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WIZMnews.com The city of La Crosse’s contractor, which deflects our recycled products from hitting the landfill, won an award for the high percentage of reusable products being captured. Zach Harter with Green Circle Recycling joined WIZM’s La Crosse Talk on Thursday, along with his dad, Gary Harter, owner of the originating company Harter’s Quick Clean-up.…

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 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 It’s the 60th annual Holiday Fair at the La Crosse Center, and Bri Beining, the marketing coordinator for the Center, joined to help preview the event, which runs Thursday-Sunday. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7 FM (north…

WIZMnews.com It’s the 60th annual Holiday Fair at the La Crosse Center, and Bri Beining, the marketing coordinator for the Center, joined to help preview the event, which runs Thursday-Sunday. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7 FM (north…

WIZMnews.com UW-La Crosse football coach Matt Janus joined WIZM’s La Crosse Talk on Tuesday to discuss, not just being back in the playoffs for a fourth-consecutive season, but how this one means just a bit more because these seniors are his first recruiting class. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the…

WIZMnews.com Just when it felt like we had put the big campaign season behind us, and had started to prepare for the holidays, there’s another political campaign to talk about…at La Crosse City Hall. Time for the next election for mayor, and we’ve just learned it’s going to be another open race. Our former WIZM…

WIZMnews.com When the La Crosse city council approved a 2025 budget Monday night, it turned down a plan to restore funding for hauling away furniture and other large items. That pickup service was cut a year ago to save money. On an 8-4 vote, council members opposed the addition of $105,000 to the city budget…

WIZMnews.com A 59-year-old truck driver, who allegedly attacked someone with a knife, cutting them in the neck and chest, at a West Salem Kwik Trip, was in court Tuesday. Paul Stokes was arrested in Tennessee last month and brought back to Wisconsin. Tuesday, he was in La Crosse County court on charges of reckless endangerment…