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In order to make classes more accessible for all students, the Blair-Taylor school board discussed eliminating fees for certain electives.
The idea came at the suggestion of district superintendent Lynn Halverson who noted there are $10 charges for classes such as art, music and fabrics. He said...
James Killian
The state Supreme Court has reversed lower courts and said an Independence man accused of child sexual abuse could be prosecuted without subjecting him to unconstitutional double jeopardy.
In a five-to-two decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court last Wednesday said the new charges brought against...
Wednesday, June 14
02:23 — Blair: Neighbors have been pounding on the caller’s door. They are being loud and disorderly; caller is beginning to get scared.
02:40 — Trempealeau: Juvenile complaint.
04:54 — Eleva: Anonymous report of a female who is revving her engine.
11:54 — Trempealeau:...
A member of the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School Board resigned last week following an emotional school board meeting last Monday.
Paul Kinzer will no longer represent Galesville on the board after he submitted his resignation in an email to the board last Wednesday and confirmed his resignation the...
Arcadia officials were forced to move to later in June a hearing on complaints against a city bar owner because deputies have been unsuccessful in serving the man with legal papers.
The council had initially set Monday as a hearing date, but with deputies unable to contact Don Sylla of Sylla...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau school board is reconsidering its committee setup.
Superintendent Michele Butler said the discussion of adding a committee of the whole to the school board was suggested at the reorganization meeting.
A majority of board members would be at committee of the whole...
Independence School District employees will be seeing another drop in insurance rates, which one school board member said was “too good to be true.”
District bookkeeper Kari Pedersen told the board that she was able to find a plan through Exemplar, part of the First Health Network, that would...
Trempealeau will join three other nearby counties to fund a study on the availability and cost of high-speed internet service.
“We’re working with Pepin, Pierce and Buffalo counties to fund a consultant because we all have similar low populations and difficult topography,” Dave Carlson, the county’...
The director of Trempealeau County’s department of human services for the last 10 years, Deb Suchla, has retired.
Suchla has taken accumulated paid time off and will be out of the office until her last official day of June 30, according to Rick Niemeier, county corporation counsel and...
A project that will include the complete reconstruction of the only street that runs from west to east through the Blair city limits will begin in early July.
Technically, the project will begin on July 1 with the posting of a sign. Actual construction is set to begin on July 5, according to...
