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Community members will decide the future of the Trempealeau Pool in a referendum ask in April’s election. The Trempealeau village board last week approved the referendum, which will ask voters if the village can permanently raise the tax levy in order to maintain the pool. A failed referendum would result in the closure of the pool following the 2023 season. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The future of the Trempealeau Pool is now in the hands of the voters.
The Trempealeau village board last week unanimously approved a referendum question for April’s election, one that will ask residents if they are willing to pay more in taxes to fund the rising costs of the pool on 4th Street.
If...
The G-E-T High School Performing Arts Center is in the midst of its first full year of performances after easing back into action post-COVID. The PAC is readying for its final professional shows over the next several months and has already seen fans fill the seats in its grand opening for outside performances this fall. The PAC was ready in 2020 after a $9.8 million referendum, but the pandemic forced a few slow years. (Submitted photos)
When construction of the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School Performing Arts Center was completed back in November 2020, the expansive state-of-the-art facility could not be used to its full capacity.
COVID was preventing outside performances, and only a pair of district concerts were held near...
Wednesday, Oct. 26
03:57 — Trempealeau County: Three cows are in the roadway.
07:18 — Whitehall: Courthouse employee reported a party is possibly asleep in a vehicle in a parking lot. Reporting party thought the subject should be checked on.
07:58 — Ettrick: A red car nearly ran her and an...
One of the candidates bumped after a primary race for Trempealeau County clerk of courts has announced her candidacy as a write-in, making the clerk’s race the only Nov. 8 contest for any county post.
Winner of the clerk of courts Republican primary in August was Kari Tidquist, senior deputy clerk...
The Arcadia school board has selected its newest member.
Vicente Moreno was unanimously approved by the board to fill the opening left by former member Rob Hurlburt. Moreno’s first meeting will be in November.
Moreno will fill the seat until April 2023, when the seat will be up for election. The...
The Galesville city council will likely have at least one new member come April.
Ward two representative Tyler Truax will not be running for re-election when his term ends this spring, he told the Times this week.
Truax originally planned to resign his seat after the council’s committee of the...
The budget approved at the Blair-Taylor School District’s meeting last week Monday will see an increase in the total amount of tax levied, but a mill rate that is the lowest it has been in more than two decades.
The increase in the overall levy was due to a roughly $37 million increase in the...
Despite the communities within the Arcadia School District continuing to grow, the district’s total spendable dollars this year will actually decline and likely force the district to dip into its savings account.
That’s because the state formula for computing aid for public schools in Wisconsin is...
Treig Pronschinske and Maria Bamonti
Name: Treig E. Pronschinske
Age: 44
Family: Wife Becky, Married 23 years, daughter Rachael
Present Occupation: Small business owner, residential construction/beef farmer
Other community involvement: Former youth baseball president, volunteer fireman and ambulance commission member
Why are you...
Jeff Smith and Dave Estenson
The race for the state senate seat that represents Trempealeau County pits a long-serving lawmaker against a relative newcomer who are also at odds over policy.
Voters Nov. 8 will select either 31st District incumbent Sen. Jeff Smith, a Democrat from Eau Claire, who running for his second four-year...
