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A group of swimmers called on the Arcadia city council to expand the hours for the post-pandemic reopening of the city’s aquatic center to give more time to those who swim laps.
The group “represents about 200 years” of swimming laps at the pool and swimmers need more hours at the pool than has...
Roughly 20 protestors derailed a Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau school board meeting on Monday, seeking to have mask mandates loosened. The board cancelled their meeting after some audience attendees refused to wear masks. The meeting will be rescheduled at an alternate venue at a date and time to be announced. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
Monday’s regular meeting of the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau school board was adjourned just as soon as it got under way, as a crowd of roughly 20 anti-mask protestors had board members leaving the room for their safety.
Board members Gene Hogden, Harold Olson and Mark Kopp, as well as district...
Tyler Brantner of Independence/Gilmanton eyed a ground ball during Friday’s game against Blair-Taylor. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Pitching and defense are proving to be a strength for the Independence/Gilmanton baseball team so far this season as they allowed a combined four runs in three wins last week.
Outside of a 13-6 loss to Melrose-Mindoro two weeks ago, the Indees have allowed two runs or fewer in every game. Their...
Wednesday, April 28
14:00 — Blair: Traffic complaint for a vehicle that is swerving and hitting its brakes.
14:53 — Galesville: Caller advised a farmer keeps taking more of their yard. The farmer recently tore up a fence.
15:31 — Osseo: Report of kids fighting in the area.
16:09 — Osseo: A male...
A group of several hundred individuals who first organized to protest a county pandemic-related ordinance intends to keep influencing county politics by winning local government seats and restoring individual rights.
The county’s Liberty Alliance — which organizer Dave Estenson said is unrelated to...
County supervisors this month will be asked to back climate change legislation that taxes fossil fuels, pays the money back to citizens through a dividend and protects farmers from high fuel costs.
Town of Hale resident John Skoug, who ushered the resolution through an endorsing vote by the county’...
A county committee seemed receptive to a plan to detach from land management the land records division — whose employees have been the most critical of the land management director — but members worry the move could leave a supervision vacuum.
The county’s executive finance committee Monday...
Independence officials agreed to look at the cost of reinstalling a barrier to slow water moving into the Bugle Lake sediment pond as plans move forward on dredging the pond years before earlier than expected.
Mike Blaha, president of the Elk Rod and Gun Club, told the council Monday that club...
While the number of new COVID-19 cases has remained steady, another Trempealeau County resident died from the disease last week.
The death, reported by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. was the 41st in the county since the first case hit in April, 2020. The county’s case fatality...
The Whitehall school board will implement a committee structure in the near future.
The board had not used committees in recent years, but the discussion of implementing them picked up steam recently. Last week Monday, three committees were approved.
Board members Jason Molis and Bill Jurowski will...
