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Downtown Mainstreet shutdown brings change in La Crosse Center concessions
The disbanding of La Crosse’s Downtown Mainstreet, Inc. (DMI), may have a ripple effect on a few local businesses. That includes the La Crosse Center. DMI, which voted this week to disband at the end of the year, has provided concessions at Center events, but that will end on Dec. 1.
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WinCraft yanks line workers’ chairs, then yields
WINONA, Minnesota — Nobody would ever call Sharon Langve a rabble-rouser, but the 71-year-old production line employee at WinCraft, one of Winona’s largest employers, maneuvered the company into reversing a worker-unfriendly policy change. A boss in Langve’s 30-employee unit were told in September that their chairs were being take away. They would need to stand all shift at their tedious assembly benches. The change, unexpected, was alarming for Langve, who has two artificial knees, and also for co-workers with leg and back issues. An immediate suspicion was that WinCraft, which has 360 employees, was not budget-cutting — getting rid of senior employees and replacing them newcomers at lower starting wages. No, no, explained bosses. The workplace floorplan was being redesigned to increase production, which squeezed outs space for chairs. Either way, this is what happened next:
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Cardinal Glass Opens New Privacy Glass Manufacturing Facility
Cardinal Glass Industries is celebrating the opening of a dedicated manufacturing facility for its CLiC On-Demand Privacy Glass product line on Oct. 29, 2026, in Tomah, Wisconsin. The facility features fully robotic production lines designed to increase manufacturing capacity and reduce lead times. The upgraded operations also allow Cardinal to...
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Company in Tomah wins Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin contest
MADISON, Wis. (WEAU) - CLiC Smart Privacy Glass, manufactured by Cardinal IG in Tomah, was the winner of the award for Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin. According to a press release from Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin, more than 100 products were nominated this year. After a bracket-style popular vote round, four finalist competed for the trophy made by EK in Fall River and EFCO Finishing Corporation in Menomonee Falls.
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Dairyland Power considers bringing nuclear back to former Genoa site
A western Wisconsin utility is exploring whether to bring nuclear power back to the site of Wisconsin’s first nuclear power plant. Dairyland Power Cooperative announced a collaboration with Applied Atomics, a company that builds and operates small modular nuclear reactors. Grover Hettel, Dairyland’s executive vice president and chief nuclear...