Wallace “Wally” Clare Berg
Wallace “Wally” Clare Berg was born October 25, 1938, in Colfax, Wisconsin to Byron and Clara Berg. Wally graduated from Colfax High School in 1956 and shortly thereafter moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota to start a career. Wally married the love of his life Donna Mae Halvorson on June 11, 1960, in Van Nuys, California. They…
Read MoreColfax-EM golf trio earns academic all-state honors
Three golfers from this year’s Colfax-Elk Mound boys’ golf team have been honored with selection to the 2024 Academic All-State team. Seniors Zane Brice and Christian Ebert and sophomore Lucas Svee have each been recognized as academic all-state honorees by the Golf Coaches Association of Wisconsin (GCAW). Students are submitted by member coaches of the…
Read MoreMounders’ magical baseball season ends with loss to Mondovi in sectional semis
CUMBERLAND — As the old sports adage goes, it’s hard to beat a team three times in a season. The Elk Mound baseball, unfortunately, found some truth in that saying last week. After defeating Dunn-St. Croix Conference rival and defending champion Mondovi twice during the regular season – 8-1 and 9-0 – to secure a…
Read MoreColfax “out of compliance” with DNR phosphorus limits
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — It’s one of those kinds of mistakes that could happen to anyone. And while Rand Bates, Colfax director of public works, readily admits he accidentally used the wrong numbers to calculate phosphorus discharge to the Red Cedar River from the village’s wastewater treatment lagoons, he also wonders why it…
Read MoreCMBRG booth at the Colfax Free Fair will focus on Dr. Felland
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The theme for this year’s Colfax Municipal Building Restoration Group booth in the Commercial Building at the Colfax Free Fair will be Dr. O.M. Felland. Dr. Felland, who practiced family medicine in Colfax for 45 years, died in May of 1974 at his home in Colfax at the age…
Read MoreOff the Editor’s Desk 6-12-24
“Human civilization will end” if birth rates continue to fall In a piece published by the Capitol Guardian back in April, Elon Musk, noted “that the obvious math involved with plummeting fertility rates in countries all over the world, and reacting to the latest birth rate numbers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), wherein…
Read MoreHelp in planning of Colfax Athletic Booster Club
ATTENTION all past, present, and future COLFAX residents, as well as family and friends of Colfax residents! Students, families, alumni, community members, and more! We invite you to join us on Wednesday, June 26, at 6 p.m. at the Viking Bowl & Catering to help establish the Colfax School Athletic Booster Club! Since January 2023,…
Read MoreColfax has unassigned fund balance of $420,000
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Village of Colfax currently has an unassigned fund balance of $420,020. Lynn Niggemann, administrator-clerk-treasurer, told the Colfax Village Board at the May 28 meeting that she had received the numbers from the auditors for the unassigned fund balance, the assigned fund balance and the restricted fund balance. The…
Read MoreColfax Municipal Building “wish list” for Flexible Facilities grant includes basement kitchen and lift for stage
Editor’s Note: LeAnn R. Ralph serves on the Colfax Elevator Commission By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Now that the Colfax Village Board has selected Ayres Associates to write the application for the Flexible Facilities grant, the Colfax Elevator Commission has come up with a “wish list” for the building. The Flexible Facilities Program would…
Read MoreColfax contracts with Ayres Associates for Flexible Facilities $4.25 million grant application
Editor’s Note: LeAnn R. Ralph serves on the Colfax Elevator Commission By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has selected Ayres Associates to write the application for the $4.25 million Flexible Facilities Program grant to install an elevator in the Colfax Municipal Building and to renovate the basement. The village received three…
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