State agency warns consumers to be cautious with virtual currencies
MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) today cautioned businesses and consumers to consider the risks if they intend to use or invest in virtual currencies. Virtual currencies, which include digital and crypto-currency, are gaining in popularity – and controversy.
Read MoreColfax Sesquicentennial 2014: The Stranded Traveling Men’s Club
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — In honor of the Colfax Sesquicentennial celebration July 17-20, 2014, the history installment for this edition of the Colfax Messenger is the story of the Stranded Traveling Men’s Club. The club was formed in March of 1917 when a blizzard closed down Colfax for three days. For several years…
Read MoreEM eliminates every-other-day kindergarten
By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — Parents in the Elk Mound school district will no longer have the option of sending their children to all-day kindergarten every other day. The Elk Mound Board of Education approved eliminating the every-other-day option for all-day kindergarten at the April 28 meeting.
Read MoreBeer garden expected to be done by Colfax Free Fair
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — With any luck at all, construction of a new beer garden at the Colfax fairgrounds will be completed by the time the Colfax Free Fair starts June 12. The Colfax Village Board approved allowing Auth Consulting to continue working on designing the building at the April 28 meeting.
Read MoreColfax school board conducts long monthly meeting
by Marlys Kruger Election of new officers, a decision on whether to help pay for students attending national competitions, approving two staff retirements and two resignations and deciding on whether to raise school lunch prices were just a few of the items on the agenda during the April 29 Colfax school board meeting.
Read MoreColfax hires new police chief
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — For all intents and purposes, it appears as if the Colfax Village Board has finally hired a police chief. The Colfax Village Board approved an employment agreement with Bill Anderson at the April 28 meeting. The village board approved the employment agreement pending Anderson’s successful completion of a physical…
Read MoreColfax Health & Rehab News – 5-7-2014
Spring Rain, umbrellas, green grass and cool weather is how we started the week. Inside we made the best of the situation.
Read MoreColfax approves $33,000 for lagoon improvements to reduce phosphorus
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — It’s all about the phosphorus. The Colfax Village Board has approved spending $33,375 at the village’s wastewater treatment lagoons to install electricity, a chemical feed pump, a converter, and for Solar Bee upgrades in attempt to better control the phosphorus discharge. The village board approved spending the money at…
Read MoreTips for boating safety during the early fishing season
MADISON – With low water temperatures statewide and many northern Wisconsin waters still thawing, boating safety officials are encouraging anglers to take special precautions to make sure they stay safe on their early season fishing trips, recreation safety officials say.
Read MoreStill cold but not too early to vaccinate horses against mosquito-borne illness
MADISON – Even though it’s still cold outside, mosquitoes will be here soon enough spreading two diseases among horses that can be eliminated by vaccination, Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus.
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