Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
August 12, 1999
Candidates for the title of Little Miss Whitehall 1999 are Tess Johnson, Alexis Severson, Mikhael Haines, Elizabeth Sanders, Hannah Steig, Morgan Stellpflug, Chelsey Frei, Julie Oates, Jamie Beltz and Kirsten Solsrud.
Building a new Trempealeau County Jail and Sheriff’...
25 YEARS AGO
August 5, 1999
A fast-moving, isolated thunderstorm swept through the Times’ area late Friday afternoon, toppling trees and tearing shingles from roofs. Whitehall Municipal Electric Utility Crews were called out twice Friday evening to deal with power outages and city employees were...
25 YEARS AGO
July 22, 1999
The Whitehall city council will meet this week to consider what facilities would be needed if the City Center has to be replaced. The council discussed the possible sale of the building and surrounding property to Trempealeau County at its regular monthly meeting last...
25 YEARS AGO
July 15, 1999
A forgotten treasure of the Franciscan Skemp Arcadia hospital appeared on the desk of Sister Arlene Melder, pastoral care director a few months ago. Gary Waters, maintenance technician, told Sister Arlene there were boxes containing Stations of the Cross behind the stairs...
25 YEARS AGO
July 8, 1999
Pigeon Falls may have an ambulance stationed right in the village soon. Village President Kermit Hanvold informed the village board that Tri-County Memorial Ambulance Service had proposed keeping one of its ambulances in the Pigeon Falls fire station. The village has...
25 YEARS AGO
July 1, 1999
Obviously influenced by events that grabbed national headlines in recent months, the Whitehall district school board Monday night discussed how to improve security in the local schools. And while the tragic school shooting in Littleton, Colo., this spring was never...
This Father’s Day meant a little more to me.
Last Tuesday, my wife and I welcomed our second child, Leo Everett Dannehy. We planned on having children closer together, but even after spending thousands of dollars on infertility treatment, it just wasn’t in the cards. That may be a story for another...
25 YEARS AGO
June 24, 1999
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors accepted a contract for architectural services for a proposed new county jail. The board voted 18 to three to pay Ayres Associates of Eau Claire $46,750 to develop concept plans and schematic drawings for the jail project.
The...
25 YEARS AGO
June 17, 1999
When some 7,000 athletes take to the field at the Special Olympics World Games later this month in North Carolina, a Whitehall woman will be among them. Sherry Foss will be a member of the Special Olympics team representing Wisconsin and the United States at the World...
25 YEARS AGO
June 10, 1999
The Whitehall Volunteer Fire Department will show off its new quarters this weekend when it hosts an open house at the new fire station. The firemen will open the $350,000 building to the public Saturday at 2 p.m. The open house is being combined with the department’s...
