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...
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...
There’s another big Hiawatha statue outside of La Crosse that nobody’s talking about taking down. We talked to Michael Meyer, head of the Chamber of Commerce...
One La Crosse city council member has had enough of the city’s Human Rights Commission. Gary Padesky loves the 25-foot Hiawatha statue in Riverside Park. The...
The La Crosse city council could get a recommendation on the future of the Hiawatha statue within the next couple of months. Recent public discussions have...
A key decision on La Crosse’s Hiawatha statue could be up to the city’s Human Rights Commission. That group co-sponsored a forum back in December, which...
There has been some controversy over pieces of art in the city lately. Today, the board of public works will vote on another that has come...
“It’ll be gone,” maybe not soon but someday. That’s what one representative of the Ho-Chunk Nation said at a town meeting Thursday night about the big...
Chamber supported Indian statue project as tourism attraction around 1960
Now that the bandage has been pulled off, La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat is looking for some healing on the Hiawatha statue. The issue has come...
Audrey Kader believes artworks with a historic or cultural theme are meant to represent history, not just the public’s feeling at one moment in time. The...
This morning’s Arts Board meeting in La Crosse City Hall might have a few more people than usual. That’s what city council member Gary Padesky is...
