Monthly Archives: May 2008

My niece’s Big Fat Scottish Wedding

May 27, 2008 – 1:31 pm

I (and about 175 other guests) had a great time at my niece Birch Carlson’s wedding this past Saturday. Birch (resplendent in traditional white) married fellow Northfielder Locke Perkins (dashing in full Scottish regalia, including a kilt, sporran and sgian dubh) in a beautiful ceremony in the backyard of parents Randy and Lois Perkins (at [...]

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Return of the morels

May 19, 2008 – 5:06 am

The good folks at Locally Grown Northfield have gotten a bit of a buzz going about birds being seen in the Northfield area. Triumvirate member Tracy Davis encourages readers to post their bird sightings in her post “Birdwatching is NOT ‘Fluff’”. I’d like to venture into somewhat more exotic territory, that of the mushroom hunter. [...]

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Unsustainable development

May 3, 2008 – 7:19 pm

There’s been a lively discussion on the Locally Grown Northfield website of the request by four landowners that the City of Northfield annex 530 acres of land in Greenvale Township. Ross Currier, member of the Northfield Planning Commission, blogged on the issue for Locally Grown in advance of the April 29th public hearing on the [...]

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Buffalo Commons Village: Enthusiastic response to cohousing concept

May 2, 2008 – 6:04 am

There was an overflow crowd of interested, energized folks at Wednesday evening’s cohousing exploratory meeting at the Northfield Public Library. About 35 to 40 mostly local attendees put up with my presentation, then discussed whether a local cohousing project on land adjacent to the Northfield city limits should be explored further. By evening’s end, 15 [...]

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