By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — Although the Village of Elk Mound’s wastewater permit expires at the end of June, the village board still does not know the copper and phosphorus limits for the wastewater treatment plant. Paul Gont, the village’s wastewater engineer with Short Elliott Hendrickson (SEH), spoke at the Elk Mound Village…
Read MoreColfax/Elk Mound Churches – 6-5-2013
Read MoreBy Kelsie Hoitomt The month of June has arrived and that means across the state people will be celebrating our dairy industry with National Dairy Month. The month long celebration kicked off with several events this past weekend including the Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival in Little Chute, Walker’s Point Food Crawl in Milwaukee and the…
Read MoreLee and Charlotte Anderson picked up Inez Schrader on Friday, May 24, and went to Barron where they picked up Mary Halverson. They delivered flowers to Dunn, Barron, Rusk, and Price counties. They spent some time in Hawkins first because Mary wanted to see where Inez grew up and also where Inez’s grandmother lived. Their…
Read MoreColfax/Elk Mound Churches – 5-29-2013
Read MoreSand Creek Chatter – 5-29-2013 The Sand Creek Pipers 4-H members placed 95 flags on Veterans’ graves at the 3 local cemeteries including: Our Savior’s Lutheran Cemetery, the Zion Lutheran cemetery and the Myron Cemetery. They accomplished all this on Thursday evening, of May 23.
Read MoreMENOMONIE — Kim Kowieski of Elk Mound, who is studying food and nutritional sciences, was among the individuals recognized as as an outstanding graduate student at the recent Celebration of Teaching and Learning event at University of Wisconsin-Stout, the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — The Elk Mound Board of Education has saved $130,000 by accepting a bid for a Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning contract from a different vendor. The Elk Mound school board accepted the low bid from J.F. Ahern Company for just shy of $129,000 for a three-year contract at…
Read MoreColfax/Elk Mound Churches – 5-22-2013
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Readers of the Colfax Messenger who have been around for a while will remember Robert (Bob) Ziebell from his 25 years of working at the Colfax Farmers’ Union. Others will remember Bob from his “Bob in Hardware” years at Mills Fleet Farm in Menomonie where he was employed for…
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