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The Galesville city council is discussing a possible relocation of city hall.
The council met in closed session at its meeting last Thursday to discuss the idea, but no action was taken when they returned to open session.
The city is considering “moving city hall to another building,” Mayor Tom...
The Trempealeau County finance committee gave the county’s administrator the go-ahead to plan a loan and grants program to help boost business growth.
The action by the executive finance committee came just before Monday’s county board meeting where county administrator Rebecca Glewen unveiled how...
Fighting chronic absenteeism and keeping students excited to be at school was a priority in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District this year, and data presented Monday showed the district is seeing a chronic absence rate 14.1% lower than the state average.
Attendance is a continued issue for...
Reynolds Tomter was presented with the blanket that had covered the Merchant Marines memorial in Normandy, France. At 107 years old, Tomter was the oldest World War II veteran who attended the 80th D-Day celebration last month. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
It’s safe to say Reynolds Tomter has seen a lot in his life, but an experience just a couple of months after his 107th birthday bested them all.
Tomter, a lifelong Pigeon Falls resident, was among the 68 World War II veterans who attended the 80th anniversary of D-Day along the shores of Normandy...
A tree came down on a shelter at Colonel Larson Memorial Park in Whitehall during the storm that swept through the area on Saturday. (Submitted photograph)
Tim Holtan, chief executive officer of Riverland Electric Cooperative, suspected he might have a long weekend as the electric meters on homes began to flicker out from the west Saturday afternoon.
“You could almost watch the storm come through,” he said, as meters across a midsection of Trempealeau...
Wednesday, July 3
00:40 — Osseo: The caller said his mom and her boyfriend are arguing.
06:47 — Arcadia: A car hit a deer. The vehicle left the scene; the deer and debris are in the road.
07:09 — Osseo: A white horse is in the roadway.
07:29 — Arcadia: The caller struck a deer earlier this...
A county judge used the wrong standard for “vindictiveness” when he dismissed child sex assault charges against an Independence man, a state prosecutor argues in a brief to the state appellate court.
Assistant Attorney General Kara Janson argues to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals that when...
The former clerk and treasurer for the town of Dodge’s sanitary district was in court last week after being charged with theft for allegedly not paying his own utility bills and not depositing the cash payments of others.
Keith Michael Jereczek, 57, is charged with two felonies, theft in a business...
A 62-year-old man died at the Trempealeau bike park last month, according to an announcement from the Village of Trempealeau office.
The village announced the June 6 death in a press release posted on its Facebook last Wednesday. A name and residency were not listed for the deceased.
“A 62-year-old...
If a local property owner is willing to pay the fees associated with the transaction, the Blair city council agreed to vacate a rarely used city street.
Last November, city resident Owen Berg told the council he has had a number of people drive through that street which runs through his property....
