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Happy Halloween!  Time for trick or treating, eating too much candy, and watching scary movies.   It’s also time to help those in the community who are in need.   Students with the Interact programs in La Crosse, La Crescent, Onalaska, and Holmen are coming through neighborhoods in those cities tonight to collect non-perishable food items for […]

As I See It, I’m Jason Spangler. If you’ve rolled through Riverside Park at night, you’ve seen Rotary Lights turn winter into wonder. My part of that magic happens from a high lift—harness on—throwing LED strands into the tallest branches. This is my third season since moving back home. I started volunteering in college on […]

Let’s see if we can make sense of stuff that’s happened in the past week. All over the country a week ago, you had these No Kings rallies, full of people suggesting that the president was behaving like a king. To which he responded, I’m not a king, suggesting that a king wouldn’t let protests […]

In the fall of 1969, the Interstate Commerce Commission was holding hearings on whether to let the Milwaukee Road end the afternoon run of the Hiawatha train between Chicago and Minneapolis. The city of La Crosse objected to the train schedule change, with Mayor Warren Loveland sending a statement that more than 2000 people in […]

During its long history, La Crosse’s major brewery has been involved in a few trades, acquisitions, and mergers…many happening in recent years. The Heileman family ran the company, from its founding in the 1850’s until investors bought the firm in the 1930’s. Heileman became larger as it bought other brands, such as Blatz in 1969. […]

Elvis Presley was just 21 when he played his only concerts in La Crosse, two shows in one night at the old Mary E. Sawyer auditorium on May 14th, 1956. Twenty-one years later, in August of 1977, Presley died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis. Twenty-one years after the death of Elvis, the very first […]