By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Board of Education has approved 237 regular education open enrollment spaces in the elementary school, middle school and high school and zero for special education. The school board held a special meeting January 30 to consider the spaces available for open enrollment.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski Until four years ago, there were only two potential winter sports at Elk Mound High School: boys’ basketball or girls’ basketball. In Colfax, there were three, the two basketball teams and wrestling. Four years ago, Colfax coach Matt DeMoe started a powerlifting “team” with one student. At the same time, a…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski After a 0-2 start in conference action, a youthful Colfax girls’ basketball squad has quickly gained experience and maturity to turn it’s season around. The Vikings have been winners in six of their past seven Dunn-St. Croix contests including a pair of impressive wins over Boyceville and Spring Valley last week.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — Colfax’s boys’ basketball head coach Garrett Maas has told his team all season it has the talent to beat any team in the Dunn-St. Croix. In a January 26 game, the Viking boys showed just how talented they are by staying even with conference foe Durand until the final…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — For the past three years, Colfax students who are not interested in playing basketball or wrestling have had a third sport available to them. Ice fishing is not as physically intense as other winter sports, but the students involved in the Colfax High School ice fishing club are learning…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski The Bloomer/Colfax wrestling co-op lost a pair of duals to conference opponents last week. The Blackhawks started the week by facing the Barron Golden Bears on Monday, January 23 after the original January 17 dual had been postponed due to poor weather conditions. The Bloomer/Colfax team traveled to Barron with high…
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Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski BLOOMER — Four Colfax wrestlers matched up against Superior wrestlers last week in Bloomer and all four won their respective matches. Austyn Bartz, Cole Olson, Tommy Anderson and Mitchel Harmon all pitted their skills against Spartan wrestlers from Superior. Olson, Anderson and Harmon competed in scored matches and assisted the Blackhawk…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — The Vikings’ head girls’ basketball coach, Joe Doucette, is a positive person who rarely has anything bad to say about the students he works with in Colfax. The former teacher is someone who can find a silver lining in even the darkest of clouds. So it was a little…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski MONDOVI — The Colfax boys’ basketball team has been playing more and more often as a cohesive team in recent weeks. Head coach Garrett Maas said he was impressed with how the team was starting to play together. The Vikings sailed to Mondovi for a match-up with the Buffaloes last Friday,…
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