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The county’s highway commissioner told supervisors Monday the department needs a $4.8 million storage building to protect the millions of dollars’ worth of equipment that now sits outside year-round.
“I know this must seem like it’s come out of left field,” said commissioner Al Rinka during Monday’...
The reconstruction and utility update work on Whitehall’s Hobson Street will likely be completed in two phases, one to be completed this fall and the second beginning in the spring.
Dave Schofield of the city’s consulting engineering firm SEH told the council last Tuesday that he expects the first...
Barb Barczak
The county’s retiring public health director was honored for her “strong quiet voice” during the pandemic and with a standing ovation by county supervisors Monday.
“She was always constant,” said Supervisor Sally Miller of Barbara Barczak during the board of supervisors meeting. “She didn’t react...
Wednesday, July 7
00:24 — Eleva: A possibly intoxicated male keeps beeping the horn in his truck.
03:17 — Osseo: A tree is down in the road.
05:31 — Blair: An apartment register is smoking and sparking.
09:17 — Osseo: Caller advised he was pulled over by a trooper and was stopped for longer than...
25 YEARS AGO
July 25, 1996
Voters in the Independence School District will be asked to decide in September whether the district should borrow more than $6 million for a new preschool through 12th grade building. The district board of education voted unanimously Monday night to approve an initial...
The former director of the county’s department of land management won’t speak ill of the county or initiate any legal action against the county under the terms of a just-released, five-page separation agreement.
Besides paying Kevin Lien $20,000 for unused paid time off and sick leave, the county...
A Strum woman was charged with drug possession after her two-year-old child was reportedly found wandering on Oak Street, four blocks from the child’s home.
Samantha Fox, 28, of 310 Oak St., was charged with a felony being in possession of drugs in violation of a bail agreement, and misdemeanor...
Whitehall officials have entered the “early chatting stage” on an informal offer to purchase the Whitehall Public Golf Course.
The Whitehall city council was scheduled to discuss the offer Tuesday, though Mayor Jeff Hauser said a decision will require resolution of “a thousand details.”
“The...
For the second time in a little more than a month, a man has died in the town of Hale after the motorcycle he was driving struck a deer.
Michael Sanding, 55, of La Crosse died on Saturday after his motorcycle struck a deer. Sanding was driving south on County Road E near Holmen Road before hitting...
The Independence school board voted last Wednesday to pursue a waiver of educational requirements pertaining to bilingual-bicultural education, citing a lack of staff to appropriately fulfill Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) guidelines.
District superintendent Bärry Schmitt...
