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Recently retired Arcadia High School Athletic Director Bruce Schweisthal (right) handed the sectional championship plaque to former Arcadia baseball coach Paul Anderson following the 2007 sectional. (File Photo)
Bruce Schweisthal was a graduate student occupying a long-term substitute position in Whitehall when he was offered a job teaching in Arcadia.
In the 35 years since, offers to join other districts have come up, but Schweisthal could not imagine going anywhere else.
“I just could not leave. I fell...
Blair-Taylor players made up more than a fourth of the 2021 All-Dairyland Conference softball team.
That number shouldn’t be surprising considering the Wildcats went 18-0 in DC play as part of a 28-1 season that ended in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Semifinal game. As a...
The Whitehall Wolves returned to action with a split doubleheader on Sunday at home against the Eau Claire Rivermen.
Whitehall fell 5-3 in game one, before taking an 8-0 shutout victory in game two for a split matchup of the Chippewa River Baseball League South Division’s third-place Wolves and...
Arcadia’s Alex Madden was named the Coulee Conference Pitcher of the Year for baseball and Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau’s Genna O’Neill was the Player of the Year for softball.
O’Neill helped the Red Hawks make a late surge, handing CC champion Westby its only conference loss of the season. She was...
The Olympics has always been about overcoming adversity to achieve excellence on an international stage unlike any other.
Coverage of the events themselves is always supplemented with feature stories of athletes who started their pursuit of glory in run-down gymnasiums or other meager circumstances...
Arcadia’s Carson Martin caught a pop-up along the fence in foul territory during their game against Elk Mound last week. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Runs were hard to come by for Arcadia’s Tickfer-Erickson American Legion Post 17 baseball team in one game last week, but they managed to string together a big inning to earn a win in another.
Post 17 managed just one hit as they were shut out on the road against Onalaska 5-0 last week Monday. On...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District is intending to hire Jeff Wiseman to replace Jon Steffenhagen as the school’s football coach.
The hire had not yet been approved by the G-E-T school board as of Tuesday of this week, but G-E-T Athletic Director Rick Schmidt confirmed that Wiseman had...
After spending 26 years coaching the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau football team, Jon Steffenhagen will be looking for a new way to spend his time. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
For the better part of the last 26 school years, the daily routine for Jon Steffenhagen, 57, has been largely the same: up at 4 a.m., in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau weight room by 5:20 for a workout, supervising football players or powerlifters in their workouts beginning at 6, teaching physical...
For a variety of reasons, I have been reflecting on one of my favorite television show quotes in recent weeks.
“I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.”
The quote was uttered by The Office’s Andy Bernard (Ed Helms), but is applicable to the...
Arcadia’s Carson Pehler tagged out a Sparta base runner during their game last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Runs were tough to come by for the Arcadia American Legion Post 17 baseball team, but they still managed a split last week.
Post 17 struggled all around against Holmen last week Monday, losing 12-1 as Holmen scored at least once in every at-bat. Arcadia was able to slow Sparta down on Thursday,...
