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At a special meeting of their school board last Wednesday, the Arcadia School District unveiled their plans for reopening this fall.
Highlights of the plan included a mask mandate for students and staff while on school grounds or in school-provided transportation, an expectation that students...
A man and a woman have been charged with theft for allegedly taking from homes in Independence items that included a plastic owl, cement mushrooms and a welcome mat.
Sky Verae Stuebs, 22, of 941 S Cleveland St, Shawano, and Kevin Christianson, 35, of 35209 Lee St., Whitehall, were charged with...
Families who are comfortable with sending their children to school at Blair-Taylor during the COVID-19 pandemic can do so, but the educational opportunities will also be available for those who want to follow live online and to those who have to follow a different schedule.
That was a part of the...
Independence officials will explore an offer from the Blair city attorney that the two cities and Whitehall fund an attorney to track the bankruptcy proceedings of Hi-Crush.
All three cities have within their borders operations by the sand mining company that has announced it will file for...
A vehicle made its way through the third community COVID-19 testing site in held in Trempealeau County. The most recent tests were held at the Blair-Taylor High school on Tuesday of last week with 121 symptomatic individuals being tested. Full results from the testing were not available as of press time. (Times photo by Andrew Dannehy)
There was a slight increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases in Trempealeau County last week from two weeks ago, but a decrease in the percentage of positive tests.
The Trempealeau County Health Department reported 36 new cases last week with a positive test rate of 10.6 percent. That was one...
A Rochester, Minn. man lost his life as the result of a motorcycle accident in the town of Glencoe on Sunday.
The Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department reported Sharmarke Shoble, 24, lost control of his 2011 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle while negotiating a curve going up the hill heading west on Highway...
Robert Hinrichs, 58, of Osseo was yelling for help after being trapped under a Utility-Terrain Vehicle for several hours before his calls were finally heard and he was rescued.
That was according to a release sent by the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department, which reported that Hinrichs was...
Laura Farrah (left), director of community programs for the Trempealeau County Health Care Center, and Shelly Rietmann, program manager, preview one of the rooms at Willowbrook, a residential treatment center opening in the former health care center building. Willowbrook earned its license last week and is expected to welcome its first clients this week. (Times photo by Debbite Foss)
It has taken about nine months longer than expected for the new residential treatment center in the refurbished county health care center to open — a delay worth the wait for Laura Farrah who has wished for the this type of program for 17 years.
The 15-bed Willowbrook treatment program is expected...
A former Eleva resident who was charged with sexually abusing his children for years is scheduled to plead no contest to two felony counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child.
Sentencing for Richard Getter, 55, formerly of Eleva and Holcomb and an inmate in the Clark County jail, is...
Wednesday, July 22
10:01 — Blair: Garbage bags are in the road.
11:33 — Whitehall: Caller’s son just hit him. Caller wants him removed from the residence; thinks he is under the influence of drugs.
13:42 — Eleva: A female is refusing to return her father’s vehicle. She does not have permission to...
