By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX —A Colfax man has been sentenced to jail time and probation on one drug charge while 13 other drug-related and bail jumping charges were dismissed in Dunn County Circuit Court. Thomas W. Peterson, 510 Cedar Street, Colfax, pleaded no contest to possession of methamphetamine as a party to a crime…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — By the time 2017 rolls around, the village’s new wastewater permit will require Colfax to discharge about eight times less phosphorus than is currently being discharged. Paul Gont, the village’s wastewater engineer with Short Elliot Hendrickson (SEH), reviewed the village’s draft Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit with…
Read MoreWe started our week with a wonderfully warm day on Sunday. The 22ers 4H club kids played bingo with the residents that afternoon. Before going home, the kids went out into the court yard and proceeded to build 3 snow men. Residents watched with delight as the hats and eyes were placed and red scarfs…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has approved a preliminary certified survey map for an addition to Evergreen Cemetery that will add 2,450 burial lots and 480 cremation lots. The village board approved the preliminary CSM at the January 13 meeting.
Read MoreIn a recent report from the American Bankers Association, Bremer Bank was listed as the 12th largest ag lender in the country through the third quarter of 2013, based on dollar volume.
Read MoreSand Creek Arts presents the Seeger Boys, Saturday, January 18th at the Sand Creek Arts. The doors open at 6:15, snacks before and dessert at intermission available for free-will donation to the Sand Creek Arts Music Fund. The Seeger Boys are a blue grass family band. They are frequent visitors of the monthly blue grass…
Read MoreBy Marlys Kruger For those of you local (and older) sports fans who attended the Colfax-Bloomer girls basketball game Saturday night on January 4 in Colfax, you may have recognized the three men in stripes assigned to keep control of matters on the court. Those officials were none other than brothers Tim, Rick and Jeff…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Rumor has it that the Grapevine senior nutrition site in Colfax is closing. The rumor is wrong. “We are not closing,” stated Nancy Kane, nutrition site coordinator at the Grapevine Senior Center.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — Of the 29 positions on the Dunn County Board for the April 1 election, four positions will be open, one position will require a primary, two positions have two candidates, two positions will have no candidates, and the remaining positions will have incumbents on the ballot.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Five candidates have filed nomination papers for three positions on the Colfax Village Board for the April 1 election.
Read More