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In the latest step in the process of potentially going to a referendum in the near future, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau school board was shown a handful of different options — which include potentially closing or consolidating elementary schools — on how they could proceed.
The full school board...
The Galesville city council couldn’t conduct any business at its meeting last Thursday because it didn’t have a quorum.
State law requires that a majority of the council members attend in order to hold a meeting. Mayor Tom Thatcher called the meeting to order at 7 p.m. and immediately adjourned it...
The city of Independence is moving forward with repairs to the dam at Bugle Lake — though they won’t be able to avoid a second drawdown of the lake to complete the repairs as originally hoped.
A few months ago, the city council broached the idea of doing dam repairs while the lake was drained this...
Wednesday, Aug. 27
01:55 — Galesville: The caller said his ex-girlfriend came and stole his phone while he was sleeping.
05:56 — Blair: A motorcycle hit a deer.
09:26 — Whitehall: The caller requested a welfare check.
09:56 — Arcadia: The caller reported the theft of multiple road signs south of...
A 20-year-old man was arrested just hours after stealing three handguns from Safe and Secure Firearms in Blair on Friday morning.
Christian Dahl was taken into custody shortly after he was seen exiting a window at the store located at 302 N. Gilbert St.
According to a press release sent by the...
While members of Trempealeau County’s Executive Finance Committee acknowledged they still had reservations about making the change, it ultimately voted to send to the full county board a resolution that would abolish the elected coroner position and replace it with a hired medical examiner.
The...
Following a closed session last week, the Blair city council voted to increase Police Chief Kent Johnson’s salary and reinstate some benefits. The alternative, apparently, was Johnson would walk away from the post, leaving the city without any police officers.
At the council’s August meeting,...
The Arcadia city council approved one action that will help people construct new homes in the city and another that will assist current homeowners in making repairs.
Funding for the programs will come from the closure of TIF 4 last May. Mayor John Kimmel told the council at last Wednesday’s...
In the coming years, the village of Trempealeau has plans for a slate of projects stemming from a recently prepared water and sewer master plan.
The village board approved engineering agreements with Davy Engineering for those phase one projects at last Thursday’s regular monthly meeting. Those...
As the Independence School District tries chart a path forward on how to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) tools into teaching their curriculum, district leaders gave the school board a presentation on how they are utilizing AI.
Before diving into the topic of using AI tools in the classroom...
