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Residents urge council to pause eviction of Rainbow Music from downtown rail car; council to agendize

Colfax City Council · October 10, 2025
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Multiple residents told the council Rainbow Music — a multi-generation local music school — received short notice to vacate a leased railroad car. Mayor Lohmann said the lease is year-to-year, expires in November, and the council will place the item on the Oct. 22 agenda and consider extensions or alternatives.

Several residents at Monday’s Colfax City Council meeting urged the council to reconsider plans that may displace Rainbow Music, a downtown music studio that operates in a historic railroad car.

Caroline Hixson, a Colfax resident of 46 years, said the studio’s operators have run lessons from the car for decades, renovated the unit and…

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