It appears as though a dozen+ Northfield/Rice County area non-profits and/or their supporters are actively making use of the GiveMN.org website to solicit matching donations today between 8 am and…
Category: <span>Civic Orgs</span>
Doug Bratland has a Beaux Arts Ball-related calendar listing on Northfield.org titled: Get Ready for the Ball with Dance Lessons! Here’s the link to the ballroom dance lesson info…
I chatted briefly yesterday with Jim Braucher, Principal of Professional Design Group, a Northfield architectural and engineering firm, on the plans to redevelop the site of the Community Resource Bank and the old Aldsworth building overlooking Bridge Square with a historic-looking 4-story office building. I may be drinking the Kool-Aid but I’m not inclined to jump on the ‘save the Aldsworth’ bandwagon since only its facade was renovated in 1997. According to my Deep Throat at GBM, the interior structure is badly dilapidated. (continued)
The Northfield Historical Society’s annual auction is coming up on Sat. Nov. 21. (I keep waiting for Hayes to blog it so maybe this will wake him up.) Here’s a…
Construction on the $2 million addition to the Northfield Hospital’s Center for Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation (CSMR) at Jefferson Parkway and Jefferson Road likewise looks like it’s ready for the…
Bob Will was our guest this week, talking with us about efforts to save the Northfield train depot. You might think Bob is an old geezer, given that he has a few ‘formers’ associated with his name (eg, former Carleton economics professor, former Northfield Rotary Club president). But he’s more than a little active in community affairs (eg, current member of the City of Northfield Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC) and the Streetscape Task Force).
Click play to listen. 30 minutes. I’ve turned off comments for this post. Continue the discussion here.
For those of you who don’t follow Hayes (Scriven of the Northfield Historical Society) on Twitter, late yesterday he posted a question. He wants to know if anyone can tell…
BAMG/NEG head honcho Rob Shanilec invited me to a party at Jennifer and Chris Sawyer’s house on Monday to kick off the promo blitz for the big event of the…