In 1958, Eugene Toepel defeated Edward Gansen, a justice of the peace, to keep his new job as La Crosse County judge. Toepel, a Bangor native,...
Lots of people in La Crosse enjoy treasure hunts, especially for the Oktoberfest medallion. In September of 2002, a group called the “All-Night Flashlight Patrol” captured...
In 2005, state rep Jennifer Shilling led a public hearing on plans to raise Wisconsin’s minimum wage to $6.50 an hour. The minimum was just $5.15...
On June 1st of 1993, Connie Chung joined the “CBS Evening News” as a co-anchor with Dan Rather…and that night, she closed the newscast with a...
The state of Wisconsin turned 100 in May of 1948. The actual centennial was on May 29th, and a huge celebration was planned for that day...
Pammel Creek on La Crosse’s south side overflowed in July of 1978. In a day-and-a-half, almost 7 inches of rain fell on La Crosse, according to...
In 1964, La Crosse was making plans for build a new Central High School on the south side. But city committees couldn’t agree on the size...
In early 1995, the front page of the La Crosse Tribune ran a story about the rituals and lucky charms used by some gamblers, in hopes...
In May of 1992, La Crosse County made a deal to buy the old Montgomery Ward Auto Center at 3rd and Vine and convert it into...
In early 2002, somebody from the Milwaukee area was interested in building a big store on the west side of Mormon Coulee Road in La Crosse,...
In 1994, a Coon Valley man wrote to the La Crosse Tribune that La Crosse’s Oktoberfest wasn’t German enough. His problem was with the Oktoberfest button...
In 2006, Wisconsin Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and associate Justice Ann Walsh Bradley appeared at the Viterbo Fine Arts Center on “Law Day,” answering questions from...
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...
Acting La Crosse chief Ray Lichtie was promoted full-time to chief in May of 1977. Lichtie had been in that position since the previous October, when...
The La Crosse Queen paddlewheeler was being introduced in 1965. Roy Franz of the Big Indian Boat Lines said the new excursion boat could hold as...
“This…is London” was a familiar opening to Edward R. Murrow’s radio reports from England during 1942. Murrow and other CBS reporters, including Charles Collingwood and Eric...
In 1962, the La Crosse City Council was offered the chance to convert an old station wagon into an ambulance, and turned it down. Police chief...
In May of 1968, the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse named Monsignor John Paul its temporary administrator, while Bishop Frederick Freking was recovering from an illness. ...
In May of 2012, the La Crosse park board was told by tree specialists that about five thousand ash trees might have to be removed from...
There are only six states now that don’t have their own lotteries, but In early 1982, fewer states ran those games of chance. A lottery proposed...