Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
April 12, 2001
Area residents can learn more about Trempealeau County’s unique tourism project at an informational meeting to be held in Whitehall next week. Trempealeau County MotorCoach Tours, Inc. (TCMT), will host an open house for the public next week in the Community Room of the...
25 YEARS AGO
April 5, 2001
An Independence man was sentenced Monday to what likely will be a life term in prison for the murder of his wife last year. Trempealeau County Circuit Judge John Damon ordered Robert Helgeson to serve 25 years in prison for fatally shooting Rita Helgeson in the couple’s...
25 YEARS AGO
March 29, 2001
Fire early Sunday morning gutted a residence in the village of Pigeon Falls, leaving an area family homeless and destroying their personal belongings. The Pigeon Falls Volunteer Fire Department was called to the Leon Ackerman residence on Hwy. 53 on the village’s...
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...
