Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1999
If and when a new Trempealeau County Jail and Sheriff’s Department are constructed, it apparently won’t be built on city-owned land on Whitehall’s west side. The county’s jail study committee eliminated land in the West Side Commercial Park from consideration as a site...
25 YEARS AGO
April 15, 1999
Members of the 1999 Whitehall High Junior Prom court are Ross Huson, Brandon Foss, Tyler Pientok, Jason Tiffany, Jenni Frye, Kim Maudal, Sarah Sovereign, Cortney Klomsten, Megan Bender, Bethany Hawkins, Rob Sonsalla, Matt Hegge, Jamie DeMarr and Mitch Moe.
Among the...
John Denver, you’ve got a point.
I laughed to myself last week as I drove through rural backroads and the 1971 hit ‘Country Roads, Take Me Home’ played in my head while on my way to a spring baseball season opener.
Headed toward the Village of Wilton in Monroe County’s Driftless Area on Thursday...
25 YEARS AGO
April 1, 1999
For the first time in more than a couple decades, a major portion of Whitehall’s Beef and Dairy Days festivities will be in a different location this year. The corporation that stages the annual community fundraiser decided last month that the beer, dance and bingo tents...
25 YEARS AGO
March 25, 1999
The Whitehall district school board was warned Monday night of a coming financial crunch and asked to come up with ideas for cutting expenditures to bring them into line with the available revenues. “We are facing some serious financial challenges,” District...
25 YEARS AGO
March 18, 1999
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors Monday night approved spending an estimated $250,000 for initial architectural and engineering services for a proposed new county jail. The board unanimously approved a request for proposals for initial design and feasibility...
25 YEARS AGO
March 11, 1999
Trempealeau County will use state funds to develop bicycle touring on its back roads with the hopes of attracting cyclists and their dollars. The Trempealeau County Tourism Council was awarded a grant from the state Department of Transportation to help pay for the...
25 YEARS AGO
February 25, 1999
Five Whitehall property owners are suing the city and a local industry for damages caused when sanitary sewer lines backed up into their basements. The suit was filed in Trempealeau County Circuit Court last month by Kevin and Tammy Anderson, Todd and Anna Bronkema,...
25 YEARS AGO
February 18, 1999
Members of the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors Monday night got an earful from several citizens unhappy with plans to build a new multi-million-dollar county jail in Whitehall. One of the citizens, Sandra Albertson, appeared before the board’s regular monthly...
25 YEARS AGO
February 11, 1999
The city of Whitehall, which acquired a large public building for a dollar several years ago, may find itself on the other end of a similar transaction in the future. The city council Tuesday night reviewed an appraisal of the former City Hall building, which was...
