The Carpenters sang “Rainy Days and Mondays” in 1971. The first verse ended with “Hanging around, nothing to do but frown, rainy days and Mondays always get me down.” Despite the fact that Monday was a very rainy day residents did not frown or get down.
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Read MoreCOLFAX — The American Legion Auxiliary is changing the time and date of their meetings. The Auxiliary will now meet the second Monday of each month at the Grapevine Senior Center on Main Street in Colfax at 2 p.m.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph TOWN OF COLFAX — Based on a discussion at the Dunn County Planning, Resources and Development committee, the Colfax Town Board has agreed to explore intergovernmental cooperation with the Town of Howard for regulating sand mines. The Colfax Town Board discussed the possibility of intergovernmental cooperation at the May 14 regular…
Read MoreMembers of the Russell-Toycen Post 131, American Legion, Colfax, will meet at 8 a.m. May 26 in the Colfax High School parking lot to travel to Sand Creek for that community’s Memorial Day ceremonies.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The gravestone for J.D. Simons, founder of Colfax, has been ordered and paid for in full. Troy Knutson, Colfax historian, reports that he collected $1,317 all together from Colfax residents and former Colfax residents, and that the stone, engraving, and setting the stone came to a total cost of…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — If you have not been to the Colfax Railroad Museum lately — or if you’ve never visited — you might want to consider going. The Colfax Railroad Museum has an extensive collection of railroad china in a variety of patterns and colors. In fact, the Colfax Railroad Museum’s china…
Read MoreJack Frost and Sunny Spring battled it out this week. The grey clouds hide the mêlée. Inside our comfortable home residents went about their daily routines.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has approved advertising for bids for the estimated $350,000 Fourth Avenue project. Lisa Fleming, a civil engineer with Ayres Associates, suggested at the May 12 Colfax Village Board meeting that if the village advertises for bids now, the bids could be opened June 12 and…
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