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ELECTION RESULTS: Mortenson wins Rice County Attorney race
Assistant County Attorney Brian Mortenson has unseated his boss, winning just barely over 50% of the votes. County attorney was the closest race in Rice County. Mortenson received 12,366 votes. John Fossum received 12,248 votes. "Rice County, I promise to serve you with honesty, integrity and respect," Mortenson said in a statement. "Thank you for your support, your time and resources and your trust. … Now we get to work." ...
New jiu-jitsu studio opens in downtown Northfield
Northfield may be home to the only trans-owned Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gym in the United States. ”There is another one in Canada,” said Will Wiedenhoeft, owner and lead instructor of Misfit Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the new downtown studio which offers a safe place for trans- and queer-centered people. Wiedenhoeft opened the workout space in late August after offering private lessons since April. Earlier in the fall, the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce...
ELECTION RESULTS: Gerry Hoisington wins County Commissioner race
Gerry Hoisington will be Rice County commissioner for District 3. He won with just under 52% (1,806) of the votes. “I am extremely grateful and I am very thankful,” he said. “I tip my hat to Sam; he kept me on my toes. I worked hard, we door-knocked, we had a lot of support. I just give credit to all the people that supported me and helped. It was a group effort. I’m anxious to represent all the people of Rice County.” ...
Northfield girls cc takes 10th in state meet at St. Olaf
The Northfield girls cross country team finished in 10th place in the state cross country championships Saturday at St. Olaf College, anchored by freshman Caley Graber’s 36th-place finish. Graber finished with a time of 19:18.57. Northfield sophomores Anna Forbord and Addison Enfield finished in 60th and 61st places, respectively. Forbord’s time was 19:56.9 and Enfield’s finish was 19:57.1. ...
Pianists pair practices coordination, communication, collaboration (copy)
For veteran pianists David K. Miller and Richard Collman, playing a two-piano concert is much less nerve wracking than playing solo. Both musicians, who have performed as a duo since 2011, said they feel much less nervous at the keyboards when playing together. “I feel more nervous alone,” said Collman. Miller said he concentrates better...
Pianists pair practices coordination, communication, collaboration
For veteran pianists David K. Miller and Richard Collman, playing a two-piano concert is much less nerve wracking than playing solo. Both musicians, who have performed as a duo since 2011, said they feel much less nervous at the keyboards when playing together. “I feel more nervous alone,” said Collman. Miller said he concentrates better...
Uppity Women of Shakespeare perform two classic Christmas stories (copy)
After taking a three-year break, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from live performances of dramatized readings, the Uppitys are back. This year, the The Uppity Women of Shakespeare theater company will not be performing Shakespeare. Instead, the all-female group, based at FiftyNorth, will perform Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” and Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.” The performance starts 3 p.m. Dec. 2 at FiftyNorth. The back-to-back dramatizations of...
City Council hears DJJD report and finalizes contract on Bridge Square design
Two million dollars. That’s the amount of money that came into Northfield during September’s annual Defeat of Jesse James Days festival, according to organizers. Two representatives from the DJJD Committee, Lisa Peterson and Rebecca Peterson, spelled out the value of the community-wide event using data that tracks significant expenditures, volunteers, business support and donations in a detailed report at last week’s City Council meeting. ...
Northfield musicians perform benefit concert for Northfield Fine Arts Boosters
Over two dozen musicians will gather at Armory Square in downtown Northfield on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 6–10 p.m., to perform the songs of John Prine as a benefit concert for the Northfield Fine Arts Boosters (NFAB). The event features Northfield High School students Grace Ryden, Iris Harmelink, Maren Coudret, Emmett Norrie and Caroline Brice, plus Northfield community members Barb Piper, Jerry Johnson, Ray Coudret and his band Fred the Bear, Reid Hendershot, Brianna Lane, Mark and Ari Ross, and the Bratlanders. ...
Northfield sweeps Rochester Mayo for a return to section title match vs. Lakeville North
The Northfield Raiders volleyball team will return to the 1AAAA Section title match after a sweeping semifinal win over Rochester Mayo Tuesday in Rochester. The teams squared off in an intense first set, with aggressive play by both squads and multiple kills, along with hard-to-handle serving by the Spartans that several times ricochetted off a would-be dig to fly out of bounds. But Northfield stuck through that first set and eventually took the match at 26-24, 25-15 and 25-18. ...
Farm to School serves locally sourced lunches to elementary school students
Last Thursday’s lunch at Spring Creek Elementary School looked and tasted a bit different than usual. That’s because Thursday was Farm to School day for 2022. All the options available to students that day were from locally sourced foods grown on farms surrounding Northfield. The menu for kindergarten and second-grade students included apples from Fireside Orchards, cantaloupe watermelons from Good Acre Farms, turkey breast from Ferndale Farms and all-beef hot dogs from Thousand Hills Farm. ...
Northfield School Board hears facility plan voter survey results
Much of last week’s Northfield School Board meeting was spent digesting the results from a survey of 400 registered voters in the Northfield area who answered the phone to talk about proposed Northfield High School facility plans. The survey was conducted from Sept. 22-29 by the Morris Leatherman Group, a market research and interpretation firm based in Minneapolis. Don Lifto, an independent contractor with school elections strategies, presented a PowerPoint of the 44-page survey results to the board members. ...
Northfielder humanitarian visits Mexican border
As chair of the immigrant welcoming committee at First United Church of Christ Northfield, Gina Washburn has heard horror stories about the plight of Central American migrants. In mid-October, the retired attorney and three other Minnesotans joined several other congregational church members from Texas for a week-long visit to the United States-Mexico border. Their mission, Washburn said, was “to bear witness to the conditions affecting our migrant neighbors.” “It doesn’t...
Raiders start strong but fall to Owatonna 17-14
The Northfield Raiders had a touchdown run negated by a personal foul taunting call and ended up falling in a difficult defensive struggle, 17-14, at Owatonna in the Section 1AAAAA semifinal game Saturday. Northfield scored twice in the first quarter but could not cross the goal line again, as the Huskies scored once in the second quarter and then forced a safety when, deep in their own end zone, the Raiders snapped the ball over the head of their kicker and out of the back...
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