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See Ross Currier's NDDC weblog post for the story behind the new Wayfinding Sign on Bridge Square.


And a tip of the hat to Director of Parks for the City of Northfield, Howard Merriam for including the N.org URL on the bottom of the sign.

Northfield Creative Professionals (NCP) held their B2B Social/Fall Crawl tonight. College City Beverage sponsored the event, and pub crawlers moved from J. Grundy's Rueb 'n' Stein to Diamond Dave's, The Contented Cow, The Upstairs Tavern Lounge, and the Froggy Bottoms Irish River Pub.

Ryan Heinritz, Nfld News staffer and NCP co-founder, munches on the drawing tickets.


Sandy Sjoblom won the trip to Cancun.

See all the photos in the NCP photo album, as well as the promo piece for the event in yesterday's Nfld News.

See the 21 ArtOrg photos from last night's wingding at the Rueb in the ArtOrg fall info party album.

From Dave Machacek:

"Come to ArtOrg's fall party. Find out about our hot new fall classes. They're the ultimate in cool! Groove to the music of Phil Aaron (piano), Kevin Clements (bass), Dave Karr (sax) and Steve Jennings (drums). Join instructors, fellow students--any Northfield area artist, recognized, hidden, or frustrated. This is YOU, baby. Upstairs at J. Grundy's Rueb 'n' Stein.

See these cool links to Dave Karr, photos; Steve Jennings, charter member of "Over and Back"; Phil Aaron; Info from Carleton.edu on Kevin Clements.

There's an album of 55 photos in the ArtOrg Art Crawl album, taken at tonight's event at ArtOrg.

I moblogged this photo (and then later edited it) of John Schott from tonight's Artcrawl at ArtOrg. John is Chair of Cinema and Media Studies at Carleton College and the blogger behind Camera Iraq.

In today's Star Tribune: Police employ technology to get closer to community

Community policing has been about building partnerships between police departments and the citizens they protect -- combining the best parts of the era when everyone knew the cop on his beat with the professionalism of modern law enforcement... Building partnerships with citizens means sharing information, and technology is giving departments the ability to share more than ever.

Good examples can be found in Eagan, Lakeville and Northfield... Northfield Chief Gary Smith writes a Weblog (garygsmith.net) and links to his weekly newsletter, "Around the Block." Smith's blog carries news about his family and everyday stuff such as shopping at Target in addition to his thoughts on criminal justice issues such as medical marijuana (thumbs down). It makes readers feel like neighbors.

Carol Roecklein's last day at the Northfield News is today. Chris Graff's last day at the Northfield News was over a week ago.

If you have a best-wishes comment, attach it here or use the Contact Us form and we'll try to get it to them.

Carleton, St. Olaf, and RENew Northfield are featured in today's Star Tribune, in an article titled New school energy: The wind by Tom Meersman.


I took this photo on Wednesday morning, the first day that I've seen the turbine in motion.

Want to watch a 17 second video clip with sound?

See Carleton's turbine page for more. The dedication ceremony is Saturday morning. Details on the syndicated calendar.

I've stepped down from the NCO Board as of Sept. 1 and pulled back from my Northfield.org volunteer work for the time being.

I may be back at a later date, but in the meantime, I'm still posting to my Citizen Wig weblog. Contact me there.