Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
April 27, 2000
Whitehall will continue to have a pharmacy in the business district, after all. Colby Pharmacy, which had announced that it was closing this month, has been sold to a partnership that owns drugstores in several western and northwest Wisconsin communities. Ken Colby, who...
25 YEARS AGO
April 20, 2000
Thirty years after he started the family business, Dave Keenan gave his younger son an anniversary present. The longtime area car dealer recently made Dan Keenan a full partner in the family’s Keenan’s, Inc., Ford and GMC franchise. The occasion was the 30th anniversary...
25 YEARS AGO
April 13, 2000
The couples selected for this year’s Whitehall Memorial High School Junior Prom court are: Brett Humphrey and LeAnn Hulett; Kendall Kulig and Wendy Marsolek; Chad Narva and Heather Foss; Mike Paul and Sarah Lessard; Mike Van Hemert and Molly Oberlin; Tim Skadahl and...
25 YEARS AGO
April 6, 2000
Those who have been demanding a referendum on a proposed new Trempealeau County Jail, apparently got their wish last week. The vote on the controversial jail proposal came in the form of the spring general election, which saw five incumbent county board of supervisors...
25 YEARS AGO
March 30, 2000
Contests for seats on the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors, mostly sparked by the controversy over a new county jail, will headline the action on this coming Tuesday’s general election ballot. Eight county board incumbents will have opposition on the ballot,...
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...
