Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
November 1, 2001
The Whitehall School District Booster Club is looking for people with ideas, experience, and enthusiasm for a planned fundraising campaign. An informational meeting about a proposed school district foundation will be held this coming Monday. The school support...
25 YEARS AGO
October 25, 2001
A Minnesota man has been bound over for trial for the four-and-a-half-year-old murder of a rural Independence man. Michael Vernio of Rochester, Minn., was in Trempealeau County Court Monday for his preliminary examination on two felony counts, first-degree intentional...
25 YEARS AGO
October 11, 2001
A Minnesota woman’s plea to a conspiracy charge may help solve a four-and-a-half-year-old area murder case. Shannon Ristau of St. Louis Park, Minn., pleaded no contest to conspiracy to commit felony theft. Ristau was facing trial for being a member of a group that met...
25 YEARS AGO
October 4, 2001
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many American institutions are increasing security measures. But the locking of doors in two Whitehall School District attendance centers is not in response to those incidents, or any other specific threats, according to Al...
25 YEARS AGO
September 27, 2001
Americans nationwide have been responding strongly to appeals for help since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. And Whitehall-area residents were no different when it came to the American Red Cross’s North Central Blood Services visit...
The question was simple enough, but it still caught me off guard, probably because of who was delivering it.
Last Friday, my 10-year-old began talking about the 25th anniversary of 9/11, something his class surely was discussing in school. Then he looked right at me and asked what I remembered.
I...
25 YEARS AGO
September 20, 2001
Like their fellow citizens throughout America, Whitehall area residents marked last week Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., in a number of ways. Whitehall High School fans attending Friday’s football game bowed their heads for a moment...
25 YEARS AGO
September 13, 2001
Whitehall’s newest businessman has been around for a while, but its oldest hasn’t been gone long. Eyvind Peterson officially severed his association with the business that bore his name for 55 years as of Sept. 1. The name Peterson Implement continues under new owner...
25 YEARS AGO
September 6, 2001
New members of the teaching staff this year in the Whitehall schools are Donna Wojciechowski, Alysha Rosenthan, Janet Bowerman, Joe Mesner, and Patricia Wathke.
A request from a Whitehall restaurant for a loan from a city development fund ran into a cool reception...
25 YEARS AGO
August 30, 2001
The city of Whitehall has had problems with librarians quitting for the last year — but now they’re quitting before they’re hired. After holding a couple of meetings over the past week and a half, the Whitehall Public Library Board this week was back to looking for a...
