By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Chad Lewis is a paranormal researcher who studies ghosts and goblins and things that go “bump” in the night — such as werewolves in Transylvania. Along the way he has written a series of “Road Guides to Haunted Locations” including Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.

By LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A judge in Dunn County Circuit has denied a motion to dismiss the case against a 33-year-old Dallas man involved in a shootout with law enforcement officers near Ridgeland last June. Judge Michael Bitney denied the motion January 30 filed by Donna Burger, the attorney for Jared Brendel.

By LeAnn R. Ralph TOWN OF HOWARD  —  The Red Flint Group has filed an application with Chippewa County for a reclamation permit to cover the proposed 1,300-acre sand mine and processing facility in the Town of Howard east of Colfax. Vernon Schindler, Town of Howard chair, told the other two town board supervisors at…

By LeAnn R. Ralph TOWN OF HOWARD —  The Howard Town Board has gone on record saying they want to maintain local control of sand mines through the township’s mine licensing ordinance. After Susan Haake, town clerk, read the resolution at the February 3 meeting “in support of local control of nonmetallic mining operations,” the…