MADISON – Attorney General Brad Schimel announced a record-breaking 66,039 lbs. of unused medications were collected at Drug Take Back events on Saturday, April 29, 2017 and at more than 300 permanent drug collection receptacles located throughout the state. To show what more than 66,000 lbs. of unused medications looks like, the Wisconsin Department of…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Representatives of the frac sand mining industry say companies are hiring workers again and are ramping up production. Rich Kremer, host of the Wisconsin Public Radio show The West Side on 88.3 WHWC Menomonie-Eau Claire, spoke with Samir Nangia, an oil field services analyst and industry expert for the…
Read MoreMADISON — A 49-year-old man from Palmyra, Wisconsin was sentenced on May 4th by U. S. District Judge William M. Conley to 11 years in federal prison. Jeffery M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin announced the court action last week.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph TOWN OF HOWARD — Representatives for the Town of Colfax Plan Commission have asked the Howard Town Board to enter into an intergovernmental agreement to extend Howard’s mining ordinance to cover the Town of Colfax. The Town of Colfax also would be willing to cover the Town of Howard with the…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A 37-year-old Colfax woman accused in the hit-and-run accident last December involving the owner of Mom’s Restaurant and Pub, Linda Salazar, has been sentenced to five months in jail and five years of probation. Jami A. Golden appeared in Dunn County Circuit Court with her attorney, Christopher R. Bub,…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A Ridgeland couple has been charged with defrauding a financial institution out of a little more than $10,000. Shane L. Cutting, 45, and Laminda L. Hanson, 47, made initial appearances in Dunn County Circuit Court May 2. Cutting is charged with two felony counts of identity theft and fraud…
Read MoreIs it Dementia or Not? Learn how to maintain a healthy brain and why planning is so important. Each screening event will include a 20 minute presentation with time for questions. The free, private, confidential screening appointments last a total of 15 minutes. To make an appointment for a Memory Screen at the location of…
Read MoreMADISON – It was the evening of July 4, 1860. During an annual ball, the Ladies of La Crosse bestowed a splendid silk presentation flag to the La Crosse Light Guard, a private militia in the young city of La Crosse, Wis. Less than a year later, the Light Guard (soon to be known as…
Read MoreGovernor Scott Walker today announced that earlier this month local governments received quarterly payments totaling $83,586,968 for General Transportation Aids, Connecting Highway Aids and Expressway Policing Aids from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT). Payments to Wisconsin’s 1,925 local units of government include: $80,315,119 in General Transportation Aids; $3,015,874 to municipalities entitled to receive Connecting…
Read MoreIn St. Croix County there are approximately 16,000 private drinking water wells that serve nearly 43,000 rural residents. If you are one of those private well owners, you probably don’t have an owner’s manual that goes with your well. Whether you moved out to the country and are a first time owner of a water…
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