La Crosse Tribune back issues from November 2007:
Former Westby banker charged in federal court
Nov 01, 2007; ... MADISON - Federal bank embezzlement charges were filed Wednesday against a former Westby, Wis., banker accused of stealing more than $350,000 from the bank. Dale M. Pedretti, 45, of Westby is accused in U.S. District Court in Madison with stealing the money while working at Fortress Bank ...
University of Minnesota professor says colony collapse disorder likely has multiple causes
Nov 03, 2007; ... A combination of factors likely has led to the phenomenon dubbed colony collapse disorder in honeybees, a University of Minnesota professor said Friday. American honeybees are under more stress from such things as varroa mites that have become resistant to treatment, old wax combs that ...
Western deal offers UW studies options
Nov 03, 2007; ... MAUSTON, Wis. - A new agreement will allow students at two rural Western Technical College sites to more easily take classes at nearby University of Wisconsin campuses in Sauk and Richland counties. The pact Western officials signed Thursday with UW-Baraboo/Sauk County and UW-Richland in ...
State raiding fund upsets doctors
Nov 04, 2007; ... La Crosse area physicians and hospital officials are fuming over the new state budget that takes $200 million out of a compensation fund for injured patients.nation's longest budget stalemate. The move was part of the compromise budget Gov. Jim Doyle signed Oct. 26 after the state ...
MTU proposes fare increases
Nov 07, 2007; ... Adults would pay 25 cents more and senior citizens and people with disabilities 10 cents more to ride the bus starting Jan. 1 under fare increases proposed by the La Crosse Municipal Transit Utility. The MTU board in Maydecided against a mid-year fare hike but cautioned a 2008 increase ...
Neshonoc owners to pay for access to lakefront
Nov 07, 2007; ... WEST SALEM, Wis. - It will cost some Lake Neshonoc property owners nearly $25,000 to put a dock in the water next year. That's because they don't actually own the waterfront between the lake and their homes, which puts their docks in violation of state rules. La Crosse County ...
Holmen OKs referendums
Nov 07, 2007; ... HOLMEN, Wis. - Holmen School District voters approved referendums Tuesday that will build a new elementary school in the district and provide funds needed to support it. "It will be tremendous tohave a new facility and the operating capital to go with it," District Administrator Fred ...
UW-L students endorse growth plan
Nov 08, 2007; ... The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Student Senate on Wednesday endorsed a new plan that would charge incoming students more for tuition and use the funds to hire more staff and increase enrollment. When Chancellor Joe Gow unveiled the Growth, Quality and Access plan last week, he said ...
O'Malley may get 6 percent raise in2008
Nov 08, 2007; ... La Crosse County Administrator Steve O'Malley would get a 6 percent raise in 2008, bringing his salary to approximately $141,421, under a four-year contract extension recommended Wednesday. O'Malley, who now makes $133,681, would get 4 percent base raises in each year of the contract, ...
Wanted: Developers to give Fourth and Jackson a fresh look
Nov 09, 2007; ... Lillian and Herbert Lounsbrough have lived at Fourth and Jackson streets on La Crosse's South Side for more than 50 years. "The neighborhood used to be very different," Lillian said. It all was families, she said. "Now we're the only ones left," she said. "The other families went ...
La Crosse considers room tax increase
Nov 09, 2007; ... Two La Crosse Common Council members Thursday proposed raising the city's hotel room tax by 1 percent to raise $500,000 for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's stadium project. The council resolution was introduced by Dorothy Lenard and Jai Johnson, who represent districts that ...
Holmen seeks 37% water rate hike
Nov 15, 2007; ... HOLMEN, Wis. - The Holmen Municipal Water Utility is seeking a 37 percent rate increase - its first in 11 years - to finance a recently completed well and reservoir. "It was time," said Angela Hornberg, Holmen's clerk-treasurer. "Holmen is growing, its needs are growing and unfortunately ...
Main Street Ingredients to grow
Nov 15, 2007; ... Main Street Ingredients at 2340 Enterprise Ave. expects to add 51 jobs over three years because of a recently completed $2.8 million expansion project, company and state officials said Wednesday. The La Crosse company, which makes ingredients for the dairy, nutritional and food ...
Health report mixed for region
Nov 16, 2007; ... La Crosse County is ranked the 11th healthiest in Wisconsin in a report released today. The annual report of county rankings by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute showed La Crosse County moved up from No. 16 in 2006 to No. 11 in 2007 among the state's 72 counties and ...
Taste how it's made
Nov 16, 2007; ... Eight years after the business began at another location, the Pearl Street Brewery's first-ever tasting room/gift shop will make its debut today. Its grand opening will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at the brewery, 1401 St. Andrew St., in part of the former LaCrosse Footwear Inc. factory ...
Auto shop owner says politics are driving him out of town
Nov 17, 2007; ... After almost 30 years of clashes with City Hall, John's Auto owner John Reget wants out. "I grew up in La Crosse," Reget said. "I love the town, just don't like the politics." He put a "for sale" sign in the window of his purple and blue shop on Rose Street, and said he's ready ...
UW-L braces for housing crunch
Nov 17, 2007; ... Freshman Tonya Rhodes said she's just fine with her accommodations at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus - even though she's living in a White Hall study lounge with three other students. A couple wardrobes divide the four beds in the lounge from the "living area" that has been ...
WHAT'S SAFE
Nov 21, 2007; ... Toy shoppers will notice the major retailers this holiday season are decorated with recall notices. The toy aisles have open spaces where television characters, doll accessories and millions of other Chinese-made toys had sat before being yanked amid fears about lead paint and other ...
'No better place'
Nov 25, 2007; ... French Island may be just across the Black River from La Crosse, but it's a whole other place. Fiercely independent and charmingly rustic, its residents love island life for its small-town feel and closeness to nature. And it doesn't hurt that they're close to the big city ...
Cottage home holds classes for disabled
Nov 23, 2007; ... NikKevin Cottage at Riverfront bares little resemblance to the memorial Mary Kief first envisioned. The new independent living training center evolved from an endowment for young people with disabilities in honor of Kief's daughter Nikki Sauer and nephew Kevin Kief. Once a ...
Shopping season in full swing
Nov 24, 2007; ... People came to La Crosse from the north on Friday, the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season. "They had a lot of sales going on in every store," Winona State University student Belinda Agyapong said, explaining why she and four fellow WSU students were in Valley View Mall ...
An international affair
Nov 22, 2007; ... Attracting international students is not easy for an institution the size of Viterbo University. Viterbo has 25 international students representing 15 countries from around the world among its approximately 3,300 total faculty, staff and students this fall. International students ...
Area's unemployment rate declines
Nov 22, 2007; ... The La Crosse metropolitan area's unemployment rate declined to 3.8 percent in October from 3.9 percent in September, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development said Wednesday. But it was up from 3.2 percent in October 2006. Of the state's 12 metropolitan areas, seven saw their ...
Captioning is her mission of love
Nov 26, 2007; ... Sometimes a job is more than just a job. It may be a career or, at its best, a mission. Sue Veres, who has worked as a certified court reporter since 1980, has seen her work escalate from a career to a mission of love as she's found new ways to use her skills to bring accessibility to ...
NONTRADITIONAL JOBS
Nov 27, 2007; ... Machine tooling is a lot like sewing, according to Kara Baldwin. However, the machinist uses a blueprint instead of a paper pattern and cuts through steel rather than fabric, said Baldwin, a machinist at Sparta Tool. Baldwin, who takes machine tool classes at Western Technical ...