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Help! I Can’t Get No Satisfaction: Beatles Vs. Stones Takes Stage

By Morgan McCarthy | September 18, 2025

The critically-acclaimed Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown production will be bringing its highly-anticipated Fall Tour 2025 to the RCU Theatre at the Pablo Center at the Confluence on Wednesday, October 22nd at 7:30 pm.  This unforgettable show takes the audience on a musical trip to the heart of the British Invasion, to witness the greatest concert that never was – The Beatles and The Rolling Stones live together on stage. For the past decade with more than 2200 performances across

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Police Seek Tips in Cemetery Vandalism Case

By Morgan McCarthy | September 18, 2025

La Crosse Police are investigating a recent act of vandalism at a local cemetery.  Reports say that between 5 p.m. on September 10th and 9:05 a.m. on September 11th, a suspect — or multiple suspects — damaged a number of headstones at the Oak Grove Cemetery.  Anyone with additional information on the incident or the people involved is encouraged to contact police.

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Victim of La Crosse Crash Identified

By Morgan McCarthy | September 18, 2025

Authorities are sharing the name of a person who lost their life this week in a La Crosse collision.  Twenty-year-old Braeden Felber was riding a motorcycle Tuesday afternoon when he collided with a car near West Avenue and Farnam Street.  Felber later died at a local hospital.

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Chippewa City Council Swears In New Member

By Morgan McCarthy | September 18, 2025

Chippewa Falls City Council is back at full strength.  The body had been left with vacancies following the summer resignations of Scott Sullivan and Heather Martell.  Tim Normand had already taken the Sullivan seat and now Dan Dixson has been sworn in as Martell’s replacement. 

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EC County Plans Last Clean Sweep for 2025

By Morgan McCarthy | September 18, 2025

WWR Environmental along with Eau Claire County will be hosting the final clean sweep event of the year this weekend. Saturday’s event will run from 8 a.m. to noon at 5200 Ryder Road.  The event will provide Eau Claire County residents with the opportunity to safely rid themselves of household hazardous materials.  Most materials can be disposed of for free though there will be a small fee for things like latex paints and light bulbs.  More details can be found

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Hong Announces Run for Governor

By Morgan McCarthy | September 17, 2025

Wisconsin Representative Francesca Hong is announcing her campaign for Governor.  Hong is a Madison native and serves in the State Assembly, while also working as a bartender and line cook.  She was elected in 2020.  She joins four other democrats in the race: Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, State Senator Kelda Roys, and American Family Field vendor Ryan Strnad.  Republican candidates include Washington County Executive Josh Shoemann and businessman Bill Berrien.  Primary elections will be next

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WI AI Data Centers Use Energy, Plan Additions

By Morgan McCarthy | September 17, 2025

AI data centers in Wisconsin are expected to use more energy than all homes in the state combined. A new report by Clean Wisconsin says two approved data centers in Wisconsin — the Microsoft center in Mt. Pleasant and the Vantage center in Port Washington — report they could use three-point-nine gigawatts of energy. That’s enough to power four-point-three million homes, while US Census data shows Wisconsin has less than three million. There are three other proposed or approved data

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From Chills and Thrills to Giving and Running for a Cause, CV Museum Plans Fall Fun

By Morgan McCarthy | September 17, 2025

Fall is here, and the Chippewa Valley Museum has some scary good programs for you. Monster Monday, Monday, October 13, 4-7pm Join us October 13 for some monstrously good family time. Bat Ambassador Heather Mishefske, a Wisconsin Master Naturalist, is swooping in to take us to the Bat Cave for a special presentation at 4:30pm or 6pm. Fuel up with complimentary pizza and then head to the ice cream parlor to purchase some sweet treats. Keep the fun going with

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Man Ordered to Mental Health Facility in Stepfather Shooting

By Morgan McCarthy | September 17, 2025

A man who prosecutors say fatally shot his stepfather is learning his fate.  Reports say that on January 18th of 2024, Alan Fry went to his mother’s Farnam Street home in La Crosse and shot 61-year-old Brady Fredrickson multiple times.  Fredrickson died at the scene.  Fry pleaded no contest by reason of mental disease or defect to second-degree intentional homicide charges back in July, and has now been remanded to a state mental health facility for a term of 35

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Bond Set for Man Accused of Invasion of Privacy

By Morgan McCarthy | September 17, 2025

Bond is being set at ten-thousand dollars for a man accused of recording a woman in the shower on the campus of the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire.  The incident happened this past Saturday at Towers Hall South with the victim saying the suspect — since identified as 26-year-old Deshaun Barkus — fled the scene after being spotted.  Barkus was later arrested on a charge of capturing an intimate representation without consent and invasion of privacy with a surveillance

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