By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX —  For many years, the Red Cedar River has been chipping away at the bank standing between the river and the Colfax wastewater treatment lagoons. The erosion has progressed to the point now where it is easy to imagine that one of the lagoons could wash out into the river.…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The village’s Fourth Avenue street reconstruction project could be delayed until spring. Lisa Fleming, a civil engineer with Ayres Associates, said at the Colfax Village Board’s August 25 meeting that the contractor, R.M. Schlosser Excavating out of Durand, was currently working on a four-week project in Fountain City.

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The proposed budget of $439,121 for the Colfax Rescue Squad for 2015 is $3,617 more than this year’s budget. Don Knutson, director of the Colfax Rescue Squad, presented the proposed budget at the rescue squad’s annual meeting August 26.

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX —  It is — as they say — “a done deal.” Herb Sakalaucks Jr., the owner and curator of the Colfax Railroad Museum, has purchased the two-story former Wisconsin Central Depot at 416 Main Street directly south of the railroad tracks.

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX —  It seems a little odd that the Wisconsin Central Railroad train depot, the village’s first fire department and a photograph from 1898 should all be tied together — but they are. It all started August 31, 1898, when the railroad depot burned down and nearly took the rest of…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX —  The Colfax Village Board’s public safety committee is recommending that the village board include a new warning siren in the 2015 budget at a cost of around $22,000. The public safety committee met August 18 to discuss the warning siren and the 2015 rescue squad budget for the August…