Green Tree lane closure to be reconsidered
The River Hills Village Board on Feb. 17 will reconsider its decision to allow the closure of the eastbound lane of Green Tree Road between River and Jean Nicolet roads for six months.
The decision to reopen the discussion on the request comes after delivery of petitions with about 90 signatures from residents opposing the plan. In July a group of Green Tree Road residents representing 32 households asked the board to close the street, citing concerns about litter and safety.
After several months of discussion, the board opted for a half closure, the east bound lane only, on a six-month trial basis.
In December the city of Glendale and Nicolet School District sued the village, attempting to stop the plan. A hearing on the case is scheduled in circuit court Feb. 22.
Illinois stabbing victim was athlete, scholar from Brown Deer
The victim of a stabbing in Illinois was remembered Sunday as a multi-sport athlete at Brown Deer High School and a great student and leader.
Shaun Wild, 24, a second-grade teacher for a Naperville, Ill., school, was stabbed to death, apparently after an altercation at a Naperville bar early Saturday.
Wild, who graduated from North Central College in December, had recently started teaching second grade at Spring Brook Elementary School in Naperville.
He played football at North Central - he was the team's punter - and also played football for four years at Brown Deer High School, said his coach there, Rob Green.
"His junior and senior years, we won back to back conference titles in the Parkland conf, and he was our quarterback and our punter," Green said. He also played first base and pitched on the school's baseball team and was a hurdler on the track team. He was in the National Honor Society and won a statewide award as a student-athlete.
» Read Full ArticleNew officers introduced in Bayside
Bayside Police Chief Bruce Resnick introduced two new officers to the Village Board this week. Officer Gina Kleeba, sworn in on Jan. 2, is now attending the Police Academy. Kleeba was a village dispatcher prior to being sworn in. She will be back in the village in about three months when her schooling is completed. Resnick said he misses her computer skills and will be happy to see her back.
Cory Fuller, who speaks both French and Spanish, is the other addition to the department. Fuller spent a year teaching in France, Resnick said. While his French language skills might not be needed often, Resnick said his Spanish will likely be a help to the department. Fuller is on-the-road under the supervision of a training officer while he does his field training.
Brown Deer gunshot victim stable
Brown Deer Police say they anticipate a review of charges by Friday against a 20-year-old Brown Deer man who is a suspect in a shooting that took place in a village residence Tuesday morning. A 24-year-old Brown Deer man who was shot is in stable condition at Froedtert Hospital.
Police Tuesday said the victim was driven to St. Mary's Ozaukee after being shot in the leg/pelvic area. Hospital staff via Mequon Police notified local police of the injury. The suspect, with his attorney, later came to the village police station and turned himself in.
Police said he has been booked and taken to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility.
Brown Deer man shot at home; suspect in custody
A 24-year-old Brown Deer man who sought treatment for a gunshot wound at St. Mary's Hospital Ozaukee today was taken by Flight for Life to Froedtert Hospital as a precaution.
Hospital staff via Mequon Police notified Brown Deer police of the shooting at 10:03 a.m. According to police, the victim said he was shot at his home in the village and driven to the hospital by another family member.
He suffered a single gunshot wound to his leg/pelvic area.
A 20-year-old relative of the victim, who is also a resident of Brown Deer, was identified as the suspect in the shooting. After fleeing the scene, he eventually appeared at the Brown Deer Police Department with his attorney and is currently in custody.
This incident remains under investigation.
Brown Deer man shot, injured by relative
BROWN DEER - A man was shot and injured in a home in Brown Deer Tuesday morning, the Brown Deer Police Department said.
The victim, 24, suffered a gunshot wound to his pelvis and was transported to Froedert Hospital.
The suspect, 20, is a relative of the victim who fled shortly after the shooting.
"After fleeing the scene, the suspect eventually appeared at the Brown Deer Police Department with his attorney and is currently in our custody, Brown Deer Police officer Lisa Kumbier said in a news release. "This incident remains under investigation at this time."
Man arrested for drunken driving after leaving behind bumper, license plate
A 23-year-old Shorewood man was arrested for drunken driving, with a prior conviction, causing injury by drunken driving, following too close and hit and run after causing an accident with three people injured in the 3500 block of N. Oakland Ave. at 3:15 a.m. Saturday.
According to the Shorewood police report:
The man drove away from the accident scene but his front bumper with the car's license plate attached was left behind.
He and his car were located a short time later at his apartment across the street from the police department.
The car had extensive front-end damage with both air bags deployed and were dotted with blood.
» Read Full ArticleMasked man warned for trespassing outside Starbucks in wee hours
A 49-year-old Glendale man was warned for trespassing after a report of a man wearing a ski mask holding a computer standing outside of Starbucks, 302 E. Silver Spring Drive, at 2:30 a.m. Jan. 26.
The man said he was using the company's Wi-Fi to pay his bills online.
Brown Deer schools get $2.4 million additional bonds for campus remodel
The Brown Deer School District will have an additional $2.4 million in Qualified Zone Academy Bonds, QZAB, that will be used toward the remodeling of the middle school and the portion of the high school that will be used by the seventh and eighth grades once the move to a two-school campus is accomplished in 2013.
Director of Finance Emily Koczela said the authorization for additional bonds means taxpayers will save the interest on $2.4 million over the next 10 years.
Under the QZAB program, bondholders get federal tax credits instead of cash interest payments.
In June 2011, the district learned it got authority for $5 million under the program. The program requires a 10 percent match from the community.
Koczela said plans are under way for the match for the initial $5 million. Four projects, including the campus clean up, garden, plantings, creek clean up, the website, and the annual maintenance corps of volunteers, a Middle School PTO sponsored Science is Fun Fair and 20 internships per year for the next five years, and an educational concert or performance, are either under way or in the planning stage. Koczela estimates the value of the projects will be more than $500,000, or 10 percent, provided they all come to fruition.
