Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
November 16, 2000
If the 2001 city budget is approved as proposed, Whitehall property owners will be looking at a 25.9% increase in the taxes they pay to the city. The city council’s finance committee last week approved a spending package for the coming year that totals $1,279,750. ...
25 YEARS AGO
November 9, 2000
Trempealeau County voters picked Randy Niederkorn of Whitehall for sheriff, succeeding fellow Democrat Ralph Weisenberger. Niederkorn, a former sheriff’s deputy and detective, defeated Republican Mark Smick, of Independence, a retired Western Wisconsin Technical...
25 YEARS AGO
November 2, 2000
It almost certainly won’t be as big as the one that was discussed by a city council committee last week, but city of Whitehall property owners will likely be looking at a major tax increase next year. If the 2001 city budget were to be adopted as presented to the...
25 YEARS AGO
October 26, 2000
An Independence man who was shot after he allegedly tried to run over a Trempealeau County sheriff’s deputy likely will serve less than 11 months in jail. Steven Burch was sentenced to a year in the county jail during a hearing held in Trempealeau County Circuit Court...
25 YEARS AGO
October 19, 2000
For the fifth time in just over five months, the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors Monday night voted down borrowing money for a proposed new county jail. After coming closer to approval on the last couple of tries, the resolution authorizing the county to borrow...
25 YEARS AGO
October 12, 2000
A gymnasium full of sixth-graders with tissue paper and balsa wood airplanes sounds like a recipe for recess, not for education. But the sixth-graders at Whitehall Middle School were learning while they played last week. The students in the classrooms of Stuart Dodge...
25 YEARS AGO
September 21, 2000
The 2000 Homecoming royalty at Whitehall Memorial High School includes Nicole Webster, Crystal Heath, LeAnn Hulett, Liz Hauser, Alyssa Glanzman, Greg Vies, Troy Guenther, Tim Skadahl, Brett Humphrey and Joe Speltz. The homecoming game will be preceded by the...
25 YEARS AGO
September 14, 2000
Trempealeau County voters picked the two candidates with law enforcement experience during Tuesday’s partisan primaries for county sheriff. Former county sheriff’s deputy and detective Randy Niederkorn handily won the Democratic primary, polling 1,514 votes to 543...
25 YEARS AGO
September 7, 2000
New to the instructional staff at Whitehall Middle and High schools this year are Suzanne Bodah, Kari Weiss, Wendy Kuliasiewicz, Kallie Zielieke and Krista Kjos. New classroom and resource teachers at Sunset Elementary School are Trichia Brekke, Beth Pape, Lisa...
25 YEARS AGO
August 31, 2000
Opponents of the plans developed by the Trempealeau County Jail Study Committee last week were challenged to come up with a better idea, if they could. Members of the committee offered those who criticized their jail size and site choices up to $75,000 to conduct their...
