Port dads approve funds for LaX store

A grocery store is one step closer to returning to LaCrosse after commissioners with the Port of Whitman County decided Monday to grant backers of a marketplace proposal $42,000.

LaCrosse Community Pride, a group of store backers from LaCrosse and western Whitman County, asked for port funding last month.

The group’s plan is to remodel the LaCrosse Market building, which closed down in February, 2009, into a combination grocery store, library and office space.

In their proposal, the group envisioned as many as 15 jobs being created at the market place.

Commissioner Don Cox reported he had been...