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Wauwatosa — The Common Council next Tuesday will consider creating an economic development director position and funding a study that could result in a reorganization of the Fire Department, City Administrator Jim Archambo said Wednesday. According to Archambo: A council committee on Tuesday recommended creating the economic development job and making it essentially an at-will position; that...
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Twelve people from a West Allis bowling alley were taken to Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center on Wednesday after reporting that they were feeling sick, police said. Medical workers are trying to determine whether the people were exposed to carbon monoxide, St. Luke's spokeswoman Myrle Croasdale said. "They are being treated in the emergency department as we speak," Croasdale said. West Allis...
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A new analysis of Wisconsin's budget woes puts the state among the 10 most fiscally challenged in the country, joining California in a group struggling to sustain solvency. The rise in unemployment and steep drop in state revenues suggests a dire future for a state that struggled to fill perennial budget deficits, according to the Pew Center on the States and its report: "Beyond California: States...
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The saw sliced through the trunk of the 35-foot Colorado spruce. A crane hauled the tree onto the back of a truck. Workers strapped the tree in preparation for its eight-mile police escort downtown. Everyone standing in Nancy Bartol's front yard clapped. "Oh, you can smell it," said Bartol's sister, Ann Froehlke.
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Boulder Junction - A 45-year-old man has died from injuries suffered in a fire at his northern Wisconsin home, according to the Vilas County Sheriff's Department. Capt. John Butler said Wednesday that firefighters were called to the home in Boulder Junction about 7 p.m. Tuesday. At the scene, a father reported that his son, Richard Haag, was in the basement trying to put out a fire and hadn't come...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Roy Scholtka and Bob Moore took off on a total of 92 missions in B-24 Liberators during World War II. Both patronized Steven's Steakhouse in West Allis for years, but never met. Not until a few days before Veterans Day this year.
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Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker said he'll use his broad veto power to preserve the privatization efforts that were stripped from the 2010 budget by the County Board early Tuesday after an overnight session.
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Milwaukee County Supervisor Toni Clark is the subject of a secret criminal investigation into possible campaign finance abuses, the Journal Sentinel has learned. Clark declined Tuesday to answer questions about the matter. Last month, she filed three amended campaign reports with the county Board of Election Commissioners. In those reports, Clark admitted she took in and spent money from her campaign...
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The Milwaukee Health Department said it has received another 11,000 doses of H1N1 flu vaccine that it will administer at clinics on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The clinics will be held Thursday from 2 to 8 p.m. at Webster Middle School, 6850 N. 53rd St.; Friday from 3 to 9 p.m. at South Division High School, 1515 W. Lapham Blvd; and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Webster. The swine flu vaccine,...
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Central Lakes is previewed in the Brainerd Dispatch. Ridgewater is previewed in the West Central Tribune. Riverland has a season preview in the Austin Daily Herald. MN West can score points. From the Worthington Daily Globe. Kirkwood opened defense of it's national title in fine fashion this weekend with a pair of wins in the John Wood Classic in Quincy, IL. Saturday's opener saw the eagles jump to...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Pandl's Restaurant in Bayside, a fixture on the North Shore since 1968, is closing, and the building will be converted into a synagogue and community center.
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
City building officials locked and placarded a building at 2235-2237 N. King Drive where an illegal rave party took place over the weekend and ordered that the building remain vacant until the owner gets the required inspections and occupancy permit.
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Pfc. Amber Bahr of Random Lake heard someone yelling and ducked at the sound of gunfire, but she said she thought supervisors at Fort Hood were holding a drill last Thursday. She didn't know she was under live fire until she heard people screaming. In interviews aired Monday by NBC's "Today" and NBC Milwaukee affiliate WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), Bahr, 19, told of how she was shot in the back during...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Pandl's Restaurant in Bayside, a fixture on the North Shore since 1968, is closing. The restaurant announced Monday that it would close after brunch on Sunday. In an e-mail to customers, restaurant owners said, "We will miss you and the great honor it has been to serve the community."
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A vacant building at 2235-37 N. King Drive where an illegal rave took place over the weekend will be placarded by the Department of Neighborhood Services today at noon, Milwaukee police said Monday. The owner of the building, Paul Bachowski, was arrested by police and cited for a number of violations, including operating an unlicensed facility, said Anne E. Schwartz, Milwaukee police spokeswoman. Two...
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