Elk Mound track teams compete in pair of UW-Stout indoor meets
MENOMONIE — With snow still blanketing outdoor facilities, the Elk Mound boys’ and girls’ track and field teams got their 2023 season underway last week when they competed in a pair of large indoor meets both hosted by UW-Stout at the Sports and Fitness Center. Opening their respective track and field campaigns at the Blue…
Read MoreElk Mound girls’ softball will need to replace five key players this season
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent ELK MOUND — If the Elk Mound softball team wants to repeat as Dunn-St. Croix champions, they will have to do it with a lot of younger players this season. Gone from the team via graduation are first-team all conference players McKenna Diermeier (the Dunn-St. Croix Conference Player of the…
Read MoreCitywide April Fools Day pillow fight – April 1, 2023
On Saturday, April 1, 2023, Volume One will revive its citywide April Fools’ Day Pillow Fight in downtown Eau Claire, WI after a short hiatus. It’s “Five Minutes of Feathery Fury” – a short but lively celebration of foolishness, by which we mean a giant, five-minute pillow fight with the entire city invited. Pillow Fight…
Read MoreColfax thinclads open season indoors
MENOMONIE — The Colfax boys’ and girls track and field squads got their 2023 seasons underway last Tueday, March 21 when they competed indoors at the annual Blue Devil Invitational held at the Sports and Fitness Center on the UW-Stout campus. The Colfax girls finished in 20th place thanks to a third-place showing in the…
Read MoreColfax returns experienced runners and throwers for 2023 track and field season
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — 25 athletes began practice for the Colfax track and field team two weeks ago which included some state qualifiers from a year ago. Although the team lost speedsters Nathan Hydukovich, Ryan Albricht, Jasmine Best, and Madison Barstad through graduation, along with throwers Thomas Drees and Alex Swanson, they…
Read MoreColfax softball team hopes to build off regional win in upcoming season
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — Colfax softball coach John Dickinsen may have only 13 girls out practicing on the ball field this year and all but three of them have varsity experience. After finishing 8-9 overall a year ago and 6-8 in Dunn-St. Croix Conference play, the Vikings ended their season by making…
Read MoreElk Mound repeals loitering ordinance
By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — You can now sit in the village park for hours, reading a book — or wait on the street corner outside the Pourhouse for a friend to arrive — or admire a neighbor’s front yard flower garden without fear of being arrested for loitering. The Elk Mound Village…
Read MoreElk Mound finishes 2022 with $564,000 in general fund balance
by LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — The Village of Elk Mound ended 2022 with $564,000 remaining in the general fund balance. The fund balance of $564,000 was $119,000 less than the general fund balance at the end of 2022, said Kim Shult of Baker Tilly during her audit report to the Elk Mound Village…
Read MoreOff the Editor’s Desk 3-29-2023
Are elected officials targeting Trump? It seems to me that just ever since former President George W. Bush left office we heard of people being persecuted by some sort of federal office. It was not that long ago that we learned that parents were the targets of a federal investigation for attending school board meetings.…
Read MoreNilssen’s Market issues voluntary class I recall of pork product
MADISON, Wis. — Nilssen’s Market in Clear Lake, Wis., is issuing a voluntary Class I recall for a packaged pork product sold at local retailers. The recall includes: Side Pork, sold frozen in 1-lb. vacuum-sealed packages The product was sold at Nilssen’s Foods locations in Cumberland, Baldwin and Glenwood City. The Nilssen’s Market label on…
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