Menomonie
Fatal house fire in Elk Mound
ELK MOUND — At approximately 12:53 p.m. on October 16, the Dunn County Communication Center received a call from an individual who advised of a structure fire at a residence with a person still trapped in the residence. The person had mobility issues and was unable to get out. The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office and…
Read MoreMenomonie issues request for qualifications on affordable housing development
By LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — The Menomonie City Council is seeking developers with qualifications to build affordable housing on a nearly 42-acre parcel owned by the city south of Andersen Windows and east of Phillips Medisize. The city has owned the parcel for 30 or 40 years, and it has some wetlands and steep…
Read MoreMenomonie rezones Alliance Church property from residential to commercial
By LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — The Menomonie Alliance Church property, 502 21st Street Northeast in Menomonie, has been rezoned from Family Residential (R-1) to Local Commercial (B-2) to accommodate a daycare offered by the YMCA. The Menomonie City Council held a public hearing on the request for a rezone from the Menomonie Alliance Church…
Read MoreMenomonie annexes 324 acres and rezones for proposed data center developement
By LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — The Menomonie City Council has approved annexing 324 acres along county Highway B from the Town of Red Cedar and rezoning the acreage to Restricted Industrial for the proposed development of a data center. The property is located between 650th Avenue (also known as Eagle Point Road) and 690th…
Read More2025 City of Menomonie Arbor Day Celebration to be held on April 25
MENOMONIE – The City of Menomonie invites the public to join us for the annual Arbor Day Celebration on Friday, April 25, 2025, at the Dunn County Historical Society beginning at 9:30 a.m. This community event will be held rain or shine—festivities will take place inside Holtby Hall at the museum in case of inclement…
Read MoreMenomonie contracts with Cedar Corp. for phase 2 of ConAgra water main repair
By LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — The Menomonie City Council has contracted for engineering services with Cedar Corporation in the amount of $19,500 to proceed with the second phase of the ConAgra water main repair. The contract represents a service agreement for phase two of the repair of the water man break that happened in…
Read MoreTainter Lake District: Dunn County Historical Society hopes to stop sediment with prairie
By LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — The Dunn County Historical Society owns 60 acres along state Highway 25 that the historical society would like to take out of row crop production and turn into a prairie with walking paths. The Community Connections and Fund Raising Sub-committee recently met with Melissa Kneeland, the executive director of…
Read MoreNovember 20, 1969, Colfax Messenger: “Three Localites Meet By Chance in Vietnam”
COLFAX — Two of the people in this story from the Colfax Messenger archives, Larry Edwards and Duane Schindler, received quilts from the Northwoods Quits of Valor at a presentation March 29 at the Viking Bowl. Jim Irwin received a Quilt of Valor during a Veterans Day presentation November 11, 2024. From the November 20,…
Read MoreNorthwoods Quilts of Valor awards 12 quilts to Vietnam War veterans
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Members of the Northwoods Quilts of Valor awarded 12 quilts at the Viking Bowl the evening of March 29 to area veterans who served during the Vietnam War era from 1955 to 1975. Northwoods Quilts of Valor began stitching quilts in 2022. Quilts of Valor was started in 2003…
Read MoreMenomonie approves borrowing $2.8 million for 2025-2026 capital improvement projects
By LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — The Menomonie City Council has approve putting out for bids $2.8 million in general obligation promissory notes to pay for capital improvement projects this year and next year. The $2.8 million will pay for improvements to city streets, facilities and to purchase equipment, along with the Pine Avenue water…
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