The City of Northfield website has been undergoing a comprehensive makeover and is now ready for your review. Stop in to City Hall during one or more of the Public Open Houses (dates below) for a sneak preview and offer your feedback and suggestions!
Tomorrow, November 15th, is Give to the Max Day. It has become an important annual fundraiser for many Minnesota non-profits. Thousands of Minnesota nonprofits will come together to raise millions of dollars in just twenty-four hours.
There’s been a lot of buzz about “Music City, Minnesota” lately. Jim Walsh, former City Pages Music Editor, wrote a great piece on MinnPost about Northfield’s deep-rooted and currently-thriving music scene. It was, truly, a great piece, reflecting Walsh’s talents as a historian, anthropologist, sociologist, and, even, economist.
As has been the case in other years, the NDDC supported the Chamber’s recent, annual, traditional candidate forums. However, to provide additional support to the Chamber in their time of transition, this year we played a bigger role in the Council and Mayor Forum…buying the doughnuts and coffee and securing the space (thanks to Chuck [...]
As readers of this blog are aware, last year the NDDC launched a new initiative to increase connections to both college students and college alums, called College-Community Collaborations. Staff met with dozens of professors at both colleges, looking for a match between college interests and community needs.
