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Perspectives from President Trump’s Inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington - January 20th and 21st, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/da4435b6-047e-4605-b774-31f4e2e09833/CommunityDriven1.jpg Full Stories Issue 4: Food Rescue That's Community Driven — One non-profit is making a big impact helping small grocers and restaurants rescue their excess food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/1a68e8a8-31e3-47ad-bf79-1db170e4aba2/InkedBehind-the-Blooms_LI.jpeg Full Stories Issue 4: Behind The Blooms — A new podcast series sharing stories of failures and success in the landscape and farming industries from the rural Midwest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/db424030-d277-463e-bf08-8a107aee75c8/IMG_1534+copy.JPG Full Stories Issue 3: Persistence of Joy — Chapter 2 in this podcast about a family learning how a death from polio continues to impact their family over 60 years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/5edec58a-79ad-429e-ad44-73a6221bb160/Screen+Shot+2020-10-22+at+11.44.04+PM.jpg Full Stories Issue 3: Expanding The College Experience — The Northfield Community College Collaborative works to remove barriers in the community college experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/50509093-c1ac-4c7a-a93b-e7e490d0e041/Screen+Shot+2020-10-28+at+9.23.32+PM.jpg Full Stories Issue 3: A Caregiver Looks For Closure — The second part in our series on caregiver Brianna navigating her role during a pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/9952c085-1c67-4b58-8ff1-a06ed3473ff2/Screen+Shot+2020-10-22+at+11.35.08+PM.jpg Full Stories Issue 3: Muslim Sheroes of Minnesota — Three Muslim women get active in the electoral process in this new, work-in-progress documentary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/2aef67b9-cd98-4535-8655-3a956b80bb05/Screen+Shot+2020-07-09+at+4.15.42+PM.jpg Full Stories Issue 2: A Place To Grow — A mural that encompasses the thoughts, growth, and creativity of its Des Moines community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/aa138116-48a1-46cd-bf54-a7e4e056bb0c/Screen+Shot+2020-07-09+at+4.14.01+PM.jpg Full Stories Issue 2: Taking Root - Making Space For Us All — Part one in a series about an artist collective promoting Indigenous people and culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/ca267096-a20e-4ea3-a109-ac1132a44e56/brf-2.jpg Full Stories Issue 2: An Incubator Farm Reacts - Pt 1 & 2 — Big River Farms, an incubator farm north of the Twin Cities, is hit hard by COVID-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/c992813c-7bfc-4bd7-88e6-da6837045677/Screen+Shot+2020-07-08+at+9.56.04+PM.jpg Full Stories Issue 2: Small Town Food Shelf Reinvents Itself Overnight — COVID-19 forced Northfield’s food shelf to reinvent itself almost overnight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/b6d2d201-6a7b-446f-83f5-821c146ce7c3/Screen+Shot+2020-07-20+at+4.53.36+PM.jpg Full Stories Issue 2: A Granddaughter Caregiving Through COVID-19 — How a granddaughter and grandmother adjust to caregiving during lockdown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/583ade14-ff81-47c2-9872-b30f44606268/IMG_1530+crop2.jpg Full Stories Issue 2: A Family Faces Their Past With Polio — A new podcast series about a family coming to terms with a polio-related death almost 70 years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/894d40fc-f85e-4b46-95bd-10cd451c294e/NSB-1.jpg Full Stories Issue 1: Gym on the Northside — What a small boxing gym means to the neighborhood kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/f9fc2902-b461-4167-bc47-5f97c3ad1440/MM-1.jpg Full Stories Issue 1: Mississippi Mushrooms — The city orders a successful mushroom farm to move. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/a93962f8-f011-499b-a43c-52ec04624472/sheroes-2.jpg Full Stories Issue 1: Muslim Sheroes of Minnesota - Nimo Omar — Activist Nimo Omar fights for the rights of all workers against a retail giant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/60b3e4c8-e2c9-476e-9a60-02e1558b30e4/foth+1.jpg Full Stories Issue 1: Papermaking for Art Therapy — See how papermaking can impact mental health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/66bb25f3-fb70-4ade-ad3d-5aa589fcd313/Soup+for+you.jpg Full Stories Issue 1: A Pay-What-You-Can Cafe — Chef Judah makes soup from scratch daily, giving it away for free. https://www.northernspotlight.com/stories daily 0.75 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In our latest issue we meet two entrepreneurial organizations that are finding creative ways to push back against that. Our first story features a co-op in southern Minnesota going from door-to-door to keep food waste out of our landfills, while our second story features a Minneapolis-based group addressing the surplus of old pianos in homes across