By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Board of Education has approved an agreement with the Elk Mound school district to form a cooperative boys’ and girls’ golf program beginning in the 2020-2021 school year. “I can’t see a reason why we wouldn’t do it,” said Todd Kragness, president of the Colfax school board,…
Read MoreBy Amber Hayden HUDSON — The Colfax ladies were in Hudson last Tuesday night, November 19, to open the 2019-20 basketball season. The talented Vikings, defending champs of the Dunn-St. Croix, pushed the Raiders, a division one team and last year’s Big Rivers Conference runners-up, to the breaking point only to fall in overtime, 54-51,…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Wendy Lausted has been a crossing guard for the Colfax school district for 20 years, and if you ask her, she can tell you about plenty of close calls at the crosswalk on state Highway 40. So far, neither Lausted nor the students she guides across the street at…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — With a score of 78.9, the Colfax school district is listed in the “exceeds expectations” category on the state report card. Colfax Elementary had an overall score of 80.7, and Colfax High School had an overall score of 74.9, said William C. Yingst Jr. at the Colfax Board of…
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ELMWOOD — The 2019 Land Judging Contest was held on Thursday, October 10 at the Jeff & Diana Gasteyer Farm near Elmwood. This year’s event was hosted by Dunn County and staff from Dunn, Buffalo, and Pepin County Land and Water Conservation offices, Solid Waste & Recycling, and NRCS assisted with the contest. Mike England,…
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By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — What do you think the chances would be that brand new dictionaries handed out to Colfax Elementary third graders would cause quite a lot of excitement? If you said the chances were good — you’d be right. Students in third grade classes at Colfax Elementary taught by Kirk Secraw,…
Read MoreCOLFAX — The School District of Colfax will be hosting a Veterans Day Program on Monday, November 11 at 10:00 a.m. in the Colfax High School gymnasium. The public is invited to attend. The theme for the Veterans Day poster is: “Service.” Veterans contribute to American society in many ways; not just during their time…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax school district is planning to apply for a $22,500 rebate/grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Wisconsin Propane Gas Association to put toward a new energy efficient bus. Colfax is currently running nine liquid propane (LP) buses, along with three or four diesel buses, and…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The average ACT scores of Colfax High School graduates in 2019 increased in all areas compared to the 2018 scores, while state-wide average scores decreased in 2019 as compared to 2018. The ACT “college readiness letter” for Colfax High School was included in the Colfax Board of Education’s packet…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Board of Education has set the tax levy for the 2019-2020 school year at $2,977,075, representing a $20,000 increase over the levy approved at the school district’s annual meeting in July. The school district experienced not quite a half a percent decrease in state aid (.45 percent),…
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