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Boyceville FFA Alumni will hold meeting December 13
The Boyceville FFA Alumni will be holding a meeting on Monday, December 13th at 7:30 p.m. in the ag room at the Boyceville High School. This meeting is open to all parents, community members, and interested parties. Don’t let the name confuse you – it doesn’t matter if you’ve ever belonged to FFA, or if…
Read MoreBoyceville ag orientation class complete Career Readiness unit; learn to tie a tie
BOYCEVILLE — The Boyceville High School Agriculture Orientation class recently completed its Career Readiness Unit. Ag Orientation is made up of mostly freshman and sophomores, a couple juniors and one senior. Special guests, Mr. Nick Kaiser and Mr. Jason Maes, came in to help with Ms. Jenna Behrends’s how-to-tie-a-tie lesson. Learning how to tie a…
Read MoreBygd to perform in Gustavus Adolphus College’s Christmas in Christ Chapel
SAINT PETER, MN – Gustavus Adolphus College will host its annual Christmas in Christ Chapel worship services December 2-5 on campus in Saint Peter, Minn. Emma Bygd of Boyceville will be in the Gustavus Choir. This year, Christmas in Christ Chapel’s theme is We Shall Go Forth Singing. Over 350 students will lead the audience…
Read MoreBoyceville lists first quarter honor roll
Boyceville Middle/High School 1st Quarter Honor Roll for the 2021-2022 school year. 7th Grade Isabelle Bohn, Ava Dormanen, Ellie Engeman, Eleanor Farrell, Sawyer Garbe, Emily Jackson, Nicholas Keeley, Elliana Kietzer, Isabelle Konsti, Ella Lain, Lillian Lain, Sydney Larson, Devon Lee, Aubrey Malean, Liam Moore-Girard, Lilly Nelson, Kade Phillips, Isabella Poppenberg, Brady Rasmussen, Kylee Schlough, Layla…
Read MoreBoyceville school district “3 away” from total number of COVID cases last year
By LeAnn R. Ralph BOYCEVILLE — As of the November 17 Boyceville Board of Education meeting, the school district had only three fewer cases of COVID-19 than the school district experienced all of last year. On the day of the school board meeting, Boyceville had 19 active cases and 85 were in quarantine, reported Nick…
Read MoreUW-La Crosse announces summer 2021 graduates
UW-La Crosse, founded in 1909, is one of the 13 four-year institutions in the University of Wisconsin System. UWL has more than 10,400 full and part-time students enrolled in 101 undergraduate, 28 graduate and two doctoral academic programs. Students earning degrees in August included Erik Strand of Elk Mound, who earned a Bachelor of Science…
Read MoreColfax school district will not be offering COVID-19 vaccine clinics
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has now been authorized for emergency use in children ages 5 to 11, but the Colfax school district will not be offering vaccine clinics. In the past, blood drives have been held in the lobby of the Martin Anderson…
Read MoreEM school district waiting for start date to begin on-site COVID-19 testing
By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — Although the Elk Mound Board of Education approved contracting with the Accelerated Diagnostic Laboratory in October to conduct on-site COVID-19 testing, a start date has not yet been determined. An employee from the company will be on-site in the Elk Mound school district to conduct the COVID-19 testing,…
Read MoreThe Viking Ship: CHS tech ed students present projects to school board
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Did you know you can order Viking apparel, personalized mugs, signs and cribbage boards and “Viking buck” coat racks from a student-run business at Colfax High School called The Viking Ship? Jamie Buchholtz, CHS technology education teacher, and three of his students — Taylor Risler, Will Wanish and…
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