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Osseo and Whitehall pay their police officers the highest wages of Times coverage area cities, while Arcadia has the two highest-paying positions among the same municipalities, according to data compiled by the Times. The Times requested full-time employee salary information from the cities of...

 

 

The Trempealeau village board picked engineering company Short Elliott Hendrickson (SEH) Inc. to conduct its train quiet zone study later this year. The board unanimously approved picking SEH for the job, which is estimated to cost $11,600 and will provide information on how expensive it would be...

 

 

Wednesday, Jan. 24 07:21 — Blair: 911 misdial. Caller stayed on the line and said it was because the phone was dropped.  07:35 — Arcadia: A male is outside screaming and yelling.  07:46 — Galesville: A car hit a deer.  09:47 — Arcadia: An employee is acting hostile and yelling at staff. No weapons...
The Whitehall School District will allow up to three special education students per school level from outside district boundaries, while keeping enrollment into the district open for all other students. The school board approved district superintendent Mike Beighley’s recommendation at its regular...
A Strum man was sentenced to serve two years in state prison with 12 years of extended supervision in Trempealeau County Circuit Court last week. Juan Castallanos Aponte, 19, of 124 5th Ave N. Apt. 1, Strum, pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault of a child and incest with child last June....
An Eleva man was arrested just after 8 a.m. and charged with his fifth operating while intoxicated charge. A state trooper first noticed Marc Anthony Schneider, 58, Jan. 18 when it appeared the man was not wearing a seat belt, according to the criminal complaint. The trooper then attempted to stop...
The Arcadia School District does not have enough space to allow new special education students living outside district boundaries to open enroll into the district next year. The Arcadia school board approved closing open enrollment for special education with a unanimous vote at last Monday’s...
An 18-year-old Arcadia man, allegedly driving without a license in an unregistered car, faces two felonies after officers attempted to stop him for speeding on State Highway 95 near Arcadia. A sheriff’s deputy first allegedly noticed that the car being driven by Kyler Kellicut on the afternoon of...
While it has yet to be determined if there will actually be any ice fishing, the Elk Rod and Gun Club’s 65th Annual Ice Fishing Contest and Jamboree will still have a lot to offer.  As of Monday, there was optimism that the ice would be thick enough for Saturday’s contest in Independence.  A final...

            High school Spanish/English teacher Ryan Jennings taught a group of Independence Elementary School students on Dec. 7 about Spanish through a game of ‘Profe Says'. Jennings spends his prep periods teaching younger students about outside cultures through language and exercises.   (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)

Shortly after Ryan Jennings graduated high school, he made a substantial change. Jennings lived for five years — or as he recalls, grew into an adult — in Mexico City after moving to Mexico’s capital immediately after high school. Jennings was equipped with two years of high school Spanish and...

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