Northfield News

We need to separate Mary Rossing the mayor from Mary Rossing the business owner.

For a decade and a half, the Northfield Area Foundation has built a sizable nest egg, annually giving a portion of its funds to improve life in this town of cows, colleges and contentment.

Carleton College is Minnesota's best private college value, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine.

Rice County District Court Judge William A. Johnson will resign from his post on Jan.

As I grew up in Northfield , there were two times a year that I visited all the homes in several blocks near my home - May Day and Halloween.

Frances Boehning, center, watches as her son, Erik, right, pulls out nails he hammered into a pumpkin during an ECFE class.

President Obama's declaration of a national flu emergency last Friday just added to the H1N1-related confusion.

30, 1909: A local chapter of the Methodist Brotherhood was organized Sunday afternoon.

Submitted by Jane B McWilliams on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 6:29pm. Saturday, I noticed all the activity in Ames Park, and discovered the preparations under way for the Northfield celebration for the International Day of Climate Action.

Neck-deep in the day-to-day operations of her own small business, Penny Roy doesn't get many opportunities to meet with other businesses or professionals in Northfield.

The Northfield Chamber of Commerce hosts a meeting between city officials and local employers and property owners Wednesday morning.

NORTHFIELD a ' Two local men are being charged with drug possession after Northfield police discovered six to seven pounds of marijuana in the back of a van.

A judge has convicted a Northfield man of kidnapping and other crimes in an attack on a mentally disabled man last October.

The Rice County Public Health Nursing Service has cancelled its remaining public clinics for seasonal influenza immunizations, including a Tuesday clinic in Northfield.

The fourth man accused of beating a mentally disabled man -- and said to have been the one of the main perpetrators in the beatings -- pleaded guilty to charges Monday.

Absences of students with flu-like symptoms at two Northfield schools this week categorizes the schools as having an influenza "outbreak." The state Department of Health requires Minnesota schools report when more than 5 percent of their student population or three or more elementary-schoolers in the same classroom are absent due to flu-like ...

Sunday, Sept. 20 a Suspicious activity was reported in the 10200 block of West 130th Street.

A smaller decrease in Northfield schools' enrollment than projected has district officials smiling.

Sunday, Aug. 30 a There was a verbal dispute between a male and female in the intersection of West Jefferson Parkway and Jefferson Road.

Share + Oct 13, 2009 12:28 pm US/Central 1 of 1 A woman has been charged with drinking and driving after she nearly hit a sheriff's deputy earlier this summer.