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After years of consideration and months of refining ideas, officials with Gundersen Tri-County Hospital and Clinic in Whitehall are ready to break ground perhaps on March 1 for their new, estimated $40 million facility.
“For a rural community to get what will be a high-tech facility is pretty...
A Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau school board member wants the district to reexamine its masking policy due to an increase in COVID-19 cases, and the topic led to a spirited discussion during the board’s meeting last Monday.
During superintendent Michelle Butler’s monthly update on the district’s...
Blair residents who are deemed to be a public nuisance will either have to shape up or pay a stiff price.
“We want to clean this town up and make it look more presentable,” Kent Johnson, Blair police chief, said.
The Blair city council approved two ordinance changes at its regular meeting last...
The city of Whitehall is waiting for what’s next from a possible buyer of the city’s golf course and club house.
“We’re expecting more information,” said Whitehall Mayor Jeff Hauser of the possible purchasers of the facility. The sale has been the subject of at least two executive sessions by the...
Whitehall council members may authorize in October borrowing $1.4 million to provide financing for the Hobson Street project while the city awaits reimbursement from state and federal funds.
Local banks will be asked to bid on the general obligation bond which Brian Reilly of Ehlers, the city’s...
The county board endorsed a redistricting plan that could lead to numerous changes in who is a board supervisor.
The board Monday backed a new map of the county’s 17 districts that includes three districts where no current supervisors live and four where there are two sitting supervisors. The...
The biggest barrier between a county household being able to afford a new, custom-built house might be the simple failure to apply.
“People just deselect themselves,” said Kahya Fox, executive director of the LaCrosse Area Habitat for Humanity chapter that’s building its first home in Trempealeau...
The Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Office has joined a statewide effort to “adopt” one of the many Louisiana sheriff’s employees who suffered personal losses during hurricane Ida.
“While many of these sheriff’s employees were out assisting others during the storm,” Sheriff Brett Semingson said, “they...
Following investigations into two county department heads, one of whom was asked to resign, the county will take discipline out of the hands of its committees and assign it to a new board.
County employees were told last week that a new Department Head Oversight Group is now charged with...
The number of new COVID-19 cases took another big jump last week as the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 175 new cases in Trempealeau County.
That is an increase of 55 from two weeks ago, continuing the steady increase in cases that began in mid-July.
Despite a mask mandate for...
