Two posts on Locally Grown, a Northfield blog, point out that the town has a lot of coffeeshops - an awful lot, so many that the Strib singles us out for an article on the topic. According to the Strib's per-capita calculations (which exclude the excellent coffeeshop in the student center at St. Olaf), we have more 3.3 coffeeshops per 10,000 people - more than Anchorage, Alaska, the big city with the most coffeeshops per capita.
Before we go and change the unofficial town motto to read, "Northfield: Cows, Colleges, Contentment, and Coffee," though, the powers that be oughta remedy one source of discontent: the paucity of good coffee at Carleton. The "coffee" served on campus is swill.