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• Hudson - Two more sheriff's deputies retire

By Jon Echternacht

echter@rivertowns.net

Two more veteran St. Croix County Sheriff's Department deputies retired last week leaving the staff of investigators with a lot of relatively new faces.

Dan Breymeier, 53, and Jim Dorsey, 51, turned in their badges May 2. Breymeier served a total of 28 years in the county including 25 with the sheriff. Dorsey logged 21 years with the county.

Breymeier graduated from New Richmond High School in 1973 and was a 6-foot-3 guard who helped lead the Tigers to the state basketball tournament his senior year.

"I worked construction after high school, Breymeier, said then started part-time for the Somerset Police Department in 1981." He said the Somerset job was "part-time/full-time" because the worked included some pretty full days in the summer with all the activity on the Apple River.

In 1986 Breymeier became a full-time employee in the sheriff's department, starting out in the jail. He worked general patrol then moved up to sergeant. He has been a narcotics investigator for the last seven years.

Dorsey, who grew up in Cylon, is also a NRHS alumnus. He graduated in 1975 then did a stint in the Army. "In 1977 I started part-time on patrol with Sheriff Charlie Grant," Dorsey said.

He went to full time in 1981 then took over an investigator's position in 1999.

Dorsey starts his new job Monday. "I have a portable sawmill and Monday I will be sawing some black walnut boards form trees that were blown down near Boardman," he said.

In fact, Dorsey will be devoting his life in the future to what he's always wanted to do. "I'll be cutting trees, sawing and farming," the dedicated outdoorsman said.

He raises beef cattle on about 250 acres north of Forest. Just to dispel any doubt about his future vocation, Dorsey showed up at his retirement party in the Government Center Friday sporting a pair of bib overhauls and a ball cap with a Stihl chainsaw logo.

Breymeier will continue as a private investigator after retirement, a business he said he started about a year ago. Business has been good to the point he has had to turn down potential clients.

The exit of Breymeier and Dorsey from the investigators staff marks an almost complete turnover in that department since 2003.