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Counselor Maddie Vinzant sat down with a student in her office at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School in October for a check-in. Vinzant led the school’s first ever summer counseling program this year to help students combat mental health concerns and stay connected during the summer months when kids are typically away from school. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School counselor Maddie Vinzant has long grappled with the fact that some of her students spend the summer months without support due to no fault of their own.
Vinzant took action last summer, launching the school’s first summer counseling program to stay connected and...
A surge in sales tax revenue and higher-than-budgeted jump in investment interest could lessen or eliminate the county’s need to borrow for courthouse renovations, said members of two county committees last week.
The financing discussion came last Tuesday after members of the county’s finance and...
A 25-year-old area man was pronounced dead at the scene, two small children were hospitalized and an Independence woman was arrested after a crash in Onalaska on Oct. 22.
According to a press release posted by the Onalaska Police Department, a vehicle driven by Savannah Myers, 24, was found resting...
The Independence School District’s annual budget for the 2023-24 school year was approved by the school board last Tuesday. It is projected to end with a surplus of about $270,000 due to additional sources of aid.
Taxpayers will see a reduced rate this year. The budget has a mill rate of $8 per $1...
The Blair-Taylor School District’s annual meeting had more good news than bad for district taxpayers as the annual budget was approved last week Monday.
While taxes will rise for the current school year, they aren’t going to be as high as originally projected and — in a rare move for any government...
Drew Earll, a 14-year-old Whitehall High School student was killed in a crash while traveling through Nebraska last Friday morning.
According to a release sent by the Nebraska State Patrol, a Ford F-150 Earll was a passenger in crashed into the back of a semitruck just after 9 a.m. The release...
Former Osseo-Fairchild teacher Nicholas Bergeron (right) sat in court last week with attorney Christopher Wilhelm. (Times photograph by Debbie Foss)
A former Osseo-Fairchild High School geometry teacher faces up to 40 years in prison for his conviction last Friday of second-degree sexual assault of one of his students.
A jury deliberated for under four hours before finding Nicholas Bergeron, 31, of 413 Elm St, Strum, guilty of touching the...
The Whitehall city council approved a bid for the construction of the new library building at a special meeting last week Tuesday, but it didn’t go uncontested.
Representatives from one of the companies that bid on the project, Rocket Construction out of Eau Claire, told the council that its bid of...
Wednesday, Oct. 18
07:16 — Blair: A deer in the ditch needs to be dispatched. It appears to have been struck.
07:22 — Osseo: A car hit a deer.
08:58 — Strum: A car hit a deer.
11:02 — Independence: A male is possibly having a heart attack or a stroke.
12:05 — Blair: A female is being...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District ensured all high school band students interested in attending the band’s trip to Hawaii for a performance at the Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade will be able to go following a closed session school board decision last Monday.
The board approved a motion to...
