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25 YEARS AGO
May 3, 2001
A proposed new Trempealeau County jail and sheriff’s department, which has created a lot of controversy over the past few years, may also be responsible for a first in county government. The jail debate may result in what is believed to be the first recall election...
A local company was awarded the bid for Whitehall’s water treatment plant project last week.
RJ Jurowski Construction, Inc. was the low bidder at $2.56 million. Isaac Steinmeyer of engineering firm Short Elliott Hendrickson said the company received three bids, ranging from Jurowski’s low bid to a...
The Whitehall city council voted to begin the legal process to force a city resident to clean up his property, though the resident is currently incarcerated in the Trempealeau County Jail.
City Administrator Drew Morelan said city resident Seth Day, 18257 Melby Street, has been spoken to numerous...
The body of a woman was discovered in the Mississippi River near the Trempealeau dam last week, identified two days later as that of a Winona, Minn. woman who had been missing for a month.
The body was identified as 72-year-old Patricia Sweningson, a Winona resident who had not been seen since Mar...
The Arcadia city council and Mayor John Kimmel didn’t have much disagreement on the concept of putting money toward a new fire station for the Arcadia-Glencoe Fire Department. With details on such a project still scant, however, the council wasn’t so keen on moving forward now with transferring a...
At its monthly meeting on April 9 the Independence school board discussed plans for a potential partnership aimed at creating a Trempealeau Valley Cooperative (TVC) Healthcare Academy for students in Independence, Blair, Whitehall and Arcadia.
According to District Administrator Paul Franzwa, the...
At last Monday night’s meeting, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School Board unanimously approved the wording for its $44,755,000 referendum, which was approved at last month’s board meeting.
A portion of the referendum wording, read by board Vice President Adam Leavitt, stated:
“There shall be issued...
Todd Gieck
A man charged with shooting and killing Kyle Dahl, formerly of Ettrick, will stand trial beginning next Monday.
Todd Gieck, 63, formerly of Melrose, is scheduled for a jury trial Monday through Friday, facing a charge of first-degree reckless homicide and two other felonies.
Gieck was charged in...
Wednesday, April 1
04:16 — Whitehall: Two people are breaking into a garage.
04:43 — Dodge: The caller’s brother was driving by his home.
05:33 — Ettrick: Two deer are on the side of the road.
05:39 — Whitehall: A car hit a deer.
06:36 — Whitehall: A vehicle is swerving from the fog line to the...
Captain Drexel Sprecher, an Independence native, is pictured presenting evidence against the defendant Hans Fritsche during the first Nuremberg war crimes trial. (Submitted photo)
Independence, Trempealeau County and Nuremberg, Germany, were a world apart when a son was born to Walter and Florence Sprecher on March 25, 1913.
While growing up in Independence, that young boy, Drexel Sprecher, could not have possibly guessed his life would take him to Nuremberg, Germany, where...
