Op-Ed
(25 YEARS AGO) Feb. 23, 1995 -
Nelson Richason said Monday night that his vote on a proposed one-half percent county sales tax would be “a resounding no.” The Galesville representative’s statement was echoed by 10 other members of the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors, sending the tax...
(25 YEARS AGO) Feb. 16, 1995 -
Whitehall School District electors will go to the polls this coming Tuesday to pick the candidates for the two school board seats that are up for election this year. The Feb. 21 primary was necessitated with five candidates filed for the April 4 general election....
(25 YEARS AGO) Feb. 9, 1995 -
It’s not quite Oakwood, but it likely is the closest thing to a shopping mall that Pigeon Falls will ever get. It is the multi-tenant building planned for construction this year in the village by Roger Melby of rural Osseo. And the Pigeon Falls village board got a...
(25 YEARS AGO) Feb. 2, 1995 -
Committees of the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors held a couple meetings the past week to consider about $3 million in improvements to the courthouse in Whitehall. The board’s property, finance and building committees held a joint meeting Friday to hear...
(25 YEARS AGO) Jan. 26, 1995 -
The Whitehall district school board and the union representing district teachers have settled on a contract for the current school year. The school board Monday night ratified the 1994-95 contract, the first to be negotiated under state legislation that effectively...
(25 YEARS AGO) Jan. 19, 1995 -
It didn’t cost the city of Whitehall much to buy the former Memorial High School building last year, but the price tag for turning the old school into a new city hall could hit a quarter-million dollars. City clerk Lynn Johnson reported to the city council last week...
(25 YEARS AGO) Jan. 12, 1995 -
If other Trempealeau County supervisors get the same response Dave Anderson received Monday night, the county won’t be getting a one-half-percent sales tax any time soon. But then, Anderson was talking to some of the people who would have to collect the tax and the...
(25 YEARS AGO) Jan. 5, 1995 -
The spring election for Trempealeau County circuit judge, which only two weeks ago looked like a two-way race, has become more complicated since then. Initially looming as a two-day race between incumbent Alan Robertson of Blair and challenger John Damon of Osseo,...
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