Category Archives: Headlines

The United Performing Arts Fund Ride for the Arts may have a new route in 2011: over the Hoan Bridge.

Why is this important for South Milwaukee? Because the ride’s most popular route (the 25-mile options) winds its way through the Fourth District and South Milwaukee each year, stopping and “turning around” in Grant Park.

Thousands of people take this route, thousands who have a chance to see one of the reasons it’s great to call South Milwaukee home. And with the route potentially crossing the Hoan, that will likely mean even more interest in the ride … and more people coming through our city.

Learn more in this Journal Sentinel story.

And check out these other headlines of interest from around the South Shore:

• Flight for Life Responds to Two-Car Crash (Sheboygan Press)
• Cirque Show Expected to Sell Out at SMPAC (South Milwaukee NOW)
• Discussions on Selling City Hall Property Begins (Oak Creek Patch)
• $100k Coming From FEMA (Oak Creek Patch)
• Oak Creek-Based Group Buying Ryan Braun’s Waterfront Grille (Oak Creek Patch)
• Election to Fill Larson’s County Board Job Set for Next Spring (Journal Sentinel)

Also, the Greenfield Patch website has launched. Check it out here. The editor is David Cotey, a former NOW and Community Newspapers sports writer.

The man convicted of killing a Milwaukee candy store owner — and South Milwaukee resident — has been sentenced to life in prison for the crime.

Learn more in this Journal Sentinel story.

There’s also news of more lawsuits over the Caterpillar acquisition of Bucyrus, which is going before shareholders in a vote on Jan. 20.

Also, you may have noticed police with rifles stationed outside an Oak Creek residence on Nicholson Avenue this week. Here’s what happened, according to South Milwaukee Police Department Lt. Cary Fischer:

At about 10:00pm on 12/19/2010 the Oak Creek Police Department took a report of a home invasion armed robbery of a residence on Susan Dr.  The offender was a drug addict known to the victim.  The weapon was reported to be a pistol of some sort.  The offender was believed to reside at 1601 Nicholson Avenue Unit F.  We responded with Oak Creek Officers to that location and found the door smashed in.  We cleared the residence and found it empty of people.  Small amounts of drugs and paraphernalia were in plain view and were confiscated.  There was very little furniture or possessions in the apartment as the offender did not live there long.

I left two officers armed with rifles to watch the residence in an unmarked car.  They were only there a few minutes when the suspect pulled up in his car at around 11:00pm.  He was taken into custody without resistance.  No one was injured.  Him and his vehicle were promptly turned over to Oak Creek.

Finally, charges have been brought against a man accused in a shooting at the Drew’s Spot bar on St. Patrick’s Day in 2008, according to South Milwaukee police. The charges against Daniel Newman were “read in” to the record recently as he was sentenced to more than 25 years in prison and 17 years probation for other convictions.

Update: The Journal Sentinel has a story Sunday on the global impact of the Bucyrus and Ladish deals.

A Bucyrus shareholder has sued the company claiming it could have gotten a better deal than the one it agreed to with Caterpillar this week.

Check out the story here. From it:

Directors of South Milwaukee-based Bucyrus have a duty to get the best possible price for the company, including through an auction, and used an unfair process in the Caterpillar deal, investor Margaret C. Richardson said Wednesday in a complaint in Delaware Chancery Court in Wilmington.

The price “is unfair and inadequate because, among other things, the intrinsic value of Bucyrus’s stock is in excess of the consideration offered” based on the company’s prospects, lawyers for Richardson said in court papers.

The story is one of several offering more perspective on the deal this week.

The Business Journal has items on CEO Tim Sullivan’s future and Joy Global’s (non) reaction to the deal. Here is a National Public Radio item with an interview from Mayor Tom Zepecki, and here is a trend item from NPR on the Bucyrus and Ladish deals.

And check out these other headlines of note from around the South Shore:

• Walmart is Coming to Town? (Jerrianne Hayslett’s New Kid’s View blog)
• Wooden Shark Sculpture by Dying South Milwaukee Man Vandalized (Fox 6)
• Developer to Buy Unsold Condos at Troubled 601 Lofts (Journal Sentinel)
• New Chef at Sheridan’s in Cudahy (Journal Sentinel)
• Cudahy Kennel Club’s Fall Feline Frenzy (Journal Sentinel)

The run to state is over for the South Milwaukee High School boys’ soccer team.

The Rockets fell 7-0 to Milwaukee Marquette on Saturday in a section final game in Whitefish.

Learn more in this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story.

And check out these other headlines of interest to the South Shore:

• Oak Creek Power Plant Operating in Spurts (Journal Sentinel)
• Cyclist Traveling ‘Round the World Shares Wisdom at Sikh Temple in Oak Creek (Journal Sentinel)
• Bielema: Oglesby to Miss Rest of the Season Because of Knee Problem (Journal Sentinel)