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The Independence school board moved forward with plans for a fall referendum during a special meeting May 23.  A committee had worked to simplify the language. The recommended wording clarified the amount of money requested as “900,000 dollars per year, starting in the 2022-23 school year and...
Though a county committee is considering slow-walking courthouse renovations to try to figure out how to pay for them, deciding where to locate some county departments will become unavoidable as the new Justice Center is completed. The higher-than-expected price tag for building the new Justice...

 

 

When two area superintendents were getting the ‘pings’ from their phone notifications and watching the headlines sprawl across their televisions and computers that another school shooting was happening across the country last week, their first reaction wasn’t dissimilar to most others. School...
The Independence/Gilmanton baseball team opened Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament play with a win last Thursday. The Indees lost to Pepin/Alma 16-2 in the last regular season game, a team they will have seen again this week in the regional semifinal. The second-seeded Indees...

 

 

  Wednesday, May 18 05:46 — Blair: Cows are in the road.  06:26 — Osseo: A cow is in the road.  06:49 — Whitehall: a 30-year-old male inmate is suffering from heroin withdrawal.  08:44 — Trempealeau: Attempted break-in of gasoline pumps.  08:53 — Galesville: A student was being disruptive and will...
I’ll be the first person to admit that the first time Arcadia school board president Paul Servais proposed adding a book study to the board’s meetings a few months ago, my first thoughts weren’t positive. ‘Good lord,’ I thought. ‘Sitting through a read-aloud of a probably-boring book I’ve never...
The Blair city council ultimately sided with the opinion expressed by city attorney Mark Radcliffe that clerk Susan Frederixon should  have a copy of the key to the police department, despite objections from Chief of Police Kent Johnson. Radcliffe told the council that the city clerk has always had...
Less than a month after resigning, Dennis Stephenson is back on the Blair city council. Stephenson was appointed to rejoin the council at a special meeting held last week Wednesday. Mayor John Rawson — who Stephenson accused on April 19 of conducting a witch hunt against the city’s police chief —...
A La Crosse man faces several felonies for allegedly making threatening phone calls to Trempealeau County District Attorney John Sacia. James Paul Adducci, 41, of 1318 Liberty St., is alleged to have become threatening with Sacia during a phone call prior to Adducci’s trial on a misdemeanor charge...
The village of Trempealeau is contemplating a change to garbage collection that will be more sustainable and will also lighten the load on village employees, according to discussions at a special village board meeting last Thursday. A switch to a wheeled garbage can system from the current bag...

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