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WIZMnews.com The City of La Crosse has unveiled contest-winning plans for Accessory Dwelling Units in the community. La Crosse Environmental and Sustainability Planner, Lewis Kuhlman, showcased the plans determined the best at an event Thursday night. The plans are the result of a contest funded the AARP, whose national organization has made the units part…

WIZMnews.com GREEN LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning this summer and left his wife and three children has been located in Eastern Europe and is communicating with law enforcement, but he has not committed to returning home, authorities said. Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll said Thursday that Ryan Borgwardt began…

WIZMnews.com Older residents of the La Crosse area have used the Harry J. Olson Senior Center as a gathering place for almost 50 years. Now, the former church needs some fixing up, looking to raise $70,000 for the renovations. The senior center requested and received about $25,000 — $10,821 of that from the La Crosse County…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin tradition begins anew this weekend as hunters take to the woods for the start of the state’s nine-day gun deer season. The season kicks off at dawn on Saturday and closes on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 1. Hunters are looking to rebound after a tepid 2023 season…

WIZMnews.com The Onalaska School District will have two interim superintendents, while searching for a successor to recently departed Todd Antony. The interim appointees are Fran Finco and Roger Fruit. Finco is a former Onalaska superintendent. He served as in that position from 2011 to 2019, during nearly 30 years working with the district. Fruit was…

WIZMnews.com NEW YORK (AP) — For about 50 years, adding cavity-preventing fluoride to drinking water was a popular public health measure in Yorktown, a leafy town north of New York City. But in September, the town’s supervisor used his emergency powers to stop the practice. The reason? A recent federal judge’s decision that ordered U.S.…

WIZMnews.com Nearly a year after being arrested for the fatal shooting of his stepfather, a La Crosse man will be tested to see if he is competent for trial. Forty-two-year-old Alan Fry wants to plead not guilty by reason of mental illness to the death of Brady Fredrickson. Fry already entered a plea of not…

WIZMnews.com Dr. Bri Spicer, Lifestyle Program Director at the La Crosse Area YMCAs, in the WIZM studio Wednesday for La Crosse Talk PM to discuss a diabetes prevention program she’s overseeing and shame news talk hosts into getting checked out. #Sarcasm. #Kindof La Crosse Talk PM airs weekdays at 5:06 p.m. Listen on the WIZM…

WIZMnews.com GREEN LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning this summer and left his wife and three children has been located in Eastern Europe and is communicating with law enforcement, but he has not committed to returning home, authorities said. Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll said Thursday that Ryan Borgwardt began…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin tradition begins anew this weekend as hunters take to the woods for the start of the state’s nine-day gun deer season. The season kicks off at dawn on Saturday and closes on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 1. Hunters are looking to rebound after a tepid 2023 season…