Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
October 28, 1999
Residents of the Coral City area and people living along Highway 53 north of Whitehall are hoping the state Department of Transportation will do something to address their traffic safety concerns. A representative of the state agency and members of the Trempealeau...
25 YEARS AGO
October 21, 1999
A proposed new county jail project in Trempealeau County may be destined for construction on county-owned land adjacent to the Trempealeau County Heath Care Center. The county board Monday night soundly defeated a proposed option to buy the Whitehall City Center as a...
25 YEARS AGO
October 14, 1999
A “bomb threat” Friday in Independence turned out not to be very threatening, after all. Law enforcement personnel and explosive disposal experts were called to the old Independence public school building when a World War II-vintage bomb was found. The explosive device...
Senior Audrey Swenson tapped the ball over the outstretched arms of an Arcadia player at the net during a Coulee Conference volleyball match last Tuesday at G-E-T High School. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School volleyball team hosted a pair of Coulee Conference opponents for a triangular event last Tuesday.
The Red Hawks nearly pushed county rival Arcadia to a fifth set but fell to the Raiders in their first match (see story elsewhere in sports), and Black River...
25 YEARS AGO
October 7, 1999
An Independence High School student last week became the second person to die as the result of a Sept. 26 accident in Buffalo County. Derek Sura, 17, died last week Wednesday, three days after the one-car rollover that claimed the life of the driver of the car in which...
Benjamin Pierce
I’m not very good at saying goodbye.
As I’m sure some community leaders and residents within the Trempealeau County Times area can attest, it doesn’t take much to strike up a conversation with me about nearly anything.
The hard part is getting me to walk away (Just ask editor Andrew Dannehy. The...
25 YEARS AGO
September 30, 1999
The Whitehall district school board got some good news at its monthly meeting. District administrators reported that the enrollment in the local schools was up slightly, that is a change from a year ago when a decrease in student numbers resulted in cuts in state...
25 YEARS AGO
September 23, 1999
If Trempealeau County decides to buy the Whitehall City Center as a site for a new jail and sheriff’s department complex, it apparently will do what it did before its last major building project — figure out how much space it needs. The county’s jail study committee...
25 YEARS AGO
September 16, 1999
The Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors will apparently vote to offer the city of Whitehall $2 million for the City Center block. That offer for the city-owned property, one of two sites under consideration for a new county jail and sheriff’s department complex,...
25 YEARS AGO
September 9, 1999
New members of the instructional staff at the Whitehall middle and high schools are Carrie Harings, Nancy Martinovici, Chad Thurs, Ron Hunter, Julie Winsand-Gearing, Alissa Drivas and Tonya Berg.
A Whitehall native who put his hometown in the pages of his books will...
