By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — A Dunn County judge has found probable cause in a case involving a 22-year-old Colfax man accused of two felony counts of sexually assaulting an unconscious victim. Judge Rod Smeltzer bound over for trial Max D. Whinnery following a preliminary hearing in Dunn County Circuit Court April 11 on…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Although members of the Colfax Village Board are remaining close-lipped and are not releasing any information — as far as anyone would be able to tell — the village has not yet hired a police chief.

A pair of longtime dartball players from Colfax were part of the new class inducted into the Wisconsin Dartball Hall of Fame April 5 in Manitowoc. Gaylon Gotliebson and Paul Strand were nominated by Dan Plomadahl, a fellow competitor in the Eau Claire League they play in, but they had to be at least 50…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — An account has now been set up at Bremer Bank in Colfax for anyone wishing to donate toward the memorial stone for the founder of Colfax, J.D. Simons.

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — In honor of the Colfax Sesquicentennial celebration July 17-20, 2014, the history installment for this edition of the Colfax Messenger is Part 2 of the story about two 100-year floods on the Red Cedar River in 1965 and again in 1967. The floods caused NSP to permanently shut down…