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While trustees speculated that any referendum that would close the Ettrick Elementary School wouldn’t be approved by voters and that keeping that option as a possibility is merely a scare tactic, village trustees acknowledged they need to ensure the broader Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau community...
The Blair city council passed the 2026 city budget with little discussion at its monthly meeting on Thursday. But, balancing the budget required more flexibility this year than in years past.
“This was the toughest budgeting year yet,” Dennis Stephenson, council member, said. “It is only going to...
While budget requests for both the Arcadia-Glencoe Fire Department and Arcadia Ambulance Service were passed, the city council didn’t seem inclined to grant a request made by the Arcadia Public Library.
Library Director Carol Daul-Elhindi prepared a presentation for council members showing that the...
Dissatisfaction over incomplete work done on repairs to the dam at Bugle Lake led to heated discussion and a refusal to approve a pay request at last week’s Independence city council meeting.
The contentious matter stemmed from work recently done on the upstream side of the dam, a project where...
While snow flurries hit the air over the weekend, work on the new park in Trempealeau continues. Work on installing artificial turf on the East Field was underway in the middle of last week with plans to have it completed by the end of the week. Basketball and pickleball courts have already been put in place and village officials hope to have the parking lot paved and fencing installed before winter. While an opening date has not yet been determined, the hope is that the park will open to the public sometime next spring. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Trempealeau Police Department may be getting a brand-new building in the near future. Michelle Maland, project manager and architect, and Tim Ruppert, architect, presented their plans for this $4,054,978 project to the board at the regular village board meeting on Thursday evening.
According...
Throughout the course of her high school career, Arcadia setter Adella Anderson had already cemented herself as a bedrock foundation to the Raider volleyball program and one of the area’s best players before her senior season even got underway. This final year took her to the very top of the elites...
Wednesday, Oct. 22
01:00 — Osseo: A motion alarm was tripped three times.
02:11 — Osseo: A motion alarm was activated.
04:03 — Independence: 911 hang-up.
08:33 — Blair: The caller reported a trespasser on their property.
08:57 — Independence: A male is circling the caller’s house and their...
At Monday night’s regular board meeting for the Arcadia School District, principals from each school in the district gave presentations about how they are implementing the district’s continuous improvement plan.
Wyatt Anderson, high school principal and co-athletic director, discussed the high...
Arcadia’s school board approved a budget of $18,177,477 Monday of last week. Superintendent Lori Frerk announced a mill rate of $5.41132 per $1,000 of equalized property value. This is lower than last year’s rate of $5.87849. She cautioned, however, that residents should still expect their taxes...
The mill rate for residents living within the Blair-Taylor School District will drop by more than a dollar this coming year due in large part to a sizable spike in the estimated value of the municipalities within the district.
The school district’s tax levy, mill rate and budget for the 2025-26...
