Courier Press

River Ridge girls win 

Regional Meet, boys take fourth

The River Ridge Track Team competed in the Division 3 Boscobel Regional Tuesday. 

The River Ridge girls were the Regional Champions with 120 team points. Boscobel had 113, Fennimore 101, Wauzeka-Steuben 95, De Soto 77, North Crawford 60, Kickapoo-La Farge 46, Ithaca 40 and Riverdale 28.

By Addison Mumm

Prairie du Chien will host a Heartland Series Marathon, sponsored by Mainly Marathons, Saturday, June 6, on St. Feriole Island, beginning at 5 a.m. The traveling marathon will start its seven-day series on June 1, in Bryan, Ohio.

The two-year-old Mainly Marathons company puts on traveling marathons for runners who have goals of competing in different states, local community members and other aspiring runners. Mainly Marathons has 40 states they will visit this year. Usually, small towns in each state host a race and all runners are welcomed to travel to the next location to finish all seven races.

By Correne Martin

In an effort to address building safety and compliance issues mandated by the state, the River Ridge School District is seeking a state trust fund loan not to exceed $2 million. The money would finance energy efficiency projects and be repaid over five years.

“When you go outside the revenue cap, although we would receive some aid, the majority of it comes from the tax bills,” explained Interim Superintendent Tom Andres regarding repayment of the potential loan.

On May 13, the school board voted to begin application paperwork for the state trust fund loan and, on May 26, the board approved a resolution authorizing the loan, also levying a tax in connection with it. Next, the resolution must be published within 10 days of the May 26 meeting. Then, there will be a 30-day period during which those who wish to petition the action can do so.

A two-vehicle crash took the lives of a rural Eastman teen and a Tomah man Sunday afternoon, May 24, in the town of Eastman, according to the Crawford County Sheriff's Department.

Bridget Achenbach, 19, was traveling south on Highway 27 near Messler Lane about 2 p.m. when her Chevrolet Cruze hydroplaned on wet pavement and spun across the centerline into the northbound lane. Her vehicle collided with a Chevrolet Impala, driven by Kenneth Eppers, 85, Tomah. Achenbach was pronounced dead at the scene.

The man and his wife, Genevieve Eppers, also 85, were extricated from their car with the Jaws of Life and taken to Crossing Rivers Health in Prairie du Chien, where Kenneth died from his injuries. Genevieve was later transported by ambulance to a La Crosse hospital, where she remained in critical condition Monday afternoon. An update on her condition was not available Tuesday.