Op-Ed
Blair-Taylor’s CJ Dummer released a jump shot during their game against Independence/Gilmanton on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair-Taylor boys basketball team showed it can score and play defense as it won three more games last week.
The Wildcats began the week with an 83-point showing to beat Augusta at home on Tuesday. On Friday, B-T started slowly but pulled ahead of Independence/Gilmanton and held on for a 55-44...
25 YEARS AGO
January 20, 2000
The Whitehall Volunteer Fire Department elected Scott Stendahl as chief, succeeding Randy Olson, who is stepping down after serving nine years. Olson, a 22-year veteran of the department will continue as a volunteer fireman. Stendahl’s election, however, requires...
25 YEARS AGO
January 13, 2000
Based on an independent review, a Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department officer used justifiable force when he shot a driver who was attempting to flee from a roadblock last month. The county district attorney’s office officially notified the sheriff’s department...
25 YEARS AGO
January 6, 2000
The New Year, and the new millennium, arrived with a bang in Whitehall Saturday morning, courtesy of a fireworks show sponsored by the city. Hundreds of spectators turned out on the north side of the city, watching from parked vehicles and taking advantage of the...
25 YEARS AGO
December 30, 1999
Fire that may have started in a furnace caused major damage to Country Lace, Pigeon Falls’ largest private employer, Thursday evening. Volunteers from four area departments battled the blaze at the company that manufactures home décor items.
The city of Whitehall and...
25 YEARS AGO
December 23, 1999
The Trempealeau County board of supervisors voted Monday to designate county-owned land at the Trempealeau County Health Care Center farm as the site for a proposed new county jail and sheriff’s department building, and to provide room at the new facility for the...
25 YEARS AGO
December 16, 1999
The Whitehall city council property committee met Monday and recommended purchasing what remains of the Douglas Kopp farm on Hwy. 121 on the city’s west side for development purposes, but did not decide on a price.
Sunset Elementary School students in Ellen Hauser’s...
I won’t pretend that the poll questions that run in the Trempealeau County Times should be the most important consideration when making decisions, but they aren’t “nothing,” as county administrator Rebecca Glewen said on Monday.
The county has often discussed borrowing around $7 million with $250,...
25 YEARS AGO
December 9, 1999
Area residents looking for changes to traffic rules on Hwy. 53 near Coral City went home empty handed from a meeting with state Department of Transportation officials last week. DOT staff attending a meeting of the Trempealeau County Traffic Safety Commission Friday...
25 YEARS AGO
November 25, 1999
A proposed new Trempealeau County Jail and Sheriff’s Department building will apparently be located separately from the county Government Center in Whitehall. The county’s jail study committee voted unanimously to recommend that the new jail and law enforcement...
