News
Wednesday, Sept. 13
03:47 — Whitehall: Female 911 caller demanding “you need to get him out of my %@#&ing house.”
10:07 — Trempealeau County: Caller struck a parked car.
11:18 — Trempealeau County: A trailer is in the middle of the southbound lane, facing...
The Arcadia police chief is seeking two new full-time officers, arguing the city’s population and the number of incidents have outgrown the current force.
Chief Diana Anderson told the council last Wednesday that four full-time officers are hard pressed to provide all the services the city needs....
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now involved in a case related to the release of about 3,000 mink from a farm near Independence.
The Animal Liberation Front has taken credit for the release of mink from a farm near Independence, according to the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department.
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The Whitehall city council voted on Sept. 12 to discontinue a portion of Ervin Street that the Gunderson Tri-County Hospital unintentionally built onto.
This is only a partial discontinuance, which means the city will no longer own nor maintain a small part of that street. The effects are minimal...
A man accused of driving his vehicle into a car outside an Independence bar and then returning, allegedly hitting one man and threatening bar patrons, is being held in jail in lieu of $20,000 cash bond.
Eulises Campos Villegas, 31, of 35396 6th St., Independence, has been charged with felony first...
An increasing percentage of the offenses seen in county courts include a domestic abuse element and about 125 county residents have sought shelter from an abusive partner, supervisors learned as they declared October domestic violence awareness month.
Trempealeau County Circuit Court Judge Rian...
The Arcadia city council approved replacing bleachers “shaped like potato chips” while it heard a wish list from the youth association and considered a proposal that the city resume management of a park pavilion.
The council also authorized installing two benches in Memorial Park to recognize the...
The Arcadia school board had further conversations about the implementation of standard based grading at its regular meeting last week Monday.
The conversation began in July when the board approved a handbook had language containing information about standards based grading, though the district...
The Land O’Lakes plant in Whitehall was awarded two “E Flags” for its contribution to the United States Armed Forces in World War II. The above photo was provided to the Times by Whitehall High School history teacher and president of the Whitehall Area Historical Foundation, Gary Giese. Giese gave a presentation to WHS Class of 1963 regarding the Land O’Lakes plant on Sept. 14.
Few could’ve known that the stories would end up being connected.
In the Dec. 4, 1941 edition of the Whitehall Times it was reported that work had begun on the new Land O’Lakes plant being built in the city of Whitehall. The very next week a headline read: “Japan Attacks U.S. Possessions in Pacific...
Weeks before a former Osseo-Fairchild teacher’s trial on sexual assault is scheduled to begin, a judge Monday ruled the man could not use expert testimony that the teacher did not have the personality traits consistent with someone who would sexually assault a child.
Pepin County Circuit Court...
