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Wednesday, Oct. 13
07:45 — Trempealeau: Caller hit a deer at 4 a.m. The vehicle was drivable and the deer was gone. Nobody was injured.
07:47 — Ettrick: Caller reported a fire is behind a building.
12:43 — Melrose: Caller is receiving harassing phone calls from an unknown person.
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The Arcadia utility commission is scheduled to begin this week the process of finding a successor for long-time water and wastewater superintendent Gary Skroch.
Skroch has been a member of the department for 44 years and its superintendent for 12. He leaves Dec. 1 because, he said, “it’s time.”...
The Whitehall city council named Paul Laursen, the city police department’s longest-serving officer, the department’s new chief.
Laursen succeeds Jeff Schaffner whose retirement was effective at the end of September. Laursen has been interim chief, said Mayor Jeff Hauser. The council made the...
Galesville could soon change its building permit requirements, according to discussions at last Thursday’s city council meeting.
No action was taken on the item Thursday, but the topic will be revisited in coming weeks. The council will also examine creating a committee to more easily review...
The Galesville city council also reopened the trail in High Cliff Park after a closure of multiple years due to deteriorating conditions.
Les and Mark Manske of Stoddard excavating business Les Manske & Sons, Inc. did the work to fix up the trail.
“This is rural America at its best right here...
The mask requirement for students and staff in the G-E-T School District will run for at least another week, according to an email sent to district families last Friday by superintendent Michele Butler.
“I am sorry to inform you that the current data does not support a change to our face covering...
A plan to expand broadband internet access in Trempealeau County is among the recent proposals for how the county should spend the $5.75 million it will receive from the latest federal rescue funds.
The broadband expansion plan was developed between the county’s economic development coordinator and...
There were fewer than 100 new COVID-19 cases in Trempealeau County for the second straight week, but health officials aren’t able to predict if another decline is on the horizon.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 96 new COVID-19 cases in Trempealeau County last week. That was...
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors formally accepted the donation of 6.2 acres that could be the site of a children-focused addition to Pietrek Park.
The property that’s adjacent to the county-owned park north of Arcadia was donated by owners Thomas and Daniel Schank, who set the condition...
A city of Whitehall project to replace utilities and a portion of Hobson Street spread construction work to the front of the Trempealeau County Government Center this week. The city has coordinated the Hobson work with construction of the county's new Criminal Justice Center, with the warm weather perhaps allowing asphalt to be laid on the street project yet this year, according to city officials. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
County supervisor heard the details of a plan that would give employees at least a two percent raise and passed unanimously and with little discussion a resolution to pay a highly contested healthcare center bill.
A recommendation in the review of the county’s job classifications and wages could...
