By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX  —  The execution of two “no knock” search warrants in Colfax has resulted in the arrest of seven people in an ongoing investigation into the distribution of methamphetamine. The West Central Drug Task Force, with assistance from the Dunn County Sheriff’s Department and the Colfax Police Department, executed the search…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX  —  It’s spring — and the Colfax Village Board would like village residents to clean up their yards. The village should be encouraging yard clean-up and urging village residents to get rid of those mattresses and old tires and other debris, said Lynn Niggemann, village administrator-clerk-treasurer, at the Colfax Village…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX  —  Everyone in this area knows it as Evergreen Cemetery, but as far as the plat maps are concerned, it is the Colfax Cemetery. Since the sign at the cemetery says Evergreen but the maps all say Colfax Cemetery, the Colfax Village Board’s parks committee is wondering if the cemetery…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX  —  The Fourth Avenue street project that was supposed to be completed last year will soon be under construction, and the Colfax Village Board has authorized a public meeting on Third Avenue in April. Lisa Fleming, a civil engineer with Ayres Associates, reported on the Fourth Avenue project at the…

COLFAX  —  The Colfax Plan Commission held a public hearing on a request for a rezone to residential for the Schindler property along Dunn Street March 19, and the Colfax Village Board approved the rezone March 23. But during the plan commission’s public hearing on the rezone, two local residents expressed the opinion that the…