The changes made to the Trempealeau Valley Cooperative (TVC) 2.0 mission statement weren’t significant, but they were meaningful. After several discussions about the best path forward for the TVC, the governing board approved changes to its mission statement. That board is made up of select school...
The Trempealeau County Executive and Finance (E/F) Committee heard a recommendation to shift oversight of the Trempealeau County Health Care Center Board of Trustees to a standard county committee, a change that would clarify the facility’s chain of command. That recommendation came from Andy...
Employees within the Blair-Taylor School District will see a cost-of-living increase in their paychecks next year, part of the effort by the district to continue to maintain their current staff. The Blair-Taylor School Board OK’d raises tied to the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) at their meeting...

Todd Gieck

A 12-member jury on Wednesday found Todd Gieck, 63, formerly of Melrose, guilty of first-degree reckless homicide in the shooting death of former Ettrick resident Kyle Dahl. The jury also found Gieck guilty of discharging a firearm toward a vehicle and possessing a firearm after being convicted of...

            Blair-Taylor’s Ty Tranberg swung at a pitch during his team’s game against Independence/Gilmanton last Tuesday.          (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)

The Blair-Taylor baseball team picked up a pair of convincing wins in Dairyland Conference play last week. B-T was consistent offensively, scoring at least one run in 11 straight innings. That began with an 18-2 win over Independence/Gilmanton last Tuesday and continued as the team took a big lead...
The Whitehall baseball team won one lopsided game and held on for another victory later in the week. Whitehall took an early lead and cruised to a 12-2 win over Cochrane-Fountain City on Tuesday. On Friday, the team had a big fourth inning and held off a late-game surge from Osseo-Fairchild for a 6...
The Whitehall softball team was close to earning a split last week, but a late rally fell just short and the team went 0-2. The Norse fell behind Cochrane-Fountain City early in an 11-3 loss last Tuesday. On Friday, Whitehall had a lead late, but allowed seven runs in the top of the seventh....
The Independence/Gilmanton softball team was competitive against some of the top teams in the Dairyland Conference last week, but came up short in three games. Blair-Taylor had one big inning in a 7-0 loss last Tuesday (see story elsewhere in Sports). On Thursday, the Indees fell to Eleva-Strum, 3-...
The Independence/Gilmanton baseball team struggled in three losses last week. The Indees got off to a tough start last Tuesday with an 18-2 loss to Blair-Taylor. The team dropped a nonconference game to Bruce, 9-3, on Thursday and then fell to Melrose-Mindoro, 13-0, on Friday. The losses dropped I/...

            G-E-T’s Mason Busch leaped into the air to avoid a groundball during the Red Hawks’ rivalry win last Thursday in Arcadia.         (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)

The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau baseball team enjoyed a winning week, sweeping archrival Arcadia and breezing past Eau Claire Regis with the lone blemish in the four-game stretch being a loss to Holmen. The Red Hawks (6-4, 4-2 Coulee Conference) earned their first conference sweep of the spring by...

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            Blair-Taylor’s Ty Tranberg swung at a pitch during his team’s game against Independence/Gilmanton last Tuesday.          (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)

The Blair-Taylor baseball team picked up a pair of convincing wins in Dairyland Conference play last week. B-T was consistent offensively, scoring at least one run in 11 straight innings. That began...

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