Colfax-Elk Mound School Lunch Menu – 12-7-2016
Read MoreMARSHFIELD – Security Health Plan recognizes that healthy minds are an integral part of healthy lives – which is why it announced the School District of Colfax as 1 of 22 recipients of $100,000 in school-based grants this month. The grants provide 22 school districts’ use of the Behavioral, Emotional and Social Traits (b.e.s.t.) universal…
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Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski BLOOMER — Last year’s Viking wrestlers numbered five and graduated just one senior but it was a big one – 2016 Division 2, 138-pound state runner-up Brady Simonson. The Colfax grapplers will again compete as part of a cooperative with Bloomer. This season, Colfax will contribute three freshmen and a shiny…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski HAMMOND — The Colfax girls basketball team had a rough start to its November 22 game at St. Croix Central when the Panthers ran up a double-digit lead early in the first half. It is a testament to the Vikings’ optimism, talent, and teamwork that they came out of the contest…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Although interest rates have increased almost half a percent since the $7.2 million Colfax school referendum was approved November 8, new projections show the the mill rate still could end up slightly lower. If the school district can lock in an interest rate of 2.97 percent, instead of the…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Although it was not anyone’s fault, the Colfax school district finds itself in the position of practically being uninsurable for employee health insurance. The Colfax school district had several very large claims, which caused other insurance providers to not bid on providing health insurance, said Bill Yingst, superintendent, at…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — Coach Joe Doucette said the Colfax girls’ basketball team did everything right in their November 18 home and regular-season opener against the Hayward Hurricanes: they rebounded well, they forced turnover after turnover, and played hard as a team. The Vikings held a six-point lead heading into halftime, but were…
Read MoreColfax-Elk Mound School Lunches – 11-23-2016
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — Last year’s Viking boys’ basketball squad finished fourth in the Dunn-St. Croix with an 8-6 conference record and were 12-13 overall. So it is no small feather in coach Garrett Maas’ cap that his team made it farther in tournament play than the Vikings’ nearest conference neighbor and the…
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