In 1967, Ettrick 4-H member Pauline Solberg was pictured in the paper with TV’s most popular fictional farmer, Oliver Wendell Douglas. “Green Acres” star Eddie Albert...
The first month and 23rd day of 1945, World War II was heading to a conclusion. The major headlines on the La Crosse Tribune that day...
In the month before the 1960 presidential election, both major candidates campaigned in La Crosse. Vice President Richard Nixon spoke at the Sawyer Auditorium one day...
In 1980, a group headed by former UW-L hockey coach Lloyd Dresen planned to build an ice rink for the campus and community, for just $750,000. ...
In 1987, retired State Senator Ray Bice of La Crosse spoke out about gambling as a guest on the local public radio show “Newsmakers.” Bice and...
In 1957, city engineer Zenno Gorder told the La Crosse Businessman’s Club that the community needed a second arterial street to take some of the load...
In 2005, a La Crosse area man was asking the Wisconsin DNR for permission to shoot stray cats, if they could be defined as an ‘unprotected...
While the band called the Beatles was conquering America in 1964, Midwestern cities were trying to fight against bugs that were spreading Dutch elm disease. Those beetles...
In January of 1977, principal Myron McKee of Longfellow Junior High was back in the news. The La Crosse school district asked McKee to explain an...
A superhero craze was sweeping the nation, but it was a little slow getting to the Coulee Region, yesterday in La Crosse. In early 1966, ABC showed...
In 1984, Logan High School graduate Ron Kind announced he would not play football during his senior year at Harvard. Quarterback Kind said work and school...
In 1961, the Racquet newspaper at La Crosse State devoted a large article to the popularity of pizza in the U.S. Only about 500 pizza places...
The King of rock and roll, Elvis Presley, was born on January 8th of 1935. Not many people would know about Presley until he started making...
At the end of 1975, the La Crosse Tribune ranked troubles in the La Crosse DA’s office as the top local news story of the year. ...
At the start of 2000, the Catholic diocese of La Crosse announced a school consolidation plan. La Crosse Bishop Raymond Burke said the Coulee Catholic Schools...
In 1942, just a few months after the U.S. entered World War II, the Hollywood Victory Caravan arrived for a brief stop at the north La...
You could have heard the theme from “The Magnificent Seven” in ads for a certain cigarette on New Year’s Day of 1971. But the next day, those regular...
The 2010’s are coming to an end, and quite a few things about the Coulee Region were different at the end of 2009, compared to now. ...
In 2017, La Crosse Central won its first state basketball championship since 1925. The final score of that 2017 was 55-53, against Cedarburg, a very high-scoring...
Just before Christmas of 1973, America’s new ‘energy czar,’ William Simon, asked for drivers to voluntarily limit their gasoline purchases to 10 gallons a week. He...