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The number of positive COVID-19 tests in Trempealeau County increased by one early this week as the county health department announced plans to introduce community testing. The sixth positive test was announced by the health department on Monday afternoon. The health department’s social media page...
Ashley for the Arts announced the cancelation of its 2020 music and art festival, due to the current circumstances arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. With the widespread effects of the pandemic, including government recommendations and the implementation of social distancing guidelines, crowd...
Supreme Graphics of Arcadia was announced recently as an award winner in the Great Lakes Graphics Association Graphics Excellence Awards competition.  Supreme Graphics won (1) Best of Division (4) Awards of Excellence and (8) Certificate of Merit awards. The awards were given in the categories of...

Area libraries - including the Whitehall Public Library pictured above - began offering services last week. (Times photo by Andrew Dannehy)

With the changes made to the Safer at Home order issues by Gov. Tony Evers, most public libraries in the area are taking advantage by offering curbside service. When Evers announced the extension of the Safer at Home order on April 16, one of the changes he included was to allow public libraries to...
Local photographer and former law enforcement officer Deb Marsolek of Independence received a dress in the mail with a mission: as part of a broader art project, take photos of a woman in the dress who have overcome immense life challenges. Marsolek said that the project started with a female...
Expert birders and people who just started noticing that there are birds in their yards can participate in the Trempealeau County Backyard Birding Big Day contest on Saturday.  Participants can enter into the contest with a chance to win one of two $25 gift certificates to locally-owned Trempealeau...
Independence officials considered but decided they didn’t have the authority to rebuff the governors’ business restrictions that don’t take into account the circumstances of rural Wisconsin. “(Gov. Tony Evers) only cares about Madison and Milwaukee,” Mayor Robert Baecker said Monday during a city...

Brandyn Domnie, a 2013 G-E-T graduate, quit his hob in La Crosse to help COVID-19 pateints in New York. (Submitted photo) 

It wasn’t what Brandyn Domnie likely imagined for his career — living out of hotels and Airbnbs in New York City, working long hours at a municipal hospital overrun with coronavirus patients. But Domnie says it was absolutely the right decision for him. Domnie grew up in Galesville and graduated...
Department of Natural Resources Conservation Warden Meghan Jensen wants anglers to make sure they are prepared as they head out to their favorite fishing spot as the general inland fishing season in Wisconsin.   As anglers prepare for this year’s season opener, Jensen reminds anglers of the...
Wednesday, April 15 07:47 — Osseo: Caller went to his mother’s house and beat her.  16:02 — Osseo: Report of a small car crossing the centerline and going on the shoulder.  16:29 — Blair: Welfare check requested for a subject who was a no-show for an appointment today. The subject made suicidal...

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