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It won’t be the same as past years, but the Arcadia Lion’s Club announced last week that it will again host Broiler-Dairy Days in Memorial Park at the end of May.
The event has been shorted to two days — the Friday and Saturday of Memorial Day weekend — due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the...
A 20-year-old Melrose man was charged with two felonies after he allegedly drove a vehicle into a man outside an Ettrick bar.
Brockdan Jordan Hanson of N9700 R Young Road, is charged with second degree recklessly endangering safety and substantial battery intended to harm. He was released on a $5,...
The Blair-Taylor school board started getting into the details regarding the daycare facility set to open during the 2021-22 school year.
The facility is scheduled to open in early December with construction work to begin in June, after the current school year ends. For the first time, the board...
Arcadia officials will try again to find a company to tackle a flood control project after the first attempt netted just one “disappointing” bid.
City administrator Chad Hawkins said that just one company, Haas, submitted a proposal for the city’s internal drainage project, and that the company’s...
The Arcadia city council decided that, for the time being, the city will hold onto its recreation center building.
“It’s a no-brainer to keep it,” said council member Dan Sonsalla. “The city already owns it. If we keep it and don’t need it as much as we have before, maybe we can rent it out to...
Alan Robertson is hoping to golf more this year after retiring as Blair’s city attorney, a position he held for 51 years. (Times photograph by Debbie Foss)
The symbols of Blair attorney Alan Robertson’s accomplishment show up are plaques, photos and citations all over his office — and are almost able to compete with another passion, history and mystery books.
Robertson, who resigned at the end of 2020 after 51 years as the city of Blair’s city...
Wednesday, March 10
02:13 — Ettrick: Caller reporting a cat bite from an outdoor cat.
04:41 — Trempealeau: Caller believes a male in his 20s overdosed on heroin. He has been given a dose of Narcan.
09:23 — Ettrick: Gas skip reported. The vehicle left toward Galesville without paying for $33 worth...
25 YEARS AGO
March 28, 1996
Trempealeau County’s one-half-percent sales tax, which turns a half-year-old next week, still isn’t living up to expectations. The controversial levy, enacted not quite a year ago over the objection of county business people and other citizens, so far has taken in only a...
As the first full school year of the Trempealeau Valley Cooperative 2.0 draws to a close, at least one member school district is mulling serious doubts about the long-term viability of the co-op.
Several Arcadia school board members did little to mince words when expressing their pessimism about...
Anthony Meier
The former Arcadia man imprisoned for the 1992 murder of his estranged wife was denied parole last week, but won’t have to wait long to try again.
Anthony Meier, 53, has been in custody since admitting to murdering his wife Jill (Wozney) Meier on Nov. 1, 1992. On April 1, 1993 was sentenced to 25...
