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A lot can change between now and the first day of school, but as of last week Monday Whitehall School District officials are planning on making face coverings optional for students and staff to start the 2021-22 school year.
“Will kids have to wear masks? At this point no,” superintendent Mike...
Three Independence residents have been charged with receiving cocaine hidden in speakers and other items mailed from Puerto Rico and selling the drug in Arcadia.
Charged with felony possession with intent to deliver cocaine were Cristian Andre Vasquez Velez, 22, and Mark Ian Castro, 29, both of...
County supervisors will meet in a special, closed session Aug. 19 that could affect the fate of the director of the county’s department of Human Services.
The investigation into human services’ staff complaints against department director Deb Suchla is complete, said county board chair John Aasen....
Whitehall School District Superintendent Mike Beighley had more answers at the school board’s regular monthly meeting last week Monday than he did a month earlier, but he’s still frustrated by the lack of funding approved at the state level.
Beighley told the board that the budget, signed by Gov....
Derek Westby
Derek Westby, the new director of Trempealeau County community television, is quick with what he has most enjoyed about his job: Using multi cameras and a drone to capture a show by Them Coulee Boys.
The result is a fun video at the WTCO YouTube station showing the band from numerous angles at its...
The Independence sewer department was in the red in 2020, and city officials are trying to discover if rates are high enough and whether federal COVID money might be used to help ease the deficit.
The city’s auditors told the council Monday that the department had a cash deficit of $590,000 and was...
Aron Newberry, the former vaccination coordinator for La Crosse County, has been selected as the new public health director for Trempealeau County. (Times photograph by Debbie Foss)
Trempealeau County’s new public health director was COVID vaccination coordinator for La Crosse, and hopes the tactics he learned there will work here.
“For me it’s all about collaboration,” said Aron Newberry who succeeded Barb Barczak as Trempealeau County health director last week. “It’s all...
Sherry Quamme, speaking, chair of the Wisconsin Mississippi River Parkway Commission, led ceremonies last Thursday marking the elevation of the Great River Road along the Mississippi River as an All-American Road. The Great RIver Road runs through Trempealeau County near Centerville and Trempealeau. (Times photograph by Debbie Foss)
The Trempealeau County portion of the Mississippi River’s Great River Road was dedicated last week to mark designation of the Wisconsin portion of the roadway as an All-American Road.
“All-American Road designation means the road can be considered a destination unto itself,” said Jean Galasinski, a...
Wednesday, July 21
01:55 — Whitehall: A female party walked out of a facility with two bags.
08:21 — Whitehall: Female is at the jail to turn herself in.
10:55 — Whitehall: Officer is taking a recovery court participant into custody.
14:23 — Dodge: Female called the clinic yesterday to speak with...
To the dismay of nearby residents, two town of Trempealeau farmers have resumed use of propane-powered scare guns and are attempting to take to the Wisconsin Supreme Court their fight against a ban on the devices.
Carlton and Wendell Klein, who have been battling since 2013 to keep using the...
