In 1889 the Dunn County Board established the Dunn County Home and Poor Farm. Then, in 1892 Dunn County opened the Asylum for the Chronic Insane. Potter’s Field became the final resting place for of a number of people who died at both these institutions or who died without the resources to be buried. This…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — Bail has been set at $25,000 cash for a 34-year-old Minnesota man accused of shooting a Town of Tainter man in the leg May 27. Shawn Harris Goplen appeared with his attorney, Jonathan Lundeen, in Dunn County Circuit Court for a bail hearing June 1.
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MENOMONIE — The two suspects in the shooting of a Town of Tainter man Sunday night have been apprehended in Rice Lake.
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MENOMONIE — The Dunn County Sheriff’s Department has identified the victim in a shooting in the Town of Tainter Sunday evening as Bruce R. Sundstrom, 48, of rural Colfax. Sundstrom suffered a gunshot wound to his leg and is expected to recover from the injury, according to a news release from the sheriff’s department dated…
Read MoreSt. Croix County is among seventeen counties and four tribes that have been awarded one-year grants totaling nearly $2.4 million from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) to provide treatment to people addicted to opioids. The grant recipients include St. Croix County, which was in the amount of $50,435.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Sixty years ago on Monday, June 4, a tornado tore through Colfax that killed a dozen people, injured countless others and destroyed many homes and businesses. The 60th Anniversary Colfax Tornado Edition of “Truth Be Told” (real stories told by real people) Sunday, June 3, will feature four speakers…
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MENOMONIE — The Dunn County Sheriff’s Department has obtained arrest warrants for two people believed to have been involved in a shooting Sunday night in the Town of Tainter. At about 10:45 p.m. May 27, the Dunn County E-911 Center received a report of an adult male who had sustained a gunshot wound in the…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — It’s not every day that a nationally-known theater touring production comes to Colfax. But this summer, the Missoula Children’s Theatre will be staging “Blackbeard the Pirate” in the Colfax Municipal Building Auditorium. And they will need 50 to 60 local children to act in the production.
Read MoreNEW RICHMOND – Rep. Stafsholt is proud to announce that $162,158 has been awarded to the School Districts of Menomonie Area, Boyceville Community, Glenwood City and Baldwin/Woodville from the $7.8 million in Technology for Educational Achievement (TEACH) grants announced by Governor Walker today. These grants were made available through an application process for school districts…
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