Colfax-Elk Mound Church Directory – 3-1-2017
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — The Elk Mound village board held a special meeting to discuss the results of the 2016 audit and complete business not addressed at its previous meeting. The board held a February 22 meeting to go over the results of the village’s 2016 audit. President Tom Gilbert had a…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — The Elk Mound Board of Education has approved annexing property to the school district and the purchase of a 2016 Thomas Freightliner bus. The board and district administrators discussed adding residential property, owned by Ken and Kelly Book to the Elk Mound district during its February 20 regular…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker visited Elk Mound High School to tour the building and speak to students and community members about the state’s education budget. The district learned of the Governor’s February 16 visit on February 13.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — Two village residents appeared before the Elk Mound village board during its most recent meeting to ask that speed enforcement be given priority by the Elk Mound Police Department. Sonny Pierce, who lives on South Holly Avenue, and Larry Nelson, who resides on Mounds View Drive, addressed the…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — In Elk Mound, there are railroad tracks less than 100 feet from the high school football field. The same tracks are at least one-quarter mile away from all three school buildings. In Colfax, the school complex is a little over a mile away from another set of train…
Read MoreMENOMONIE — A two-day jury trial has been scheduled in June in Dunn County Circuit Court for a 19-year-old Elk Mound man accused of child sexual assault. Chandler Russell James appeared in court with his attorney, William A. Schembera, February 17 for a status conference before Judge James Peterson.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — A 43-year-old former Elk Mound man now living in Wheeler is scheduled for a jury trial in May on five drug-related felonies.
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MADISON — Governor Scott Walker is proposing a $650 million increase in spending for Wisconsin schools in the 2017-2019 budget with a targeted aid of $40 million for rural schools. Rich Kremer, host of the Wisconsin Public Radio show The West Side, spoke to two rural school superintendents and the executive…
Read MoreWHEELER — Andrew R. Lee, 27 of Wheeler, died in a pickup truck versus train crash at the railroad crossing on county Highway S early Monday morning. According to a news release from the Dunn County Sheriff’s Department, the Dunn County E-911 Communication Center received a report of the truck-train accident at around 3:19 a.m.…
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