The Hudson Raider football team won its first game of the season, a 32-26 victory over Superior in Saturday afternoon's homecoming tilt. Raider quarterback Jeff Johnson (12) threw for four touchdown passes and ran for another. The Raiders battle to hold the Little Brown Jug when Hudson travels to River Falls Friday night.

A 66-year-old Hudson woman was the victim of two con artists Friday afternoon. When it was all over she had lost $6,500.

Not that it was needed, but another measuring stick of the growth in St. Croix County has surfaced. It is the large increase of real estate documents recorded at the office of Kathleen Walsh, St. Croix County Register of Deeds.

A small army of people from the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, Madison, Advertising Boelter and Lincoln, Milwaukee, and Voodoo Films, Minneapolis, worked for four hours Monday afternoon filming a commercial at Cynthia Kolesar's house at 1304 Second St. The footage will be used as part of a Wisconsin promotional commercial, which will start airing in March.

Hudson Police Chief Dick Trende voiced frustration over the number of calls and amount of overtime his department experienced because of Homecoming weekend.

Al Roettger regularly calls on friends to "lay trails" as a training exercise for Clementine. She is a quick study.

It is hard to believe that anything positive can come out of the untimely drowning death of a 16-year-old, but Brent Howard's family believes they have found a way, and her name is Clementine.