At some point Friday morning, Santa and his reindeer will be landing in Riverside Park, gearing up to switch on Rotary Lights. A fireworks show is...
The Rotary Lights experience in downtown La Crosse will be changed a little this year from the usual festival. Some of the changes have resulted from...
Here’s another sign that Rotary Lights will be starting soon: the La Crosse board of public works has approved helicopter rides for two weekends of the...
Thanksgiving weekend and the holiday season are going to be a bit different in La Crosse this year…naturally, because of COVID-19. The community Thanksgiving dinner will...
The idea of commissioning local art inspired by the COVID pandemic is still being discussed at La Crosse City Hall. Members of the city arts board...
The Eagle has left La Crosse’s Riverside Park, to get some repairs. On Tuesday morning, the Eagle Landmark at the west end of State Street was...
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...
After 59 years of standing along the Mississippi River, Hiawatha has left La Crosse’s Riverside Park for a yet-undisclosed destination. The 25-foot Indian statue criticized for...
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...
It’s still more than 100 days until Thanksgiving weekend, and that should give volunteers for La Crosse’s Rotary Lights plenty of time to finish at least...
It’s official now from Moon Tunes–the entire 2020 season of Thursday night concerts in Riverside Park has been scrapped, because of the coronavirus. Just last week,...
Do you have ideas for a work of art that could replace Hiawatha on the La Crosse riverfront? The La Crosse arts board has a special meeting...
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...
In October of 1961, a large statue of an Indian was installed at the north end of La Crosse’s Riverside Park. The 25-foot statue by Central...
La Crosse’s park board is expected to vote Thursday night on the future of the Big Indian statue in Riverside Park. Mayor Tim Kabat says this...
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...
If you didn’t know that Saturday was the 4th of July, you wouldn’t have been able to tell it was a holiday in much of La...
Under normal circumstances, La Crosse’s Riverside Park would be filled with tents, stages, and visitors this week, during Riverfest. But the park is mainly empty, because the...
The new Riverside Park bandshell is getting very close to being done. Terry Bauer, organizer of the Moon Tunes concert series, is happy with recent work...