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For the first time since 2019, market-based pay increases were approved for administrators in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District that will go into effect with the 2025-26 school year.
Those increases were discussed by the G-E-T school board in closed session and then approved in open...
At last May’s regular meeting of the Independence school board, President Joe Bragger raised concerns about the need for stricter disciplinary rules. During this month’s meeting, the district seemed to take that advice.
Several proposed policy updates were brought forward, including a notable...
The Whitehall city council gave official approval to seek a raise in its electrical rates following a presentation that showed it would otherwise operate at a net loss in the future.
What the new rates end up being and when the hike will happen is yet to be decided, but the council heard that...
Thanks to a coordinated and strong response from community members and stakeholders, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is altering its plans to keep the flow of traffic going with temporary structures during the replacement of a few bridges in Trempealeau County in 2027.
The project in...
Wednesday, May 28
01:24 — Osseo: 911 hang-up.
08:14 — Arcadia: 911 hang-up.
10:51 — Arcadia: Vehicle repossession.
14:00 — Osseo: A vehicle was tailgating and then sped up when the caller tried to pass.
15:30 — Arcadia: The caller reported a tobacco violation.
16:26 — Arcadia: The caller...
In preparation for the arrival of a new electric utility bucket truck, the Trempealeau village board approved a debt issuance to pay for it upon its arrival later this summer.
Trempealeau village administrator/finance director Isaac Pooler informed the board at their regular monthly meeting last...
At last week’s Independence city council meeting, council member Linda Longmore provided an update on the city’s planned sesquicentennial celebration, scheduled for next year.
“There’s no money,” Longmore stated plainly, highlighting the lack of funding currently allocated for the event.
Mayor Tom...
While trustees expressed reservations, the Ettrick village board ultimately voted to allow beer to be sold at softball games featuring high school athletes.
The request came from Ettrick Runnestrand-Pederson American Legion Post 354, which will sponsor a Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau-based legion...
It isn’t that the city of Blair is looking to establish new rules limiting the amount of waste the city’s largest company, Associated Milk Producers, Inc. (AMPI), sends through its system, but it wants to start enforcing the rules that it says are already in place.
City clerk Debi Fremstad told...
It is happening a bit later than originally planned, but the Blair Aquatic Center is tentatively scheduled to open next Monday.
The delay is due to a leak that was located under the pool. After hearing of the leak, the Blair city council signed off on doing whatever was necessary to open the pool....
