owner of Nou’s Deli Asian Market at 1509 George St She bought the former Yang’s Market and Deli business in that location and renamed it The grocery part of Nou's opened April 7 and the deli part (now cordoned off Nou Xiong displays some of the eggrolls that Nou’s Deli Asian Market makes and sells packaged The business will expand its selection of prepared foods once its deli area opens on May 7 The grocery part of the business opened April 7 Nou Xiong opened the grocery part of her Nou’s Deli Asian Market at 1509 George St in La Crosse on April 7 and will open the deli part of the business on May 7 Xiong bought the former Yang’s Market and Deli business at that location renamed it and operates it with help from her husband Chinese and Hmong.” Nou’s also sells some deli items that she and her husband make and package chicken quarters with rice and various Asian desserts the business also will offer additional items such as pho “I’ve been wanting to open a business like this for a long time,” Nou said “And when (the previous owners) wanted to sell this place adding that Yang’s Market and Deli had many customers Monday through Saturday and closed on Sunday Nou was born in Thailand and Tony was born in Laos For more information, call the business at 608-881-6053 or visit its Facebook page This is the last week for the Three Gals Variety store at 701 Walrath St “Personal reasons,” Becky Erickson told me opened the variety store (with help from Erickson’s daughter Sophie) in June 2022 in the former Denny’s Market building Hours for the store’s final two days are 3 to 6 p.m and the remaining merchandise has been selling at deep discounts Erickson told me that she plans to sell any items that remain after the store closes Three Gals Variety sells such things as apparel and accessories, toys, home decor and jewelry. For more information, call 608-633-3324 or visit the store’s Facebook page La Crosse Tobacco & Vape opened about a month ago in the former Steve’s Small Engine location at 3425 Mormon Coulee Road in La Crosse The new business describes itself as a “one-stop smoke and vape shop.” It sells such things as vapes Steve Cahalan writes about business news and can be reached at stevecahalan. reporter@gmail.com Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly Download now at www.lacrossetribune.com/apps Steve Cahalan reports on local business developments Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here When Bill Belichick arrived in Chapel Hill last week for a press conference introducing the six-time Super Bowl champion as the head coach of the North Carolina football team his first stop was not Kenan Memorial Stadium but rather Dorrance Field He left a handwritten note for Joe Breschi “My first stop on campus is the lacrosse office,” Belichick wrote Breschi and his North Carolina men’s lacrosse staff were attending the IMLCA Convention in Florida when Belichick and the university agreed to a five-year $50 million contract that has been the talk of college football “What I’m really excited about is our hire of Coach Belichick,” Breschi said in an interview with USA Lacrosse Magazine on Monday but what it does for us recruiting dual athletes.” who played lacrosse at Wesleyan and has championed the growth of the sport through the Bill Belichick Foundation has already offered Breschi his full support from the football side “We’ve lost a lot of [recruits] who play two sports,” said Breschi mentioning Troy Reeder (Penn State/Delaware) and Ricky Miezan (Stanford) as examples of North Carolina lacrosse commits who opted to play football elsewhere absent the opportunity to do both in Chapel Hill ‘Whatever you need for the lacrosse program let me know.’ To have a lacrosse guy in that role is enormous.” The Tar Heels’ top lacrosse recruit in the current high school senior class — St Anthony’s (N.Y.) and Team 91 Long Island Shock midfielder Gary Merrill — was just named New York’s Gatorade Player of the Year in football Merrill accounted for 3,717 yards and 51 touchdowns as a rusher and passer for the CHSFL runner-up Friars Merrill committed to North Carolina for lacrosse but waited to sign his national letter of intent until the football window opened earlier this month “Part of the deal was him having a chance to play both,” Breschi said Belichick is close friends with Breschi’s defensive coordinator when Pietramala was the head coach at Johns Hopkins and the two bonded over hours-long conversations about culture Belichick has become inextricably linked to his other favorite sport is the head women’s lacrosse coach at Holy Cross The New England Patriots became a haven for former lacrosse players like wide receiver Chris Hogan cornerbacks coach Mike Pellegrino and staffer Chris Mattes Whenever NFL reporters wanted the notoriously terse football coach to talk more they’d ask about the stick-and-ball game he grew up playing in Annapolis That’s at least how the conversation between Belichick and Breschi started when they sat together at Pietramala’s wedding in July Then Belichick asked about North Carolina football was an assistant there from 1953-55 before a 33-year career at Navy Belichick had a keen interest in how the program operated When North Carolina fired Hall of Fame coach Mack Brown last month none of the college football pundits pegged Belichick as a candidate to replace him The school’s move on Belichick shocked almost everyone Let me know if you need anything,’” Breschi said I’m interested in speaking with them.’ The board of trustees got involved.” As Belichick noted in an interview with “The Pat McAfee Show” on Monday North Carolina does have a pair of football players on the lacrosse roster in Tar Heels kicker Ryan Hornyak and former Texas Christian wide receiver Drew Scott With a famous lacrosse ally now running the football team expect plenty more where that came from.  USA Lacrosse is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt charitable organization (EIN 52-1765246) Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault and rape.  Crystal Mangum, the woman who falsely accused three Duke men’s lacrosse players of rape in 2006 admitted she lied about the allegations and asked for David Evans Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann’s forgiveness Mangum made her confession in an interview published Wednesday on “Let’s Talk with Kat,” hosted by Katerena DePasquale, at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Unrelated to the lacrosse case, Mangum is currently in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder of her then-boyfriend in 2013 “I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me,” Mangum said in the interview “[I] made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.” Then-N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper did not prosecute Mangum for perjury after the case was dismissed, saying at the time that the investigators thought “she may have actually believed the many different stories that she has been telling.” The statute of limitations on perjury charges typically lasts two years in North Carolina law meaning that Mangum can no longer be prosecuted for lying under oath Duke Athletics declined The Chronicle’s request for comment on Mangum’s statement former University President Richard Brodhead then-head men’s lacrosse coach Mike Pressler and Seligmann did not respond to The Chronicle’s request for comment in time for publication Mangum’s statement comes nearly two decades after she asserted that she was raped by the lacrosse players she had never publicly stated that it was not true.  In her 2008 book “Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story,” Mangum wrote “I will never say that nothing at all happened that night,” after which she provided graphic details of the alleged incident she has told inconsistent accounts of the night throughout the past 18 years DePasquale added that when she initially contacted Mangum she was not aware that Mangum wanted to apologize Mangum expressed her desire to apologize to the players in her response to DePasquale's request for an interview “It’s been on my heart to do a public apology concerning the Duke lacrosse case,” Mangum wrote to DePasquale in a letter obtained by The Chronicle “I actually lied about the incident to the public “When we met and were about to begin the interview she made it clear that all she wanted to do is to apologize,” DePasquale wrote to The Chronicle “It felt like this apology was something she needed to get off her chest.” When Mangum’s allegations came to light in March 2006 many members of the Duke community — and the nation — believed her Brodhead led a widely criticized administrative response in which the University did not push back on antagonism towards the defendants from the Duke community.  Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann sued Brodhead and the University after their case was dismissed in April 2007, which came to an undisclosed settlement. They alleged that Brodhead repeatedly made false statements and conspired to deprive them of their right to a fair trial In a September 2007 statement Brodhead characterized his response as causing “the families to feel abandoned when they most needed support.” Mangum repeatedly mentioned her relationship with God while in prison invoking her faith in her call for forgiveness “I hope that [the players] can heal and trust God and know that God loves them and that God is loving them through me letting them know that they're valuable,” she said.  Mangum referred to the three accused lacrosse players as her “brothers,” saying they “didn’t deserve [the accusations].”  Finnerty and Seligmann surrounded the events of March 13 Mangum alleged that the three players raped her at a team house party on 610 N where they paid to have two strippers — including Mangum — in attendance The allegations triggered a widespread national response from the media which spent months on and around Duke’s campus.  Amid the national outcry, the University canceled the team’s March 25 game against Georgetown “We have done this in view of the situation we’re now in,” Brodhead said in a press conference  following the game’s cancellation “There are questions so grave that are in the air that for us to continue to play would be inappropriate.” Brodhead later moved to cancel the remainder of the season.  “We never found out who leaked McFadyen's email [to the press],” said Chris Kennedy senior deputy athletics director and then-senior associate athletics director and leaked it and had basically [taken] what [McFadyen] said out of context.” Before and during the trial — the same period in which he was running for reelection — Mike Nifong, then-Durham County district attorney and lead prosecutor in the case, spoke openly to the press, saying in an March 2006 interview with CBS News that "there's no doubt a sexual assault took place." Initially, Nifong said that the DNA would prove which players were innocent. However, once all of the tests came back negative, Nifong reversed his statement, noting that courts of law used to have to “deal with sexual assault cases the good old-fashioned way [where] witnesses got on the stand and told what happened to them,” absent of DNA evidence Nifong was disbarred June 16, 2007, by the North Carolina State Bar for lying in court and withholding DNA evidence which ultimately absolved the defendants of responsibility for Mangum’s allegations Finnerty and Seligmann’s lawsuit brought against Brodhead and Duke also condemned Nifong and his co-conspirators’ “tragic rush to accuse” and their “failure to verify serious allegations.” Even though the charges against the players were dismissed in April 2007 the lives of those involved were permanently altered while Seligmann transferred to Brown University and Finnerty to Loyola University Maryland Many journalists who reported on the case — including former Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Seyward Darby — appeared in ESPN’s 2016 documentary “Fantastic Lies” to talk about the impact of the case.  In October 2008, Mangum addressed the public for the first time since the case and I wanted justice for myself,” she said she did not admit that she had fabricated the allegations and continued to support the story told in “Last Dance for Grace.” “I don't have any regrets,” she told DePasquale “Everything happens to get everybody to the point where they are and it's all to show God's love and His forgiveness Dom Fenoglio is a Trinity junior and a sports managing editor of The Chronicle's 120th volume Ranjan Jindal is a Trinity junior and audience engagement director of The Chronicle's 121st volume He was previously sports editor for Volume 120 Sophie Levenson is a Trinity junior and a sports managing editor of The Chronicle's 120th volume Abby Spiller is a Trinity junior and analytics editor of the audience engagement team of The Chronicle's 121st volume She was previously editor-in-chief for Volume 120 Share and discuss “Crystal Mangum admits to fabricating 2006 Duke lacrosse scandal accusations” on social media The 91st annual USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament is headed to the WRAL Soccer Park in Raleigh This year’s event will take place from May 25-26 and feature more than 1,000 of the nation’s top high school players the USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament has evolved into one of the nation’s premier high school recruiting events Combined with the NCAA Division I Women’s Lacrosse Championships in Cary it makes for a full celebration of women's lacrosse in the state this weekend The USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament has featured the best players in the sport’s history over the years from Hall of Famers to the next wave of stars Among the gold medalists from the 2022 U.S women’s team that played in the event during their high school years were Sam Apuzzo this year’s NCAA final four teams include countless past USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament participants Belle Smith (Boston College) and Emma Ward (Syracuse) The USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament provides a unique opportunity for college coaches to evaluate recruits as the players participate on all-star teams as opposed to their high school and club teams College coaches embrace the chance to see how the players fit into new environments and new roles The geographic distribution of the teams also provides a platform for teams from developing lacrosse regions to see how they stack up against the traditional hotbeds while gaining unprecedented exposure This year’s event will feature a combined Nebraska/Iowa team marking the first time those states have participated featuring players from a variety of states many of whom did not have tryouts available for their region a program aimed at providing high-level playing opportunities to encourage minority participation in lacrosse will send teams to the USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament The field is divided into six divisions based on previous year’s results and each division will crown a champion This year’s USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament event sponsors include First Scout Productions Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance and Visit Raleigh Not sure what you're looking for? 