Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
March 22, 2001
Building a new jail and sheriff’s department as an addition to the Trempealeau County Government Center could cost at least a million dollars more than a separate facility, members of the county board of supervisors were told Monday. Members heard a presentation from Bob...
25 YEARS AGO
March 8, 2001
What are the odds of one person from the Times’ area winning a major prize in a drawing held at a casino 45 miles from Whitehall? Not nearly as remote as two local people doing so. But that’s what happened last Wednesday when the names of Sheila Feltes of Whitehall and...
25 YEARS AGO
March 1, 2001
On the anniversary of an unsolved threat that closed the Whitehall School District last year, district officials found themselves evacuating the Whitehall Memorial High School building on Thursday afternoon. A handwritten message on a bathroom stall in the building again...
25 YEARS AGO
February 22, 2001
The first intentional homicide trial in Trempealeau County in nearly eight years was averted Thursday by a plea bargain that resulted in the conviction of an Independence man on a lesser charge. Robert Helgeson pleaded guilty that day in county circuit court to second...
25 YEARS AGO
February 15, 2001
The second in a series of countywide “town hall” meetings concerning the proposed Trempealeau County Jail and Sheriff’s Department building will be held on Friday in Osseo.
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors and the county’s Jail Study Committee will...
25 YEARS AGO
February 8, 2001
The planned addition to the Pigeon Falls Community Center will cost more than had been anticipated. The village board Monday night awarded the contract for the 30- by 60-foot lean-to addition to Gaier Construction of Black River Falls. With an offer of $55,112, Gaier...
25 YEARS AGO
February 1, 2001
The Whitehall City Center is not for sale at any price, the city council is telling Trempealeau County representatives. Unless, of course, the county is willing to put up a new building that would replace the city government center. That’s the apparent bottom line in a...
25 YEARS AGO
January 25, 2001
The city of Whitehall is in the process of doing something it hasn’t had to do in more than 25 years: hire a new city clerk. But that doesn’t mean the person in the city’s top administrator position is going to change. The city is currently advertising for a clerk as...
25 YEARS AGO
January 18, 2001
Fifteen months after a reluctant Whitehall city council offered to sell it, and the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors voted down buying it, the Whitehall City Center may be back on the block. A representative of the county board asked the city council last week...
Whitehall’s Kelsie Klomsten released a three-pointer during their game against Osseo-Fairchild last Tuesday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall girls basketball team set the pace on the game’s first possession as it cruised past Osseo-Fairchild, 57-34, last Tuesday.
The Norse pulled down three offensive rebounds before Paige Lisowski knocked down a three-pointer to give her team an early lead.
Whitehall began the game with a...
