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Colfax Health & Rehab News – 8-2-2013

By Melissa | August 2, 2013

We are now in our new building. All the residents ate their breakfast at the old building and when it was dinner time everyone had dinner in the new building.

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Colfax Correction – 8-7-2013

By Melissa | August 2, 2013

In a story published in the July 24 edition of the Colfax Messenger, it was reported that Myrtle Gunderson had built the house at 505 West Street. Kathy Rieder has informed the Messenger that the house at 505 West Street was built by her grandmother, Clara Jensen.  

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Sand Creek Chatter – 7-31-2013

By Melissa | July 29, 2013

Kristin and Colby Turner, Trent and Rachel, came for a week’s vacation on July 12 to visit Kristin’s parents, Harlan and Lana Anderson.

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Grapevine senior nutrition menu – 7-31-2013

By Melissa | July 29, 2013

Grapevine senior nutrition menu – 7-31-2013

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Colfax man arrested after incident near Karl’s Chevrolet

By Melissa | July 29, 2013

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — A 29-year-old Colfax man has been arrested after being spotted near the back door of Karl’s Chevrolet with a pipe in his hand and then fleeing from the Colfax police chief.

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Reward offered following malicious attack against horse

By Melissa | July 29, 2013

By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — Tammy Dahlby will never recover from the loss of her Appaloosa stud colt, Leo — either emotionally or financially. Sometime during the afternoon on Sunday, July 14, someone took the one-year-old colt out of his stall at a place on county Highway B south of Colfax, coerced the…

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Got weeds? Village says cut ‘em down …

By Melissa | July 29, 2013

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Even though the weather has been dry and the grass is not growing, the weeds are still doing very well. In fact, in some parts of Colfax, weeds are becoming issue, said Mark Halpin, village trustee and acting village president, at the Colfax Village Board’s July 22 meeting.

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Colfax approves air quality study for municipal building

By Melissa | July 29, 2013

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Mold and moisture problems in the Colfax Municipal Building basement have prompted the Colfax Village Board to approve air quality testing. The village board contemplated at the July 22 meeting hiring Servpro of Barron, Dunn and Rusk Counties to clean the basement.

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Cul-de-sac missing from nursing home project

By Melissa | July 29, 2013

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — For whatever reason, a cul-de-sac is missing in the area of the new facility built by the Colfax Health and Rehabilitation Center behind Viking Bowl.

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Colfax school board conducts annual meeting

By Melissa | July 29, 2013

By Marlys Kruger COLFAX — With just two people who were not administrators, board members or a local reporter attending the annual meeting, Colfax District Administrator Bill Yingst reported in his third year leading the district on the proposed budget along with the usual business of the meeting July 22 in the high school cafeteria.

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