General contractor Market Johnson of Eau Claire is on schedule with work on the Hudson School District's swimming pool addition. The addition, located at the Hudson Middle School and Hudson Prairie Elementary School campus, will be covered in by Dec. 1. The precast walls are expected to arrive in mid-October.

Judge Eric Lundell has upheld a city of Hudson ordinance that requires exotic dancers to stay 5 feet away from customers.

Mert Timmerman, an 80-year-old retired farmer and former WWII Navy pilot who lives in River Falls, has a respect for the land. And, to keep in touch with the soil and trees after he retired and sold his farm, he retained a 30-acre portion of woods near Hudson to work on in his leisure.

A tree frog was caught in the act of climbing up the pole a bird feeder in rural Houlton last week.

With a recent grant application, North Hudson has found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - $1,015,600 in highway funds.

People opposed to the construction of rental housing on 26 acres adjacent to St. Patrick's Catholic Church apparently have succeeded in defeating the plan.

The chief suspect in an armed robbery at Hudson Southside Cinema this summer was arrested last week in Saginaw, Mich.

Officially it is known as the Milestone Materials Mimbach Quarry. Locally it is known as the Mathys pit, located in the bluff behind St. Croix Meadows Dog Track, lower right, and accessed off Tower Road, top right corner. The pit has been in operation since 1948.