the metro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/8533c401-3994-415b-8d39-1be4377fa38d/DSC09464+small+for+NS.jpg Stories - Journey spring 2024 Issue A journey can be full of excitement, pain, fear, or joy. They can be round trip or one way. But no matter what, a journey should leave its mark on you. And for a lucky few, it can leave a mark on the world around you. Our Spring 2024 issue features two stories of people that traveled halfway around the world to Minnesota. Now they’re working to make an impact on their community both at home and in the country of their birth. We also interview Mark Brown about his documentary "The Fishing Hat Bandit," and the creative journey he undertook over seven years to complete the movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/08bc8fc9-81a0-46e1-99da-f9f7f140e05b/NS_header+photo.jpg Stories - The Collective Summer 2023 Issue Communities and organizations grow by creating space for others, encouraging them to share their voice, their ideas, and their perspective. This issue features a community organization shaped by the community that benefits from its services, an activist group that inspired artists to come to their aid, and a rural arts organization trying to reach a new generation. Plus, we start a brand new podcast series featuring individuals that make up a vibrant, diverse suburban community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/1658524679920-PC4XPZ970K5EH6FA24KU/fishing+hat+1.jpg Stories - Forward Summer 2022 Issue How do we move forward—to affect positive change —while history weighs on us? See four new stories that look back and look ahead, featuring a filmmaker and a grandfather grappling with racial reckonings, a prolific bank robber looking to make amends, a farmer maintaining the land for future generations, and the next set of leaders shaping policy and supporting people with intellectual and development disabilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/0682f55a-040b-4e42-b132-765d09207646/nathan+2.jpg Stories - Advocacy Spring 2022 Issue See three new stories of advocacy, featuring an advocate for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, a CSA program that sustains the land in Meskwaki Nation, and a class celebrating and teaching Black history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/92191140-5c84-42aa-b689-8040cb1d89d4/Screen+Shot+2021-12-11+at+9.10.37+PM+copy.png Stories - Hidden Winter 2021 Issue Stories include a group bringing awareness to racism and discrimination that exists on the Iron Range, and a group that promotes the rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/305aa667-a757-49e4-a167-1cc51d736829/Screen+Shot+2021-07-26+at+1.48.19+PM+small.jpg Stories - Healing Summer 2021 Issue Healing can happen in an instant or over a lifetime. Stories include a mobile vaccine clinic bringing covid vaccines to underserved areas, a path toward racial healing through community, and the final episode looking back on one family’s tragic encounter with polio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/1616529403737-XZXZAS8XZO7V6BTRZ6FH/DC+2021+Update.00_00_10_05.Still002.jpg Stories - Uncertainty Spring 2021 Issue New eras can foster opportunities but also uncertainty about how best to plan and move forward. Stories include an LGBT Soccer bar trying to move forward during covid lockdown, a look back on the 2017 presidential inauguration, a non-profit rescuing food, and a new podcast shedding light on farming issues in the midwest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/9952c085-1c67-4b58-8ff1-a06ed3473ff2/Screen+Shot+2020-10-22+at+11.35.08+PM.jpg Stories - Transition Fall 2020 Issue We look at transitions—both welcomed and forced upon us—and what meaning we hope to gain from them. Stories include a college initiative offering opportunities previously unthought for High school graduates, the conclusion to our feature on a caregiver caring for her grandmother, a teaser for a new documentary on muslim women impacting politics, and the second part to our podcast series on looking back on the impact the polio epidemic had on one family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/c992813c-7bfc-4bd7-88e6-da6837045677/Screen+Shot+2020-07-08+at+9.56.04+PM.jpg Stories - Upheaval Summer 2020 Issue Upheavals, like covid, can completely upended our lives, but others can point a new way forward. Stories include an incubator farm, a small town food shelf adjusting to Covid-19, a caregiver and her grandparent shelter-in-place, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e781d73e0179321f38358a2/1607120975392-J5AA8N87OD1HEHP8MH24/MM-2.jpg Stories - Beginnings Spring 2020 Issue Welcome to the first installment of Northern Spotlight. Our first set of stories include an urban mushroom farm on the brink, a community-oriented boxing gym, an Amazon organizer, using art to help with mental health, and a donation-based cafe.