Upgrading transportation for the coming year, Prescott was trading its 2008 Ford Police Interceptor for an SUV. With only 100,000 miles on the vehicle, its transmission was failing, with the planned replacement due to be a Chevy Tahoe.

The weather report fluctuates from a high of 32 degrees on Sunday to 48 the following Saturday, with lows ranging from 27 degrees (Sunday) to 35 a week later.

40 years ago

PIERCE COUNTY HERALD

Dec. 2, 1982 Sister Gertrude Ann Arndt, St. Francis Principal, dies in a car accident after her car skids on fresh snow. A Benedictine nun, Sister Gertrude is buried at St. Patrick’s Cemetery in Eau Claire, Wis. Find A Grave Memorial ID 19437598.

A River Falls teenager is killed and three injured after their car crosses the center line

Lamenting the state of youth expectations in 1967, retired boxing champion Archie Moore says that the Depression of 1930 to 1941 “was horrible,” but that those who experienced it came out “with lasting compensations.” Moore expresses the belief that the devil was at work in America.

85 years ago THE ELLSWORTH RECORD Nov. 25, 1937 Obituaries: William Busmeler, formerly of Ellsworth,

Obituaries for E. S. Doolittle and Dr. D. W. Woodworth. Eugene S. Doolittle was editor and manager of the Pierce County Herald, while Dr. Woodworth was a neighbor of his.

Find a Grave Memorial ID for E. S. Doolittle: 137356800 Find A Grave Memorial ID for Dr. Woodworth: 111655177.

Newspaper contains photos of both.

Nov. 30, 1922

Nelson Nathaniel Fuller of River Falls dies Nov. 24. Find A Grave Memorial ID 113811626, with burial at Greenwood Cemetery.

Nov. 23, 1922

Mrs. George C. Ames dies at St. Paul. Born Nancy Main at Montreal, she was of New England parentage. United in marriage to George C. Ames in 1869 near Shiocton, Wis., where she had earlier come as a young girl with her parents. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Find A Grave Memorial ID 112707790.