By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Village of Colfax could soon have a fifth Tax Increment Finance District. A meeting to organize a Joint Review Board for the proposed creation of TID5 was held at 5 p.m. August 30, with a review of the proposed plan for the district, and immediately following at 6…
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By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — After not being held in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 53rd Annual Colfax Firefighters’ Ball will be held Saturday, September 11. Line up for the Grand Parade will begin at 9 a.m. in the Colfax High School parking lot. Parade units can sign up the day of…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Rescue Squad is proposing a budget of $448,038 for 2022, with a per capita of $22.10. The proposed budget represents an increase of $15,000 over the budget of $433,038 initially presented at the annual meeting August 31, which had a proposed per capita of $20.28. Don Knutson,…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has delayed taking action on whether to commission a housing study for the village. Susan Badtke with the West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission presented information about the housing study at the village board’s August 23 meeting. Dunn County has received a $10,000 grant from…
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On August 24, 2021 about 11:11 AM the Dunn County Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call from a construction crew working on at a construction site 390th St in Town of Menomonie reporting two males were down and had possibly been struck by lightning. One male was reported to be not breathing. The Dunn…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — If you know who dropped off a 48-star flag for the Colfax elevator thrift sale August 19-21 at the fairgrounds, the Colfax Elevator Commission and the Colfax Municipal Building Restoration Group would love to hear from you. The thrift sale was quite successful, and many people in the community…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Members of the Colfax Village Board are concerned about the future of the Colfax Rescue Squad because of inadequate funds to replace equipment, compensate employees or to pay other operational costs. Although one of the agenda items at the village board’s August 23 meeting was a recommendation to increase…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Review of the proposed budget for the 2021-2022 school year of $9.48 million in expenditures was part of the business at the Colfax school district’s annual meeting on August 16. About a dozen people attended the annual meeting. The expenditure budget represents an increase of $28,000 over the 2020-2021…
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