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La Crosse begins Christmas tree collection in January

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2 years ago

December 26, 2020

Kaitlyn Riley

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Christmas tree collection for residents in the City of La Crosse will run Jan. 4-9 2021.

The city asks those who want to dispose of their trees to remove tinsel, ornaments, and tree bags and set the tree out on the boulevard by 7:00 a.m. Jan. 4. The collection will not coincide with the trash collection schedule.

The city will not accept artificial Christmas trees. Those, along with holiday lights can be placed in the city-service recycling cart or dropped off at Harter’s Quick Clean-up. The city also does not collect wreaths of any kind since most are made with heavy wire.

Other brush or yard waste that residents wish to dispose of can be taken to the La Crosse County Landfill because the Isle La Plume Yard Waste & Brush site is closed. For more information, contact the La Crosse County Landfill at 608-785-9572.

Kaitlyn Riley

Kaitlyn Riley’s passion for communications started on her family’s dairy farm in Gays Mills, Wis. Wanting to share agriculture’s story, she studied strategic communications and broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In college, she held officer positions with the Association of Women in Agriculture and Badger Dairy Club while volunteering as a news reporter for the college radio station. She also founded the university’s first agricultural radio talk show, AgChat. In her professional career, Kaitlyn has worked in radio, print and television news doing everything from covering local events to interviewing presidential candidates, and putting back on her barn boots to chat with farmers in the field. Today, Kaitlyn can be seen covering local stories that matter to you in the La Crosse area.