Browse past news stories for Holmen High School in Holmen, WI.

• News in brief (West Salem Coulee News)
  posted on November 25, 2009 at 06:54:03 pm
  Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.
• Holmen School Board OKs bond sale (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 12:03:52 pm
  Monday evening the Holmen School Board unanimously approved the issuance and sale of $15,525,000 in general obligation bonds to pay for projects included in the 2007 referendum.
• Got talent? Oh yeah! Competition to feature 14 acts, Miss Wisconsin, pro baritone (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 12:03:22 pm
  Laurie Kessler, one of the organizers of the Got Talent? Coulee Region competition set for tonight (Friday, Nov. 13) at Holmen High School, might just be as nervous as some of the contestants.
• News in brief (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 12:02:52 pm
  Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.
• Officials say tickets not best way to tame truancy (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on October 29, 2009 at 08:03:42 pm
  Going back to school brings many joys to students. There are fresh notebooks, fall sports, seeing friends, new clothes and the new wax and paint smell of the school. Those joys are not shared by a small group. Some call them “the truants.”
• Message on fire dangers hits home for kids (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on October 29, 2009 at 06:33:52 am
  Alex Goyette thinks he made an impression. It wasn’t the impression he was trying to make back in 2005 when he thought it was cool to play “hot soccer” with his brother and friends. Goyette suffered second- and third-degree burns over 40 percent of his body after playing a dangerous game that changed his life at the age of 12. He was bedridden for six weeks, had to relearn how to move his ...
• King proud of Vikings (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 04:52:02 pm
  Steve King no doubt heard them carrying on as the team bus sat outside Swanson Field. And it uplifted his spirits.
• Hard work paying off for Vikings (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 04:51:19 pm
  They never failed to make Steve Mally smile. It was a given their summer days would start around 8 a.m. Mally, the Holmen High School boys and girls cross country coach, would see many of his runners begin their offseason workouts.
• Holmen volleyball snaps losing streak (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 04:51:09 pm
  The Holmen High School volleyball team stopped a long MVC losing streak earlier this season. Now, the Vikings find themselves competitive with the top teams in the MVC.
• Holmen’s big plays sink Timberwolves (The Tomah Journal)
  posted on October 27, 2009 at 02:01:20 pm
  HOLMEN -- Tomah High School football coach Brad Plueger summed up his team’s downfall at Holmen in two words:
• Performers sought for HAPY talent show Nov. 13 (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 03:34:51 pm
  Musicians, jugglers, karaoke stars and even shower singers are invited to participate in “Got Talent? Coulee Region,” a talent show to benefit the Holmen Area Partnership for Youth.
• Performers sought for HAPY talent show Nov. 13 (West Salem Coulee News)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 10:38:53 pm
  Musicians, jugglers, karaoke stars and even shower singers are invited to participate in “Got Talent? Coulee Region,” a talent show to benefit the Holmen Area Partnership for Youth.
• 9 in 10 high schoolers fall short on fruits and veggies (WXOW 19 La Crosse)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 01:11:06 pm
  Holmen, WI (WXOW)- The La Crosse Health Department says about 30% of children are obese or over weight in La Crosse County and 2 out of 3 adults are overweight or obese.
• Music pro with Holmen roots to offer month of vocal classes (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 04:33:05 pm
  Steven Marking, a Holmen High School graduate who has had a distinguished career as a professional singer and music educator, will be offering voice and musicianship classes during November at Leithold’s Music in downtown La Crosse and at the Bridge of Life Lutheran Church meeting room in the Holmen Square mall.
• Goodbye too soon: Community mourns tragic loss of teen killed in bluff fall (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on September 25, 2009 at 11:19:33 pm
  There is nothing so sorrowful as hundreds of teens gathered, silent, draped in black, holding hands, crying openly. There is no sound like the hush of 500 plus people trying not to sob. No moments more heart wrenching than watching a mother and father follow the casket of a daughter taken before her time.
