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The book “Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality” will remain in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle School library for the 2023-24 school year after months of committee meetings, school board movement and citizen complaints.
A resource review committee on Aug. 3...
A Galesville city council member hopes the elected board has put its previous personnel issues in the past after legal fees have piled up.
Council member Jean Wallner spoke at last week’s meeting, saying it is time for the council to move past the public disagreement between councilor Tory-Kale...
A La Crosse man initially hired by a Galesville woman as an investigator is accused of defrauding the woman of over $86,000 since 2017.
Agents with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigations, allege that Keith Scott Burch, 55, convinced the woman to give him money for...
The Independence school board last week Tuesday heard about a considerable donation made by Pilgrim’s Pride.
“We recently received a $70,000 Hometown Strong grant from Pilgrim’s,” Paul Franzwa, district superintendent, said. “What we are proposing to do with the money is to build a soccer field/...
The Independence city council has set a date to officially switch over from garbage bags to garbage cans.
Thursday, Oct. 26, is the discontinue date set for the pickup of blue single-use trash bags in the Tri-City Sanitation contract proposal with the City of Independence, though he contract has...
Businesses offering massages within Galesville city limits will no longer have to receive a permit from the city to operate after the city council last week voted to repeal its ordinance regarding massage establishments.
The ordinance originally required a license to be obtained through the city...
Five months after it was first considered, Galesville has repealed its ordinance on truancy for K-12 education.
The Galesville city council approved the repeal with a 5-0 vote at its meeting last Thursday with councilor Diane Redsten absent.
The recommendation follows a recent meeting between...
The fate of the Blair Cheese Festival truck and tractor pulls are still up in the air as members of the celebration’s committee questioned a waiver the city is requiring in order for the pulls to be held.
The Blair city council voted in July to require the Cheese Fest Committee to sign a waiver in...
A Trempealeau County committee is attempting to get clear on some potentially expensive holes in the plans for the county’s multi-million dollar building projects.
The county’s property committee Monday called on the directors of information technology and maintenance to compile a list of the items...
Wednesday, Aug. 2
01:18 — Strum: Caller reported his girlfriend was sexually assaulted.
06:04 — Blair: Officer advised a car hit a deer and the deer is still alive.
10:40 — Independence: A truck driver complained about another trucker who is heading south with an oversized load.
10:40 —...
