La Crosse Tribune Local News

ONALASKA — Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare and the Onalaska Parks and Recreation Department will co-host an open house from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday at the Onalaska Community Garden.

Competition for the 32nd District seat in the Wisconsin State Senate is heating up, with a challenger to incumbent Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, filing papers and an independent candidate also announcing his run.

The final financing piece of the plan to renovate the former Roosevelt Elementary School into affordable housing took a step forward Thursday after a La Crosse commission approved a $300,000 loan.

HOLMEN — Dave Braun and Troy Amdahl want to change the world with a word: Oola.

Faculty members from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and three other UW System schools will work together to create an educational doctoral degree in student affairs administration and leadership.

U.S. Rep. Ron Kind announced Thursday that he is returning $125,547.82 to the U.S. Treasury to pay down the national debt.

MADISON -- Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, a conservative whose opinions helped solidify a series of controversial changes in state law in recent years but was also known for his physical confrontation with a colleague, announced Wednesday he will…

Arlan Frels has been hired as executive director of the La Crosse County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

ONALASKA -- Mayo Clinic and the Onalaska Parks and Recreation Department will host an open house from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday at the Onalaska Community Garden, on Theater Road next to the Franciscan Healthcare Onalaska clinic.

BANGOR — Work is scheduled to begin Monday on Hwy. 162 between the Dutch Creek Bridge and the Hwy. 16 intersection north of Bangor.

The City of La Crosse will pick up brush curbside next week. Brush should be out for pickup by 7 a.m. Monday.

La Crosse's 27th annual Arbor Day celebration will begin at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Myrick Park.

WEST SALEM — Seventh- and eighth-grade students at Coulee Christian School will honor America’s servicemen and women the troops on Monday.

Full Circle Supply owners Mary and Josh Larson are working with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to improve their business.

WINONA, Minn. — Merchants Financial Group on Wednesday announced a first-quarter net income of $3.25 million, results that group president and CEO Rod Nelson described as “consistently strong.”

After eight months of preparation, Lissa Carlson’s plans for a new house finally feel “real.”

Improving water quality in the Kickapoo River and adjacent watersheds by working with landowners is the purpose of a $100,000 grant to Mississippi Valley Conservancy from the Minnesota-based McKnight Foundation.

The Salvation Army in La Crosse will present Don and Roxanne Weber with the corps’ Community Red Shield Award during its annual Civic Event May 12 in the Cargill Room at Riverside Center II South.

The gate arms will remain off the parking ramps for now, but downtown La Crosse visitors will no longer enjoy unlimited free parking on weekdays.

In a world flush with crisis, we’ve managed to manufacture one more.