08/28/2008 12:00 AM Young Maggie Teitelbaum’s poem “Water” will be painted on the White Kinnic Pathway this year for all to read. Teitelbaum’s original work was picked by Mayor Don Richards after he was asked to read poems composed by young poets enrolled in the Community Arts Base-sponsored workshop, called Poetry on the River 2008, and then choose the one he would most like to read while walking along the pathway. That method of selection was different than in previous years when the workshop considered it more of a contest for the best poem written.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Kinnickinnic River Land Trust Director Nelson French said KRLT’s three-person staff worked steadily since the first of 2008 to complete its application for accreditation through the Land Trust Accreditation Commission (LTAC).
08/26/2008 12:00 AM River Falls police pursued and finally caught up with a 19-year-old local man who was doing burnouts and hit a traffic sign on West Cascade Avenue before piling into trash cans in an alley in the 300 block of North Fremont Street late Sunday afternoon.
08/26/2008 12:00 AM The sharp eye and nose of a River Falls police officer helped avoid danger Saturday night when built-up creosote in the chimney of a home at 414 N. Second St. caught fire.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM Tom Holland, Operations Vice President, for the YMCA of Greater Saint Paul, has assumed leadership for the St. Croix Valley YMCA along with three other western Wisconsin YMCAs in River Falls, New Richmond and Osceola.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM Antique tractors rolled into W10175 690th Ave. Thursday afternoon and parked in the front yard of Dave and Renee Kusileks’ Hillside Farm in rural River Falls. Gates open 3 p.m. Friday for the 15th annual Harvest Fest, which runs through Sunday and promises a good time.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM A growing population and more emergency calls are overburdening a Pierce County dispatch center staffed with too few workers juggling the work of dispatcher and jailer, say local emergency personnel.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM The conversion of a three-mile stretch of Hwy. 35N to a freeway will be the focus of a public information meeting to be held by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM With the Republican National Convention approaching in September and practically on the doorstep of Hudson in the Twin Cities, the community plans to show the state delegation and passing travelers what this city has to offer.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM At Monday’s town of River Falls’ Town Board meeting, River Falls Assistant Fire Chief Mike Moody presented plans for the upcoming commercial fire inspections.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM Liaison: “Communication for establishing and maintaining mutual understanding and cooperation.”
That’s how Webster’s Dictionary defines the word, and that’s exactly what Police Officer Chris Gottfredsen feels he will be responsible for in his new position.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM At last month’s Clifton Town Board meeting, supervisors thought they put the ongoing row between neighbors and David Skillings over nuisance dog barking to bed when they granted Skillings another opportunity to create a barrier by using tarps to obstruct the view of the animals, thereby reducing the barking.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM St. Croix County Board members came to a final decision at their August meeting for the wording of the nursing home referendum question on the Nov. 4 ballot.
08/20/2008 12:00 AM Flames inside a detached garage at 436 Red Brick Road in Troy brought firefighters and other emergency crews to battle what started as “smoke spotted” and progressed to “flames visible.”
08/20/2008 12:00 AM The UW Extension holds a free homeowners’ workshop about foreclosure 7-9 p.m. Thursday at the River Falls Public Library, 140 Union Street.
08/20/2008 12:00 AM A man was reported exposing himself Tuesday afternoon, at about 12:40 p.m. in Treasures From The Heart thrift store, 200 S. Main St.
08/20/2008 12:00 AM Sign up ahead for “America Supports You” Freedom Walk in River Falls. This is a national effort to commemorate lives lost during the 9/11 terrorism attacks and to simply honor U.S. veteran soldiers.
08/20/2008 12:00 AM Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen met last week with law enforcement leaders, elected officials, community leaders, judges and public safety officials from throughout St. Croix County at a law enforcement roundtable hosted by State Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, State Reps. Kitty Rhoades and John Murtha.
08/19/2008 12:00 AM An inmate in the Green Bay Correctional Institution who threatened a Pierce County judge and a former River Falls police department investigator got eight years added onto his 18-year sentence.
08/18/2008 12:00 AM Members of Healthy Wisconsin-River Falls and Citizen Action of Wisconsin gathered noon last Thursday in Veterans Park to speak about reasons why they’d gathered between 700-1,000 signatures on a petition they were about to present to the city clerk.
08/15/2008 12:00 AM Tuesday evening’s meeting was all about logic. The City Council spent most of its time discussing details surrounding a resolution to support a St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity, Inc., site review.
08/15/2008 12:00 AM Most people lucky enough to own a home hope they’ll never face foreclosure. Others aren’t so lucky anymore and already know how it feels.
08/15/2008 12:00 AM John Bettendorf, town of Kinnickinnic resident and business owner, attended the Aug. 5 Town Board meeting accompanied by his attorney Matt Biegert.
Bettendorf, owner of Bettendorf Transfer, 285 County Road SS, has been fighting St. Croix County for years regarding the zoning of his town property.
08/15/2008 12:00 AM River Falls police hope the public can identify two men who allegedly stole some codeine cough medicine from Shopko around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13.
08/15/2008 12:00 AM Geri Campbell has announced her candidacy for St. Croix County register of deeds. She is running as a Democrat and will face fellow Democrat Beth Pabst in the primary election Tuesday, Sept 9.
08/15/2008 12:00 AM Finance Committee members who agreed last month that a geothermal heating and cooling system is too expensive for the St. Croix County Government Center are considering solar panels as an auxiliary power source.
08/14/2008 12:00 AM Greg Danke, popular assistant principal at the River Falls Middle School, died suddenly Friday night of an apparent heart attack at River Falls Area Hospital. He was 49. A public visitation is planned for Tuesday afternoon at the River Falls High School.
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