» Read Full ArticleGT boys improve to 16-0 with impressive 90-54 rout of Bay
Whitefish Bay assistant basketball coach Jim Smallins knows all about terrifying, heart-in-your throat, head-shaking and what-in-the-name-of-heck-can-we do-against-these guys kind of teams.
After all, he coached a couple of them to WIAA state titles back in 1966 and 1967 during the halcyon days of the high-powered Milwaukee Lincoln program. Those teams could race up and down the court and score at will according to those of a certain age with long memories.
Lincoln is long-gone as an institution, but the memory of its powerful basketball program remains intact in the ferocious, intense man pressure that the Germantown boys are imposing on everyone they meet this season.
Good or bad or in-between, the results are the same, no one can stand in against the Warhawks (8-0 in the North Shore and 16-0 overall) for long, and the Blue Dukes, who entered Friday night's game with a respectable 9-4 overall mark (5-2 in the North Shore), were just the latest speed-bump.
The top-ranked in state Germantown squad forced nine first quarter turnovers, hit 14 of 24 shots in the period and generally made a mockery out of any sense of competition by racing out to a 33-4 lead.
» Read Full ArticleWorker killed in Mequon construction accident
A 27-year-old Racine man doing carpentry work was killed Friday afternoon in a construction accident at the Mequon Country Club, police said.
The accident was reported shortly after 2:40 p.m. at 12400 N. Villa Du Parc Drive, Mequon police said.
The man, whose identity was not released, fell from the upper portion of a structure that was being built at the location.
The accident is under investigation by Mequon police and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, police said.
Big guys lead charge for Germantown grapplers in 49-30 win over Homestead
The well-known bobblehead out in the trophy case alongside the Germantown gym probably tipped its head spontaneously in approval when no one was looking following the Warhawks' 49-30 North Shore dual meet win over rival Homestead on Thursday night.
But probably just a little bit, as because everyone in the area wrestling community knows, now retired coaching legend Barry Bernstein made his way across the North Shore leaving success in his wake, starting first at Whitefish Bay, then with a long tenure at Germantown (his formal employer) and then finishing up a fine stint at Homestead last season.
He and his lovely wife Nancee are now retired and living in Colorado, where Bernstein is no doubt helping bears to wrestle (laughs).
The bobblehead, which is the property of current Germantown coach and Bernstein protege' Casey Gabrielson, is probably a bit too skinny and Homestead wrestling coach Ernie Millard, who is a long-time friend of Bernstein's and who admits to having a copy of that very same bobble on his desk, offered this question:
'What I don't understand is why it does it have so much hair?"
» Read Full ArticleBoy OK after being struck by car while crossing North 60th Street in Brown Deer
Brown Deer Police report a 13-year-old Milwaukee boy was struck by a car this afternoon while crossing North 60th Street in the crosswalk at West Fairlane Avenue.
The boy was taken to a hospital with non life-threatening injuries. His parents were notified and came to the scene of the accident.
Officers and the North Shore Fire Department were called to the area at 3:19 p.m. The driver of the vehicle, a 74-year-old Milwaukee woman, was at the scene. She was driving her car south on 60th Street when she struck the boy.She was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
There was no visible damage to the vehicle and the driver was not injured.
This is the second car-pedestrian accident in the general area this month. A 15-year-old Brown Deer boy was stuck by a car while in the crosswalk at North 60th Street and West Tower Avenue at 7 a.m. Jan. 6.
» Read Full ArticleShowalter's 36 leads motivated GT to stunning 86-48 rout of HHS
If this is the way that the Germantown boys basketball team reacts in the face of adversity, then the rest of the state's squads better hope that no one else on the unbeaten number-one ranked in state Warhawks gets hurt.
Because even without injured 6-11 center Luke Fischer, the Warhawks dominated the boards, outhustled and flat outplayed seventh-ranked in state Homestead by a lopsided 86-48 count in what was supposed to be a first-place showdown in the North Shore Friday night.
Oh, and they also had all-state guard Zak Showalter feeling like he was virtually unguardable as he recorded a career-high 36 points, including 24 in a first half that decided the game at 48-17.
"Every team faces some adversity," said Showalter of Fischer's broken pinky finger. "If we want to get to where we want to go, we have to face some of it."
And of course, everyone knows where the 14-0 Warhawks want to go this season:
» Read Full ArticleTollaksen resigns as River Hills village manager
River Hills Village Manager Tom Tollaksen is resigning his post. His last day in the office will be Jan. 27.
Tollaksen, who was appointed River Hills' village manager in September, 1996, said he believes his goals at the village have been largely accomplished, including modernization of public services, improvement of village infrastructure, and fostering of a competent, compassionate and creative village staff.
"Although I will no longer be village manager," Tollaksen said, "I look forward to doing what I can to continue the village's status as a strong and vibrant community."
Tollaksen said his decision to leave the village was not an easy one.
"There are other personal goals that I want to accomplish," he said, "and the timing seems right for me and my family."
» Read Full ArticleNourse asks Obama to withdraw her nomination to federal appeals court
University of Wisconsin law professor Victoria Nourse has asked President Barack Obama to withdraw his nomination of her to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
"On January 18, I wrote the President asking that he withdraw my name from Senate consideration," Nourse wrote to a UW colleague:
The highest calling anyone could have is to serve their nation; I have served under two Presidents, one Democratic, the other Republican. I am honored to have been asked to serve my nation again.
I have nothing else to say at this time, except to refer you to the letter sent by legal experts across the nation, among them many conservatives, supporting my nomination and objecting to the procedure that has been used to block it.
To quote Chief Justice Roberts, 'the system is broken."
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