Northfield

“It’s okay to grow older.  Just don’t grow old.”  I have found myself saying this a lot lately—to friends and to family, but mostly to myself.

We people are funny creatures.  We like to order our world, from A to Z, from soup to nuts, from small to large and back again.   Everything has a name, a meaning, and a theme.

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Everyone likes to help others.  When we think of neighbors, we think of Fred Rogers:  “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood/ A beautiful day for a neighbor/ Would you be mine?/ Could you be mine?...”   Yes, we answer!

Sunshine and shorts are upon us.  School will soon be a faint memory, all of that mental rigor overtaken by physical summer sports vigor.  Exercising the mind and the body are both important for good health but do not neglect exercising the most important muscle of all—your heart.  Cultivating and challenging faith and values is a daily necessity and now is the ideal time to make a little space in your summer schedule for family participa

Spring has finally arrived in Northfield.  How do I know this?  Because most of the snow piles have melted, the low temperatures are predicted to be above freezing, it is May, and, the best indicator of all, lots of people are wearing shorts.  It is now time for some serious vernalizing. 

So you’re new to town?  Meet me at the Y!  The YMCA is all about community and it is a good place to start your exploration of Northfield.  From its humble London origins in the early 1800s to its sleek and modern centers around the world today, the Y continues to reach out to all who come their way as a refuge for help, support, and life enrichment.  It has more to offer than swim lessons.  Let’s take a look.

It’s April and summer sports are just around the corner.  Northfield Community Services and the Northfield Family YMCA have lots to offer families, preschoolers, primary students, teens, and adults.   Online registrations for community

A town square by definition is a space in the center of a town set aside for community events.  When is a square (a town square) not a square (the shape)?  When a river runs by it, such as Bridge Square.  Squares, the kind you find in a town, generally are rectangular in shape but, when Northfield’s founder John Wesley North, met with the surveyor to plot out the town, they considered the placement of the two existing mills along the Cann

It was 1900. Change was everywhere. Thousands of people were fleeing oppression, political upheaval, and famine to come to our shores. Industry boomed with new technology. New scientific practices invaded human thinking and the education of our nation moving God and a religious worldview out and secularism in. Our population began to shift from the country to urban centers.