by Samuel Ripp GLENWOOD CITY — The Colfax track team was in action on Tuesday, May 17 in Glenwood City at the Dunn-St. Croix Conference track and field meet. The Viking girls took fifth and the boys were fourth in the 2016 event Rival Elk Mound won both the boys’ and girls’ championships. The Mounder…
Read Moreby Samuel Ripp COLFAX — A six-run fourth inning and four more runs in the sixth spelled doom for the Colfax softball team as Glenwood City took a 14-4 win Thursday, May 19 on the Lady Vikings’ home field in the conference and season finale for both squads. The Hilltoppers finished with a 11 to…
Read Moreby Samuel Ripp COLFAX — The Colfax “Vikings” baseball team picked up just it second win of the season at home Thursday, May 19 but did it in impressive fashion. Colfax dispatched Glenwood City in six innings, shutting out the Hilltoppers 10-0. The win improved the Vikings to 2-9 and 2-11.
Read Moreby Samuel Ripp ELK MOUND — The Elk Mound girls’ softball team clinched a share of its second straight Dunn-St. Croix championship last Monday, May 16 at home when it ten-runned rival Colfax. The Lady Mounders outhit their Vikings’ counterparts 10 to 2 en route to a 11-1, five-inning triumph. Elk Mound, who had won…
Read MoreCOLFAX — The Colfax Class of 2016 made quite a haul in the amount of monetary awards it received through scholarships from local an various post-secondary educational institutions. Colfax high school principal John Dachel announced at the May 20 commencement that this year’s graduating class had been awarded approximately $225,000 in scholarship monies. The various…
Read Moreby Samuel Ripp COLFAX — The Colfax and Elk Mound track and field teams were in action on Tuesday, May 10 at Colfax where both schools performed very well. The Elk Mound boys won the meet while their female counterparts took home a third place finish. The Colfax girls took home fourth place out of…
Read Moreby Samuel Ripp GLENWOOD CITY — The Colfax track team was on the road in Glenwood City on Thursday, May 12 and both the girls’ and boys’ teams finished fourth out of five teams on the night. Ellsworth swept both the boys’ and girls’ meets as the Lady Panthers scored 106 points and the boys…
Read Moreby Samuel Ripp COLFAX — After picking up just its third win of the season in a one-run win at home Monday, May 9 against Mondovi, the Colfax softball team was unable to carry that winning momentum in to the game with Pepin/Alma a few days later. The Vikings were edged 6-4 at home by…
Read Moreby Samuel Ripp The loses continued to add up for the Vikings’ baseball team as it dropped a pair of Dunn-St. Croix games at home last week. A late rally by Colfax came up a few runs short as it fell to Mondovi 6-4 on its home field Monday, May 9. And the results did…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Additional information will not change the minds of residents in the Colfax school district, especially when it comes to adding air conditioning or building an auditorium. According to Sue Peterson of School Perceptions, the company that sent out surveys to all school district residents in March pertaining to what…
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