In July of 1981, Britain’s Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at a lavish wedding seen on TV around the world. That same day, the Hotel Stoddard...
In March of 1991, the La Crosse County courthouse and jail were getting crowded. The building had been open only 26 years. It replaced a 60-year-old...
In December of 1967, members of the La Crosse State College band, the Marching Chiefs, were getting ready for nationwide exposure. The campus newspaper, the Racquet,...
At the end of 1971, La Crosse County board members were fighting over redistricting, with much of the battle over how many seats the board would...
In December of 1912, the president of the United States was preparing to leave office, after losing the November election. William Howard Taft was finishing his...
As 1966 came to a close, workers were completing construction of the new I-90 bridge at Dresbach. The center span of the bridge had been installed...
On the night before Christmas in 1968, astronauts in the Apollo 8 spacecraft were circling the moon. That day, they had become the first humans to...
In early 1982, an Assembly committee in Madison proposed a lottery for Wisconsin. Fifteen states already had them, and one estimate predicted $30 million a year...
In November of 1976, voters in the town of Medary passed referendums to put in sewer and water lines at a Highway 16 side where the...
In January of 1997, the Green Bay Packers made it back to the Super Bowl for the first time since Coach Vince Lombardi retired…a drought of...
One particular day in January of 1973 was historic in more ways than one…yesterday in La Crosse. January 22nd of ’73 was the first Monday in Richard...
It wasn’t going to be an easy Christmas for America in 1963. The holiday season began just after the November assassination of President Kennedy. A new...
Rising fuel prices and many shortages led to some changing habits around America late in 1973. A fuel cutback was blamed for the cancellation of two regular...
In December of 1966, La Crosse State president Sam Gates decided not to give a charter to the SDS…Students for a Democratic Society. The FBI was...
Around Christmastime of 1984, La Crosse Mayor Pat Zielke launched another re-election campaign, finishing up 10 years in the 6th floor office at City Hall. Zielke...
The holiday season of 1955 had featured a La Crosse presentation of “The Messiah,” directed by David Mewaldt from the music department at La Crosse State. ...
At Christmas-time of 1976, the head of La Crosse’s redevelopment authority, Charles Parrott, resigned to take a similar job in Colorado. Parrott had been hired by...
The habit of alternate side parking was adopted by La Crosse in 1959…during the summer. And it lasted year-round. In the first month, city police gave...
In early 1982, the La Crosse School District was considering more school closings because of declining enrollment. Two elementary schools on the north side, Roosevelt and...
In December of 2003, the Minnesota DOT had a public meeting in the La Crescent area to discuss long-range transportation plans. One project high on the...