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LaVerne (left) and David Pientok are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Tri-City Sanitation. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the May 1, 1971 start of curbside garbage pickup services in Whitehall, Blair and Independence by the new business that had been established earlier that year. Peter Pientok Construction of Independence had purchased what had been known as Whitehall Trucking,...
Bob Parker
While he hasn’t been an active member of the Arcadia community for nearly 40 years, perhaps the only person surprised Bob Parker was being honored by the Arcadia Lion’s Club was Parker himself.
“I don’t know that I’m really worthy, but It’s an honor to still be remembered in Arcadia, I guess,”...
Wednesday, April 14
10:16 — Whitehall: Officer is attempting to locate a female with a felony warrant.
11:07 — Whitehall: Caller advised there is a deer that has been in the same spot for several days. Caller wonders if it is injured.
11:14 — Ettrick: Officer is taking a female into custody with...
Kevin Lien, who has worked for the county’s land department since 1992 and served as its director since 2008, is reportedly resigning effective May 3 following several complaints from department staff.
The reported resignation comes as the county’s liability insurance investigator provided some...
Distribution of COVID-19 vaccines slowed down last week, but the number of new cases remained low in Trempealeau County.
After two straight weeks with more than 2,000 vaccines being administered in Trempealeau County, the total dropped to 1,522 last week as distribution the Johnson & Johnson...
Whitehall officials approved moving forward with design work for the new public library as fundraising for the new structure moves toward the half-way mark.
The council last Tuesday approved the next steps with FEH Design. Kurt Johnson, a member of the council and the library board, said a goal is...
Gene Hogden will retain his role as Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School Board president by a narrow 5-4 vote at last Monday’s regular meeting.
Hogden was initially absent for the meeting due to serving as referee at an athletic event, leaving vice president Mark Kopp to call the meeting to order. The...
The Blair city council approved a series of resolutions as the first step toward applying for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) to help fund the reconstruction of Broadway St. set for 2022 or 2023.
The project consists of replacing water mains and sewer lines along Broadway and Pearl...
The Ettrick village board signed off on allowing village president John Beirne and clerk Jane Jensen to send a letter to the Ettrick Fire Department asking that they activate the village siren when the department is paged for a fire or accident call.
The village president said he was concerned...
Arcadia High School seniors participated in tree-planting, trash pickup and other various beautification efforts at Arcadia Middle/High School, as well as various parks around their community last Thursday. The 50 white pine trees were donated by Ron Wanek, and planted with assistance from Ashley Furniture personnel. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
As the Arcadia High School Class of 2021 prepares to embark on postgraduate life, a collaborative effort with Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. helped them give back to their community last week.
Ron Wanek, founder and chairman of Ashley, donated 50 white pine trees for planting along the north end...
