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The Arcadia High School boys soccer team had as close to an ideal week as one will see in prep sports last week.
The Raiders won all three of their games and scored 11 goals across the three games, getting their season record back to even at 3-3.
Arcadia is scheduled to visit Chippewa Falls on...
Wednesday, Aug. 24
02:32 — Ettrick: Third party report of a stolen vehicle.
07:11 — Eleva: Caller’s truck was egged overnight.
07:54 — Galesville: A caller was bitten while delivering a package.
08:29 — Trempealeau County: Caller’s vehicle was struck by a sheet of plywood that flew off of...
A shuffle in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School’s guidance counselor office will stop the G-E-T School District from running the area’s youth apprenticeship program.
Amy McCutchen, who served as the area youth apprenticeship coordinator for the 2021-22 school year, was unanimously...
A business owner in downtown Galesville feels she was the target of bullying and insufficient reasoning for an attempt to withdraw her street use permit last weekend by the municipality’s mayor, who argued that he was just trying to keep the community safe and was acting within city rules.
Kelly...
Solar energy companies and the owners of 4,241 acres in Trempealeau County have agreed to easements or leases that could lead to construction of solar farms, most of which will be regulated by the state.
Of the 23 lease or easements agreements listed with the county’s register of deeds since the...
Brian Roach
A convicted sex offender will be released in Whitehall next week.
Former Osseo resident Brian F. Roach, 54, was convicted in 2019 of causing mental harm to a child and exposing his genitals/pubic area/intimate parts. After pleading no contest to both charges, he was sentenced to serve three and a...
It was a busy special meeting for the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau school board last Thursday as the board took care of two key pieces before the 2022-23 school year opens this week.
The board approved the following:
• An increase to school food prices of about 25 cents per meal as well as a 10 cent...
Dan Erickson was honored as the 2022 Ettrick Citizen of the Year by the Ettrick Lions Club at the 2022 Miss Ettrick pageant Thursday evening. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Dan Erickson was having a day indifferent from most others when his son, a member of the Ettrick Lions Club, walked up to him to say congratulations.
Erickson stood there for a moment with a slight smile on his face, trying to figure out what he was being commended for.
“Congratulations on what...
The Whitehall school board won’t be going to a referendum for funding to build a childcare center or multipurpose room in November after all. But that doesn’t mean the projects won’t happen or that taxpayers won’t get a say.
Last week Monday, the board approved a resolution for a special meeting...
Al Rinka
The Trempealeau County highway commissioner Monday entered his second week of an administrative leave as he is investigated by the county.
County board chair and chair of the highway committee, John Aasen, said he could not disclose the nature of the investigation of Commissioner Al Rinka.
“I do...
