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There will be seven races for positions on the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors in the April election, with at least four districts set to have new representation.
Incumbents Stacey Klein, District Two; Richard Sacia, District Three; Kellen Nelson, District 14; and Jeanne Nutter, District 16...
The Blair city council took action to begin the process of opening a bridge along Highway 95 to ATV and UTV traffic. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair city council voted last week to allow ATV/UTV traffic to cross the bridge along Highway 95, which will allow operators to access Mill Road.
It was previously thought that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation would not allow the vehicles to cross the bridge because it is part of a...
Wednesday, Dec. 24
00:12 — Trempealeau: The caller reported a male party who is not supposed to be in the bar.
01:31 — Arcadia: A 911 call from a 911-only phone.
04:27 — Strum: Request to assist another agency in locating a juvenile runaway.
07:12 — Blair: A semi tire is in the road.
10:58 —...
An adult male was found deceased after a garage in Independence burned on New Year’s Eve.
The Independence Police Department declined to release the name of the male pending further investigation, but said no foul play is suspected. A press release issued by the department said more information...
While members of Trempealeau County’s Executive-Finance Committee expressed reservations about having a government-operated childcare center, it approved moving forward and developing a plan to help alleviate some of the issues county residents are having with finding care for children.
The...
While it doesn’t have the ability to change the new position, members of Trempealeau County’s Executive-Finance Committee again debated the manner in which a finance manager position was created.
Responding to a question from the committee’s December meeting, Administrator Rebecca Glewen told...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was pictured as it fell from the sky. The photo, taken my someone on another B-29 during the mission, shows the ceiling of Uncle Tom’s Cabin facing the aircraft, inverted as it spiraled downward. (Submitted photo)
In the first part of Osseo’s Morris Tyler’s fateful flight of December 27, 1944, aboard the B-29 Uncle Tom’s Cabin, we learned how the aircraft was brought down over Tokyo by Japanese suicide pilots willing to die to keep the bombers from raining devastation on their homeland.
Rammed by two...
New Trempealeau County Sheriff Erica Koxlien is proud of her ability to connect with people, a skill she may need during her one-year term.
Koxlien took a nontraditional route to becoming the sheriff. She has only worked in law enforcement for 10 years as she was first a stay-at-home mom and then...
Wednesday, Dec. 17
01:46 — Independence: A burglary alarm has been alerted.
04:21 — Arcadia: The caller reported a fight in the neighbor’s apartment.
06:11 — Osseo: A car hit a deer.
06:16 — Arcadia: The caller reported a road rage incident.
06:26 — Arcadia: A tree is blocking one lane of...
Whitehall School District Superintendent Mike Beighley outlined what he admitted was a “lofty timeline” for the district to implement a strategy that fully utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) in education.
“As we have talked about at length, the need for structural change in public education...