• Prep Football Preview: Creating a buzz (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 01:06:18 pm
  HOLMEN — There is a buzz surrounding the offense of the Holmen High School football team.
• Superfood heroes conquer food traps (Houston County News)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 05:05:54 pm
  A former Holmen High School English teacher and current Houston resident who decided she was tired of hearing herself talk to students but not listening to her own voice telling her it was time for a change has reinvented herself.
• Remembering Rachel Cody (WXOW 19 La Crosse)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 11:30:28 pm
  HOLMEN, Wisconsin (WXOW)- Rachel Cody is being remembered at Holmen High School. She was an active student involved in drama, forensics, and a student recognition group.
• Holmen High School Remembers Rachel Cody (WKBT La Crosse)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 11:27:25 pm
  Her friends say she will be missed and remembered through the lessons her bubbly personality taught
• Holmen teen dies after fall from La Crosse bluff (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 08:09:02 pm
  LA CROSSE, Wis. - A 17-year-old Holmen girl is dead after falling from a bluff in La Crosse. Authorities on Thursday identified the teen as Rachel Cody. La Crosse police say she fell from near the top of Grandad Bluff on Wednesday night.
• Frank sparks Viterbo volleyball in five-set victory (La Crosse Tribune)
  posted on September 10, 2009 at 12:28:44 pm
  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Megan Frank's pivotal serving in the fifth set led the Viterbo volleyball team to a 23-25, 25-22, 25-12, 23-25, 15-10 MCC victory over Mount Mercy on Wednesday night.
• Former Holmen golfer Johnson chose to join military, hopes to continue with golf (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on August 28, 2009 at 05:12:55 pm
  ONALASKA — Rachael Johnson says the military isn’t for everyone.
• Briefly: Onalaska, Holmen athletes shine at Special Olympics state tournament (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on August 28, 2009 at 05:12:44 pm
  EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — More than 2,000 people gathered in Eau Claire Aug. 8-9 to compete, coach or volunteer at the 2009 Special Olympics Wisconsin State Outdoor Sports Tournament. Onalaska area athletes blew the crowd away with outstanding performances in sports including softball, tee ball, bocce, golf and tennis.
• Risky business: Holmen students above averages (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on August 20, 2009 at 05:43:31 am
  on bad behaviors By BRAD BRYAN | Special correspondent More than one third of Holmen Middle School students reported being bullied at school last year. Nearly 12 percent of Holmen High School students have attempted suicide in the past 12 months.
• Kramer crowned Miss Holmen (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on August 20, 2009 at 05:43:01 am
  The 27th Miss Holmen is already looking forward to competing at next June’s Miss Wisconsin Pageant. Elizabeth Kramer was crowned Aug. 7 at the Miss Holmen Scholarship Pageant at Holmen High School.
• Wershofen wins first Holmen teen title (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on August 20, 2009 at 05:42:51 am
  Molly Wershofen danced her way to the first-ever Miss Holmen Outstanding Teen title last weekend as part of the Miss Holmen Pageant.
• Putting it all together (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on August 14, 2009 at 02:55:36 pm
  ONALASKA — Keegan Drugan smiled as he helped Ross Wilhelm slip into the tan jacket Sunday. And yes, it was a perfect fit.
• Lamb Column: Preeshl bounces back at Brown Deer (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on August 14, 2009 at 02:55:26 pm
  It didn’t take Jill Preeshl long to make up for a disastrous finish in the La Crosse Tribune/ Midwest Professional Appraisal, Inc., Women’s County Amateur Golf Championship.
• Driver faces misdemeanors in crash that La Crescent mother’s son (Houston County News)
  posted on August 12, 2009 at 04:13:54 pm
  Lee Jacobson of La Crescent said her heart was shredded the day her son died in a motorcycle crash.
• Golf: Tabbert rallies to win Women’s County Am Championship (Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life)
  posted on August 12, 2009 at 03:40:26 pm
  HOLMEN — Katie Tabbert didn’t do anything spectacular to make up five strokes over the final three holes of the