Area youth participate at MOHEE at Mackenzie Center
Designed for youth in grades 4-7 the Midwest Outdoor Heritage Education Expo, MOHEE, (pronounced MO’-hee) at the DNR’s Mackenzie Center May 15-16 drew in over 4,000 students. Most of the students who attend MOHEE pass through the DNR’s BB Gun range, according to Kimberly Chroninger, DNR Outdoor Skills Trainer. This year the DNR erected two…
Read MoreElk Mound boys repeat as D-SC track and field champions, girls finish third
BOYCEVILLE — For a second straight year, the Elk Mound boys’ track and field team dominated the Dunn-St. Croix Conference meet. Under near perfect conditions, the Mounder boys showed off their talent and depth once again as they copped eight first-place finishes, four seconds, five thirds and a dozen other top eight finishes (team points…
Read MoreElk Mound softball shuts out Spring Valley, bombed by Fall Creek Crickets
The final two games of the regular season produced two vastly different outcomes for the Elk Mound softball squad. The Mounders capped their Dunn-St. Croix Conference schedule last Monday, May 13 with a 10-0 home-field victory over the Spring Valley Cardinals. The six-inning win gave Elk Mound 10-4 finish and share of second place along…
Read MoreMounder baseball wins three conference contests to finish unbeaten in D-SC play
Elk Mound closed out the conference portion of its baseball schedule with a trio of victories last week. The Mounders sandwiched a pair of 10-run wins over Spring Valley and Durand-Arkansaw around an extra-innings, walk-off victory over a tenacious pack of Bulldogs from Boyceville to compete a perfect 14-0 conference season and earn their second…
Read MoreColfax track and field teams compete in Dunn-St. Croix Conference meet
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent BOYCEVILLE — Led by double winner Jeanette Hydukovich and the 4×800 meter relay team, the Viking girls placed fourth in the Dunn-St. Croix Conference track and field meet held in Boyceville May 14 while the boys finished seventh. Under ideal weather conditions, Mondovi repeated as the conference champions for the…
Read MoreC-EM golfers finish 3rd in D-SC tourney and overall, Brice earns all-conference
GLENWOOD CITY — Coming into last Monday’s 18-hole Dunn-St. Croix Conference tournament at Glen Hills Golf Course, Colfax-Elk Mound trailed Glenwood City by just a point and half. Although first place had already been sewn up by defending champion Durand-Arkansaw, a top two finish in the May 13 tournament would give the local linksmen a…
Read MoreColfax baseball team finishes 1-2 in D-SC Conference games
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent It was an up and down week for the Colfax Vikings but it turned out to be a little more down than up as they were pretty much thumped at Glenwood City by the Hilltoppers 16-6 on Monday, May 13, then played an all around solid game resulting in a…
Read MoreColfax softball team finishes undefeated in conference play
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent Although the Lady Vikings won the Dunn-St. Croix Conference a week earlier for the first time in school history with a win over Elk Mound, the team had another goal in mind. After another win over Elmwood-Plum City May 9, the girls pounded Glenwood City 18-2 May 13 to win…
Read MoreMenomonie Day of Dance hosted by General Hardware Border Morris
Morris Dancing is an English/Welsh folk dance tradition dating back to at least the 1500s. General Hardware Border Morris is one of two dance teams in Wisconsin practicing this ancient tradition, the other being in Madison, and, we are local! Before COVID hit, General Hardware would host a yearly Day of Dance in Menomonie where…
Read MoreMemorial Day activities in Colfax and Sand Creek
COLFAX — Members of the American Legion Russell-Toycen Post 131 of Colfax, will meet at 8 a.m. on Monday, May 27, in the Colfax High School parking lot to travel to Sand Creek for that community’s Memorial Day ceremonies. At 10:30 a.m., a parade will begin from Colfax High School to Evergreen Cemetery for an…
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