In March of 1969, the state’s lieutenant governor, Jack Olson, spoke to the La Crosse Tourist Activities Corporation about ways that the Badger State could attract...
It was no April Fools’ joke on April 1st of 1975, when La Crosse voters replaced two-term mayor Peter Gilbertson with city council president Patrick Zielke. The...
Fifteen years ago, on April 22nd, 2005, police were called to a gray house on French Island. A young boy had told his parents that a neighborhood...
In April of 1961, the Soviet Union won another battle in the space race, when Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth. U.S....
In early 1971, La Crosse Education Association members walked off the job for a day, shutting down all 20 schools in the district. The strike capped...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt died suddenly in Georgia on April 12th of 1945. We didn’t have TV networks then, but the news spread quickly on radio....
First they called it “Environmental Day” in La Crosse. The 22nd of April in 1970 was a big day for ecological awareness in the U.S., so...
In fact, in the spring of 1969, the Selective Service said burning or throwing away a draft card practically guaranteed that you would be drafted, because...
On April 8th and 9th of 1973, La Crosse saw one of its biggest snowstorms on record to that time. The 16-inch total easily beat the...
In April of 1980, the management of the new Radisson Hotel at Harborview moved into the uncompleted building. They had been working out of Gateway Foods...
In the two weeks leading up to the 2016 Wisconsin primary, most of the leading contenders for president campaigned in La Crosse County. There were three...
Five-day-a-week soap operas were introduced on radio in the 1930’s, and then moved to television. An episode only lasted 15 minutes, until April of 1956. That’s when a pair of...
In March of 2010, a parking consultant was hired by UW-L to work on a possible campus ramp. The school only had surface parking at the...
In 1986, the Onalaska school district was trying to decide whether to keep the 78-year-old La Crosse School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy, also known as...
In 1954, long before Sesame Street and Mister Rogers, there was opposition to the idea of a government-run public television channel in Wisconsin, with a task...
After the “First Edition” band from the 1960’s broke up, singer Kenny Rogers launched a solo career, hitting the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975 with the...
In March of 1929, Uncle Sam was threatening to take away La Crosse’s airmail service, if something wasn’t done about the airport. Northwest Airways had the...
St. Patrick’s Day of 2012 was very lucky for the Onalaska boys basketball team. The Hilltoppers became state champions of Division 2 at the Kohl Center...
You don’t necessarily see many candidates riding in the back of a open car any more, but Richard Nixon did that in La Crosse, in the fall of...
In 1977, five members of the La Crosse school board were fighting for their board seats, in the face of a recall campaign. The board angered...