By Marlys Kruger COLFAX — The large crowd that showed up on a beautiful evening for 1880s vintage base ball to see the newly (and quickly) formed team representing the Village of Colfax saw the aptly named 150s (in reference to the 150 year celebration) pull together to force extra innings before falling 17-13 to…
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Read MoreIn the beginning … The year of 2014 marks the sesquicentennial celebration for the village of Colfax. The 150th birthday for Colfax was based upon the earliest settlers who came to this area, two men from Waukesha, Cyrenius Baldwin and James Mathew. Baldwin and Mathew came to Dunn County in April of 1858 looking for…
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Read MoreThe Colfax Crafters continue to meet weekly at Colfax Lutheran Church from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays throughout the summer.
Read MoreSummer time and the living is easy! Residents sleep until they are rested. They have breakfast when they like it, prepared and served just the way they like it. Dirty dishes: no problem, clean dishes magically appear every time they’re hungry. Their rooms are cleaned and their clothes laundered and back in their wardrobes. Sounds…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — As they like to say, “No one is left out when The Dweebs come to town.” And in fact, The Dweebs will be coming to Colfax on Saturday, July 19, playing — where else? — in downtown Colfax for the Colfax Sesquicentennial celebration. Traffic will be detoured around the…
Read Moreby Marlys Kruger Residents in both Colfax and Elk Mound may have noticed a small, colorful wooden box standing on one of their village streets the past couple of weeks. The boxes, two of 10 that have been placed at various sites around Dunn County, are called a Little Free Library and are filled with…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — What would any celebration of Colfax’s sesquicentennial be without including the Norwegians? After all, many of the early settlers and pioneers were Norwegian. And Colfax has the Scandinavian American Fraternity Park (the Colfax Fairgrounds), which started out as the Independent Scandinavian Workingmen’s Association Park (ISWA).
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