Military

Cold, snowy weather forced this year’s Hudson Veterans Day ceremony indoors, but that didn’t freeze out the event’s attendance, reverence...

The 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C., was marked in Hudson by a group of citizens who gathered on the 11st Street bridge to wave American flags as Interstate 94 traffic passed below. Many...

One of the reasons Spc. Brent Kodesh enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve at age 29 was a desire for adventure. Now 32, Kodesh can say the...

David Hernandez didn’t give up when his first application to attend college on a Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship was rejected. And he didn’t quit when the second and third applications were turned down, either. “I kept applying at different colleges, and...

The Memorial Day observances at Willow River Cemetery drew a large crowd on a beautiful summer-like day. The presentation was sponsored by American...

Gregory D. Fuchs of Cornell University, a 1991 graduate of Hudson High School, will be a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on researchers in the early stages of their careers. “The impressive...

He was 12 years old and suffering from kidney failure. The decision was made to let him go. He is Bronx, a Siberian Husky who come into the life of Army Private Dillon Koski when he was a puppy. Koski, a 2012 graduate of Hudson High School, was on his way home from being stationed...

The diary that Joe Coughlin’s father kept sheds light on the physical and emotional pain soldiers dealt with fighting on the front lines of World War I. Ambrose B. Coughlin grew up in La Crosse and enlisted in the Army as a young man when the war broke out. He was a machine gunner...