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Public hearings regarding the upcoming Whitehall School District referendum have almost all been set for March.
The district school board heard at last week Wednesday’s meeting that hearings has been confirmed for March 11 and March 23 in Whitehall, March 12 in the town of Pigeon and March 26 in...
The Whitehall city council had to make a late adjustment to its annual budget after hearing that the slide at the city aquatic center would need repairs. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall city council included repairs for the slide at the city aquatic center when it approved its 2025 budget last Thursday.
An inspection of the slide was done earlier this year and the report from engineering firm Short Elliott Hendrickson showed that bolts on the slide needed to be...
Wednesday, Nov. 13
04:51 — Blair: A car hit a deer.
05:55 — Arcadia: A car hit a deer; possible injuries.
07:59 — Osseo: A car hit a deer.
09:17 — Ettrick: School bus violation reported.
11:20 — Whitehall: A male party lost his cool while on the phone and the caller would like someone to check...
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December 2, 1999
Residents of the Coral City area and persons living along Hwy. 53 north of Whitehall, will get an answer to their concerns about traffic safety this week. At a meeting to be held Friday morning, the state Department of Transportation will present a proposal for dealing...
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors officially adopted a 2025 budget with a mill rate that is about 40 cents per $1,000 in assessed value lower than this year’s.
Though, what was adopted at last week Tuesday’s annual budget hearing did not include the $7 million in borrowing proposed by...
The Whitehall city council at its regular meeting last Tuesday took a step toward finalizing plans to improve its water treatment plant and figuring out how much that project will cost.
The council approved a supplemental agreement with engineering firm Short Elliott Hendrickson (SEH) at cost of $...
After a late change that required some fine tuning to the numbers, the Galesville city council approved the city’s budget for 2025.
The approval came last Thursday on a night where the council held both their regular monthly meeting and the annual budget hearing, with action during the former...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau school board will soon feature a new at-large representative and a new board president following Pat Malone’s resignation.
Malone, who has served as board president since being elected to that role in a vote by her fellow board members in August 2023, presided over her...
The Ettrick village board reconvened with heavy hearts for their first regular board meeting since the sudden passing of one of their own.
The board’s meeting last Tuesday marked their first since trustee Josh Hanson’s passing on Oct. 25. Upon the start of the meeting, his fellow trustees spent...
John Jones Jr.
Citing testimony given by the victim, Trempealeau County Circuit Court Judge Rian Radtke found Arcadia man John Jones Jr. guilty on 10 counts related to a 2023 case in which he was alleged to have sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at his residence and sentenced him to serve 20 years in state...
