Days of Old – 5-7-2014
Days of Old – 5-7-2014
Read MoreSand Creek Chatter – 5-7-2014
Dale and Mary Kimball visited their aunt, Swanee Rasmussen, on April 29. They spent the winter in Brooksville, Florida and were traveling to their home in Spirit Lake, Iowa for the summer.
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 5-7-2014
IS SOLAR OR WIND ENERGY THE FUEL OF THE FUTURE? At a recent meeting of the Glenwood City Council, during discussion about a proposed sand mine, Tom Quinn, Dunn County Board Representative from Downing addressed the council about his dream of every home and business in town being heated with solar panels. I thought, what…
Read MoreElk Mound student is Ag in the Classroom essay winner
ELK MOUND – Issie Hollister, a fourth grade student from Elk Mound, is the Dunn County winner of the Agriculture in the Classroom essay contest. Wisconsin fourth and fifth graders were asked to write a 100 to 300 word essay with the theme, “Wisconsin gardens provide many food choices for us.”
Read MoreMounders compete in GC golf meet
GLENWOOD CITY — Consistency was displayed for the Elk Mound golf team as all five of the competitors shot scores of 54-60 and finished close together in the Glenwood City meet held Friday May 2.
Read MoreEM girls second, boys fifth at Larry Z. Invite
BOYCEVILLE — The Elk Mound track teams managed to squeeze a meet in last week after several days of rain when they traveled to Boyceville to compete in a meet named for long time track and field official Larry Zirgibel May 1.
Read MoreMounder boys split pair of games
Playing within the conference worked out a lot better for the Elk Mound boys’ baseball team than non-conference play as they shut out the St. Croix Central Panthers in Hammond 11-0 May 2, then played a Saturday contest the next day and lost 11-1 at Arcadia.
Read MoreEM students prepare for Bully Free Awareness Walk
By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — Students in the Elk Mound school district will be participating in a Bully Free Awareness Walk on May 9. The high school student group, Students Supporting Students (SSS), has been working diligently to prepare for the walk, according to Randi Stanley, an Elk Mound high school teacher who…
Read MoreHomeowner says sand mine blasting has damaged house, maybe contaminated well
By LeAnn R. Ralph TOWN OF HOWARD — The first time blasting occurred at the S&S sand mine across the road from Edward Dachel’s house, canning jars and a canner fell off shelves in the basement and broke. Dachel lives on county Highway B in the Town of Howard, across the road from the sand…
Read MoreViking track teams compete in back-to-back meets
With weather conditions less than desirable the past two weeks, the Colfax track teams finally managed to compete at Boyceville and Arcadia on two consecutive days, May 1 and 2. Facing competition from every team in the conference except Mondovi, the girls finished seventh of eight teams at the Larry Z. Invite in Boyceville while…
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