C/EM lady golfers sweep CloverCroix meets
The Colfax/Elk Mound girls’ golf team teed off on its 2023 conference season last week with fantastic results. The local ladies swept all three CloverCroix Conference girls’ golf meets winning in Mondovi on Monday, August 28, on their home course at Whitetail the following day, Tuesday, August 29, and again on Thursday, August 31 at…
Read MoreViking harriers begin season at Bruce Invite
All five runners for the Colfax cross country team competed in the first meet of the season at the Bruce Invite August 29. In a field of 79 individual girls, Kaysen Goodell took home a medal with a fourth place finish, clocking in at 21:48 for the 5K course. Hannah Peterson placed 23rd for the…
Read MoreElk Mound cross country teams open season at SCC Invitational
HAMMOND — Elk Mound’s cross country teams opened their 2023 season at the St. Croix Central Invitational held Thursday, August 31 in Hammond. With great weather and on a revamped SCC course, the Elk Mound boys finished fifth with 126 points while the girls placed sixth after scoring 136 points. Both competitions, which featured schools…
Read MoreMounders throw scare into Regis but Ramblers prevail in Cloverbelt opener
ELK MOUND — The Mounders’ bench and fans erupted with excitement when quarterback Logan Jerome connected with receiver Sam Wenzel on a 22-yard touchdown strike with just 36 second left in the first half of last Thursday evening’s Cloverbelt Conference opener at home against Eau Claire Regis. That excitement seemed to reach a fevered pitch…
Read MoreDHS urges Wisconsinites to continue to prevent mosquito bites First human case of West Nile Virus Confirmed
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) and Public Health Madison & Dane County have confirmed the first human case of West Nile virus in a Wisconsin resident this year (August 18). The individual is a resident of Dane County. Cases of West Nile virus have also been reported in three horses in Wisconsin and…
Read MoreDCAREA to meet September 11th
The Dunn County Area Retired Educators’ Assoc. (DCAREA) collected school supplies for area schools during its July meeting. DCAREA has been collecting supplies for area schools the past 15 plus years. At the July meeting, the guest speaker was Chris Larson, ConAgra Foods. All retired public school employees are invited to attend their Sept.11th meeting…
Read MoreOff the Editor’s Desk – 9-6-2023
Still drugs on our streets! We are still facing drugs on our streets and deaths from those illegal drugs that have caused the deaths of some 9,512 Wisconsin citizens to overdoses in a seven-year period from2014-2021. It seems like every week that I look at a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the…
Read MoreFrom “Winding Up the Yarn” — Northern pike almost catches dog
COLFAX — Helen Reed, co-owner of the Colfax Messenger, wrote a weekly column 65 years ago. From Helen’s column, “Winding Up the Yarn,” in the September 4, 1958, edition of the Colfax Messenger: The Bremers’ dog, Hans, loves to swim, and many happy hours of his day are spent in the river. Sometimes he swims…
Read MoreMilitary funeral for Civil War veteran at Popple Creek cemetery on Sept. 10
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Ezekiel Cutting died nearly 161 years ago. And now a stone has been placed in the St. John’s Lutheran Popple Creek Cemetery for him and a military funeral will be held Sunday, September 10, at 11 a.m. Ezekiel Chapin Cutting grew up on the Cutting farm in Popple Creek…
Read MoreColfax approves 4 of 5 patching bids
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has approved four of five patching bids submitted by Senn Blacktop out of Chippewa Falls and was waiting for clarification on the fifth bid. The total Senn bid reviewed by the village board at the August 28 meeting was for $32,676.85. Pavement Consulting Services, LLC…
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