Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1999
The city of Whitehall will sell its former City Hall and loan money to the company buying the building. The city council approved the sale of the building to the Whitehall Development Co., a division of the WHTL Group LLC, owners of the radio station WHTL-FM. The selling...
25 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1999
The former Whitehall City Hall building will soon be under new ownership. The city council last week voted unanimously to sell the building and property to the Whitehall Development Co. The 82-year-old Main St. landmark has been largely unused since the city purchased the...
25 YEARS AGO
May 13, 1999
Shirley Radke’s graduating seniors traditionally have presented her with a gift during their final high school concert, but the occasion Monday night had added significance. The spring concert that evening was the last also for Radke, who is retiring at the end of the...
25 YEARS AGO
May 6, 1999
Most people don’t work at anything for 68 years, but Louise Olson got an early start at things. The area native retired earlier this year as organist for St. Paul’s Evangelical Church. She started playing at the rural Whitehall church when she was 13 years old.
The city of...
25 YEARS AGO
April 29, 1999
The Colorado firm, which helped develop a needs assessment study for the Trempealeau County Jail, will continue to serve as consultants during the design portion of a proposed new jail. The county board of supervisors voted 18-2 to hire Voorhis Associates for a 10-month...
25 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1999
If and when a new Trempealeau County Jail and Sheriff’s Department are constructed, it apparently won’t be built on city-owned land on Whitehall’s west side. The county’s jail study committee eliminated land in the West Side Commercial Park from consideration as a site...
25 YEARS AGO
April 15, 1999
Members of the 1999 Whitehall High Junior Prom court are Ross Huson, Brandon Foss, Tyler Pientok, Jason Tiffany, Jenni Frye, Kim Maudal, Sarah Sovereign, Cortney Klomsten, Megan Bender, Bethany Hawkins, Rob Sonsalla, Matt Hegge, Jamie DeMarr and Mitch Moe.
Among the...
John Denver, you’ve got a point.
I laughed to myself last week as I drove through rural backroads and the 1971 hit ‘Country Roads, Take Me Home’ played in my head while on my way to a spring baseball season opener.
Headed toward the Village of Wilton in Monroe County’s Driftless Area on Thursday...
25 YEARS AGO
April 1, 1999
For the first time in more than a couple decades, a major portion of Whitehall’s Beef and Dairy Days festivities will be in a different location this year. The corporation that stages the annual community fundraiser decided last month that the beer, dance and bingo tents...
25 YEARS AGO
March 25, 1999
The Whitehall district school board was warned Monday night of a coming financial crunch and asked to come up with ideas for cutting expenditures to bring them into line with the available revenues. “We are facing some serious financial challenges,” District...
