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Four occupants of a horse drawn buggy were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries after the buggy was rear-ended in the town of Pigeon Sunday evening. The buggy — occupied by Edna Wengerd, 41, Fannie Wengerd, 43, Lizzie Wengerd, 33, and William Wengerd, 39, all of Whitehall — was driving...

Gov. Tony Evers (left) and Dodge town chairman Daniel Lilla discuss the town's continued flooding problems last Tuesday. Evers said he would investigate state funding for a feasibility study for the town.(Times photograph by Debbie Foss)

A Dodge resident who has been working with an engineering firm on the community’s persistent high-water troubles may have helped interest the Wisconsin governor in financing a study. Keith Jereczek told Gov. Tony Evers that the SEH engineer with whom he has been working thinks it might be possible...
School across the state will close by Thursday of this week after Gov. Tony Evers directed Department of Health Services (DHS) Secretary-designee Andrea Palm to issue an agency order mandating the statewide closure of all K-12 schools, public and private, as part of the state’s efforts to respond...
The man accused of stealing a car off of Main St. in Whitehall made his initial appearance in Trempealeau County Circuit Court last week. Kalifa Fomba, 20, of Whitehall appeared in court last week Tuesday on two charges related to the theft of a 2018 Jeep Compass off of Main St. in Whitehall on Jan...
  Gundersen Tri-County Hospital in Whitehall has implemented visitor restrictions at its hospital, care center and senior living apartments amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to keep patients, residents, staff and communities safe.  Representatives from the hospital sent the...
A recently proposed bill affecting state residents living within the floodplain was signed into law by Governor Tony Evers on March 3. Act 175 eliminates a “50 percent rule” regarding the limit nonconforming homeowners can spend total to modify their home relative to the value of the structure if...
The Trempealeau village board approved a sewer credit of $4,585.41 to Pinewood Court as compensation for 480,433 gallons of water lost in 2019 due to pipe leaks. In a resolution first instituted in 2016 with the mobile home community, the village has paid Pinewood Court annually for the difference...
After more 120 years of operation — with one merger and a name change — the Union Bank of Blair will be no more. A press release sent by Waumandee State Bank announced last week that the bank’s holding company Waumandee Bancshares, Ltd. and the holding company for the Union Bank of Blair — Lake...
  The names of the victims of a fatal crash along Highway 93 between Independence and Eleva were released by the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department late last week. Austin Anderson, 23, of Durand and Tara Pataska, 45, of Onalaska were the victims in the two-vehicle collision, which occurred...
Wednesday, Feb. 26 05:09 — Arcadia: Caller reported an injured deer in the middle of the road.  08:04 — Blair: Caller advised a vehicle has been running in the parking lot for the past hour or so. There is a beer can in the center, but no one is around the vehicle.  09:46 — Strum: Couches were...

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