Schools
After conversation that ranged from discussion to debate, the Blair city council voted unanimously to purchase and hang a banner honoring Blair-Taylor High School graduates.
The conversation came about because representatives from the school approached the council asking if the city could honor the...
A familiar face is returning to Trempealeau County as Michele Butler was tapped as the next district administrator of the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District at Monday night’s regular meeting of the district school board.
Butler will serve out the conclusion of her first year as superintendent...
Blair-Taylor’s Austin Olson outran a tag attempt to reach base safely during the first inning of their game against Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran last Tuesday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Runs were sparse early, but Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran scored six in the top of the seventh inning to beat Blair-Taylor last Tuesday.
B-T struggled at the plate throughout its season opener, managing just three hits in the game, while striking out 17 times. The Wildcats were still in the game...
Whitehall’s Kivin Juresh secured a pin in his quarterfinal match at the Independence/Gilmanton sectional on Saturday. That was the first win of the day for Juresh, who ended up with a second-place finish and a berth in the WIAA State Tournament. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall wrestling season will continue as the team qualified for the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association team sectional and sophomore Kivin Juresh advanced to the state tournament at Saturday’s Division Three sectional in Independence.
Juresh (126 pounds, 35-6) put on a dominant...
Junior Madison Grotjahn and the Arcadia bench reacted to Grotjahn making a three-pointer after being fouled. It was the last of seven made threes for Grotjahn in her 29-point performance against Luther. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
For at least one half of basketball, Arcadia junior Madison Grotjahn could have passed for Caitlin Clark.
An unconscious shooting performance from three-point range by Grotjahn and her teammates allowed the Raiders to pull away in the second half for an emphatic win over the Luther Knights to open...
Cat Pile
Members of the Blair-Taylor volleyball team celebrated on the court following the final point of the team’s 3-0 sectional final sweep over Fennimore on Saturday.
Even though he was taking over a program that had won just seven matches the year before and hadn’t had much success historically, Blair-Taylor volleyball coach Dave Cowley quickly knew he had the talent to work with.
“After the first open gym, I remember coming home and telling my wife, ‘This team...
The Arcadia volleyball team went into their playoff clash with Elk Mound knowing they had to be sharp to come away with a road win to advance to the regional finals. In the end, the Raiders couldn’t get enough going to keep their season alive.
The fourth-seeded Mounders swept away the fifth-seeded...
Connor Kruse of Blair-Taylor tried to escape two Pepin/Alma defenders on a kick return during the second quarter of last week’s loss. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Blair-Taylor had no answer for Pepin/Alma’s Justin Bergmann in last week’s 52-14 loss.
In a matchup between two teams that tied for the Dairyland Conference title last year, the Wildcats stuck with the Eagles early, but Bergmann ran for 318 yards and four touchdowns and B-T ran out of answers. The...
An effective all-around day at the plate and a shutdown pitching performance by Caiden Brady powered the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau baseball team to a dominant shutout victory over Sparta last week.
The Red Hawks (8-5) needed only five innings to dispatch of the Spartans (1-10) 14-0 last Tuesday in...
While it’s still far too early to start getting too caught up in any kind of conference championship race, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau softball team couldn’t have scripted a better start to Coulee play than what they’ve done so far.
The Red Hawks (6-1, 4-0 Coulee) kept rolling right along against...
