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Wednesday, Nov. 4
12:20 — Whitehall: A student has not been in school for a week. Caller would like a welfare check done as the parents are not answering their phones. The student is also not attending virtually.
17:15 — Galesville: A black pickup with no box and no taillights has been racing up...
The Galesville city council passed a 2021 budget balanced at $1,436,536, as well as a sewer rate increase taking effect on Jan. 1, 2021 at their regular meeting Thursday night.
The budget for 2021 represents a 1.91 percent increase in the budgeted expenditures for 2020. According to documentation...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District has moved to a virtual instruction model through Dec. 4 after 13 district students and between five and seven staff have tested positive for COVID-19.
District administrator Michele Butler reported at last Monday’s regular school board meeting that 10 of the...
Voting machines that President Donald Trump has cited as problematic in the recent national election were in use in two county municipalities Nov. 3 and will be installed countywide in 2021.
The city of Arcadia and the town of Unity both used Imagecast Evolution machines produced by Canadian-based...
As projected, the county board adopted a 2021 budget that will lower the rate at which property owners are taxed due in part to the increased value of county property overall.
Supervisors last Tuesday in their annual day-time budget session authorized a $75.5 million budget that drops the mill rate...
The Blair city council voted for an average sewer rate increase of 65 percent to offset five years of negative operating income in the department at their regular meeting last Monday.
The increase will take effect in January and appear on the April quarterly bill for residents. Estimated impact to...
For the third straight week the previous record of new COVID-19 cases in Trempealeau County has been smashed as the elderly community members continue to be impacted with two more deaths last week.
The death total in Trempealeau County sat at eight as of press time this week, with numerous older...
The village of Trempealeau board passed two ordinance amendments concerning sewer abandonment and usage rates at their regular meeting last Thursday.
In the first of two amendments passed, Chapter 415 of the Village Code of Ordinances was amended by Village Ordinance #4-2020 to define abandonment...
An inmate in the Trempealeau County jail faces new charges after he allegedly broke a restraint and spit toward a jail staff member who was informing him his probation was being revoked.
Bernardo Pagan, 58, of 2038 Crescent Drive in Eau Claire is charged with felony battery or threat to a law...
Concerns about remaining vigilant about precautions amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic were discussed at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Independence school board.
After hearing reports from student council about ongoing efforts, administrators expressed reservations about whether true...
