In 1987, the La Crosse School Board debated whether to ban Sunday sports practices and school activities. Board members also had concerns about Wednesdays, because of...
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, known for the jazz song “Take Five,” performed at La Crosse’s vocational school auditorium on December 9th, 1965. Tickets went for $2...
Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy was condemned by fellow Senators in 1954, for his tactics in looking for Communists in America. The vote on December 2nd...
In early 1986, the La Crosse School Board was deadlocked on the idea of building a swimming pool and a new gymnasium for Central High School....
In December of 1989, La Crosse Mayor Pat Zielke persuaded the city plan commission to endorse the idea of selling eight acres of West Copeland Park for a...
The Marching Chiefs band from La Crosse State went west at the end of 1969 to perform in Pasadena’s Rose Parade. Three hundred people attended a...
In December of 1980, Gateway Foods brought Frank Abagnale to La Crosse for a seminar on how to watch for bad checks and other scams. Abagnale...
In 2016, a north La Crosse restaurant suddenly announced it was closing its doors for good. On November 15th, the owners of the Maid-Rite on Caledonia...
On the day before Thanksgiving in 1985, a ribbon cutting was planned at the intersection of Highways 16 and 157 at Valley View Mall. Major highway...
Thomas Jefferson was getting the boot from the U.S. Treasury in 1966, deciding to retire the $2 bill, but not the nickel. The Treasury said there...
According to a 1974 newspaper report, an unemployed math consultant from Vermont wanted a federal judge to invalidate President Richard Nixon’s second election in 1972, the one...
The Friday before Thanksgiving in 1963. November the 22nd. La Crosse would set a new record high for the date, 59 degrees. Central would host Richland...
In 1984, automobile man John DeLorean went on trial for trafficking cocaine. DeLorean claimed police entrapment, and he was acquitted. A newspaper cartoon that November showed...
In late October of 1976, Senator Bob Dole paid a campaign visit to La Crosse and West Salem. Dole was President Gerald Ford’s running mate on...
In the fall of 1973, America’s bicentennial was less than three years away, and La Crosse was forming a committee to plan the local celebration. Richard...
During this week in 1863, President Lincoln gave his most famous speech, at the dedication of a cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The November 19th ceremony came...
In late 1990, Rockland was lobbying for an I-90 interchange that would help development of the town. Construction was scheduled for 1995, but the project never...
In November of 1979, about 75 people took part in a march on the UW-L campus, protesting against the hostage crisis in Iran. The demonstration was...
Just before Thanksgiving of 1977, Mayor Pat Zielke was celebrating the passage of a nearly $10 million referendum to let the city of La Crosse build...
Fifty-seven years ago, La Crosse police compared accident figures from 1961 to the previous year. There were about four crashes a day in La Crosse, for...