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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…

WIZMnews.com La Crosse city council Rep. Chris Woodard called in to discuss his displeasure with the decision to not add about $105,000 to the 2025 budget and include large-item pickup, plus pushing back a vote on hiring a city administrator until after the mayoral election. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on…

WIZMnews.com La Crosse Mayor Mitch Reynolds told WIZM on Monday night he is not going to seek reelection. “There are a number of reasons,” Reynolds said. “This was definitely a difficult decision to come to. I am absolutely looking forward to new challenges and new opportunities.” Reynolds was first elected in 2021, in the midst…

WIZMnews.com A last-minute proposal to add more money for disposal of furniture and other large items in La Crosse was voted Monday down by the city council at its yearly budget hearing. The council voted 8-4 against adding $105,000 to the budget, which would have paid for hauling large items, especially at college move-out time.…

WIZMnews.com School District of La Crosse superintendent, Dr. Aaron Engel, joins WIZM’s La Crosse Talk on Monday to discuss what’s next now that the $53.5 million elementary school referendum plan passed, plus we get his thoughts on the Trump administration potentially closing the Department of Education. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen…