In April of 1967, La Crosse Festivals, Incorporated decided that the four-day fall celebration that year would open with the Miss Oktoberfest-La...
In 1984, local developer Dick Barbour had a proposal to replace the former Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium with a high-rise building, which could contain a hotel...
It was no April Fool’s joke on the 1st of April in 1975, when La Crosse voters ousted two-term mayor Peter Gilbertson in favor of city...
On this day in 1985, a Wisconsin appeals court upheld the murder conviction of Terry Shaw of La Crosse. Shaw had been found guilty of the...
In April of 1967, the Elks Club of La Crosse hosted the 4th annual Cotton Ball, a fund-raiser for the Twin Cities Shrine Hospital for crippled...
In April of 2001, the national media kept track of severe flooding on the Mississippi. For a couple of days, the focus was on La Crosse,...
In 1965, La Crosse became one of 13 communities to win the title of ‘All-America City’ for that year. Three towns in Alaska were included on...
Galesville sculptor Elmer Petersen was the subject of a magazine article in the spring of 2007. The Danish Immigrant Museum of Elk Horn, Iowa highlighted “The...
In April of 1955, WKTY Radio news anchor Milo Knutson was sworn in as mayor of La Crosse. In his inaugural address, Knutson said the foremost...
One Saturday in February of 1976, two groups picketed quietly on 4th Street, near the La Crosse Post Office. The group standing directly outside the Post...
On this date in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot while attending a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington…less...
On this day in 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was halfway to the moon when a fuel tank exploded, causing the three astronauts...
The La Crosse Symphony Orchestra was started officially in 1938. The orchestra had a membership of 57, and was a continuation of the old Cathedral orchestra....
The UW-La Crosse campus was under pressure in 1987 to limit enrollment. Chancellor Noel Richards said the projected enrollment for fall would be close to 9700...
In early April of 1965, the Mississippi River was rising quickly. The water had reached the flood stage of 12 feet in La...
In January 1974, the US began year-round Daylight Saving Time as part of Washington’s reaction to an apparent energy crisis that saw gas prices rise quickly. ...
On this day in 1917, Congress voted to declare war on Germany, allowing American troops to enter a European war which had started three years...
In 1977, the Catholic Church did not have a pope named John Paul yet, but La Crosse had a priest named John Joseph Paul. Monsignor Paul...
In 2005, heart specialists at Gundersen Lutheran in La Crosse announced a new procedure to close the ductus arteriosus. That’s connecting heart tissue which is supposed...
In 1959, La Crosse State Senator Ray Bice introduced a bill in Madison to seek state aid for an extension of Lang Drive and George Street. ...