Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
March 23, 2000
Members of the union representing employees of the Trempealeau County Highway Department staged an informational picket in front of the Government Center in Whitehall. The action was taken, the union said in a press release, to protest the county government’s failure to...
25 YEARS AGO
March 16, 2000
A student group a Whitehall Memorial High School is doing its part to find out who shut down the Whitehall district schools last month. The Ecology Club is offering a $100 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who left a vague threat written in a...
25 YEARS AGO
March 9, 2000
The Whitehall High School boys basketball team defeated Eleva-Strum to win the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division Four regional final. It was the first WIAA regional championship for a Whitehall cage team, boys or girls, since 1986.
Whitehall’s only...
When the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors adjourned its monthly meeting last week Monday, no taxpayer could’ve known the status of the county administrator. That is a clear gap that should be corrected in the future.
I don’t question if the closed session was legal. It was properly posted...
25 YEARS AGO
March 2, 2000
A threatening message scrawled on a bathroom wall closed Whitehall district schools Friday. School officials called off classes even though a search of the Memorial High School building turned up no explosive devices or other suspicious objects. Whitehall police and...
I’ve covered hundreds of meetings and hearings throughout my time, but one that stands out came just before the pandemic when former Congressman Ron Kind came to Whitehall to answer questions from the public.
Of course, Kind had some ideas he wanted to sell since the top priority for most...
25 YEARS AGO
February 24, 2000
Although members of the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors voted against putting a proposed new jail to a referendum, opponents of the county’s plans are still demanding that the public be allowed to vote on the issue. Two citizens appeared before Monday’s...
Any action on the topic may not have been noticed and certainly wouldn’t have been controversial, but the Ettrick village board didn’t do it simply because they weren’t sure if it would be legal.
I spend a lot of space writing about what governments are doing wrong, but sometimes it’s nice to...
25 YEARS AGO
February 17, 2000
The Whitehall city council doesn’t get to vote on whether Trempealeau County will build a new jail or not, but council members got an earful about the issue at their regular meeting last week Tuesday nevertheless. Bea Van Tassel, a Whitehall resident opposed to the...
25 YEARS AGO
February 10, 2000
Pigeon Falls native, John Ackley, left last weekend for his third trip to Antarctica, where he will again spend eight months working for a Colorado firm that provides services to scientific bases there. Ackley will spend most of his time at the National Science...
