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An old Arcadia map (below) shows the whereabouts of Lehrbach Island, close to downtown Arcadia. The island regularly was used as a picnic destination (above).
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Legend has it that the shrieks are deafening and terrifying. The noise doesn’t come from a human and doesn’t even sound like an animal, at least not like anything living around here.
That, according to legend, is why nobody should row down Turton Creek late at night because the remains of an island...
The balanced budget was passed at the Whitehall School District’s annual meeting last Wednesday, but district superintendent Mike Beighley warned that there could be problems in the future.
“If we continue to allow politics to impact our public education system like they currently are — and I’m...
A referendum question will greet voters in the village of Trempealeau when they head to the polls in the spring election this April.
The village board unanimously approved placing the advisory referendum on the ballot at a special meeting last Thursday, asking residents to weigh in on whether they...
The Village of Trempealeau’s decision to add a fourth full-time police officer would alter the preliminary 2022 budget and increase the expected deficit, but the village board wants to continue to explore the addition.
Two versions of the budget were presented at a special village board meeting...
Total district spending — as well as the rate at which residents are taxed — will drop in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District after the G-E-T school board unanimously approved the 2021-22 budget at its annual meeting last Monday.
The district is planning to spend about $24.6 million this...
An Ettrick man has been charged with a hit and run accident that caused an injury after his vehicle allegedly sideswiped a truck near the intersection of Joe Coulee Road and Lee Lane.
Twenty-nine-year-old Victor Tehuitle Panzo of N25277 U.S. Highway 53 was charged with felony hit and run following...
Those living within School District of Arcadia boundaries will see the same tax rate of $10.70 (per $1,000 of value) on their tax bills this April. Any increase in the bills would come from an increase in their property value, not from the district raising its tax rate.
Overall spending in the...
Arcadia residents will have a couple more weeks of street disruption around downtown as work continues on the city’s $7.18 million flood abatement project.
The city’s internal drainage project includes placing culverts and pipes that necessitate digging under streets, said city administrator Chad...
Wednesday, Oct. 13
07:45 — Trempealeau: Caller hit a deer at 4 a.m. The vehicle was drivable and the deer was gone. Nobody was injured.
07:47 — Ettrick: Caller reported a fire is behind a building.
12:43 — Melrose: Caller is receiving harassing phone calls from an unknown person.
13:04 —...
The Arcadia utility commission is scheduled to begin this week the process of finding a successor for long-time water and wastewater superintendent Gary Skroch.
Skroch has been a member of the department for 44 years and its superintendent for 12. He leaves Dec. 1 because, he said, “it’s time.”...
