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Tourism awards set for June 3
The La Crosse Area Convention and Visitors Bureau will present its annual tourism awards June 3 at the Freight House, 107 Vine St.
Timothy Griffin: Thanks for help with food drive
The National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 59 of La Crosse thanks everyone who supported the Letter Carrier Food Drive on May 9.
Lynnetta P. Kopp: RSVP is grateful for support
Fabulous. Fantastic. Fun. These words best describes the 2015 RSVP “Who Will Be Smarter than a 5th Grader?” fundraiser held May 9.
Longfellow students share rewards of fair trade project
Longfellow Middle School sixth-graders are giving to three charities their proceeds from selling coffee, chocolate and Guatemalan textiles as part of the school’s fair trade project.
Plans take shape for new hotel
City staff got a first review Friday of plans for a $7 million hotel to be built at Second and Jay streets in downtown La Crosse
Central honors 3 with wall induction
Tony Christnovich, Robert Dammon and Kenneth Spirduso were set to be inducted onto the Central High School Wall of Fame during graduation ceremonies Friday night at the La Crosse Center.
Letter carriers' food drive totals up again
For the second year in a row, local totals for the Letter Carriers Food Drive are up.
Central honors those who made ultimate sacrifice
Friday morning was an emotional one for Joseph Burner, his friends and his family.
La Crosse County Circuit Court felonies
Jeffrey A. Smizek, 45, of 236 Tellin Ct. #5 was charged Thursday as a fugitive from justice in Minnesota, where he is wanted for failure to appear at sentencing on a felony theft charge.
Man charged in Brockway homicide, told police he did it
BLACK RIVER FALLS — A homeless man was charged today in connection with the stabbing death of a Black River Falls woman.
At the pumps on Thursday, May 21, 2015
Prices Thursday for a gallon of regular gas:
Best Buy jumps after 1Q sales, profit top Wall St. views
RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Best Buy’s stock jumped in trading Thursday after its first-quarter sales and profit managed to top analysts’ expectations.
Walker misses jobs promise by about 121,000 jobs
MADISON (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker made it only about halfway toward fulfilling his signature 2010 campaign promise — repeated in the 2012 recall — that 250,000 private sector jobs would be crea…
Educators pleased with extra funding, worried about policy in budget bill
La Crosse and Onalaska superintendents are pleased the Wisconsin Legislature has proposed adding funding for public education, but school leaders voiced concerns over the direction of state ed…
City to get slice of county land for improvements
La Crosse County will give the city of La Crosse about 4 acres of land within the La Crosse International Business Park so the city can install new roads, utilities and other infrastructure at…
Bill Lueders: Money taking power from the people
Regular readers of this column know its fondness for numbers. Here is one more to ponder: This is the 199th offering since the column debuted in June 2011. It also will be the last.
Pirate ship making its way up Mississippi
While La Crosse, may be nearly 2,000 miles — as the cannonball flies — from the historic pirate stronghold of Port Royal, buccaneer Dan Kellogg and his crew of damned souls were spied Thursday…
Republicans move to restructure Walker's job creation agency
MADISON, Wis. — Republican lawmakers on the Legislature’s finance committee moved Thursday to restructure Gov. Scott Walker’s struggling job creation agency, approving a plan to remove the gov…
Candidates sought for city council vacancy
The city will take applications through June 22 to fill the La Crosse Common Council District 5 seat representing the area around the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus.
North Side house fire considered suspicious
A North Side house was damaged Wednesday afternoon after firefighters discovered a burning pile of clothing in the kitchen, according to the La Crosse Fire Department.
