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...
In December of 1959, Donald Slayton spent the holidays with his family in Monroe County. It was the first Christmas since Deke Slayton was named as...
Just before Christmas of 1984, the city of La Crosse sold the former Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium to Western Wisconsin Tech and its Foundation. The sale...
Men went into orbit around the moon for the very first time on Christmas Eve of 1968. The Apollo 8 spacecraft circled the moon until Christmas...
In late 1990, the La Crosse park department was discussing plans for building a boardwalk in Riverside Park. The department wanted to install 32 boat slips...
In the late 1980’s, Wisconsin was easing its way into legalized gambling, after decades of opposition, even banning nationwide sweepstakes. Bingo became legal in the 70’s,...
Tiny Tim was getting married at Christmas-time, 50 years ago. And by Tiny Tim, we don’t mean the little boy in the Charles Dickens story. ...