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The city of Blair will again be trying for a grant that would pay a chunk of the cost needed to reconstruct Broadway and Pearl streets in the city.
The council voted last week Monday to apply for a Community Development Block Grant that, if awarded, would pay $1 million of the $2.3 million project...
Once a popular tourist attraction, the swinging bridge in Galesville was closed in 2016 before being washed away by a flood in 2017.
After working to reopen the trail in High Cliff Park in October, the Galesville city council is looking to continue bettering the park.
At its Thursday, Dec. 9 meeting the council discussed the possibility of hiring engineering Wisconsin company Cedar Corporation to conduct a study regarding the...
James Killian
It has been just over a year since state prosecutors filed an appeal in the case of an Independence man who is alleged to have molested children since the late 1980s, and there’s no indication when the court might act.
As of Monday, a three-judge panel from District Three of the Wisconsin Court of...
Whitehall slowed Melrose-Mindoro down, but they couldn’t get their own offense going in a Dairyland Conference loss last Tuesday.
Whitehall led at halftime, but managed just 12 points in the second half as the Norse pulled ahead and went on to win by double digits. Last Friday’s game against Blair-...
Wednesday, Dec. 1
03:48 — Independence: Caller reporting a two-car crash.
05:29 — Independence: Caller is reporting a domestic disturbance.
05:27 — Arcadia: Slide-in with no injuries reported.
05:30 — Arcadia: A gray car is on its roof. There doesn’t appear to be anybody around the vehicle.
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The director of the county’s economic development and tourism effort resigned his position last Friday, just days after lodging complaints about the county’s new salary methodology.
Rob Grover, who began his tenure as economic development and tourism coordinator in 2019, said he had been thinking...
An Independence committee will review two city ordinances after a resident explained she violated fence requirements to protect her family from loose dogs, a violation of another city law.
The resident told the Independence council Monday that she installed a fence that’s too tall and encroaches on...
The Independence School District is crafting policy guidelines for how student organizations are to be operated following the proposal of a gender/sexuality alliance that brought with it backlash and questions over student organizations.
The guidelines were presented at the board’s Dec. 1 meeting....
After having the fewest deer harvested during opening weekend in more than a decade, hunters had better luck over the rest of the nine-day gun deer season, which ended Nov. 28.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reported last week that 4,186 deer were harvested in Trempealeau County this...
A Minnesota man is facing six felonies after he allegedly threatened a woman and to blow up a home in Gale before he was arrested in Winona following a vehicle chase that allegedly reached 90 miles an hour.
Jeremey Scott Martin, 36, of 1215 8th Ave., SE, was extradited from Winona and is being held...
