By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Board of Education has reviewed and approved the school district’s safety plan. The school board approved the safety plan in December, but the plan should be approved again after the new fiscal year and then should be reviewed annually if not more often, said William C. Yingst…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Although state legislators like to say they fund education at 66 percent, for the Colfax school district, special education is only funded at 40 percent. The special education fund (Fund 27) “is shorted every single year,” said William C. Yingst Jr., district administrator, at the Colfax Board of Education’s…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Youngsters may soon be able to play “gaga ball” at the Colfax Fairgrounds thanks to a donation from the Colfax Cub Scouts and their parents. The first time gaga ball came to her attention, said Amy Horchem at the Colfax Village Board’s July11 meeting, was when her older sons…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has approved a resolution to borrow $750,000 for the project to stabilize the Red Cedar River bank to replace the original resolution for borrowing $600,000. CBS Squared, the company that is administering the Community Development Block Grant received by the village for the stabilization project…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Some are larger projects and some are smaller — but they all must be addressed one way or another. The Colfax Village Board reviewed a list of needed repairs to village-owned properties at the June 27 meeting and accepted a bid of $3,200 for repairing the concrete stage at…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — After refusing in February to send village employee Don Logslett to the Wisconsin Rural Water Association’s conference for continuing education, the Colfax Village Board has now approved reimbursing Logslett for the required training. According to a memorandum from Jody Albricht, village president, and Lynn Niggemann, village administrator-clerk-treasurer, presented to…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax wastewater treatment plant has earned a grade of “B” on the compliance maintenance annual report submitted to the state Department of Natural Resources. The section on the report pertaining to total suspended solids at the wastewater treatment lagoons earned a grade of “F,” said Rand Bates, director…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has authorized spending approximately $900 on an electrical diagram and another $500 for a percolation test for the proposed campground at Stuart Park. “We’re taking baby steps,” said Jeff Prince, village trustee and chair of the parks committee, at the Colfax Village Board’s June 13…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Property owners in Colfax whose lawn, grass or weeds are taller than six inches will now have 48 hours to mitigate what the ordinance establishes as a public nuisance. The previous ordinance set the height of the grass at eight inches before property owners were given five days to…
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By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — A mother and daughter who died as a result of a Chippewa County car crash in the Town of Cleveland were an employee and a student in the Elk Mound school district. According to a Facebook posting dated June 13 by the Elk Mound school district, Sara LeMay…
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