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Rob Reichwein, the mayor of Arcadia since 2015, has announced he will not seek re-election.
“I wanted to make my plans known so someone else would have time to decide whether to run,” Reichwein told the city council last Wednesday.
Reichwein first became Arcadia’s mayor by defeating former Mayor...
About a week before the 2021-22 wrestling season begins at Independence High School, the Indees have named their new leader.
The school board approved the hiring of Ryan Guza, a 2008 graduate of the district and wrestling team alumnus, as part of the consent agenda at its special meeting Oct. 26....
Wednesday, Oct. 27
05:37 — Arcadia: A car hit a deer. The airbags deployed.
07:25 — Arcadia: A car struck a deer and it ran off. The vehicle has minimal damage.
08:15 — Trempealeau: Caller believes she has been a victim of identity theft. Someone applied for unemployment in her name.
09:14 —...
Independence school officials are trying to gauge interest on whether the district should reconsider purchasing a former healthcare center building as a site for child care and lower-grades classrooms, president of the school board said Monday.
“We heard last time (in the spring) that we didn’t let...
Trempealeau County supervisors will meet next week to adopt a 2022 budget that’s about $125,000 higher than this year’s, but that reduces both the mill rate and the money the county expects to collect through the levy.
The $78.23 million budget comes as at least one supervisor says he is hearing...
Proponents of the county using $5.7 million in federal relief money for expanding broadband internet access in the county said it could be ‘transformative” for residents, but supervisors cautioned there is competition for the money.
Broadband advocates Rob Grover, county coordinator of tourism and...
Arcadia School District business teacher Peg Baumgartner spends most of her day at the high school.
But in her first year back at the middle school to teach the eighth grade business class, Baumgartner has brought a real-life education experience to the students at Arcadia Middle School.
Students...
A village of Trempealeau police officer received a citation after his squad car was involved in a crash on Oct. 18.
Christopher Carley, 50, of Onalaska received a $175.30 ticket for failing to yield the right of way from a stop sign after a crash at approximately 5:42 p.m. A release sent by the...
The good news is that the spread of COVID-19 in Trempealeau County doesn’t appear to be getting any worse. The number of new cases dropped significantly in October, but seem to have steadied.
The Wisconsin Department of Health services reported 86 new COVID-19 cases in the county last week, one...
A budget that shows a 7.76 percent decrease in the tax levy from the 2020-21 school year was approved at the Blair-Taylor School District annual meeting last week Monday.
District superintendent Jeff Eide said that the property taxes were reduced because the district received more state aid. A levy...
