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Children received care at the Blair-Taylor Childcare Center recently. After opening in December, the center continues to see enrollment rise. The future of the program is likely to see that number continue growing, and director Kristin Elvaker said school childcare is a quality addition to local education. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
When Little Raiders, the childcare center housed at Arcadia Elementary School, opened one year ago, there was hope and belief that it would help children both academically and developmentally.
After her first year as the center’s director, Jolynn Bourland said that hope has taken form.
One girl...
All five schools in the Times coverage area had a higher percentage of students test as “advanced” in science in social studies than in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, though most were still below state averages in the Forward test.
The Forward test is administered to students in third...
Trempealeau County supervisors gave the nod to a change in land use regulations that could make more sellable more than 50 parcels of land that could not meet frontage road requirements because of their location between a railroad and a natural barrier.
The county board Monday approved a change...
Those in attendance at a special meeting of the Whitehall School District electors overwhelmingly supported the decision to purchase the neighboring property owned by Beaver Builders Supply last week Monday, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a child care center will operate out of the new building...
Charles Gauger will be inducted into the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame in November.
Former Whitehall Times publisher and general manager of the Trempealeau County Times, Charles Gauger was selected to be inducted into the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation announced last Friday that Gauger will be among five inducted as part of the...
A pair of conference losses last Tuesday kept the Arcadia volleyball team focused on continuing to improve as the postseason quickly approaches.
The Raiders dropped both games of a doubleheader on Tuesday, the first a 3-1 loss at the hands of Luther (7-16 overall, 3-6 Coulee Conference). West Salem...
Wednesday, Sept. 21
01:41 — Whitehall: Possible overdose reported.
03:54 — Whitehall: A car hit a deer and the car is now disabled.
04:49 — Trempealeau: A man was messing with a pistol and accidentally shot himself in the leg.
06:54 — Strum: Caller hit a deer at 06:20 this morning. Nobody was...
The Blair-Taylor school board unanimously approved offering a scholarship program to teachers in the district’s child care center.
The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Wisconsin Scholarship Program was discussed originally at the board’s August meeting before being approved at last week Monday’s regular...
The Arcadia school board is searching for its next member.
An opening on the board was finalized last week with the board unanimously approving the resignation of former member Rob Hurlburt, who resigned because his family moved outside the district boundaries.
Those interested in filling the open...
Arcadia officials said they want to see a clearer financial summary from the Arcadia Ambulance Service before agreeing to an increase in the city’s share of the service’s budget.
Council and ambulance board member Kyle Myhre told the Arcadia council last Wednesday that he intends to dispute two...
