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2025 Dunn County Fair Results
Listed below are the results from the 2025 Dunn County Fair: YOUTH DIVISION DAIRY MACKENZIE MCCLELLAND, Little Elk Creek, Other Breeds, Grade heifer calf – fall Champion Grade Junior Female, Grand Champion Grade Female; KYLEE SCHLOUGH, Connorsville Comets, Holstein, Grade heifer calf – fall Champion Grade Junior Female, Grand Champion Grade Female, Holstein, Grade heifer…
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 MoreElk Mound’s Dr. Baier joins Clear Connection Chiropractic in Colfax
COLFAX — Dr. Katie Baier, a native of Elk Mound and a Mounder graduate, has joined Clear Connection Chiropractic. Dr. Baier, who specializes in sport injury and rehabilitation, will be treating patients at the Colfax office located at 600 Main Street. With the addition of Dr. Baier, the Colfax location will offer expanded hours Monday…
Read MoreRidgeland native trains to join U.S. Navy submarine force
By Rick Burke, Navy Office of Community Outreach GROTON, Conn. — Fireman Kelvin Klefstad, a native of Ridgeland, Wisconsin, is training to be part of the U.S. Navy’s 125-year tradition of service under the sea. Klefstad graduated from Prairie Farm High School in 2024. He is the son of Andrew and Tiffany Klefstad. The skills…
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 MoreElk Mound school board reviews $15.6 million budget for 2025-26 school year
By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — The Elk Mound Board of Education reviewed a preliminary expense and revenue budget of $15.6 million for the 2025-2026 school year at a special meeting July 28. The school district’s budget hearing and annual meeting are scheduled on August 18 at 8 p.m. in the school district board…
Read MoreZanchetti chrged with stealing over $30,000, bound over for trial
By LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A 29-year-old Chippewa Falls man charged with four felonies related to stealing nearly $30,000 worth of tools from Timber Technologies in Colfax has been bound over for trial in Dunn County Circuit Court. Mason P. Zanchetti appeared in Dunn County Circuit Court August 5 for a preliminary hearing before…
Read MoreSchool District of Colfax announces new Superintendents
Colfax, WI – The Board of Education for the School District of Colfax has selected Paul Blanford and Troy Gunderson to serve as Interim Superintendents for the upcoming school year. Blanford and Gunderson will combine efforts to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of William Yingst Jr. Blanford and Gunderson are recently retired school…
Read MoreGilbertson receives Hunter Education award
By Renee Bettendorf BOYCEVILLE — Jaime McDermid, Conservation Warden for Dunn County, presented Bud Gilbertson with a 40 Year Hunter Education Award at a recent hunter safety class held at the TCE library. Gilbertson, who is a retired Boyceville phy ed teacher, first got involved volunteering for DNR safety courses as a snowmobile instructor back…
Read MoreLog pile, tractor and snowmobile destroyed by fire
A fire that spread from a burning pile that was thought to have been extinguished spread into a log pile and also destroyed a tractor and snowmobile on property located at 1265 280th Street in Glenwood Township in the early hours of Monday morning. The Glenwood City Fire Department was paged at 3:13 a.m. Monday…
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