On Halloween night in 1975, a Friday night, most UW-L students probably wouldn’t be caught dead…or alive…attending a college debate between teams from La Crosse and...
In the fall of 1985, the Catbirds basketball team of the CBA was about to play its first season in La Crosse, after spending two years...
In October of 1977, Judge James Rice of Monroe County launched a bid for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Rice said the main issue of his campaign...
In October of 1987, the La Crosse city council passed an ordinance to ban skates and skateboards from city streets, parking ramps, and sidewalks in business...
In October 1948, the president was traveling around the country, speaking to voters just before the election. Democrat Harry Truman had been president for three years,...
The Big Indian statue was removed from La Crosse’s Riverside Park during the summer of 2020, but there was an effort to take it down in...
In October of 1984, a Republican president who had been a TV personality in the past was running for a second term, and faced off in debates...
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...
The strip mall at Jackson Plaza had its grand opening on Jackson Street in ’57. The complex was anchored by Major Rexall Drug and a Piggly...
Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in October of 1973, less than a year into his second term, and in the middle of the Watergate scandal surrounding...
In the fall of 2004, the La Crosse Center Board was looking at hockey again as a possible attraction. The Bobcats basketball team had shut down...
Debates between the main candidates for president are usually considered the high point of America’s campaign season, and that was true the first time they happened on television,...
The city of La Crosse put on a parade in October of 1955, honoring the opening of the Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium. About 19,000 spectators watched...
In the summer of 1980, Fort McCoy had accepted many of the refugees from Cuba who had arrived in the U.S. in a massive boatlift. That June,...
UW-La Crosse hosted a couple of notable people in September of 1975. One of them was already world-famous…anthropologist Margaret Mead. She spoke to overflow audiences at both...
In September of 1976, the La Crosse city council approved plans to regulate massage parlors. The ordinance was a compromise between versions introduced by Mayor Pat...
A new team competition started up in La Crosse in 1991, a Corporate Spelling Bee. A local literacy council recruited three-person teams from companies throughout the...
William McKinley was six months into his second term as president in September of 1901, when an anarchist shot him during the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo,...
Astronauts have not walked on the moon since 1972, but there has been plenty of talk since then about going back. In 2004, President George W....
In 1990, there was talk of Stoddard withdrawing from the De Soto school district, and joining the larger La Crosse school system instead. One meeting on...