Ken Kopp News Today

After years of building a career in niche luxury real estate, broker Kirsten Kopp instinctually knows what her clients want to see first.

More housing, less neighborhood input Expand Neighborhood opposition to a proposed Walgreens on Monroe Street ultimately led to a project that benefits not just the neighborhood but the whole city. Ken Kopp just wanted to retire. He wasn’t planning to destroy the near west side. In the winter of 2002 I attended a crowded neighborhood meeting in the West High cafeteria. Ken Kopp had announced that he was closing his iconic neighborhood grocery store on Monroe Street and was planning on s...

(12/16/2020) Dorothy Twesme, retired Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau (G-E-T) English teacher and librarian, has named the Old Main Historical and Community Arts Center in Galesville in her will to receive a bequest that will fund the “Twesme Family Past and Future Horizons Award” to a graduating high school senior who writes a paper that encourages reading about the past to envision the future. The paper will recall that George Gale — who founded Galesville, Galesville University, an...