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WIZMnews.com Maybe it was the weather. Maybe it was because of the holiday season. For whatever reason, the La Crosse County Board made their last scheduled meeting of 2024 a quick one. “Fastest meeting ever on record,” County Board chair Tina Tryggestad remarked Thursday, as she adjourned the 6 p.m. meeting roughly 10 minutes later.…

WIZMnews.com A local clergyman and a community volunteer have been recognized with the yearly Iverson-Freking Award by the Bethany-St. Joseph nursing homes of La Crosse, an award announced just before Christmas every year. Reverend Mark Jolivette and Mary Lichtie are being honored for their work to help the community, and for their spiritual example. Jolivette…

WIZMnews.com Between 2008 and 2021, 379 people have tragically died taking selfies. That’s right, hundreds of lives lost in the pursuit of that perfect Instagram moment. Now compare that to the number of kids killed in school shootings during that same time period. According to the data, between 170 and 190 children have tragically lost…

WIZMnews.com The International Friendship Gardens along La Crosse’s riverfront will add a proposed Ho-Chunk garden next year. Planners have announced more details of the garden project which was approved by the city park board in October. A centerpiece of the garden will be a sculpture of a historic native resident named Betsy Thunder, according to…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin 15-year-old who shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student Monday was only in her first semester at the school but seemed to be settling in, a school official said Thursday as families of the victims remembered them as people of faith who had deep connections within…

WIZMnews.com It was called the Cheese League. NFL teams holding minicamp across Wisconsin, and UW-La Crosse was host to one of those teams for a dozen years. Beginning in 1988, the New Orleans Saints called the UW-L campus home for a few weeks in the summer. From coach Mike Ditka, a rookie RB named Ricky…

WIZMnews.com Maybe it was the weather. Maybe it was because of the holiday season. For whatever reason, the La Crosse County Board made their last scheduled meeting of 2024 a quick one. “Fastest meeting ever on record,” County Board chair Tina Tryggestad remarked Thursday, as she adjourned the 6 p.m. meeting roughly 10 minutes later.…

WIZMnews.com A local clergyman and a community volunteer have been recognized with the yearly Iverson-Freking Award by the Bethany-St. Joseph nursing homes of La Crosse, an award announced just before Christmas every year. Reverend Mark Jolivette and Mary Lichtie are being honored for their work to help the community, and for their spiritual example. Jolivette…

WIZMnews.com Between 2008 and 2021, 379 people have tragically died taking selfies. That’s right, hundreds of lives lost in the pursuit of that perfect Instagram moment. Now compare that to the number of kids killed in school shootings during that same time period. According to the data, between 170 and 190 children have tragically lost…

WIZMnews.com Who would you pick, if you could choose the Person of the Year? Time magazine is famous for designating a Person of the Year honor for almost a century, starting as Man of the Year in the 1920s, with Charles Lindbergh being the first winner, for flying solo across the Atlantic. I’ve found that…