The Thorp Courier

Coach K. D. Stokes, entering his fourth year as head football coach, is looking forward to a fun and exciting year. With six seniors leading the way, the Thorp Cardinals are anxious to begin their second season of eight man football. +++ Ten seniors will anchor the Thorp Volleyball team. They began the season on Thursday, August 25, with a Triangular and will travel to Stanley- Boyd for a match-up on Tuesday, September 13. +++ The 38th Annual Heroes Rides raised $92,287 to support the Highground Veterans Memorial. +++The Thorp City Council, meeting on Monday, August 8, approved the bid from Senn Blacktop, for this year’s city projects. +++ Eighteen Thorp agriculture students attended a Carcass Evaluation at Pinter’s Meats in Dorchester, on Wednesday August1 7. Students were educated on dressing percentage, carcass quality, loin eye, size and the ideal fat covering for beef, pigs and sheep. +++ Conway Park in Thorp is 50 years old, having been dedicated with a sign erection in 1972.

Courier Sentinel

Sue and Allan Olynick, owners of Crescent Landscape Supply and Olynick Transit, were named recipients of the Chippewa County Economic Development Corporation Quadrant 3 Business of the Year. +++ The Town of Lake Holcombe is looking for seven residents to serve on a Comprehensive Planning Commission and then stay with developing a Comprehensive Plan, under the direction of West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.+++ The Cadott Library Board and the Village Board met jointly Monday, August 22, to discuss the proposed new library for the community. Village officials discussed issues that have been brought to them related to the proposed location.

Specifically, concerns have been expressed related to moving the location out of downtown and safety issues with the new library being located on a busy Highway 27. The Village Board also will be addressing formal approval of the site at an upcoming meeting. The new Cadott Library is projected to be in the range of 7,000 to 10,000 square feet and would cost near the $2 million mark. +++ The Third Annual Cadott Car Show, sponsored by Anderson Moving and Whispering Pines Golf Course, to raise funds for Cadott Youth Sports Programs, was held on Sunday, August 28, at East Riverview Park.

Bloomer Advance

The Bloomer Library is celebrating, “Out With The Old And In With The New.” The libraries outdated microfilm reader, has been ditched in favor of having digitized all issues of former and current Bloomer newspapers. The newspapers can now be accessed by use of a library card via the Bloomer Public Library website. +++ Proceeds for the recently held Bloomer Community Car Show were donated to the Bloomer Ambulance Service and the New Auburn First Responders. +++ A news release from the Bloomer Public Schools introduced nine new staff members for the 2022-2023 school year. Among them was Tyler Mickelson, as a new English teacher. Tyler is a former WEAU-TV 13 news personalty. It is noted that Tyler can be found coaching football, baseball and basketball. +++ The Bloomer Soccer Storage Shed has been transformed into a work of art. Summer school students of art teacher Maryann Gumness, came up with their own ideas and designs. The students then made patterns and taped them to the base white coating that took five and half gallons of paint.

The end product thrilled the Soccer Coach Kyle Prill. The picture in the newspaper showed a spectacular transformation.

The Tribune-Phonograph Nine new Colby staff were introduced to the rest of the staff and the Abby-Colby Crossings Chamber members at a banquet on August 16. The Abbotsford School District welcomed 13 new staff members to their team this year. +++ On August 17, the Abbotsford City Council approved scaled back plans for a new $359,000 concession stand for Red Arrow Park. The new stand will have three windows to serve people out of and has brick around the bottom, which is consistent with other structures in the ball park. +++ The Central Fire and EMS District’s new fire truck went on its first call to an attic fire in Abbotsford two week ends ago.

The Sentinel & Rural News

On August 27, the Owen-Withee-Curtiss Fire and Ambulance Foundation Benefit Dance, took place at Munson Bridge Winery. There was no admission charge, but donations were welcome for new innovations in treatments and apparatus, that would be used by the ambulance service. +++ The Withee Public Library held a Lego Playtime on Friday, August 26 and on Saturday, September 10, will be holding a variety of art projects to entertain the community. There will be a series of free fantasy action figures, a chalk art contest outside and a water balloon fight to clean-up the sidewalk afterwards. There will also be several drawings. +++ On August 17, Dominico from Mosaic Technologies was at the Clark County Board Meeting to talk about expanding broadband and acquiring grant funding for this project. The Board was informed a new round of USDA, no match grants, for broadband expansion will be opening in September. Dominico recommended applying for a $25 million grant. When asked what the project would cost the county, the reply was it would cost $40,000 to $120,000 to hire Mosaic to write the grant. At their September meeting, the Board will decide if they will hire Mosaic to write the grant.

Tri-County Area Times

The Augusta School Board, at their August 16 meeting, voted to ask district taxpayers for approval to bond for a total not to exceed $15 million. The money would be used to do upgrades and additions to district buildings and a new gymnasium.+++ With the new Tech Education facility Osseo-Fairchild Tech Ed Instructor, Corey Halverson has no limits on what he can teach his students. With state of the art equipment, it may take some time for the students and their instructors to get up to speed with all the equipment. Halverson developed a five year plan to inte grate the new facility into tech ed instruction and get help from the partnerships the district has formed with CVTC and local companies.