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Crosse’s award-winning community oral history project Here is expanding to the North side of La Crosse and offering a new public class to collect oral histories from this new section of the city.  “I think it is important for all voices to be heard but especially those who are not typically heard,” explains UWL History Professor Ariel Beaujot Here project with UWL students in 2015 and will teach the new course a high school social studies teacher at Logan on the North side Here project’s expansion to the Northside is incredibly important and rewarding and also can be an experience I bring back to my students,” she says and couldn't be more excited to return to it as a community member.”  “It was an exhilarating experience in many respects,” she says. Mahlum-Jenkins took advantage of the multigenerational composition of the class to get help getting reacquainted with the technology used in the classroom and she found plenty of opportunities to share her own experiences.  “Some of the course content gave me time to reflect on what my life experiences were like growing up privileged in comparison to how others may have experienced the same period in time from another perspective college and initial career experiences in the class students were spellbound and listened carefully 70’s and 80’s was history to them only exposed by books because their parents were too young to know first-hand.”  Here project started in downtown La Crosse in 2015 Beaujot wanted to expand to the North Side because of its unique history in La Crosse The North Side started as a separate community connected to the South Side by a plank road After the lumber industry crashed at the turn of the 19th century it was the North Side's industrial growth that employed laborers looking for jobs and it was this growth that makes La Crosse what it is today The North Side was the home to factories like the La Crosse Rubber Mills and Electric Auto Lite and dozens of sawmills that lined the riverbank The locals supported their own downtown that included a theater the North Side has its own rich history that should be celebrated “One of the goals of this project is for North La Crosse to be more ‘seen’ in the larger community — for the North Side to be able to tell their stories in their own voices and to be heard and recognized within the neighborhood but also to be heard by those from the rest of the city as well,” says Beaujot Here project’s methodology of collecting oral histories was originally a way to get voices into the historical record there that were not there in traditional written sources held by archives The very first group of people that were represented in oral histories were working-class men This is a group that is important for the North Side given the number of factories that were previously in the area The North Side was also home to the Moss family one of the only Black families in La Crosse for many years It is a place that Ho Chunk people had a summer settlement and various new immigrants made their homes says it encouraged him to step outside of his comfort zone and engage in conversations that challenged perceptions and expanded his perspectives while providing him with practical tools to navigate difficult conversations and conflicts constructively in other areas of his life “I became more aware of my own biases and learned how to approach conversations with an open mind and heart,” he says “I use the lessons I learned [in the first Hear and I am committed to continuing to be a compassionate listener and an advocate for meaningful conversations.”  Here is based on the concept that everyday people can share their location-based stories providing a unique way to communicate history through multiple narratives including voices that are normally overlooked.  Here project was developed by UWL History Professor Ariel Beaujot and her students in 2015 The project provides audio recordings of stories from people of all backgrounds at specific downtown La Crosse locations The project is now expanding to the North Side of La Crosse They are accessed by dialing a toll-free number at orange street signs.  Canada (2018); Luxemburg Europe (2022); and Guelph Canada (2023) It includes not only stories from the past but poetry and partnerships with other UWL departments K-12 education and community organizations “For me the most exciting part is that we get to keep expanding the project worldwide while keeping the original project in La Crosse,” says Beaujot “We can take pride in such a successful international project originating in La Crosse will be offered to both community members and UWL students Taught by UWL History Professor Ariel Beaujot Classes are on Wednesday evenings from 5:30-8:15 p.m at the Black River Beach Neighborhood Center The class will use 30 stories that have already been recorded from UWL’s Oral History Program Every student will record and edit at least two additional stories during the first semester It is 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