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Last month Rice County found itself in the middle of the national debate over free speech on the Internet when the New York Times published a story called “Online Talk, Suicides and a Thorny Court Case,” about a Faribault man who has been charged with two co Continue Reading
“It’s a considerable challenge,” says Simon Tyler, director of the Northfield School of Arts and Technology (ARTech). “We’re going to need to borrow money,” adds Nalani McCutcheon, the executive director of the Cannon River STEM School in Faribault. Continue Reading
Armed with scientific calculators, students at Carleton College were doing math – but not just any math. They were adding up calories and cents, selecting foods to buy from a small-scale model grocery store they’d built in the classroom. Their goal: to satisfy their dietary needs with limited money.
(The Ragstock Used and New Clothing Store. Photo by Veasey Conway.)
The Clothes Closet is one of several used goods sellers in Northfield whose business has been strongly affected by the recession of the past year.
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, love.”
Those words are displayed on the front wall of the Main Street Moravian Church in Northfield, and they are the words that Pastor Amy Gohdes-Luhman used to open the Town Hall Meeting on drug abuse held in Northfield on Nov. 8.
(Homes at Viking Terrace. Photo by Hai Ngo.)
When his car broke down two weeks ago, José Ramos and his family faced a difficult decision.
Replacing the car’s water pump would put a considerable strain on the family’s monthly budget. Yet without a car, José couldn’t drive to the sites around Northfield where he finds occasional home improvement odd jobs.
A food drive last Friday on the Carleton College campus raised enough money to buy 65 pounds of fruit juice, milk, yogurt and other foods that were donated to the food shelf at the Continue Reading
On a recent sunny Wednesday afternoon, I found myself, a 19-year-old college student, listening to a psychology lecture with 13 other students. Continue Reading
These red brick buildings are green.
“It’s hard to tell it is so environmentally friendly, it just feels like a really nice dorm,” says Lauren Masterson, a Carleton College freshman and resident of Cassat Hall, one of two new recently completed dormitories getting rave reviews from residents.
