Op-Ed
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...
25 YEARS AGO
November 18, 1999
A county committee looking for a site for a new Trempealeau County Jail met with Whitehall and town of Lincoln officials during a lengthy closed session Monday. The site selection subcommittee of the county’s jail study committee met behind closed doors for more than...
25 YEARS AGO
November 11, 1999
There’s good news and bad news in the 2000 budget that will be acted on by the Whitehall city council next month. The good news is that the budget recommended for adoption by the council’s finance committee at a meeting held Thursday night features an expenditure...
25 YEARS AGO
November 4, 1999
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors’ rejection two weeks ago of an option to purchase the Whitehall City Center would have appeared to reduce the number of possible sites for a new county jail to one. But, the new chairman of the county’s jail study committee...
25 YEARS AGO
October 28, 1999
Residents of the Coral City area and people living along Highway 53 north of Whitehall are hoping the state Department of Transportation will do something to address their traffic safety concerns. A representative of the state agency and members of the Trempealeau...
25 YEARS AGO
October 21, 1999
A proposed new county jail project in Trempealeau County may be destined for construction on county-owned land adjacent to the Trempealeau County Heath Care Center. The county board Monday night soundly defeated a proposed option to buy the Whitehall City Center as a...