In the latest step for the Arcadia School District on the path to a possible capital referendum, the school board received a detailed presentation on the financial implications of some referendum options.
Representatives from engineering firm ISG and energy service company Upper 90, as well as...
The Blair-Taylor School District is estimated to receive a decrease in state aid during the upcoming 2026-27 school year. The more positive news for the district, as emphasized at their school board meeting last Monday, is that the state aid estimates released earlier this month were very close to...
Annaliese Wegner recently released a children’s book designed to help readers connect with farm life. (Submitted photo)
An Ettrick woman has turned her love of storytelling — and life on the farm — into a children’s book inspired by her favorite cow.
More than 13 years ago, Annaliese Wegner began sharing stories on social media in hopes of teaching people about life on the farm. Recently, she took that a step...
Proponents of bringing a shot clock to Wisconsin high school basketball earned their biggest win yet earlier this summer with teams now having the option to use shot clocks during nonconference games.
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Board of Control passed a pair of shot clock-...
The Whitehall Whitetails scored 10 unanswered runs in a win last week, but suffered a walk-off loss the next day.
Whitehall fell behind Augusta early, but scored at least one run in five consecutive innings to pull away for a 10-1 win last Tuesday. It looked like Whitehall would make it two in a...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Post 354 American Legion softball team’s bid for a trip to Merrill for the state tournament was dashed with a pair of losses at regionals last week.
G-E-T (5-3) wrapped up their summer by taking part in a Division 2 regional tournament hosted at Keller Park in Fall...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau American Legion Post 354 baseball team made it to the final day of regionals but wound up two wins shy of their goal of a state tournament bid.
G-E-T went 2-2 in their four-team Class A regional last week, twice beating Viroqua but twice losing to host Westby as the...
Arcadia American Legion Post 17 pitcher Teagan Pientok allowed only two earned runs over nine innings of work against Sparta during regional play last week. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
It has been far from a straightforward summer for the Arcadia Post 17 American Legion softball team, which saw five of their scheduled games during the regular season wiped out due in large part to persistent thunderstorms. So, when it came time for regionals, one final scheduling curveball felt...
Wednesday, July 8
00:55 — Strum: A raccoon was trapped in a live trap that was set on the caller’s front deck.
04:25 — Blair: A squad car hit an owl.
04:34 — Eleva: A general panic alarm in a bar was activated.
10:38 — Independence: A subject is possibly not breathing.
11:00 — Arcadia: The...
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors voted 15-1-1 to approve a resolution censuring Supervisor Andy Parrish largely for his conduct during the July 8 Law Enforcement Committee meeting, in which he told fellow Supervisor Scott Leonard to “f--- off.”
A censure is a formal statement of...
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Proponents of bringing a shot clock to Wisconsin high school basketball earned their biggest win yet earlier this summer with teams now having the option to use shot clocks during nonconference games...
