GLENWOOD CITY — The Hilltopper boys look to continue their upward trajectory in the 2024-25 basketball season. After winning just three games two seasons ago, Glenwood City finished 10-13 overall and 5-9 in Dunn-St. Croix play last year, a trend head coach Patrick Olson, who enters his fourth season with a 20-49 mark, would like…
Read MoreMADISON – Ten Wisconsin FFA chapters have been awarded $500 grants through Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom’s FFA Food for America Agricultural Literacy Grant program. These grants will provide financial support to FFA chapters with plans for executing and evaluating agriculture literacy activities as part of Wisconsin FFA’s Food for America program. In 2023-24 school…
Read MoreCADOTT — It appears this year’s freshman class could have quite an impact on the fortunes of the Boyceville girls’ basketball team this season. In their first high school varsity contest, freshmen Brooklyn Talmage and Blake Jeske, building on their successes from the cross country season that saw them run at state a few weeks…
Read MoreJune 16, 1937 – November 19, 2024 Mick was born and raised in Glenwood City where he excelled at football, basketball, baseball and track and field. After graduating from Glenwood City High School in 1955, he attended River Falls College. In college he played football, basketball and baseball and was elected to the River Falls…
Read MoreBoyceville’s Delaney Olson selected as Rotary Club of Menomonie Youth Volunteer Service Award winner
Boyceville High School senior class member, Delaney Olson, was selected as the Menomonie Rotary Club Youth Volunteer Service Award winner. Delaney is the daughter of Rochelle and Jamie Olson of Boyceville. Delaney was recognized by the Rotary Club for her extensive volunteer service and commitment to her community. Ms. Karlene Berry, School Counselor at Boyceville…
Read MoreSubmitted by Lori Peterson, Spring Valley Stagehands SPRING VALLEY, WI –The Spring Valley Stagehands’ 2024 theatre season will conclude with the play Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Author Barbara Robinson’s popular and bestselling tale of the rowdy Herdmans has been beloved and celebrated since the book’s original release in 1972, and has subsequently been made into…
Read MoreAfter having its 27-game win streak snapped in a sectional finals loss to Baldwin-Woodville last spring, the Elk Mound girls’ basketball team simply started a new one to open its 2024-25 hardwood campaign. The Lady Mounders scored double-digit wins over a pair of Middle Border teams when it tipped of the new season last week.…
Read MoreBy Renee Bettendorf BOYCEVILLE — At their meeting held on November 20 the Boyceville school board voted to approve the final four million dollars in general obligation promissory notes to pay the remaining portion of the cost of the referendum projects. Back in January the board adopted an initial resolution authorizing the issuance of general…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — Sewer rates will be increasing in the village of Elk Mound by 5 percent. Terry Stamm, village president, told the Elk Mound Village Board at the November 18 meeting that he was recommending a sewer rate increase of 3 percent based on conversations with Karin Wolf, village clerk-treasurer.…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — Over the past month, the Village of Elk Mound has been dealing with ammonia issues at the wastewater treatment plant. “We’ve been trying to work on it. It gets better, it gets worse, it gets better and then it gets worse,” said Mark Levra, director of public works,…
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