Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
February 5, 1998
Jerry Freimark wasn’t planning on spending last week Wednesday afternoon in La Crosse. But then, the Whitehall School District administrator wasn’t expecting a call from the White House last week, either. But there he was on Monday, taking a call from an aide to...
25 YEARS AGO
January 29, 1998
Area residents will be able to learn about the proposed sale of the Tri-County Lutheran Nursing Home in Pigeon Falls at a public meeting to be held next week. Trempealeau County Health Care Center officials have arranged for the informational meeting at the Pigeon...
One would never have known talking to Lindsay Steien after last Tuesday’s girls basketball game at Blair-Taylor High School that the senior just broke a record that had stood for more than 30 years.
Lindsay Steien is officially the name at the top of both the Blair-Taylor and Trempealeau County all...
25 YEARS AGO
January 22, 1998
A fire that destroyed a town of Hale residence last week is being treated as a possible arson. The town of Hale Volunteer Fire Department was called to the Brian and Kari Rhoads residence shortly before 2:30 p.m. last week Tuesday. The Hale firemen in turn summoned the...
25 YEARS AGO
January 15, 1998
The village of Pigeon Falls apparently won’t get any new village board members during the spring election, but village residents attending Monday’s annual caucus were told that they will get a new village president next year. Kermit Hanvold, who has served as...
25 YEARS AGO
January 8, 1998
Whitehall’s chances of ever having another supper club-type restaurant, a long shot under the best circumstances, may have become even slimmer. A little-noticed provision the 1997-99 state budget appears to have put an exorbitant price tag on the liquor license most...
25 YEARS AGO
January 1, 1998
Barring a sudden surge of interest in the next few days, there won’t be many decisions for Whitehall-area voters to make when they go to the polls on April 7. With the deadline for filing candidacies only five days away, there are no contests so far for the Whitehall...
25 YEARS AGO
December 25, 1997
The Whitehall Police Department is looking for a “second-story man.” That’s what burglars used to be called, and whoever hit the John O. Melby and Co. Bank sometime in the past two weeks, definitely was operating at the second-story level, or higher. Missing in the...
25 YEARS AGO
December 18, 1997
Whitehall doesn’t change librarians very often, which would make Mary Pientok’s retirement out of the ordinary regardless. Pientok is only the seventh person to hold the position in the 98 years that the community has had a librarian. Since she has been the...
25 YEARS AGO
December 11, 1997
Whitehall’s Family Aquatic Center Capital Campaign apparently has hit its goal – with room to spare. A tally of donations and pledges received over the past few weeks showed the fundraiser for the new municipal swimming pool to be within a few dollars of its $400,...
