Of the 48 guards who accepted transfers to take advantage of a pay increase for working in Wisconsin’s most understaffed prisons, fewer than 25% went to the two facilities with the highest vacancy rates. Columbia Correctional Institution, which has the highest vacancy rate among Department of Corrections institutions, received only four transfers while Waupun Correctional…
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On August 18 Colfax Sportsmen’s Club hosted the Wisconsin State Rimfire Challenge Match, at the Dunn County/Colfax Shooting Sports complex. Run under the auspices of the Rimfire Challenge Shooting Association (RCSA), the state match is expected to be a yearly event at the Colfax range. For the last few years the state competition had been…
Read MoreWHITEHALL — What a difference a year can make! After whipping Whitehall, 42-19, in the season and home opener last year, Colfax found itself on the other side in last Friday’s football opener. The Norsemen returned the favor when they bested the Vikings 20-12 in a non-conference game August 23. Troubles with its blocking schemes…
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ELK MOUND — The Lady Mounders came up a bit short in their quest for a conference championship last season as they finished in second place in the Dunn-St. Croix with a 7-1 record. Elk Mound’s lone conference set back came at the hands of rival and six-time defending titlist Colfax. Overall, Elk Mound tallied…
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COLFAX — Pam Meredith doesn’t seem to be worried as she enters her fourteenth year as the Vikings’ head coach, seeing as she has eight hard hitters returning from last year’s Dunn-St. Croix Conference championship volleyball team. In fact, the Colfax Lady Vikes volleyball team will have all but two players back for the 2019…
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News for the week of August 18th to the 24th: Monday we started out our week with Wii games in the square. We have mastered bowling and are attempting our strength at Wii Golf! Loretta led us in Rosary, we love that she comes to do this with us. We also had outdoor visits and Slushies…
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by LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — All together, 19 cast members performed in the Missoula Children’s Theatre production of “Jack and the Beanstalk” at the Colfax Municipal Building Auditorium August 24. The play is based on the classic children’s story “Jack and the Beanstalk,” and the adaptation was conceived and written by Jim Caron with…
Read MoreWhat should we teach our young generation? What should we teach our young people? Should we guide them to work hard and be successful and take care of themselves and theirs, or should they be lead into being a dependent, dependent on the government for their very existences? We need to teach the younger generation…
Read MoreMADISON, Wis. — With its move to include campus speech restrictions as part of the state administrative code, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents seems more interested in attempting to appease right-wing politicians than protecting the rights of students, faculty and staff. One Wisconsin Institute submitted public comments on the effort as part of…
Read MoreReaders, As a long-time satisfied Colfax Bremer Bank member, I have had response from my previous letter to the Messenger calling for a petition to have a public hearing concerning the proposed closing of our own Bremer Bank on Bremer Avenue, no less. I have made up a simple petition with space for 90 names…
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