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Appropriately enough, a canoe points the way to the Elk Rod and Gun Club's boat landing off Cross Road south of Independence. This landing as well as a new one being developed on 11 acres just purchased by the club off Highway 121 between Whitehall and Independence are key elements of a Trempealeau River trail being developed by the county's parks and recreation coordinator, Jack Haye. (Times photograph by Debbie Foss)
With the right group of friends, the Trempealeau River may soon be an open and even educational trail for small rafts from Whitehall to Arcadia.
The county’s parks and recreation coordinator, Jake Haye, is organizing what he hopes will be a working group of Friends of Trempealeau County Parks and...
Wednesday, May 15
04:31 — Arcadia: 911 hang-up.
05:57 — Arcadia: A car hit a deer.
06:34 — Galesville: A car hit a deer.
07:52 — Blair: A guy is sleeping in a gray van in a parking lot.
07:55 — Whitehall: A car hit a deer.
09:49 — Eleva: The caller said his partner attempted to overdose.
10:22...
A “person of interest” in the May 15 homicide near Ettrick has been arrested, according to the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department.
In a release sent to the Times last Friday afternoon, the sheriff’s department said it developed a person of interest early in the investigation and made an...
The former director of the Trempealeau County Human Services department engaged in a wide range of improper financial acts, according to a suit brought by the department’s former fiscal manager.
Victoria Pearson, who served as fiscal manager from October 2021 until she was fired in January 2023,...
Just as the new Whitehall Public Library building is completed, it could go under construction again.
The Whitehall city council approved an application for the Flexible Facilities Grant, American Rescue Plan Act money designed for public library construction projects. The approval at last week...
A man who was charged for breaking in and damaging property at three Blair homes before being shot by one of the residents was sentenced after pleading no contest to a pair of charges in Trempealeau County circuit court on May 10.
Shawn Gill, 23, pleaded no contest to two charges of criminal...
A one-time Galesville resident has been charged again with possession of child pornography and now faces six felonies after investigators allegedly found images that included an infant.
Clayton William Solberg, 22, of Onalaska, was charged after a deputy, responding to a tip from an anti-child...
An all-day preschool option is coming to the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District beginning with the 2024-25 school year.
Head Start, a nationally funded childcare program, offers free preschool for low-income families. The G-E-T school board last Monday unanimously approved allowing its...
A homegrown program aimed at helping children make good choices has school staff “over the moon,” the deputies who developed BADGES told the county board Monday.
The successor to DARE in most of Trempealeau County’s schools is designed to keep up with students’ difficulties and how they communicate...
Arcadia officials described as a “great thing” the kick-off of the first-ever Trempealeau County Music Series next month in the city.
Arcadia’s event will feature The Mondays June 12 at the Memorial Park Amphitheater, and council member Duane Matelski said he hopes to draw in food vendors for the...
