Nichelle Broten, Colfax High School biology teacher, has been awarded a $500 mini grant from the Jackie Hunt – State Farm Insurance Agency. Hunt sponsored Cash For Your Class mini grants. The grant application Broton submitted was for aquatic insect collection tools. “We would like to fund your grant for hands-on outdoor science equipment. As…
Read MoreSAND CREEK, Wis. — Ownership of a popular Dunn County park and campground has been transferred to the town of Sand Creek 50 years after the town turned it over to the county.’ “The agreement between the county and the town came together quite nicely,” said Michael Nelson, chair of the Sand Creek Town Board,…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has accepted the last of five bids from Senn Blacktop in the amount of $7,794 for West Railroad Avenue. The village board accepted four other bids for patching from Senn Blacktop at the August 28 meeting but held off on the fifth bid because of…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has approved a budget for the Colfax Rescue Squad of $619,484 for 2024. At the annual meeting of the Colfax Rescue Squad August 30, this is the budget recommended by the representatives of municipalities who attended the annual meeting, said Jeff Prince, village president, at…
Read MoreLorn Schultz and Royce Sorensen will play bluegrass gospel music during the church service at Colfax United Methodist Church on September 24 at 11 a.m. Schultz and Sorensen have come full circle after starting together in the 1980s as founding members of The King’s Trio. Schultz went on to form The King’s Countrymen which included…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — It is the end of an era, so to speak. After owning and operating the Colfax Animal Hospital for 39 years, Dr. Bruce Buckley retired as of September 1, and the new owners, husband and wife team Dr. Austin Prichard and Dr. Nikki Prichard, took over the vet clinic…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has signed a resolution in support of the elevator project for the Colfax Municipal Building. The elevator commission is trying to get grants, and support from the community will help in the grant process, said Gary Stene, village trustee. The elevator project would include an…
Read MoreCOLFAX — Helen Reed, co-owner of the Colfax Messenger, wrote a weekly column 65 years ago. From Helen’s column, “Winding Up the Yarn,” in the September 4, 1958, edition of the Colfax Messenger: The Bremers’ dog, Hans, loves to swim, and many happy hours of his day are spent in the river. Sometimes he swims…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Ezekiel Cutting died nearly 161 years ago. And now a stone has been placed in the St. John’s Lutheran Popple Creek Cemetery for him and a military funeral will be held Sunday, September 10, at 11 a.m. Ezekiel Chapin Cutting grew up on the Cutting farm in Popple Creek…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has approved four of five patching bids submitted by Senn Blacktop out of Chippewa Falls and was waiting for clarification on the fifth bid. The total Senn bid reviewed by the village board at the August 28 meeting was for $32,676.85. Pavement Consulting Services, LLC…
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