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The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors weighed employee pay raises and a new finance director position while reviewing a proposed 2026 budget that includes a slight property tax increase.
The budget presented Monday of last week was balanced, with an increase of $1.17 million over the 2025...
With the Whitehall School District needing to raise their property tax levy by just over $500,000 from the prior year, superintendent Mike Beighley offered pointed criticism toward state lawmakers for not doing more to help out public schools across Wisconsin despite a sizable budget surplus.
The...
Despite the unexpected impact of a private voucher school, the Independence School District was able to keep its mill rate for 2025-26 in line with what they projected when they most recently went to referendum.
The district’s property tax levy and budget for 2025-26 were approved during the budget...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District approved its 2025-26 budget with the lowest mill rate in the last 10 years.
The budget was approved at the district’s annual meeting with a mill rate of $6.61 per $1,000 of equalized property value. Not only is the rate lower than last year’s rate of $7...
The completion of the Trempealeau County Justice Center, which includes his new office, is among the reasons Trempealeau County Sheriff Brett Semingson has decided to retire. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
When Trempealeau County Sheriff Brett Semingson walks away from his post in December, he’ll do so knowing one of his biggest and most important jobs is complete.
Last Wednesday, the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department officially moved into its new dispatch center. That was the final piece of...
Wednesday, Oct. 8
00:38 — Ettrick: The caller reported an issue with dogs barking non-stop all night.
06:17 — Galesville: The caller reported a vehicle is driving with no lights on.
06:54 — Blair: A car hit a deer.
07:04 — Osseo: A car hit a deer.
08:05 — Ettrick: The caller reported a bull is...
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors voted 12-5 Monday to abolish the elected coroner position and replace it with an appointed medical examiner.
The issue had been discussed for months at the committee level and was initially rejected by the Executive and Finance Committee, whose members...
Four Trempealeau County school districts will receive less state aid this year, while the others will see only small increases.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction released the official figures last Wednesday. Arcadia, Eleva-Strum, Independence and Osseo-Fairchild will all receive less...
Any decision on a potential referendum for the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau school district still has a long way to go, but a major step in the process occurred when the school board was presented with the details on two main referendum options, community survey results and a community task force...
The Whitehall city council approved spending nearly $675,000 on separate projects for the water and wastewater treatment plants.
The spending will be divided out over a period of time, with much of it to be rolled into a Safe Drinking Water Loan, which will likely be stretched out over a 20-year...
