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One person was pronounced dead at the scene after a head-on crash early Tuesday morning near Arcadia.
The Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department reported two vehicles collided on Highway 93 in the town of Arcadia near Loesel Ln. at 1:26 a.m. The highway was closed for about three hours as...
A pilot study on Whitehall’s wastewater treatment plant showed that the current plant could be rehabilitated, the Whitehall city council heard last week.
Jeff Nussbaum of engineering firm Short Elliott Hendrickson (SEH) told the council that the pilot study is the first step required by the...
The man who died in an accident at the Trempealeau bike park in June has been identified.
Trempealeau Police Chief Jeremy Randall identified the deceased as Jay Esch, a 62-year-old man from River Falls.
Esch’s bike went off the track while using a split decision bike ramp. Esch suffered a basal...
The Independence school board could see more money in its operating budget than last year and still have enough left over to push its Fund 46 balance over $1 million next school year, according to school board discussion last week.
District administrator Paul Franzwa presented the district’s...
The Galesville city council is discussing a possible relocation of city hall.
The council met in closed session at its meeting last Thursday to discuss the idea, but no action was taken when they returned to open session.
The city is considering “moving city hall to another building,” Mayor Tom...
The Trempealeau County finance committee gave the county’s administrator the go-ahead to plan a loan and grants program to help boost business growth.
The action by the executive finance committee came just before Monday’s county board meeting where county administrator Rebecca Glewen unveiled how...
Fighting chronic absenteeism and keeping students excited to be at school was a priority in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District this year, and data presented Monday showed the district is seeing a chronic absence rate 14.1% lower than the state average.
Attendance is a continued issue for...
Reynolds Tomter was presented with the blanket that had covered the Merchant Marines memorial in Normandy, France. At 107 years old, Tomter was the oldest World War II veteran who attended the 80th D-Day celebration last month. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
It’s safe to say Reynolds Tomter has seen a lot in his life, but an experience just a couple of months after his 107th birthday bested them all.
Tomter, a lifelong Pigeon Falls resident, was among the 68 World War II veterans who attended the 80th anniversary of D-Day along the shores of Normandy...
A tree came down on a shelter at Colonel Larson Memorial Park in Whitehall during the storm that swept through the area on Saturday. (Submitted photograph)
Tim Holtan, chief executive officer of Riverland Electric Cooperative, suspected he might have a long weekend as the electric meters on homes began to flicker out from the west Saturday afternoon.
“You could almost watch the storm come through,” he said, as meters across a midsection of Trempealeau...
Wednesday, July 3
00:40 — Osseo: The caller said his mom and her boyfriend are arguing.
06:47 — Arcadia: A car hit a deer. The vehicle left the scene; the deer and debris are in the road.
07:09 — Osseo: A white horse is in the roadway.
07:29 — Arcadia: The caller struck a deer earlier this...
