Notes for the Week - June 25th

Jun 25
2 min read

The Dunn County Sheriff's Office is seeking owners of vacant residential or commercial properties who may be willing to allow their buildings to be used for law-enforcement training exercises. Training in realistic environments helps officers improve critical skills such as building searches, emergency response, tactical movement, and crisis management. These exercises are carefully planned, supervised, and conducted with safety as the highest priority. All training activities will be discussed with the property owner in advance. If you own a vacant home, apartment building, office, warehouse, retail space, or other unoccupied structure and would like to learn more, please contact: Investigator James Gates at jgates@dunncountywi.gov.

Here is an article from Volume One about the Regional Outdoor Recreation Plan - "Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire are among the eight western Wisconsin counties involved in what could be an evolutionary united approach to boosting rural economies."

UW-Stout's School of Art & Design's 2026 mural is up. Check out this VIDEO of the work in progress.

The Indianhead River Direct truck will be at Broadway Bowl/Stout Craft Co. on Wednesday, July 1st, from 12:30 - 2:00 PM, selling "Super Sweets" Freestone Peaches.

From the Menomonie Foster Closet: We are collecting back-to-school donations so we can distribute them the first week of August. Currently, our biggest needs are

Sharpies, dry-erase markers (black), pencil sharpeners, highlighters, glue sticks, big erasers, different-colored folders, child scissors, little kid backpacks (we have plenty for older children). Thank you so much for helping us play an amazing role in your love for these kids we serve and the families that take them in. What a difference you make.

WEAU ran a story this week on the proposed building of a new storage building for the Dunn County Highway Department. You can watch the story HERE. Learn more about the project in this POST.

25 years ago (2001)...

Note: This look back at 2001 is a little short this week due to extremely poor scans of the Dunn County News paper.