Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
March 27, 1997
If all goes as planned, a Whitehall High student will take college courses next fall, at school district expense, and get credit toward graduation. The district school board approved the first application filed under the new post-secondary enrollment option program...
To the Editor:
The newest rage is inflation. The Republicans say its Biden’s fault because we spent too much stimulating jobs.
Inflation is based on rising prices of energy and food as compared to wage increases. Energy, food and health care prices are controlled by mega corporations that control...
25 YEARS AGO
March 20, 1997
Only a few years ago, the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors imposed a hiring freeze on county government and battled over just about every new position created. Keeping a lid on county government hiring is apparently a thing of the past, though. Monday night, the...
25 YEARS AGO
February 27, 1997
The most serious residential fire in the area in several years caused extensive damage to a Whitehall woman’s home on Friday. The Whitehall Volunteer Fire Department was called to the Arline Johnson residence on Dewey Street about 10 a.m. that day. Johnson was not...
25 YEARS AGO
February 20, 1997
The Trempealeau County Health Care Center and county University of Wisconsin-Extension have begun a yearlong study of proposals to drastically change the center’s farm operation.
A proposal to spend more than $100,000 a year on a computer consultant for Trempealeau...
25 YEARS AGO
February 13, 1997
The Whitehall city council approved borrowing money for the city’s share of a project that could cost upwards of $1 million. The resolution approved calls for the city to borrow $386,800 from John O. Melby and Co. Bank. That amount is the city’s share of the...
25 YEARS AGO
February 6, 1997
There probably have been thousands of marketing efforts attempting to capitalize on the success of the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers. So Norm Herman’s creation could get lost among the other songs, t-shirts and silly headgear. Except that, perhaps, people...
25 YEARS AGO
January 30, 1997
Whitehall School District students who misbehave on school buses may end up on videotape and in trouble in the near future. The district school board approved a purchase of a video camera and recorder system for use on the buses operated by Thompson Buses, Inc., The...
25 YEARS AGO
Jan. 23, 1997
The Trempealeau County board of supervisors solicited nominees for appointment to the Trempealeau County Health Care Center board of trustees then ended up reelecting the incumbent anyway. The county board sent a press release seeking nominees, recruiting that was done...
25 YEARS AGO
January 16, 1997
A Chicago man who allegedly stole a firearm from an area residence was in Trempealeau County Circuit Court last week on that and a couple other charges. George Tompoe III made his initial appearance Thursday on two counts, theft of a firearm and uttering a forged bank...
