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County building committee members, who urged a jail drop-off and delivery site be moved on a draft of a new county building, will review the plans again next Monday before a September presentation to the entire county board.
The first version of a possible new county building envisions constructing...
There was an increase in both the number of new COVID-19 cases and the rate in which people tested positive last week.
Despite being in the second week of a face-covering mandate, which showed a decrease in cases in Trempealeau County during the first week, the county saw five more positive tests...
(25 YEARS AGO) Aug. 24, 1995 - Boosted by cooperative weather, Beef and Dairy Days 1995 apparently was a financial success. Preliminary figures showed receipts from festival activities up in just about all areas. That should mean the sponsoring organizations — the Whitehall Lions Club, Hutchins-...
While there won’t be any races at the county level, the November election will feature competitions for both Congress District 3 and Assembly District 92.
Incumbent Congressman Ron Kind fought off his first challenge of the election season, defeating Mark Neumann with roughly 80 percent of the...
After several bars in Ettrick announced a coordinated event this weekend, board president John Beirne and trustee Marc Baures called a meeting last Thursday to express their concern to the event’s organizers: bar owner Seth Dale and fellow village board trustee and bar owner Josh Hanson.
According...
The mill dam renovations in Galesville by Andersen Feeds have come to a halt after construction company Wapasha Construction discovered a large mass of concrete underneath the parking lot adjacent to the dam.
Initially, the plan was to build a modular block retaining wall on the side of the dam....
Summer, lifting of the state lockdown, events such as a pub crawl and people weary of restrictions all contributed to the climb in the county’s COVID-19 rate, the county’s public health director told the board of supervisors.
“From January to the end of March, we had no cases,” health director Barb...
The Independence School District may ask staff members to report travel beyond a certain distance to their supervisors to determine if it is “to a high-risk exposure area.”
District superintendent Bärry Schmitt said the measure, for which no action was taken during Thursday’s regular meeting of the...
Hi-Crush Inc. paid four top executives a total of $3 million in bonuses just days before the company announced it was restructuring under bankruptcy laws, a national news story reports.
In a story headlined “How a Texas shale supplier’s founders made fortunes as the firm failed,” Reuters news...
The prosecution will not make a recommendation on the sentencing of a former Eleva man who has been found guilty of two felony counts of child sex abuse.
District Attorney John Sacia told Trempealeau County Circuit Court Judge Rian Radtke at a hearing Friday afternoon that his office would not be...
