Op-Ed
As glimpses of “normal” begin to return to our daily lives with vaccination numbers growing, an unfortunate reminder of America’s other pandemic reared its head in Georgia.
From well prior to COVID-19 shutdowns, America has been grappling with the widespread embrace of blatant falsehoods....
To the Editor:
Facing similar needs to address failing jail facilities, both Winona and Trempealeau counties hired the same jail-planning consultant in the first month of 2018.
Three years later, both counties are planning and budgeting 80-bed jail / law enforcement centers immediately adjacent to...
25 YEARS AGO
March 14, 1996
In the contest for the District Eight Trempealeau County Board of Supervisor’s seat on Tuesday’s ballot, it is the challenger who has the edge over the incumbent in government experience. Supervisor Norm Herman of Whitehall is being opposed by Gordon Johnson of rural...
25 YEARS AGO
March 7, 1996
With no opposition raised at a public hearing held Monday night, the city of Whitehall will proceed with an application for state funds to help a new business locate in the east-side industrial park. Only two citizens appeared at the hearing on the $80,000 Community...
25 YEARS AGO
Feb. 29, 1996
A divided Whitehall school board district board of education voted to hire a new boys’ baseball coach Monday, but not without debating how the school goes about filling such a position. The board voted 4-2 to approve the school administration’s recommendation to hire...
25 YEARS AGO
Feb. 22, 1996
The Pigeon Falls Fire Department was called out about 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon to battle a barn fire on the Roger Guse farm, located just south of the village on W. Daggett (formerly Fuller) Coulee Road. The PF firemen, aided by men and equipment from the Whitehall...
25 YEARS AGO
Feb. 15, 1996
Two area residents and a couple trucks donated by local fire departments, are part of a caravan of vehicles headed south this week on a Mission to Mexico. Clark Moe of Whitehall and Duane Sackett of Independence departed Saturday morning with about 20 other people and 10...
To the Editor:
Glory
Walking to the Mississippi River
on a cold grey day,
I want to write
about the beauty here
but am haunted by the images on TV,
and my heart aches for a nation reeling.
I cannot ignore
the cloud over our people,
the terrible suffering.
Our beloved country broken,
riddled with...
While many in the state of Wisconsin are wondering what the future holds for Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers seem to be in position to give him exactly what he seems to want most: Commitment.
Rodgers went viral following the team’s NFC Championship Game loss to Tampa Bay when he wondered...
25 YEARS AGO
Feb. 1, 1996
Most people who heard about the Jan. 19 carbon monoxide poisoning that killed two Blair-area residents probably figured it couldn’t happen to them. Not Eric and Audrey Haas of rural Whitehall. They knew that the colorless, odorless gas could kill anyone — because it almost...
