The second Super Bowl game was played 50 years ago this week at the Orange Bowl in Miami. The name “Super Bowl” was not formally used...
In the spring election of 1983, La Crosse County voters chose District Attorney Michael Mulroy to succeed retiring Judge Eugene Toepel. Mulroy defeated Maureen Kinney in...
In January of 2008, a company called Riverview had the biggest overdue tax bill in the county…about $91, 000. Riverview had owned the Hampton Inn and...
In January of 1995, La Crosse attorney Ramona Gonzalez was busy campaigning for circuit judge. Gonzalez was hoping to succeed retiring La Crosse County Judge Peter...
In 1960, the La Crosse County Board voted overwhelmingly to construct a “safety building” on the courthouse block, to give law enforcement a little more room. ...
George Thompson took his seat as Wisconsin’s new attorney general in January of 1963, succeeding John Reynolds, who moved up to the governor’s office that year. ...
In 1984, the Wisconsin Elections Board decided to interview certain people about charges that election laws were broken in a special La Crosse State Senate race. ...
In 1941, Central and Logan High School were impressive for their enrollment size. Central have just over 1000 students in three grades, and north-side Logan was...
What was the busiest airport in the U.S.? We had a new champion 30 years ago, yesterday in La Crosse. At the start of 1988, Hartsfield Airport...
Just before the 1966 Oktoberfest, a cartoon in the Tribune asked “How’s this for an image?” The cartoon promoted the six-year-old festival as a time for...
In January of 1978, La Crosse developer Jake Hoeschler offered a gift of $100,000 to a group hoping to build an ice arena in the city. ...
On New Year’s Day of 1958, six babies were born in La Crosse hospitals. The very first one, delivered at 8:19 a.m., was Scott Denny, born...
Just before New Year’s Eve of 2004, the Vatican appointed Jerome Listecki to become bishop of the La Crosse Diocese. Listecki was a Chicago native named...
They were stars in 1964, and left us in 2017… Mary Tyler Moore and Don Rickles were among the comedy legends who died this year. In November...
In December of 1980, the State Bank of La Crosse was foreclosing on its 4th Street neighbor, the Hotel Stoddard. The Stoddard had been in business...
Christmas of 1965 was the first holiday season that K-Mart was open in La Crosse, at Losey Boulevard and State Road. The big box store had...
Men went into orbit around the moon for the very first time on Christmas Eve of 1968. The Apollo 8 spacecraft circled the moon until Christmas...
On one day in February of 1959, La Crosse got 8 inches of snow. It was called the worst winter storm of that season…until another storm...
In late 1990, the La Crosse park department was discussing plans for building a boardwalk in Riverside Park. The department wanted to install 32 boat slips...
During December of 1963, Americans were still adjusting to the November assassination of President John-F Kennedy, and to the new president, Lyndon Johnson. Don Medinger of...