Op-Ed
25 YEARS AGO
June 15, 2000
Kimberly Halama, daughter of Ricardo and Mary Halama of rural Independence, was crowned as the new Trempealeau County Dairy Ambassador during the annual June Dairy Month kick-off breakfast held Saturday on her parent’s farm. Her attendant is Shannon Paulson, daughter of...
25 YEARS AGO
June 8, 2000
Brett Humphrey, Alyssa Glanzman and Liz Hauser will represent Whitehall High School at the annual Badger Boys and Girls State sessions this year.
The Whitehall district school board approved a new athletic code that will be in effect for the 2000-01 school year. Board...
25 YEARS AGO
June 1, 2000
The winners of the Pigeon Falls Lions Club’s Community Service Award are Ginny and Dale Hangartner and the Lion of the Year is Zilpha Erickson. The club presented the awards during the Memorial Day program held Monday morning at Ekern Park as part of its 40th annual...
25 YEARS AGO
May 25, 2000
A Whitehall man was recognized recently for his efforts in helping people with chemical dependency problems. Oliver Peterson was presented with the 1999 Citizen of the Year award from the Coulee Council on Alcohol and Other Chemical Abuse. While the plaque says 1999 on it...
25 YEARS AGO
May 18, 2000
A divided Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors Monday night put plans for a new county jail and sheriff’s department on hold for a while. The board voted down a proposed $16.1 million bond issue that would have financed the new facility. Then it tabled a recommendation...
25 YEARS AGO
May 11, 2000
Coral City, which bills itself as the “Little Place that Could,” is trying to again. The town of Pigeon hamlet is already adding a third day to the Coral City Community Daze celebration that debuted only last year. The logging-themed fundraiser will be held at the site of...
25 YEARS AGO
April 27, 2000
Whitehall will continue to have a pharmacy in the business district, after all. Colby Pharmacy, which had announced that it was closing this month, has been sold to a partnership that owns drugstores in several western and northwest Wisconsin communities. Ken Colby, who...
25 YEARS AGO
April 20, 2000
Thirty years after he started the family business, Dave Keenan gave his younger son an anniversary present. The longtime area car dealer recently made Dan Keenan a full partner in the family’s Keenan’s, Inc., Ford and GMC franchise. The occasion was the 30th anniversary...
25 YEARS AGO
April 13, 2000
The couples selected for this year’s Whitehall Memorial High School Junior Prom court are: Brett Humphrey and LeAnn Hulett; Kendall Kulig and Wendy Marsolek; Chad Narva and Heather Foss; Mike Paul and Sarah Lessard; Mike Van Hemert and Molly Oberlin; Tim Skadahl and...
25 YEARS AGO
April 6, 2000
Those who have been demanding a referendum on a proposed new Trempealeau County Jail, apparently got their wish last week. The vote on the controversial jail proposal came in the form of the spring general election, which saw five incumbent county board of supervisors...
