A group of Wisconsin vets from different wars came to La Crosse in the fall of 2009 to talk about “Operation Free.” They said excessive use...
On the day that New York and Washington were attacked in 2001, La Crosse residents had the north-south corridor and Roger Harring Field on their minds....
Several popular songs call attention to the 9th month of the year. “September” by Earth, Wind, and Fire is one of the more recent, coming out...
In September of 1978, the Neighborhood Preservation Association was against making West Avenue 16 feet wider between intersections, and 20 feet wider at signalized crossings. The...
In 1997, La Crosse police searched the home of local probation agent David Burkhart. He was accused of breaking into several homes and stealing expensive belongings....
On September 3rd of 1967, the game show “What’s My Line?” ended a 17-year run on CBS. The show where celebrities guessed people’s occupations was known...
In 1973, the park department wanted the former Central High property at 15th and Cass. The new Central on Losey Boulevard had been open for a...
The summer of 1963 has been immortalized in movies such as “Dirty Dancing” and “The Flamingo Kid” as the last carefree summer in America, before the...
When the New Orleans Saints moved their training camp to UW-La Crosse in 1988, they were trying to escape the summer heat and humidity of Louisiana....
A year-round policy for alternate side parking was put in place during the summer of 1959 in La Crosse. Police gave out 65-hundred warning tickets that...
In the summer of 1992, Assemblyman John Medinger announced he was giving up on the idea of bringing riverboat gambling to the La Crosse area. Wisconsin...
In August of 1983, Pabst had been turned down in its efforts to sell beer at Oktoberfest, the La Crosse Center, and the Interstate Fair. The...
On August 14th of 1945, word spread quickly by radio that Japan was surrendering to the Allies, just days after atomic bombs were dropped on Japanese...
This month marks the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death. Elvis was just 21 when he played his only concerts in La Crosse, two shows in one...
In 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon was coming to La Crosse for a rally on the day after one of his televised debates with Sen. John...
Judge Robert Gollmar, who sent Ed Gein to a mental hospital for grisly murders he committed in central Wisconsin, wrote a book about Gein in 1982....
In 1980, the city of La Crosse was cracking down on nude dancing at nightclubs. Two years earlier, city voters has passed an anti-pornography ordinance. City...
UW-La Crosse just recently announced it would stop using coal as a source of heat in 2020. But there was a rally in 2009 which called...
On August 8th, 1974, President Richard Nixon spoke on TV, announcing he would resign, following the passage of articles of impeachment by a House committee. Vice...
In the summer of 1990, the La Crosse Tribune printed four letters to the editor on a single day which all sharply criticized an area man...