Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
January 8, 1998
Whitehall’s chances of ever having another supper club-type restaurant, a long shot under the best circumstances, may have become even slimmer. A little-noticed provision the 1997-99 state budget appears to have put an exorbitant price tag on the liquor license most...
25 YEARS AGO
January 1, 1998
Barring a sudden surge of interest in the next few days, there won’t be many decisions for Whitehall-area voters to make when they go to the polls on April 7. With the deadline for filing candidacies only five days away, there are no contests so far for the Whitehall...
25 YEARS AGO
December 25, 1997
The Whitehall Police Department is looking for a “second-story man.” That’s what burglars used to be called, and whoever hit the John O. Melby and Co. Bank sometime in the past two weeks, definitely was operating at the second-story level, or higher. Missing in the...
25 YEARS AGO
December 18, 1997
Whitehall doesn’t change librarians very often, which would make Mary Pientok’s retirement out of the ordinary regardless. Pientok is only the seventh person to hold the position in the 98 years that the community has had a librarian. Since she has been the...
25 YEARS AGO
December 11, 1997
Whitehall’s Family Aquatic Center Capital Campaign apparently has hit its goal – with room to spare. A tally of donations and pledges received over the past few weeks showed the fundraiser for the new municipal swimming pool to be within a few dollars of its $400,...
25 YEARS AGO
November 27, 1997
Whitehall district school board members got their first look at the district policy that eventually will govern local participation in the state’s new “school choice” program for public schools. At its November regular meeting, the board conducted its first official...
25 YEARS AGO
November 20, 1997
What used to be Whitehall’s City Hall might end up being the property of Trempealeau County. The city will offer to give the building – replaced two years ago by the former Memorial High School building, now called the City Center – to the county, anyway. The city...
“You’re done asking people questions about this.”
It took me a minute to realize that a public official last month actually said those words in a phone call to me, a journalist trying to keep residents up to date about changes coming to a community that were also discussed previously at a public...
Like, I’m sure, every other Trempealeau County resident, my mailbox has been filled with fliers telling me who I should vote for. And, like I’m sure most Trempealeau County residents, those fliers have been going directly in the garbage.
But, you can imagine my surprise a few weeks ago when I saw...
25 YEARS AGO
November 13, 1997
The Whitehall High School volleyball team never really got much of anything going in their Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Tournament match at Neenah High School and lost in four games to Abbotsford. Whitehall fell behind 2-0, losing the first...
