By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Scott A. Gunnufson has been elected village president in Colfax. Gunnufson was the only candidate on the ballot for village president in the April 2 spring election, and according to unofficial election results posted on the Dunn County clerk’s website, received 161votes. The election results are not official until…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A 21-year-old former Colfax man now living in Elk Mound has pleaded guilty to the repeated sexual assault of the same child with at least three incidents of first or second degree sexual assault. Dylan M. Reidel appeared in Dunn County Circuit Court before Judge Rod Smeltzer April 5…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — A recent court decision regarding the unconstitutionality of sex offender residency ordinances that place too great a restriction on where sex offenders can live has prompted the Elk Mound Village Board to amend its ordinance to 500 feet. The village’s existing ordinance states that a sex offender cannot…
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Members of Dunn County Farm Bureau, along with more than 300 other farmers and agriculturists from across Wisconsin, attended Ag Day at the Capitol on Wednesday, March 20th in Madison. Attendees began the day at the Monona Terrace Convention Center where the program was kicked off with a transportation panel comprised of Wisconsin DOT Secretary-Designee…
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MENOMONIE — Bonni Falkner has received the University Staff Employee Appreciation Award for March at University of Wisconsin-Stout. Falkner, of Elk Mound, is a senior accountant in the Provost’s Office. She also is chair of the University Staff Senate. She has been employed at UW-Stout for 33 years and during that time has earned three…
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By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — An Elk Mound middle school English Language Arts teacher has been awarded a $6,000 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Teacher Fellowship. The Herb Kohl Educational Foundation announced earlier this month that Nicole Resch, a seventh and eighth grade teacher in Elk Mound, had been awarded the fellowship. In addition…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A 43-year-old Elk Mound man has pleaded no contest and was found guilty in connection with delivering heroin to a resident at Arbor Place Treatment Center in Menomonie and was sentenced to six months in jail. Steven M. Clickner appeared in Dunn County Circuit Court with his attorney, William…
Read MoreDunn County will resume testing of its outdoor warning systems in April. Dunn County has a total of 13 emergency alert sirens, with six in Menomonie, and one each within the villages of Boyceville, Colfax, Knapp, Elk Mound, Ridgeland, Sand Creek and Wheeler. The sirens are activated by the Dunn County Communication Center. According to…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — It’s one of those “just in case” situations. The Elk Mound Board of Education approved adjustments to the 2019-2020 school year calendar at the March 18 meeting to provide cushion in the event that next year has as many inclement weather days as there have been this year.…
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