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The leadership at Arcadia High School got a bit of an overhaul this summer, but Superintendent Lance Bagstad said the building is in good hands as the 2022-23 school year quickly approaches. A familiar face will be leading the efforts, as former vice principal and athletic director Wyatt Anderson...
The kid who was voted to have best mullet in the country has ties to Trempealeau County and those connections may have pushed him over the top in the national competition. Known as “Mullet Boy” eight-year-old Emmitt Bailey of Menomonie was voted to have the best mullet in the entire country in the...
Employees for the Blair-Taylor Child Care Center could have an opportunity to enhance their education without much cost for themselves or the school district. The district school board heard last week Monday about interest in the T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood Wisconsin scholarship program. The program...

 

 

As both the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau and Arcadia school districts approach a staffing crisis for bus drivers, the contracted company who supplies other area schools with drivers says the corral for their routes is plenty full. Both the G-E-T and Arcadia school boards recently learned of their...

 

 

  Wednesday, Aug. 10 03:05 — Ettrick: Four or five people are outside, making threats.  10:49 — Osseo: Caller is concerned about an unknown party who is believed to be coming to a residence later this afternoon.  11:44 — Galesville: Caller said the neighbor’s dog is out on the deck. The dog has...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau school board will have to revote on increasing costs for school meals after the board illegally added the change to their agenda at last Monday’s meeting. Superintendent Michele Butler told the Times after learning of the issue that the board will revote on the change...
A teacher at the Osseo-Fairchild High School for five years has been charged with the sexual assault of one of his students, a year after he was cautioned following an internal investigation. Strum resident Nicholas Bergeron, 31, of 413 Elm St., is accused of inappropriately touching a female...
A familiar face will start the 2022-23 school year as Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School principal. Chuck Forster, who spent 12 years as the school’s principal from 1999-2011 before retiring, will return to work as the interim principal at G-E-T High School for the first few months of the school...
The Galesville city council on Thursday moved to cut out a possible loophole in city ordinances that could have allowed duplexes or twin homes in neighborhoods meant for single-family homes. A unanimous 5-0 vote — with alderman Tom Thatcher absent — changed the housing ordinance to disallow zero-...
An Ettrick man who called police because people were threatening him was himself arrested for alleged inappropriate behavior with a 15-year-old. Brian Blair Smythe, 41, of N25233 Flaaten Lane, has been charged with second-degree sexual assault of a child, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex...

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