Wellstone Organization Reborn? State Representative David Bly told a group of Carls on Wednesday night that he hopes to revive the late-US Senator Paul Wellstone’s Organization for a Better Rice County (OBRC). Bly plans to work on the project over the summer with Representative Patti Fritz (who represents much of…
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One Hundred and Thirty Malt-O-Jobs to Relocate Malt-O-Meal plans to move fourteen percent of its Northfield workforce according to a Senior Director Dave McBeain’s Wednesday statement. The the shift will affect office staff rather than manufacturing workers, and comes in response to new food safety measures. After last April’s Salmonella…
Insult to Injury for Lansing Former mayor Lee Lansing received a no-trespassing order for his own garden-supply store on Division Street last week. The recently foreclosed property was previously owned by Lansing’s son, but is now held by Voyager Bank, which set last Sunday as a deadline for Lansing to…
Top Heroin Dealer Sentenced A chapter of Northfield’s recent struggles with heroin closed on Tuesday with the sentencing of Travis Roy Peterson, the largest known heroin dealer in Rice County. The 19-year-old received a prison term of more than seven years under a plea deal. He was accused of selling…
Rock and Roll Principal Northfield High School senior Mauricio Lozada had a goal of raising $6,000 in scholarship money for first-generation Latino College students. School principal Joel Leer had a receptive ear and a rock band willing to play for charity. Together they planned last Saturday’s benefit concert to help…
Bluegrass barn dance party. Yes, there is a barn dancing venue in Northfield! Even with the Battle of the Bands raging at the Grand and Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin at the Cave, at least a half-dozen carloads of Carleton students trekked to the Spring Brook Stable off of…
A favorable vote from the Northfield City Council last Monday may help Carleton take the lead in its sustainability arms race with St. Olaf College. Pending funding and further approval from the city, a second Carleton wind turbine – smaller, cheaper and closer to campus than the existing one –…
Work crews broke ground this Monday on the new dormitory project on the south end of the mini-bald spot. Crews have already removed a parking lot, and cleared a number of trees from the area; this coming Wednesday the project will expand into the parking lot east of the current…
The fourth and final anticipated candidate visited campus this Wednesday and Thursday in the job search for the new Director of Campus Activities. The new candidate is, according to student workers at Campus Activities, already the favored pick by the administrators who will choose the new Director. The new candidate…
Visitors in support of the Muticultural Graduation Celebration outnumbered student Senators at last Monday’s CSA Senate meeting as the body considered a funding appeal by the event’s organizers. Senate voted 13 to 4 to give the group its full $500 request. The Multicultural Graduation Celebration will be a new ceremony…