Op-Ed
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...
25 YEARS AGO
October 14, 1999
A “bomb threat” Friday in Independence turned out not to be very threatening, after all. Law enforcement personnel and explosive disposal experts were called to the old Independence public school building when a World War II-vintage bomb was found. The explosive device...
Senior Audrey Swenson tapped the ball over the outstretched arms of an Arcadia player at the net during a Coulee Conference volleyball match last Tuesday at G-E-T High School. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School volleyball team hosted a pair of Coulee Conference opponents for a triangular event last Tuesday.
The Red Hawks nearly pushed county rival Arcadia to a fifth set but fell to the Raiders in their first match (see story elsewhere in sports), and Black River...
25 YEARS AGO
October 7, 1999
An Independence High School student last week became the second person to die as the result of a Sept. 26 accident in Buffalo County. Derek Sura, 17, died last week Wednesday, three days after the one-car rollover that claimed the life of the driver of the car in which...
Benjamin Pierce
I’m not very good at saying goodbye.
As I’m sure some community leaders and residents within the Trempealeau County Times area can attest, it doesn’t take much to strike up a conversation with me about nearly anything.
The hard part is getting me to walk away (Just ask editor Andrew Dannehy. The...
