Colfax

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX  —  The Regional Business Fund, Inc. administered through the West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission has $15 million to lend under a variety of programs. The Regional Business Fund became a non-profit organization in 2007 and consolidated Community Development Block Grant funds from a variety of communities that agreed to…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX  —   It’s a match! The only thing standing between the Village of Colfax and an application for a federal grant to help the village pay $600,000 toward the $1.6 million Red Cedar River bank project to protect the wastewater treatment lagoons from washing out was whether the $1 million…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX  —  A Dunn County court commissioner has granted an eviction order giving the OCD Foundation 10 days to vacate the former nursing home building in Colfax at 1011 University Avenue. Dunn County Court Commissioner Brent Skinner granted the eviction order following a hearing March 13. Tanya Bruder, an attorney representing…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX  —  Timber Technologies has been granted a zoning variance for two larger driveways to accommodate the company’s expansion project. The village’s ordinance only allows one driveway per parcel, and Timber Technologies needs two driveways that will exceed the 30-foot width, which will require a variance approved by the village board,…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX  —  With all of the snowstorms over the past six weeks, are you running out of places to put snow? If so, you are not alone. The issue of no more places to put snow was a topic of discussion for the Colfax Village Board at the March 11 meeting.…