Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
June 7, 2001
The Whitehall district school board last week approved a new policy allowing the district to offer rewards in cases like the threats that shut down the local schools twice in the past 15 months. The board heard the second reading of a policy which allows the district to...
25 YEARS AGO
May 31, 2001
The question of whether, and where, Trempealeau County should build a new jail and sheriff’s department — studied for five years and debated heatedly for the past 18 months or so — will apparently take a lower profile for a while. The county board of supervisors, two weeks...
25 YEARS AGO
May 24, 2001
Trempealeau County’s efforts to build a new jail and sheriff’s department facility apparently are back to square one. The county board of supervisors last week voted 13 to 6 against a resolution calling for bidding a plan for a new jail to be located on the Trempealeau...
25 YEARS AGO
May 17, 2001
The first ever Coral City Lions Daze drew many area residents to the Pat and Kathy Kupka farm in the town of Pigeon Friday through Saturday. One of the attractions was a chainsaw wood sculpture demonstration and three Wild West Shows were put on over the weekend. ...
25 YEARS AGO
May 10, 2001
A Park Falls hospital administrator will be the new president and chief executive officer of Tri-County Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home. Curtis Johnson, 47, will succeed Ronald Fields, who is retiring next month after nearly 26 years at Tri-County. Johnson was chosen...
25 YEARS AGO
April 26, 2001
The Whitehall district school board Monday night gave a favorable hearing to a new policy allowing the district to offer rewards in cases like the threat that shut down the local schools in February. At its regular monthly meeting, the board had a first reading of the...
25 YEARS AGO
April 19, 2001
Whitehall’s first new city clerk in 26 years started work Monday. Karen Witte was picked for the position last month by the city council, which earlier in the year had authorized splitting the duties of city clerk and creating a new position of city administrator. Witte...
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...
