has posted six more photos of the flooded field in an album on the Dukes’ Facebook page.)
I got this email from former Dundas Dukes manager Bill Nelson earlier this week:
Here’s the video replay of the webinar we hosted on Monday with NHS Executive Director Hayes Scriven. You can drag the slider to these segments of the webinar:
- 00:00-06:55 – Introductory comments, Griff, Tracy, Hayes
- 06:55-12:30 – Capital campaign: Taking Northfield History to the Next Level
- 12:30-25:30 – Renovation/floor plan tour
- 25:30-33:30 – Planned removal of the trees in front of Scriver Building
- 33:30-36:10 – Northfield History Collaborative
- 36:10-39:55 – Northfield History podcasts
- 39:55-42:55 – NHS donations, GiveMN
- 42:55-48:05 – Closing comments
If anyone has NHS-related comments or questions for Hayes, attach them to the comment thread and we’ll drag him over here to respond.
There’s lots happening at the Northfield Historical Society these days. So we’re hosting a webinar with NHS Executive Director Hayes Scriven on Monday, Sep. 27, 3-4 PM to learn all about it, including:
- The MHS grant to support the NHS capital campaign, “Taking Northfield History to the Next Level"
- Northfield History Collaborative
- Northfield History podcasts
- And my favorite, the planned removal of the trees in front of Scriver Building
The webinar will allows us to bring documents, photos, videos and audio into the presentation.
And it will offer audience members a chance to submit questions.
If you don’t have access to an internet-connected computer with speakers, you can participate via phone (long distance call).
If you can’t make the live session, the entire webinar will be recorded and made available in both video and audio format.
Having placed an ad in the July 12 & 19 issue of The New Yorker, Paul Nimisto’s life is about to go from hectic to ape shit. The Vintage…
The Northfield Historical Society is recommending that the two ash trees (see photo above with red arrows) in front of the Scriver Building (its headquarters and museum) be removed.
The issue was on the agenda at last week’s Council meeting. See p. 42-52 of the July 20 packet (PDF). From the packet:
NHS is initiating a project to increase the accessibility of the Scriver Building by installing an elevator in the alley behind the stair tower that opens onto Bridge Square. The elevator will provide ADA access to all three levels of the building. Currently the accessible entrance to the building is off of Division Street. However, this enters into the Museum proper and does not allow access to other floors of the building.
To make the elevator ADA accessible they are proposing to use half of the sidewalk in front of the building to construct a ramp to allow access to the elevator from the stair well. Other options were explored but were not feasible due to physical constraints of the building. Drawings showing the proposal are attached. Currently the sidewalk in this location is about 12 feet wide. The proposed improvements would use 5-6 feet of this width leaving 6-7 feet for the pedestrian access route if additional width for pedestrians is not provided.
Here are six more photos of the area in front of the Scriver Building.
I’m trying to understand the rationale for the removal of the trees since ADA standards would still be met after the ramp was built.
Update July 29 7:05 am: photo of the access at the Holland Block at 5th and Division:
After a presentation at the Council meeting by NHS Executive Director Hayes Scriven and SMSQ architect Steve Wilmot, much of the Council discussion was about the removal of the trees. It ultimately voted 6-1 (Pokorney opposed) to approve the resolution to begin negotiations for the right-of-way (ROW). Here’s the video of the discussion:
There are some new trees in Riverside Park near the pergola, courtesy of Northfield in Bloom, which I think is a subsidiary of the Northfield Garden Club.
It’s not often that someone beats me to a blog post after a community event. But it happened this week. At last Saturday’s Riverwalk Market Fair, I took the…