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Bliss Road reopens
La Crosse’s Bliss Road reopened Thursday without fanfare - just three city workers removing the orange barrels and barricades that have restricted access to Grandad Bluff.

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Football — MSHSL playoffs: Caledonia, Houston making adjusts before title games
When the Caledonia High School football coach finds a routine that works for his team, he keeps it. He has used the same routine leading up to an MSHSL Class AA state championship game twice in the last three years. But Fruechte has altered that approach this time around with two weeks between the semifinal and championship rounds.

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opinion

How is Bush really pro-life?
Recent letters have accused Barack Obama of being “a baby killer and a murderer.”

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As I child, I’d sit on the couch watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade while my mom clanked dishes in the kitchen.

business

(2008/11/21)
Two Brothers Powersports in La Crosse and Onalaska plans to replace both locations next year with a new 25,000-square-foot facility at 905 Oak Ave. S., off Hwy. 35 near Dee’s Muffler in Onalaska.

(2008/11/18)
Karen Gibbons and Brenda Wallace had mammograms recently because their employer made it easy for them to get the breast screening at work.

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LET THE HUNT BEGIN: Thousands of hunters are busy preparing for Saturday's opening of the regular gun-deer hunting season in Wisconsin. The Department of Natural Resources says children of hunters can tag along to observe the hunt, and the DNR recommends anyone in the woods during the gun-deer season wear blaze orange as a safety precaution. To read the DNR's answers to 10 frequently asked questions every deer hunter should know before trekking for a trophy deer, click here. To read what author Randall Eaton told an audience at Viterbo University Wednesday about hunting and the importance of it for kids, click here. Lee Newspapers file photo

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Daily LIVE!

(2008/11/21)
Harmless as a puppy, “Bolt” comes bounding into theaters, stumbling over its big, goofy paws, wagging its fluffy tail and begging to play ball.

(2008/11/21)
Teenage girls will surely squeal with delight throughout this feverishly awaited adaptation of the hugely selling vampire novel. And the arrival of tormented monster-hero Edward Cullen is certain to send another wave of shivers, and that’s before he ever sinks his teeth into anything — or anyone.

(2008/11/20)
Your guide for what's going on in music, karaoke, theater, visual arts, dance and movies this weekend