Win a $200 Gift Card for Your Holiday Decorations Display

Northfield Patch, along with all other Minnesota Patches, introduces the inaugural Patch Holiday House Decorating Contest.

Minnesota Patch announces the beginning of its Minnesota Patch Decorating Contest, which aims to recognize the best decorated house in town. We need your help to find the best house! We are calling for photo submissions of your decorated home in Northfield, which could be selected to compete against other homes for a $200 gift card to a Northfield business. Once the submission period ends, Minnesota Patch employees will select the top house from each town to compete against each other for the gift card. Community members will be able to vote for the overall winner of the prize. To submit your decorated home, attach a photo to this article. In the photo caption include your name, phone number and address. The submission period runs Dec. 8-…

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Straight From Community Services

Growing Up Healthy Needs Your Vote

The Northfield program has a chance at $25,000.

Here's your chance to help support a great civic engagement project in Northfield. This is not a solicitation for donations. We just need you to vote by 6 p.m. Friday. Growing Up Healthy is a grant-funded project operated through the school district Community Services Division. Out of hundreds of contenders, Growing Up Healthy is one of three finalists in the InCommons Collaboration Challenge, a competition highlighting collaborations that bring together people from throughout a community to address difficult challenges in an innovative way, sponsored by the Bush Foundation.   The winner will be decided by an online vote, and will receive a $25,000 award.  It is an honor the Growing Up Healthy Rice County to be a finalist! Now we need your…

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Northfield Students Ready for LEGO League

After months of work, the Greenvale Park Geckos LEGO League team is ready for a season of competition and fun.

After months of weekly meetings, research, programming and practice, the Greenvale Park Geckos LEGO League team is ready to compete. On Sunday, Greenvale Park Elementary School students joined 31 other FIRST LEGO League teams at a school in Woodbury for an all-day regional competition, the FLL Body Forward Challenge. The six students from Greenvale—fourth-graders Ariana Beeby and Kayli Larsen and fifth-graders Dylan Gehring, Siri Hoff, Elijah Leer and Jorge Salinas—are collectively known as the Geckos. The team has met weekly since September under the guidance of their volunteer coach, Jim Sipe, to prepare for the tournament. The focus of this year's FLL Challenge is biomedical engineering and the competition consists of two parts—project …

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