By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Board of Education has approved a total combined tax levy of $3.14 million for 2020-2021. The motion approved by the school board at the October 26 meeting for a tax levy of $3,135,554 included six different elements. The total proposed tax levy at the school district’s annual…
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By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — A UW-Madison graduate student in engineering who has been awarded two fellowships from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has ties to Colfax. Chloe Gunderson received the fellowships to support her research in cryogenics. One fellowship helped Gunderson earn her master’s degree, and the second fellowship is helping…
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By LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A Dunn County judge has found probable cause and has bound over for trial a 25-year-old Colfax woman charged with six drug-related felonies. Cassandra P. Davis appeared with her attorney, Roger Hillestad, before Judge Rod Smeltzer for a preliminary hearing October 20 in Dunn County Circuit Court. Dunn County…
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TOWN OF COLFAX — A Colfax man is dead following a single-vehicle rollover this past Saturday evening in the Town of Colfax. Frank Newton, 87 of rural Colfax, died when he lost control of his vehicle on a curve along County Highway M and rolled several times. Around 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 24th, 2020,…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Did you know there are 22 steps in the back stairway of the Colfax Municipal Building leading from the auditorium to the main floor? Mark Johnson, a member of the Colfax Elevator Commission and president of the Colfax Commercial Club, did not know it, either, until recently. “While talking…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — An ordinance regulating all-terrain vehicles in Colfax has taken another step closer to receiving approval from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. At the last meeting, the village board approved changing the ordinance to have all-terrain and utility-terrain vehicles cross the bridge on state Highway 170 and cross Stewart Park…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Plan Commission is recommending that two lots on High Street west of the former nursing home building be rezoned from Business 2 to Residential 4. The plan commission met October 14 to consider the rezone, which will make it possible to build duplexes on the lots. The…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — Bail has been set at $15,000 cash for a 25-year old Colfax woman charged with six drug-related felonies. Cassandra P. Davis, also known as Cassandra Suchla, made an initial appearance in Dunn County Circuit Court October 12 before Judge Rod Smeltzer. Davis is charged with felony counts of possessing…
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SUN PRAIRIE, WI—Compeer Financial’s Fund for rural America, the Farm Credit cooperative’s giving program, has awarded 163 grants as part of their Emergency Response Equipment Program, totaling $450,166. Area Response Departments that received grants include the Glenwood City Fire Department, Boyceville Fire and Ambulance Departments. Emergency Response Equipment Grants help to offset the cost of…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Zoning Board of Appeals has recommended the Colfax Village Board grant a variance request at 1004 University Avenue for a proposed garage. Nine nearby property owners were notified of the request, but none of them contacted the clerk’s office or submitted anything in writing to indicate they…
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