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In one way or another, Lisa Marie Pettis has been dealing with cancer for a long time, but she isn’t letting it run her life.
“There’s so much more… cancer doesn’t define me,” Pettis said in an interview with the Times. “I define cancer.”
Pettis, an Osseo resident, is this year’s honorary survivor...
Todd Coplien has been sober for 10 months, started a new job and was recently married, but he’ll have to wait a little bit longer before he can bartend again. However, the punishment isn’t nearly what it could be, and still considerably better than one motion that was voted down.
Coplien appeared...
At its most recent meeting, the Arcadia city council heard a presentation from the Mississippi River Regional Planning Commission (MRRPC), which was recently awarded the city’s request for proposals to update its comprehensive plan.
This contract engages MRRPC’s planning services to assist the city...
At its regular meeting, the Arcadia school board reviewed the results of a comprehensive facilities assessment conducted by Upper 90, an energy service company that specializes in facility and infrastructure improvements.
The assessment identified several high-priority needs, particularly at the...
James Devenport
A man who is currently imprisoned for two other sexual assault convictions has been charged with 11 more counts in Trempealeau County Circuit Court.
James C. Devenport, 57, formerly of Blair, was charged last week with 10 counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child and one count of second-...
Having already established himself as a first-team All-Coulee caliber player last year, Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau’s Calvin Davis made the next leap during his senior season to assert his place as the best in the conference.
Davis capped off his high school baseball career by being named the 2025...
Wednesday, June 4
01:44 — Trempealeau: The caller requested a welfare check.
04:37 — Blair: Cows are in the road.
06:08 — Whitehall: 911 misdial.
09:00 — Ettrick: The caller reported the theft of a ladder.
09:38 — Ettrick: The caller reported a crash.
10:41 — Arcadia: A semi broke down in a...
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors approved taking nearly $200,000 from its unassigned general fund to cover overruns from 2024.
The move balanced the 2024 budget, eliminating what was shown as a deficit at the end of the year. Supervisor Robert Baecker pointed out that more than half of...
For the first time since 2019, market-based pay increases were approved for administrators in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District that will go into effect with the 2025-26 school year.
Those increases were discussed by the G-E-T school board in closed session and then approved in open...
At last May’s regular meeting of the Independence school board, President Joe Bragger raised concerns about the need for stricter disciplinary rules. During this month’s meeting, the district seemed to take that advice.
Several proposed policy updates were brought forward, including a notable...
