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Colfax school board conducts January meeting

By Melissa | January 26, 2016

by Marlys Kruger On an extremely cold evening, members of the Colfax school board kept warm in the confines of the high school library when they took care of business at the January 18 meeting. Two members are up for re-election this April, including Joel Hilson who happens to be the board president, along with…

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Halpin wins Bowl Bash Contest

By Melissa | January 18, 2016

The winner of the seventh annual College Bowl Bash is Mark Halpin of Colfax, who correctly picked 17 of the 22 bowl games that were listed in this year’s contest. Jeremy Sol of Menomonie finished in second place after he selected the winners in 16 of the 22 games. Halpin will receive $25 for first…

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Lady Vikings back on track with win over Elmwood-Plum City

By Melissa | January 18, 2016

ELMWOOD — After having their 55 conference game winning streak halted by Elk Mound the previous week, the Colfax girls’ hoops team began a new streak when they traveled to Elmwood Jan. 12 and came up with a 47-26 win over the Elmwood-Plum City Wolves.

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Colfax Dance Team competes in Western Wisconsin Conference Competition Jan. 16

By Melissa | January 18, 2016

The Colfax Dance Team competed at Eau Claire Memorial High School on January 16 in the Western Wisconsin Conference Competition. In the morning Caroline Dworak and Chaela Lotts performed solos that they had been working on since before Christmas.

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Viking boys win, girls lose against Hilltoppers in double header matinee

By Melissa | January 18, 2016

It was a matter of both Colfax teams coming from opposite sides of the spectrum when they hosted Glenwood City on a Saturday afternoon January 16. The girls were coming off a lopsided win against Elmwood- Plum City, but found their home gym as cold as the temperature outside as they lost 50-33 to the…

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Colfax-Elk Mound school menus – 1-20-2016

By Melissa | January 18, 2016

Colfax-Elk Mound school menus – 1-20-2016

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Colfax students perform in choir of 1,200 singers

By Melissa | January 18, 2016

Four Colfax High School seniors performed with a select choir of singers from Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota and Minnesota January 10-11. Andrew Buckley, Hannah DeMoe, Tucker Hovde, and Hannah Yingst sang at the annual Dorian Vocal Festival at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

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Colfax-Bloomer finishes 3-2 at O-F-A-FC tournament

By Melissa | January 12, 2016

Brady Simonson and Cole Anderson-Olson both went undefeated as the Colfax-Bloomer wrestling team won three matches and lost two at the tournament hosted by Osseo-Fairchild-Augusta-Fall Creek Jan. 9. C-B won 45-28 over the host team, 48-18 over Independence-Gilmanton and 47-15 over Mondovi and dropped matches to a powerful Arcadia team 60-18 and La Crosse Logan…

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Elk Mound ends Colfax conference winning streak at 55 games

By Melissa | January 11, 2016

All good things must end and looking at the rosters from both the Elk Mound and Colfax girls’ basketball teams before the season started, by all accounts if any team was going to break the 55 game conference winning streak the Vikings began back in February of 2012, it was going to be the Mounders.

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Colfax boys drop back to back games against Amery, Spring Valley

By Melissa | January 11, 2016

Struggling to get the ball in the basket resulted in a 58-43 loss for the Colfax boys’ basketball team against Amery in the first of two home games last week. And despite five players combining to make 14 three point shots, it still wasn’t enough to pull out a win over Spring Valley as the…

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