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Arcadia council member declined to accept a strip of land for construction of a city street, citing the city’s refusal to build roads for developments in the past.
“This has not been our practice,” said council member Joe Feltes last Wednesday in response to a request for the city to construct a...
The Independence Police Department is investigating a number of break-ins reported in the city last week.
East End Bar and Grill, located at 23631 Washington St., posted on social media that two people broke into the business at about 4 a.m. Friday morning. Security footage showed two people...
The Trempealeau Valley Cooperative 2.0 is putting an emphasis on “cooperative,” recently flushing out an agreement that could see teachers travel to other co-op schools next year to teach sections of classes in subject areas whose open teaching jobs are proving difficult to fill.
Teachers would be...
Wednesday, May 25
04:37 — Galesville: A car hit a deer.
06:32 — Arcadia: A car hit a deer and damaged the vehicle. The vehicle is still drivable.
12:11 — Trempealeau: Caller requested a welfare check be done on a male and a female. Caller believes they are being abused mentally and physically...
The Whitehall school board approved a raise for teachers at its regular meeting last week Monday, but there will also be an increase in insurance costs.
The board approved a 2.5 percent Consumer Price Index increase for all teacher contracts. The increase was negotiated between the district and...
The Independence school board moved forward with plans for a fall referendum during a special meeting May 23.
A committee had worked to simplify the language. The recommended wording clarified the amount of money requested as “900,000 dollars per year, starting in the 2022-23 school year and...
Though a county committee is considering slow-walking courthouse renovations to try to figure out how to pay for them, deciding where to locate some county departments will become unavoidable as the new Justice Center is completed.
The higher-than-expected price tag for building the new Justice...
When two area superintendents were getting the ‘pings’ from their phone notifications and watching the headlines sprawl across their televisions and computers that another school shooting was happening across the country last week, their first reaction wasn’t dissimilar to most others.
School...
The Independence/Gilmanton baseball team opened Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament play with a win last Thursday.
The Indees lost to Pepin/Alma 16-2 in the last regular season game, a team they will have seen again this week in the regional semifinal. The second-seeded Indees...
Wednesday, May 18
05:46 — Blair: Cows are in the road.
06:26 — Osseo: A cow is in the road.
06:49 — Whitehall: a 30-year-old male inmate is suffering from heroin withdrawal.
08:44 — Trempealeau: Attempted break-in of gasoline pumps.
08:53 — Galesville: A student was being disruptive and will...
