By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — What would you do if someone walked into the store where you are shopping — or entered your church — or came into your place of business — and started shooting? Dunn County Sheriff Dennis Smith and Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald discussed active shooter training on The West…
Read MoreA UW-Madison start-up company is looking to recruit volunteers in Colfax interested in family history and storytelling to test LifeMapping, a website that allows users to map and securely share their life stories.
Read MoreMENOMONIE — Lottie Hiben has received the University Staff Employee Appreciation Award for February at University of Wisconsin-Stout. Hiben, of Menomonie, is a program office assistant in the School of Art and Design.
Read MoreWisconsin’s relatively high residential property taxes are driven by a variety of factors, including: greater reliance on local service delivery here compared to elsewhere; more units of government using the property tax; few local revenue options other than the property tax; and the state’s constitutional “uniformity clause,” which requires all properties to be taxed at…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — For the last 135 years, since 1883, Dunn County has been keeping the minutes of the Dunn County Board’s proceedings. The oldest of the Dunn County Board’s books of minutes are quite fragile, said Julie Wathke, Dunn County Clerk, during her annual report to the Dunn County Board at…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — The Dunn County Board has approved increasing the salary of the clerk of court by 8 percent and increasing the salary of the sheriff by 7.5 percent. The increases in salary are similar to surrounding counties, said Steve Rasmussen, chair of the Dunn County Board, at the Dunn County…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A bill recently passed by the Wisconsin Assembly would require counties to provide for juvenile detention. Under the bill passed by the Assembly, AB953, the state would shut down the Lincoln Hills School for boys and the Copper Lake School for girls and would make it the responsibility of…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A Dunn County judge has ordered the forfeiture of an additional $15,000 from a $55,000 cash bail posted for a former Boyceville man whose whereabouts are unknown. Judge Rod Smeltzer ordered the bail forfeiture at a hearing February 15 in Dunn County Circuit Court concerning 40-year-old Ted Lopez, who…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A Dunn County judge has dismissed a felony count of causing mental harm to a child for a Downing man who pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of fourth degree sexual assault. Judge James Peterson determined during a hearing in Dunn County Circuit Court February 12 for Jay E.…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski MENOMONIE — The names of both drivers in last week’s fatal collision on State Highway 79 south of Boyceville have been released. According to a press release from the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office, 54-year-old Jena D. Anderson of Boyceville was killed when her southbound Chevrolet was struck in an offset head-on…
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