After acknowledging some concerns heard from community members, the Whitehall district school board heard from administrators that the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in classrooms is going well. Middle and high school principal Damon Lisowski told the board that the district had...
  The driver in a one-vehicle crash was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital on Friday evening. According to a press release issued by the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department, a vehicle struck a power pole on Schansberg Road near Qually Lane in the town of Lincoln at about 6:15 p.m. last Friday...
A Mondovi man has been charged with taking more than $100,000 from a business account and falsifying documents to obtain loans for the business. In an investigation that began in September 2023, Jonathan Dodd, 38, has been charged with seven felonies. One, theft from a business setting (>$100,...
Reversing a slide of more than a decade, the total number of law enforcement officers in Wisconsin climbed by more than 4% in the past year, according to figures from the state Department of Justice. The department counted 13,354 officers at the end of 2024 compared to 12,788 at the end of 2023....

Michael Peterson

An Arcadia man was arrested after hitting a Wisconsin State Trooper with his vehicle and leading police on a high-speed chase last Tuesday. Michael Peterson, 47, was taken into custody after crashing his vehicle into a power pole in Centerville at the end of a 15-mile chase, according to a press...
The Blair-Taylor girls basketball team struggled in a pair of Dairyland Conference losses before picking up a win in Wisconsin Dells on Saturday. The Wildcats struggled throughout last week Monday’s game against Eleva-Strum, falling 65-39. B-T was close against Alma/Pepin on Thursday, but the...
As the Coulee conference tournament draws near, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro Titans continued to impress on the mats in their most recent triangular. The Titans outbattled Mauston/Necedah for a 43-32 win in their dual and then blanked Wisconsin Dells 84-0 at a triangular last...
The Independence/Gilmanton girls basketball team turned a couple of close games into comfortable wins with runs in the second half last week. The Indees went on a 12-0 run to pull away from New Auburn for a 51-44 road win last week Monday. On Thursday, the team scored the first seven points of the...
A spirited early display against Westby showed clear signs of progress for the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau girls basketball team.  However, the closing stretch against the Norsemen and G-E-T’s follow-up performance against Viroqua reiterated that there is plenty of work still out there to be done. The...
After Whitehall appeared to be clocking on all cylinders in a nonconference win, the Norse were knocked out of first-place with a loss to Cochrane-Fountain City last week. Whitehall exploded for 52 points in the first half of a 74-48 road win over Black River Falls last week Tuesday. On Friday, the...

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The Blair-Taylor girls basketball team struggled in a pair of Dairyland Conference losses before picking up a win in Wisconsin Dells on Saturday. The Wildcats struggled throughout last week Monday...

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