By Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — The Colfax Vikings’ football team dropped its second game of the season to a team that out-rushed and out-passed it by a three-to-one margin, eventually leading to a 47-14 loss here last Friday night. In the August 26 game played on the Vikings’ home field, the Ellsworth Panthers logged…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski BOYCEVILLE — Both area girls cross country teams opened the harrier season at the top of a 12-team race in Boyceville. The Colfax and Elk Mound girls cross country teams finished first and second respectively at Boyceville’s annual Cross Country Alumni Invitational held Thursday morning, August 25 at Tiffany Creek Elementary…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — With boys’ and girls’ teams that both qualified for state in 2015, Joe Doucette and his squads had a very ssuccessful cross country season a year ago. Out of sixteen Division 3 teams at state, the Viking boys placed 16th while the girls came in third. Coach Doucette is…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — When school starts September 1, the Colfax school district will have seven new teachers, and the Elk Mound school district also will have seven new teachers.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The Colfax Board of Education has expelled two high school students for drug related offenses. The Colfax school board held an expulsion hearing during a closed session August 22.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Frustration. Stress. Confusion. Anger. Those were some of the emotions that Colfax school district staff members said they felt during a poverty simulation August 25 at Colfax High School. Barney Slowey, an instructor in the graduate program at Silver Lake College in Manitowoc, facilitated the poverty simulation as one…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — The Viking girls’ golf team is off to a positive start so far in 2016 with a scramble and two meets under their belt. The scramble in Barron was followed by meets hosted by Chetek-Weyerhaeuser and St. Croix Central.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — The Colfax Vikings finished last season at the top of the Dunn-St. Croix after beating the only other undefeated team in the conference – Elk Mound. The Vikings went on to the playoffs, but were knocked out in sectionals by Grantsburg. In May, the team said good bye to…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski COLFAX – The Vikings were handed their first loss of the season they fell 43-6 in the 2016 home and season opener against the Eleva-Strum Cardinals Thursday, August 18. In a game that saw 99 rushing yards for Colfax and a further 28 passing yards, the Vikings managed to pull together…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — If the enrollment holds in second grade at Colfax Elementary, the school district’s administrative team now has the ability to hire a third teacher for second grade this fall. The Colfax Board of Education authorized hiring another second grade teacher at the August 15 meeting. As of August 15,…
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