All Fired Up! Boyceville Cucumber Festival August 18-20
By LeAnn R. Ralph BOYCEVILLE — The Boyceville Community Fire Department is celebrating 75 years — and the Boyceville Cucumber Festival is ready to celebrate Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 18 to 20. Golden Pickle Clues will be posted on the Boyceville Community Action Club’s Facebook page at 9 a.m. daily. Pickle Central on Main…
Read MoreBoyceville Community Fire Department celebrates 75 years: From ladders and buckets to a new fire station
By LeAnn R. Ralph BOYCEVILLE — The Boyceville Community Fire Department is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and will be the Grand Marshals in the Boyceville Cucumber Festival Parade at beginning at 1 p.m. Sunday. The Boyceville fire department has been housed in the new fire station on Charlotte Street since 2020. Before that…
Read MoreMarion E. Knutson
Marion E. Knutson, 86, passed away, August 11, 2023, at Azura Memory Care, 4811 Bullis Farm Rd, Eau Claire, WI 54701. Marion Ellen Gotliebson was born June 15, 1937, to Gisle and Ellen Gotliebson. She grew up on a dairy farm in Colfax, Wisconsin. She had three brothers and two sisters. She graduated from Colfax…
Read MoreColfax Scholastic Shooting Teams hold awards day
Colfax Scholastic Trap Team and Colfax Scholastic Action Shooting Team had a combined end of the season celebration August 6 at the Colfax/Dunn County Shooting Sports Complex. Both teams are sponsored by the Colfax Sportsmen’s Club. Jim Nosker, head coach of the teams, put together the family picnic, fun shoot, awards program and served as…
Read MoreColfax/Elk Mound girl golfers open season with 4th-place finish at Barron Scramble
BARRON — In just their first competition of the 2023 season, the Colfax/Elk Mound girl golfers already appear to be in mid-season form. The Colfax/Elk Mound varsity girls’ golf team finished with its best score in program history at the Barron Scramble Friday, August 11 posting a 67 (3 under par) to finish second in…
Read MoreNowhere to go but up for Elk Mound football team in 2023
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent ELK MOUND — Competing in the Cloverbelt Conference, the Elk Mound football team has had their struggles the past few years. After finishing 1-6 in the highly competitive conference a year ago and 1-8 overall, head coach Dave Lew has a roster of 59 players he hopes can turn things…
Read MoreColfax Vikings football looks to continue to build in 2023
COLFAX — With a once-proud past, Colfax’s football fortunes have fallen on hard times in recent years. According to Vikings’ head coach Joe Beranek, who enters his second year at the helm, his staff was able to establish a new culture in the Colfax program a year ago although it didn’t produce the results that…
Read MoreOff the Editor’s Desk 8-16-2023
One day last week I was looking into several boxes of old pictures we have in our office, some of which are Polaroid pictures taken back in the 1950’s and 60s. I also found an interesting poem about the “One Room Country School.” It was on a print sheet dated 1943 and a hand written…
Read MoreRed Cross: Donation shortfall may impact blood supply
EAU CLAIRE — The American Red Cross has seen a shortfall of about 25,000 blood donations in the first two months of the summer, which makes it hard to keep hospital shelves stocked with lifesaving blood products. By making an appointment to give blood or platelets in August, donors can keep the national blood supply…
Read MoreVolunteers needed for unique jail gardening program in Dunn County
MENOMONIE, Wis. — For the last 13 years, Huber Law inmates at the Dunn County jail have been tending a garden behind the jail that has yielded produce and fruit. That bounty, in turn, has been donated to the local Stepping Stones food pantry and homeless shelter to benefit those in need. “We give thousands…
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