LaCrosse Café: Hazel's Place closes, new tenants sign lease

LaCrosse’s Teapot Café closed in 2012 after more than a decade in business. Since then, three proprietors have come and gone. A new lease was signed by Darlene Cates and Julie Roberts, former Dusty Café proprietors, and Soni Broeckel last week.

LaCrosse last month found itself once again looking for a café operator after Hazel's Place closed its doors Aug. 1.

“We are looking again,” Carol Cauley, a board member with LaCrosse Community Pride, reported in mid-August. “We've got to get somebody who really wants to keep it going. It takes a lot in a small town.”

Hazel's Place opened in May after W...