Money raising efforts could start soon for a new section in La Crosse’s International Friendship Gardens. The city’s park board has voted in favor of an...
Make way for ducklings! La Crosse’s Riverside Park could soon be the home of a permanent family of ducks, made of bronze. The family of former...
Tiffany Smith and Marty Wallesar run Hatchery, LLC, the group that wants to rent the old Fish Hatchery building on the north end of Riverside Park....
It’s nearly a year since the eagle sculpture, that highlights the entrance to Riverside Park in La Crosse, was taken down. The giant metal base, bird...
The past year has been trying for Americans, facing a pandemic, racial tensions, and even a riot at the U.S. Capitol, but the mayor of La...
It was nearly a month of back and forth headlines as President Donald Trump attempted to make a campaign stop in La Crosse County. And that...
Nearly two weeks after the Hiawatha statue was taken out of Riverside Park, La Crosse city leaders are working on plans for what might be put...
The large Native American statue in Riverside Park known as Hiawatha is scheduled to be removed on Monday morning. La Crosse Parks Director Jay Odegaard tells...
The societal view of having a 25-foot Native American-looking statue in the middle of the most popular park in La Crosse. That’s the complicated reason why...
La Crosse’s park board voted unanimously to proceed with removal of the Hiawatha statue from Riverside Park. That vote Thursday night came just moments after the...
On the same day that the Washington Redskins football team has announced it is changing the franchise name, the mayor of La Crosse says “it is...
In October of 1961, Anthony Zimmerhakl’s 25-foot-tall Indian sculpture was installed in Riverside Park. The Chamber of Commerce decided that the statue should not be called...
The latest report on the condition of Hiawatha — the Native American-like statue in La Crosse’s Riverside Park — is not so good. City leaders estimate that...
La Crosse’s park board is expected to deal with art history at its monthly meeting Thursday night. That is, the board will hear about the history...
If any repairs are made to La Crosse’s Hiawatha statue, the burden may be on the city’s parks and rec. department or the board of public...
La Crosse’s Hiawatha statue may need another makeover before anyone tries to move it out of Riverside Park. An inspection by the city arts board finds...
A north La Crosse planning committee is eager to have the large ‘Lacrosse Players’ sculpture on Rose Street moved to the eagle-viewing area that recently opened...
There’s talk at La Crosse City Hall of moving another piece of public art. It’s not as controversial as the Hiawatha statue in Riverside Park but...
One La Crosse park recently got a new swingset, in an effort to keep people from drinking on that block. Another change to Burns Park on...
The long, simmering controversy over the big Hiawatha statue in La Crosse’s Riverside Park may soon conclude. After a meeting in city hall this week, plans...
