By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has approved a general fund budget for 2014 of $1.18 million, a rescue squad budget of $435,504, a sewer budget of $179,300 and a water budget of $289,998. The Colfax Village Board held a budget hearing December 2 and approved the budgets at a special…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax EMS Association has been awarded a $62,000 grant by the Otto Bremer Foundation for the purchase of two new Zoll cardiac monitors and defibrillators. Representatives for the EMS Association planned to meet with a company representative on December 17 to finalize the order for the equipment, said…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX —  The tradition of lighting the Lovelight tree at Colfax Health Rehabilitation Center goes back many years. But now, for the first time in CHRC’s history, instead of a tree, the facility has a Lovelight star. The Lovelight star was announced at CHRC’s Lovelight program December 5.

By LeAnn R. Ralph ALBERTVILLE — Louis Solberg, Oscar Solberg and Lillian Flesberg teamed up to write a book of memoirs they called “Old Albertville: The Town That Refused to Grow.” There is no copyright date on the book.