northfield

An Advisory was issued from the City of Northfield, for the public to avoid direct contact with the Cannon River downstream of Northfield, after a broken PVC pipe at the treatment plant sent about 1 million gallons of wastewater into the river.

According to the Minnesota Department of Health, neglect has occurred at a Northfield facility where a resident fell in January and later died. Update: Victim now Identified as Karen Mare Johnson who was 63 when she died.

It's another great Wednesday to talk about what is happening in Northfield and Gordy Kosfeld will be at Professional Pride Realty for AM Minnesota.

He said the normal operations may not resume for 6 to 12 months. And repairs could cost as much as $5 million dollars. Plus sludge that would normally be processed in the biosolids building has to be sent to other communities, which could cost $1 million on its own, according to Bennett.

the fire was reported shortly after 9 am when someone living in the top floor unit at 1910 Roosevelt Dr. off Jefferson Parkway, awoke and discovered the fire, he woke up his mother, they got out and called 911.

Early damage estimates are more than 1 million dollars to the Northfield Wastewater Treatment facility after a fire on Tuesday.

Wednesday morning, KDHL News Director Gordy Kosfeld hosted today's AM Minnesota program at Professional Pride Realty in Northfield.

On Tuesday the annual Northfield Hospital Auxiliary Book fair in it's 57th year, hit 1 million dollars in sales. The sale is in the Northfield Ice Arena. Over 65,000 items are available. According to the Northfield news, going into last night the sales were at $987,190 and since they had raised $66,000 last year they felt they would hit the million dollar mark this year.

There seems to be pretty good agreement that Northfield needs a new ice arena. Even though St. Olaf has their own new arena under construction, there is enough demand for a new arena with two sheets available.

The Northfield school district did an investigation into teacher and coach Troy Cohrs after some unspecified allegations were made against him. He had been an English teacher at Northfield High School since 1997 and as the head coach for girls track and field, and girls soccer since 2001.