Mounder volleyball starts season 2-5
The first week of the 2023 volleyball season was a busy one for the Elk Mound squad. The Mounders played seven different teams in a pair of tournaments finishing 2-5. Elk Mound got the new season underway last Tuesday, August 22 in Barron where it lost a pair of matches in straight sets. The Mounders…
Read MoreMounders mauled by SCC Panthers
HAMMOND — Yardage was at a premium for Elk Mound when it visited Hammond last Friday evening, August 25 to take on St. Croix Central in a non-conference football match-up between the former Dunn-St. Croix foes. The Mounders, a member of the Cloverbelt Conference for football, and the Panthers, who now play all sports in…
Read MoreViking volleyball finishes 2-1 in home quad
COLFAX — The Colfax “Vikings” volleyball team opened its 2023 campaign on its home court last Tuesday, August 22 when it hosted a quadrangular meet. The Lady Viking spikers finished 2-1 in the meet having bested both Stanley-Boyd and Clayton three sets to none before falling to Ellsworth two sets to one. In its first…
Read MoreColfax clipped by Eleva-Strum Cardinals in gridiron action
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent STRUM — After defeating Whitehall, a team from the Dairyland Conference in their season opener, the Colfax football team had high hopes of going 2-0 when they faced off against another Dairyland team August 25. The Eleva-Strum Cardinals were coming off an 1-8 season just like the Vikings a year…
Read MoreSmall group competing for Colfax Cross Country in 2023 season
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — Colfax cross country coach Joe Doucette, the first and only coach to lead the Viking harriers, begins his 31st year with something he hasn’t experienced before. Just three boys and three girls showed up for the first week of practice, leaving the team short of the five runners…
Read MoreFall 2023 Family Engagement Offerings from UW Madison – Extension Dunn County
Menomonie — Safe and stable families benefit the whole community. With schools welcoming children back to the classroom, it is a great time to consider ways we can help families create an environment that promotes learning and growth at home. The University of Wisconsin Madison – Division of Extension has offices across the state to…
Read MoreElk Mound school district still in need of 1 bus driver
By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — When it comes to bus drivers, the Elk Mound school district is in the same position as many other employers who are trying to find employees. The school district is still down one bus driver and is running 10 routes instead of 11 routes, said Eric Wright, district…
Read MoreOff the Editor’s Desk 8-30-2023
Who won the debate I could not watch the First Republican Debate last week as we lost the Fox News channel when our local cable company got out of the cable television business. So I have to rely on reports from other television network accounts of the debate and what I could pick up from…
Read MoreColfax school district annual meeting sets $3 million property tax levy for 2023-2024
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Electors in the Colfax school district approved a property tax levy of $3,007,245 for the 2023-2024 school year at the annual meeting August 21. Adjustments to the tax levy could be made in October after the September student count and after the exact amount of state aid has been…
Read MoreColfax school board aims to maintain graduation decorum
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — All it takes is one senior wearing a Spiderman costume or attaching blinking lights to a graduation cap with a message of “Now What?” inscribed in glitter on the back of the graduation gown — and the decorum of the graduation ceremony is ruined. The Colfax Board of Education…
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