DOWNING — A heavy load of snow coupled with several inches of rain was too much for the long vacant Armour & Company Creamery building in Downing the two-story structure fell in. The building was built in 1916 by the National Dry Milk Company with Armour and Company taking over in 1929 and operating it…

By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND  —  What is a person’s life worth? Is someone else’s life — or your own — worth that text message you got on your smartphone while you were driving? Is a life worth checking your e-mail or looking up an event on the Internet while you are driving? As…

HUDSON — A single-vehicle crash in St. Joseph Township on March 27 resulted in St. Croix County’s fourth traffic fatality of 2019. Brian T. Foster, age 35 of Hudson, was killed in the accident that happened on State Highway  35 approximately 1/10 of a mile north of Cedar Dr. in St. Joseph Township around 10:49…

By Amber Hayden GLENWOOD CITY— For the past two years, the students of Kelly Risselman’s fifth-grade class have been putting together what they have come to know as travel journals. “At the beginning of the school year, students prepare a travel journal,” Risselman said. “They take an unused notebook and use the first page to…