In January of 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first, and so far only U.S. president to be sworn in for a third term. Roosevelt went...
In January of 1961, D.J. Petruccelli was introduced to the Thursday Rotary Club as the new manager of the La Crosse Chamber of Commerce. The 32-year-old...
It may seem like 12 years ago, but it was only 12 months. In January of 2020, La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat gave a ‘state of...
Historic preservation was not a priority in La Crosse during the 60’s and 70’s. In those two decades, the city replaced its turn of the century...
Imagine, your college marching band playing the song “The Stripper.” Not hard to imagine in 1967, yesterday in La Crosse. The Stripper was included in the halftime...
In 1982, the La Crosse School District was considering more school closings because of declining enrollment. Two elementary schools on the north side, Roosevelt and Franklin,...
NASA was busy with two manned space flights in December of 1965, and you could say they sneaked a band aboard one of the capsules. ...
The 2004 presidential election was won by Bush…George W. Bush. He won his first term in 2000 through the electoral college, after narrowly losing the popular...
In 1943, the U.S. was at war in Europe and the Pacific, and Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt was already a record-holder on his third term in...
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 1975, hang gliding was becoming a fad in the Midwest, with the bluffs along the Mississippi used as jumping-off spots. A group called the La...
The ‘Uniform Monday Holiday Act,’ passed by Congress in 1968, took effect three years later. Up until ’71, Labor Day was the only holiday in the...
La Crosse Mayor Pat Zielke predicted in 1992 that the north-south corridor idea was “dead” for the decade after Plan 5 was voted down by the...
In November of 2011, Viterbo and the La Crosse Community Theatre announced a partnership to put up a new theatre building along the riverfront, next to the Logistics Health...
On election night of 1980, American voters changed course by replacing Democratic President Jimmy Carter with Republican Ronald Reagan. The election happened on the first anniversary...
The national media have often claimed that Hillary Clinton never visited Wisconsin during the 2016 presidential race. It’s true, she didn’t get to the state in the...
In 1968, the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse named Monsignor John Paul its temporary administrator, while Bishop Frederick Freking was recovering from an illness. Paul was...
On the night before Halloween in 1938, many Americans heard that spaceships from Mars had landed in New Jersey…but they only heard it, if they were...
On Halloween night in 1975, a Friday night, most UW-L students probably wouldn’t be caught dead…or alive…attending a college debate between teams from La Crosse and...
In the fall of 1985, the Catbirds basketball team of the CBA was about to play its first season in La Crosse, after spending two years...