Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
June 6, 1996
The Whitehall School District will consider the possibility of joining the city of Whitehall’s efforts to replace the swimming pool. The district board of education appointed two of its members and one school administrator to serve on a special joint committee with city...
25 YEARS AGO
May 30, 1996
Pigeon Falls Lions Club President Eileen Neperud presented the club’s community service award to Thurman Fremstad and Peter Olson was the recipient of the club’s Lion of the Year award.
The Whitehall Municipal Swimming Pool opened on schedule over the weekend for what...
25 YEARS AGO
May 23, 1996
There is no record of a confirmed sighting of a tornado in the immediate Whitehall area — and lifelong residents can’t ever recall the city fire siren ever warning of one, either. The first of those records is apparently still intact, despite the sounding of an alarm that...
25 YEARS AGO
May 16, 1996
Customers of the Whitehall Municipal Water Utility would pay fire protection charges through their water bills, rather than their property taxes, if the state Public Service Commission endorses a plan approved by the city council this week Tuesday night. The council voted...
25 YEARS AGO
May 9, 1996
The village of Pigeon Falls, which witnessed a building boom last year, may see another one in the near future. The village board Monday night agreed to participate financially in a project that would develop up to 16 new residential lots.
A judge has refused to shorten the...
25 YEARS AGO
May 2, 1996
Among the Whitehall High School vocal and instrumental musicians who will be competing at the state solo and ensemble contest in Eau Claire are soloists Leah Hanson, Erika Skadahl, Eric Moe, Mandy Kampa, Ryan Martinovici, Elizabeth Foltz, Lindsay Nelson, Kris Van Sickle,...
To the Editor:
Associated conservation club of Trempealeau County, which is really some men who like to deer hunt. Why get all excited that federal legislation might pass laws to require background checks to purchase guns, stop the sale of military assault weapons and allow the court system to take...
25 YEARS AGO
April 25, 1996
The Whitehall city council held a reorganizational meeting last week, but most of the resulting changes were due to the appointment of a week earlier of new alderman Jeff Hauser.
Whitehall High School sophomore Erika Skadahl earned a gold medal in prose reading during...
25 YEARS AGO
April 18, 1996
Despite a substantial turnover of the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors, and a run of bad luck for people occupying his position, John Killian was reelected as the county board chairman this week Tuesday.
A Whitehall city council committee has given Beef and Dairy...
25 YEARS AGO
April 11, 1996
Members of the 1996 Whitehall High School Junior Prom court are Chris Schroeder, Jeff Martinovici, Chad Foss, Travis Schroeder, Larry Paul, Cameron Severson, Rebecca Thompson, Amanda Staff, Tracie Schroeder, ALisha Sharp, Jarrod Fromm, Arne Berg, Annesa Semingson and...
