After years of debate the end is near. Eligible voters in the River Falls School District vote Monday on where to put a new high school. This vote is binding.

Last Wednesday UW-River Falls began a yearlong celebration on campus to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the school. Hundreds joined in the initial celebration. The UW-RF Food Service delivered half a dozen sheet cakes with the anniversary logo, "Building on Tradition." Behind the cakes is an ice sculpture by John Kitzrow, a former UW-RF chef who now works at an Eau Claire restaurant. The sculpture gives the anniversary dates, 1874-1999.

These three drinking incidents occurred within a 2-week period last February.

A 21-year-old rural River Falls man died following a rollover reported shortly before 9 p.m., Thursday, on Hwy. 35, about a mile south of Prescott.

A national 1997 survey from the Harvard School of Public Health shows that 52% of college students who consume alcohol do so to get drunk. Over 22% said they had engaged in unplanned sexual activity while under the influence of alcohol and 35.8% drove after drinking.

Local school students were involved in a variety of Earth Week activities last week. Erin Wilhelm, right, and Leah Peitso, portraying the lion, were among River Falls High School Ecology Club members who gave a skit on recycling and the dangers of pollution for Greenwood Elementary School students on Friday. In the top photo, Greenwood 1st graders Mitchell Johnson, left, and Robert Schultz-Absher used sidewalk chalk to draw original Earth Day scenes.

A group pushing for a casino in Hudson dangled a huge carrot in front of the River Falls Youth Hockey Association. But members didn't bite.