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By Teri Knight, News Director A fight between spouses turns into sexual assault charges. Early Sunday evening, Rice County deputies were dispatched to a residence on Cannon City Boulevard after someone called to report a concern that one of the residents was going to harm his wife and then himself. Deputies arrived to find 50-year-old

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Dundas City Administrator Jenelle Teppen recaps the November 12 Dundas city council meeting. The council held a public hearing and then gave final approval for a conditional use permit for Cannon Valley Makers to use the building at 300 Railway Street. Teppen also provides an update on construction of the new city hall.

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Northfield City Administrator Ben Martig discusses last night’s city council work session (11/12) including a report on a study on efficiency, effectiveness and staffing of the police department, a new safe crossing across from the high school, a request from FiftyNorth to help fund an outreach coordinator for Age-Friendly Northfield, and the 2020 budget.

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This round is for comments on Xcel’s Permit Amendment Request:

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Here’s what we (Association of Freeborn County Landowners) filed:

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Quite a few comments were filed.

Reply Comments due November 19, 2019, one week from today!

Northfield, Minn.—A $5 million gift from David Ignat ’63 and Eleanor Ignat will help make a Carleton education possible for first-generation and low-income students while challenging other donors to follow suit. As of Nov. 1, 2019, the Ignat Challenge matches outright commitments of $50,000 to $2.5 million that create or add to an existing endowed

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US Navy Veteran, Educator, Minnesota Native Seeks Common Ground in a Politically Divisive Time CEDAR LAKE TOWNSHIP, MN – On this Veteran’s Day weekend, Jon Olson announces his bid to earn the DFL nomination for Minnesota Senate District 20. Jon Olson served on active duty in the United States Navy for 25 years before retiring

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Two more DFLers, including a veteran Northfield city councilor, have announced they’ll seek their party’s endorsement in a bid to unseat first-term state seantor, Rich Draheim.

By Teri Knight, News Director The Rice County Sheriff’s Office sent out a Request For Proposals for a facilities and jail study after the Dept. of Corrections deemed the current jail insufficient for medium to higher security prisoners. Sheriff Troy Dunn said the DOC said they need more recreational and educational space. They also lack

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American Legion Post #84 Operation Flag Drive NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA November 12, 2019 – Northfield American Legion Post #84 is launching Operation Flag Drive this month, its last fundraiser of 2019. Operation Flag Drive gives community members the opportunity to purchase new flags for personal use or to give as gifts this holiday season. All proceeds

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Olive Hupf of Randolph is Wayne’s guest. The 86-year old talks about her life and about the Appalachia Shoe Box Mission that she assists with each year.  The Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women added this mission to their Christmas project to fill a semi full of boxes of new, unwrapped gifts for over 1200 youth

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Northfield School Superintendent Dr. Matt Hillmann previews the school board meeting scheduled for this evening (11/12). There will be a National Merit reception just prior to the meeting where several commended students will be recognized. Hillmann will be conducting public tours of the new secure entry and main office construction project at Bridgewater School on

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The Northfield City Council on Nov. 5 approved a feasibility report for a $4.22 million road repair project, which will include installing bike lanes on three new stretches of city roadway.

Like a prayer that rises from the quiet lips of an old penitent, there is no beauty as elegant as old wine, resurrecting the glory of the Caryatids on the Acropolis and sunlight shining through high windows of St John Lateran onto hymn singing incense swinging priests, and although in the nose of this wine we inherit those relics whose memories are wrapped in the passage of time, we notice too in a swoon the fragrance of plum blossoms when you fall in love for the first time and your senses vibrate and expand to feel all that can be felt at once, dissolving the boundary of everything you thought you knew but just learned is only the smallest fraction of what can be known because until now you didn’t know love, didn’t know the smell of her skin just below her ear on that soft spot where your own breath mixes with hers and you can taste the commingling in the very air she inhabits, and when we breathe the skin of our loved one and inhale this beauty through our pores, each soft fragrance delineated along the touch of her lips, her neck, the almost impossible space between our skin and souls and in that inhalation we remember a memory of this love right now, and if we are fortunate to fall in love when the earth has moved past the sun and begins its long reflection back into itself we remember the earth radiating its stored heat, the pulse of an almost forgotten summer whose bass notes reverberate through our hands limbs and everything else all entwined and warm with wool and smoke and crystal clear breath and we wonder how anyone could forget this feeling, this full embrace of the world we live in. And how is it that seventy years ago when the scourge of war gashed raw this earth, killing and rupturing so much of itself from each other and a now irretrievable past, how did it come to be in those first months of peace, when the sun without judgment still poured across the land and the wind and the rain blew and fell without discriminating on who or what received its beneficence, how is it that on a field that was worked by farmers long since dead, whose hands are unknown to us today, how is it that they picked these grapes and crushed them with a memory of a tomorrow that just arrived. Seven decades ago, after the fermentation and resting in barrels, these grapes were put into bottles and laid in their caves only to lie there day after day after week after year after decade and my parents were young and they died more than a decade ago and still this wine sat in its cave untouched by light or heat or vibrations and the only thing that touched it was time, unforgiving linear time that softens things that once were sharp and brings down democracies and dictatorships and my almost six decades are enveloped and held in that time and still there is nothing but long silent memories until today when a protester in Hong Kong was shot and dozens injured and meetings were canceled because roads were blocked and still I made it to this restaurant in this quiet hush of an early evening in fall when the sky is washed with a breeze and the tear gas has dissipated and a relic from the past is remembered and poured into a glass and how does time express itself over time, a simple grape whose merest flaws or imperfections could have destroyed it years ago, how does it manage with such elegance to layer itself upon this long arc and still hold within it the lightest blush of strawberries and a bed of earth deep mushrooms and roots that draw up from rocks as old as life their nutrient remains and hold these twin remembories of spring and fall together in balance, weaving the many summers and winters together with this one small vineyard, one single harvest at the beginning of a long peace? How?

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Northfield area veterans were given thanks for their service on Veterans Day in the form of patriotic songs and passages at Bridgewater Elementary School.

By Teri Knight, News Director Yesterday, Northfield Beyond the Yellow Ribbon (NBTYR) hosted the 100th Veterans Day Ceremony at the Northfield Middle School. The Northfield High School band provided music with the Northfield Youth Choir singing the “Star Spangled Banner.” Members of the Stanton Civil Air Patrol presented the Memorial Table. Special guest Doug Carr

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Internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys is renowned for writing novels that uncover hidden histories, and for giving a voice to the voiceless. She is Teri Knight’s guest today, with her latest book, “The Fountains of Silence”. Set in Madrid, during the summer of 1957, this riveting novel sheds light on

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