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At last Monday’s regular meeting of the Arcadia school board, principals gave reports that were largely laudatory of students, staff and the district’s effort to maintain an in-person instruction option for the first month of the school year.
Though scheduling and teaching on multiple platforms...
The city of Whitehall is $1 million closer to financing reconstruction of Hobson Street with the award of a federal Community Development Block Grant.
The balance of the estimated $3.5 million street project could come from tax incentive district revenue. The city has until September, 2021 to...
County board members have a week to review a communication plan that would be sent to county residents in advance of a decision on whether to build a $38.5 million to $40 million addition to the county courthouse.
The board Monday during a special meeting was given a letter and a link to a...
Wednesday, Sept. 9
10:11 — Galesville: Cattle are in the road.
10:24 — Strum: Caller is irate about a delivery person opening the gate to her property. They came today — instead of Monday as she requested — and the horses escaped. Caller is concerned that she and her ex-husband will chase the...
The Trempealeau County Health Department, emergency management and the Wisconsin National Guard are hosting a free COVID-19 testing site at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle School this Saturday.
Testing will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the school, 19650 Prairie Ridge Lane in Galesville. This...
25 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28, 1995
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors Monday night rejected.a recommendation from one of its committees to keep the county highway department office in the courthouse. The full board voted 14-7 against a resolution submitted by the joint property building...
County supervisors approved spending over $170,000 on technology intended to respond to the pandemic and hired a consultant to guide getting state and federal money available for COVID-19 related expenses.
Among the items approved Monday evening was $49,000 in equipment to allow county...
Kent Johnson
“I want (tavern owners) handing SafeRide vouchers out like candy,” Kent Johnson told the Blair city council in his first meeting as the city’s chief of police last week Monday.
Johnson had only been on the job for about 15 days, but he provided the council with numerous updates ranging from the...
The Blair city council made an exception in order to help a deer processing business get started downtown.
The council heard from Joyce Schneider and Thane Mattson who said they had plans to open two businesses in the former The Grocery Store building. There were no issues with Schneider’s...
Partially prompted by an Arcadia resident’s complaints, city officials are expected to consider tougher ordinances and stepped up enforcement to control unsightly city properties.
“What we’re doing right now isn’t working,” said Jeff Hulberg at last Tuesday city council session. “I want my city...
