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Trempealeau County supervisors adopted a 2024 budget that ends borrowing for highways, fully funds contributions to libraries and will next month reflect a 75-cent-an-hour raise for county employees.
The $79.830 million spending plan reduces the county tax rate from $6.07 per $1,000 of assessed...
Galesville city alderman Tory-Kale Schulz plans to rescind his open records request regarding police activity in the city and will instead receive the information through the city’s personnel committee after Mayor Vince Howe called for a special council meeting last Tuesday with concern that Schulz...
The Whitehall city council approved the first payment for the new roof on the Whitehall Fire Station and approved a bond to cover a portion of the cost.
The council unanimously approved paying $160,790.26 to All American Lumber, Inc. after receiving the first pay request. While Mayor Jeff Hauser...
A pair of former Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District employees will have to pay their liquidated damages to the district for taking new jobs outside the district late in the school year after the G-E-T school board on Monday rejected their requests to waive such fees.
Liquidated damages are...
For the seventh consecutive year, Ettrick Elementary School scored highest amongst area schools in the Times coverage area on the report cards issued by the Department of Public Instruction.
The grades were made public last week, showing Ettrick with an overall score of 88.4, which “significantly...
Noting a traffic jam and potential safety issues, the Arcadia School District is going to ask all middle and high school students who don’t ride on buses to exit on the west side of the buildings.
That ask likely won’t come until after the start of the new year, but the change was seen as a...
James Killian
A Trempealeau County judge said the state prosecution of a man charged with sexual assault and incest was retaliation for the man’s right to seek a mistrial following the actions of a former county district attorney.
Circuit Court Judge Rian Radtke last Wednesday dismissed 10 counts of sexual abuse...
Wednesday, Nov. 8
06:11 — Galesville: A gray van is crossing the center and fog lines.
07:30 — Eleva: A vehicle hit a milk truck. No injuries or road blockage.
09:16 — Dodge: Caller reported a domestic incident that happened a few hours ago.
10:28 — Ettrick: Electric company reporting a hostile...
Trempealeau County will seek a new set of bids for scaled-back renovation work needed in the courthouse once the new justice center is open.
Members of the property and finance committees Monday agreed to rebid the project to get pricing for a new plan that, “theoretically,” could save the county a...
In a year that included spending on a months-long public feud between two elected officials, the City of Galesville has more than doubled its planned spending on legal matters in 2023, according to city documents.
A special city council meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 14 to address “current...
