Serving Trempealeau County
The county board, the courthouse departments and the elected officials who run them — money, rules and votes, reported meeting by meeting.
Surveillance
A motion filed this month would end the sheriff's license-plate-reader contract before it renews itself this fall — the first time the full board will vote on the cameras at all.
The fine print
The Pioneer read the agreement so you don't have to. Three clauses matter more than the rest.
The network
Every plate that passes is photographed, time-stamped and searchable for thirty days — by agencies far beyond the county line.
The other side
Investigators say plate reads have figured in more than a dozen cases; critics ask how many would have been solved anyway.
Budget season
Department requests land this month; the finance committee's first pass comes in the last week of August.
Ordinance
Supervisors want town boards to weigh in before opening thirty more miles of road shoulder to off-highway traffic.
Broadband
Supervisors put $410,000 behind a build-out the state's map says the coulees don't need. Residents testified otherwise.
Civics
Three minutes goes fast. Clerks, supervisors and one veteran gadfly on what works.
Mark the calendar
The Pioneer's monthly listing of every county, village, town and school board meeting — with agendas linked where officials post them.