Messenger Schools
Colfax girls trip up Toppers, bruise Buffaloes
By Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent After their win over Elk Mound the previous evening (look for that game elsewhere in The Messenger), the Colfax girls held off a second-half run by the Glenwood City Hilltoppers and earned a hard fought 77-53 win on January 26 on the Viking’s home court. They followed that up with…
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Evenson named to NDSU dean’s list
FARGO, N.D. — Area Wisconsin students were among the 4,312 North Dakota State University students to be placed on the fall 2020 dean’s list. Among them is Ana Evenson, of Boyceville, Wisconsin, who is majoring in Psychology. A student must earn a 3.50 grade point average or higher and be enrolled in at least 12…
Read MoreElk Mound girls return to action, lose to Altoona
By Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent After not playing a game since December 3 due to a problem with COVID-19, the Elk Mound girls basketball squad traveled to Altoona to take on the Rails December 29. Although they held a four-point lead at halftime, the Mounders let the lead slip away in the second half and…
Read MoreColfax school board: “We made it to Christmas”
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — It takes an entire team to make sure a school keeps running during a pandemic. Thanks to the administrators, teachers, custodians, administrative assistants, secretaries, food service staff, the students, their parents, grandparents and other family members, and the school board — “we made it to Christmas break,” said William…
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WASB to consider support for 1 percent sales tax
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Wisconsin Association of School Boards will consider whether to support a resolution asking state legislators for a 1 percent sales tax devoted to school funding at the annual convention in January. The one-cent sales tax will be the first resolution considered out of the 10 resolutions that have…
Read MoreColfax Elementary stages “shutdown practice”
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — With cases of COVID-19 spiking in Dunn County, students at Colfax Elementary recently had an opportunity for “shutdown practice” just in case instruction must go virtual on short notice. School staff sent home Chromebooks with students in grades kindergarten through sixth on November 3, and along with the Chromebooks…
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Colfax schools receive Transition Readiness Grant and USDA Distance Learning Grant
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax school district has been awarded a $45,100 Transition Readiness Grant and also is part of the $1 million grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture to Cooperative Educational Service Agency 10’s Distance Learning Service. The Transition Readiness Grant will help the school district’s transition program…
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