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The Blair-Taylor school board started getting into the details regarding the daycare facility set to open during the 2021-22 school year.
The facility is scheduled to open in early December with construction work to begin in June, after the current school year ends. For the first time, the board...
Arcadia officials will try again to find a company to tackle a flood control project after the first attempt netted just one “disappointing” bid.
City administrator Chad Hawkins said that just one company, Haas, submitted a proposal for the city’s internal drainage project, and that the company’s...
The Arcadia city council decided that, for the time being, the city will hold onto its recreation center building.
“It’s a no-brainer to keep it,” said council member Dan Sonsalla. “The city already owns it. If we keep it and don’t need it as much as we have before, maybe we can rent it out to...
Alan Robertson is hoping to golf more this year after retiring as Blair’s city attorney, a position he held for 51 years. (Times photograph by Debbie Foss)
The symbols of Blair attorney Alan Robertson’s accomplishment show up are plaques, photos and citations all over his office — and are almost able to compete with another passion, history and mystery books.
Robertson, who resigned at the end of 2020 after 51 years as the city of Blair’s city...
Wednesday, March 10
02:13 — Ettrick: Caller reporting a cat bite from an outdoor cat.
04:41 — Trempealeau: Caller believes a male in his 20s overdosed on heroin. He has been given a dose of Narcan.
09:23 — Ettrick: Gas skip reported. The vehicle left toward Galesville without paying for $33 worth...
25 YEARS AGO
March 28, 1996
Trempealeau County’s one-half-percent sales tax, which turns a half-year-old next week, still isn’t living up to expectations. The controversial levy, enacted not quite a year ago over the objection of county business people and other citizens, so far has taken in only a...
As the first full school year of the Trempealeau Valley Cooperative 2.0 draws to a close, at least one member school district is mulling serious doubts about the long-term viability of the co-op.
Several Arcadia school board members did little to mince words when expressing their pessimism about...
Anthony Meier
The former Arcadia man imprisoned for the 1992 murder of his estranged wife was denied parole last week, but won’t have to wait long to try again.
Anthony Meier, 53, has been in custody since admitting to murdering his wife Jill (Wozney) Meier on Nov. 1, 1992. On April 1, 1993 was sentenced to 25...
For the second time in about a month, a house in the Whitehall area was lost due to fire.
What started as a woodshed fire last Friday quickly turned into a house fire, according to a press release issued by the Whitehall Volunteer Fire Department.
The release said the fire department was paged to...
Bond was set at $100,000 for an Independence man charged in the armed robbery of an Arcadia convenience store.
Michael William Andre, 34, of 23898 Adams St., was charged with three felonies, armed robbery with use of force, being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and second degree...
