Just before New Year’s Eve of 2004, the Vatican appointed Jerome Listecki to become bishop of the La Crosse Diocese. Listecki was a Chicago native named...
They were stars in 1964, and left us in 2017… Mary Tyler Moore and Don Rickles were among the comedy legends who died this year. In November...
In December of 1980, the State Bank of La Crosse was foreclosing on its 4th Street neighbor, the Hotel Stoddard. The Stoddard had been in business...
Christmas of 1965 was the first holiday season that K-Mart was open in La Crosse, at Losey Boulevard and State Road. The big box store had...
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...
On one day in February of 1959, La Crosse got 8 inches of snow. It was called the worst winter storm of that season…until another storm...
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...
During December of 1963, Americans were still adjusting to the November assassination of President John-F Kennedy, and to the new president, Lyndon Johnson. Don Medinger of...
In December of 1967, the Marching Chiefs band from La Crosse State was getting ready for nationwide exposure. According to a story in the campus newspaper,...
A storm in February of 1922 brought up to four inches of ice to central Wisconsin, and 2 inches to La Crosse over a 3-day period....
Around Christmastime of 1984, La Crosse Mayor Pat Zielke launched another re-election campaign. Zielke was finishing up 10 years in the 6th floor office at City...
It was on December 8th in 1980 when John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York apartment building by an obsessed fan who had...
In the summer of 1975, hang gliding was becoming a fad in the Midwest, with the bluffs along the Mississippi used as jumping-off spots. A group...
The biggest court case of 2012 in La Crosse County was the double murder trial of Eric Koula. That June, a jury found Koula guilty of...
In the fall of 1969, the Marching Chiefs band from La Crosse State was making travel plans to play in the Rose Parade at Pasadena on...
In late 1976, the city council voted to end a development contract with Harborview Plaza Associates, complaining that the company had been given several years to...
Stroh was suing in 1985 to stop Heileman’s planned merger with Pabst of Milwaukee, and Pabst wanted the Supreme Court to settle the dispute. Stroh and...
In 1956, Northern Engraving president Charles Gelatt was appointed to a new nine-year term on the UW Board of Regents. Gelatt was just 38, and he...
In the fall of 1967, a city council committee voted to remove orange-colored parking meters from some downtown street corners in La Crosse, because the smallest...
Only one major league baseball club from Wisconsin has ever been a World Series champion, and that was the 1957 Milwaukee Braves. They beat the Yankees...