Celebrate the new year by stepping into the outdoors with a First Day Hike. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will join in the annual adventure sponsored by America’s State Parks on New Year’s Day for the 11th year in a row. Each year Wisconsinites join the thousands of people across the nation to…
Read MoreBy Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent LADYSMITH — With just one game on their slate last week, the Lady Vikings’ basketball team made the most of it when they traveled to Ladysmith to take on the Ladysmith Lumberjills December 21. Ladysmith was 9-1 overall and 5-0 in the Heart O’ North Conference and are expected to…
Read MoreDE PERE, WIS. – Kayla Ruppelt of Elk Mound and Nyah Anderson of Glenwood City have been named to the 2021 fall semester dean’s list at St. Norbert College. A minimum 3.5 grade point average is required for academic eligibility.
Read MoreTanner Nierenhausen, from Colfax, was named to the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s Dean’s List for the 2021 Fall Quarter. Nierenhausen is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Undergraduate students who have earned at least 30 credits and have a cumulative GPA of 3.20 or higher (out of 4.0) are on the Dean’s List.…
Read MoreDrugs are killing us About 93,000 American citizens lost their lives to drug overdose in 2020 and here in Wisconsin the number of deaths is growing each year. Our state listed some 1,530 deaths from drug overdoses in 2020 up from about 1,200 the year before. Everyday the television news is full with reports about…
Read MoreDear Editor Last week I visited Lilydale’s to listen to former WI Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman speak about the November 2020 election investigation that he is heading. He spoke about the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC); the $500 million Zuckerburg money that was funneled through certain organizations into five major WI cities; what that money…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — As is the case with other schools in the area, the state and the nation — substitute teachers and bus drivers are still in short supply for the Colfax school district. As of the day of the Colfax Board of Education’s December 20 meeting, 43 Colfax students were in…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — The Elk Mound Village Board has approved the sale of a $400,000 general obligation promissory note and the sale of an $895,000 tax increment revenue bond anticipation note to pay incentives for the Settlers Ridge development. Sean Lentz of Ehlers Inc., the village’s financial consultant, told the village…
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