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Faced with possibly having more athletes than the school can manage in volleyball this fall, the Whitehall school board is looking to the public for a solution — which could include implementing cuts on its high school sports teams.
Historically, the district has not cut athletes from its high...
While Superintendent Mike Beighley said he believes the structure the district had in place for the past school year was sound, the changes coming soon will require a different administrator setup.
Beighley didn’t elaborate on those changes but suggested it was related to technology. With that,...
While the responsibilities won’t change much, the Blair-Taylor school board approved title changes for the district’s principals.
Jared McCutchen was hired as the district’s assistant principal last year while Beth Lisowski moved from being the elementary principal to the K-12 principal....
The Arcadia city council eventually agreed to make a flood project design payment as the city learned bids for the first phase of the work have been bumped out another year.
The council voted unanimously last Wednesday to send $75,000 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for detailed design work for...
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While a representative from the public defender office said the amount was “unrealistic,” Pepin County Judge Thomas Clark granted Trempealeau County District Attorney John Sacia’s request to set a cash bond of $1.5 million for the man accused of killing Kyle Dahl on May 15.
Clark, presiding over...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Performing Arts Center will take a break from hosting external performances. (Submitted photo)
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Performing Arts Center will take a break from a full schedule of hosting external performances.
The performing arts center, commonly referred to as the PAC, was finished in November 2020 and saw its first full year of use, including a slate of external performances, in...
Those wishing to follow Blair-Taylor athletics from the comfort of their own home won’t be able to do so for free next year.
The B-T school board last Tuesday approved the recommendation of Superintendent Lynn Halverson to charge for access to the online stream. Halverson cited the cost for...
Wednesday, June 19
02:00 — Arcadia: The caller is being harassed by their son.
04:24 — Blair: A car hit a deer.
07:42 — Blair: The caller reported an altercation.
08:03 — Trempealeau: A disabled vehicle is in the turn lane.
09:28 — Trempealeau: The caller requested a welfare check.
10:54 —...
The county’s administrator bolstered her proposal to add a childcare center to a county renovation project, arguing public financing “is the way” to ease costs and increase availability.
Administrator Rebecca Glewen told supervisors at their meeting June 17 that long waiting lists and costs that...
The Arcadia council approved the city’s water and sewer utilities applying for a low-interest state loan to help finance the replacement of infrastructure beneath a stretch of Main Street.
The application for the state’s Safe Drinking Water Loan Program, approved by the council last Wednesday, is...
