Community Foundation of Dunn County awards scholarships to local high school students
This year, the Community Foundation of Dunn County and its donors awarded a total of $40,500 in scholarships to a diverse group of 65 students from area high schools. Executive Director, Georgina Tegart, explained that students are extremely grateful to receive these scholarships and often send in letters of appreciation to the donors, because the…
Read MoreM. DOUG NORTH
Merton “Doug” North, age 91, passed away on Thursday May 8, 2014 at Wissota Health and Regional Vent Center.
Read MoreBBB warns of scams that target seniors
Everyone must be alert to scams, but senior citizens can be more vulnerable. Seniors are often the targets of fraud and financial crimes because they’re easy to reach at home, are often too polite to hang up on calls from strangers, and they’re more likely to have nest eggs. The Better Business Bureau Serving Wisconsin…
Read MoreElk Mound track teams compete in Bloomer, Amery
Needing to get back to competing after a long layoff, the Elk Mound track and field teams spent an afternoon in Bloomer at the Dave Landgraf Invite May 6 where the girls placed third and the boys fourth of 10 teams. Two days later they started a meet in Amery but heavy storms hit the…
Read MoreColfax golfers compete at SCC and Spring Valley
Three matches were scheduled last week but only two were played as the Colfax golf team placed sixth in a conference meet Monday at St. Croix Central and sixth again at Spring Valley the following day. Stormy weather hit the area once again, forcing a postponement of the Thursday meet which was supposed to be…
Read MoreColfax girls squeeze in pair of games
Hoping to come up with their second win of the season over defending conference champions Pepin-Alma, the Colfax girls struggled offensively and dropped the contest 3-1 to start their week off May 5. 24 hours later, they traveled to Glenwood City and used the long ball to come from behind and defeat the Hilltoppers 11-4.…
Read MoreApril 2014 was the safest month of April in terms of traffic deaths since the end of WWII
In April 2014, 27 people died in 21 crashes on Wisconsin roadways, which made it the safest month of April in terms of traffic deaths since the end of World War II, according to preliminary statistics from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT). The deadliest April was in 1973 with 113 fatalities.
Read MoreBryan Mounce receives PhD
Bryan Mounce received his PhD in Microbiology from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He is currently doing his post-doctoral fellowship as a researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France.
Read MoreUSDA seeks comments to amend soybean request for referendum procedures
An Outdoorsman’s Journal – 5-12-2014
by Mark Walters Trout? Fishing Trip! Hello friends, Last May I canoed up a creek that empties into the Wisconsin River, in Columbia County, and fished for trout. I had never been to this section of stream before and it is seldom fished because of the work and amount of time that it takes to…
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