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The city of Galesville is looking to repair the High Cliff trail, but city officials are not sure where to get the money for the project. City officials are hoping that local citizens will pitch in to help.  In 2017, a flood ran through Galesville that wiped out the iconic swinging bridge and the...
An Arcadia man who was being chased in Whitehall by sheriff’s deputies and police from three cities before crashing his car and trying to flee on foot faces two felony charges. Gerson Anibal Ruiz Sabillon, 32, of 328 Washington St. was arrested Feb. 3 after officers say he drove away from a house...
Snowmobiles have become officially barred from Memorial Park in Arcadia, though riders may still use a trail along Reit Lane to the boundary between the park and Arcadia school property. The ordinance adopted by the council last Wednesday also bars the use of bicycles, scooters and skates in or on...
Local governments are seeing the first of the additional local road funding provided by the 2019-21 budget. Governor Tony Evers announced that local governments received quarterly payments totaling $132,198,446 for General Transportation Aids, Connecting Highway Aids and Expressway Policing Aids...
The Trempealeau village board approved a lodging tax increase, as well as a surveying of the Lake District sewer system at their regular meeting last Thursday. Lodging tax rates will double from 2.5 percent to five percent starting on April 1 after an ordinance amendment passed unanimously aside...
A woman and her brother are facing 12-and-a half years in prison and $25,000 fines after the woman failed to turn her child over to human services and instead fled to another state with her brother. Both Jessica Cleasby and her brother Jamey Cleasby are facing charges of interfering with custody...
A Strum man who recorded his plans before attempting to kidnap his wife and pointing a gun at police officers has been sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by 11 years of supervision. Appearing in Trempealeau County Circuit Court, La Crosse County Judge Scott Horne Friday said he did not impose...
A new county committee is scheduled to have the rough designs and costs that could allow the group to decide what will be included in a new county facility in downtown Whitehall by March. Kurt Berners of Samuels Group, a consultant hired by the county to guide decision-making on a new building,...
Arcadia has been selected as the site for Habitat for Humanity's first home construction in Trempealeau County. Kahya Fox, executive director of the La Crosse area organization which covers Trempealeau County, told the city council last Tuesday that Habitat for Humanity will be seeking the city's...
A seminar on bee keeping will be offered by the University of Wisconsin-Extension office among others in Whitehall on Feb. 19. Nancy Bergman will be on hand to discuss bee keeping and honey bee care. She has assisted her husband with a commercial bee operation outside of Whitehall since 1975. The...

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