South Milwaukee was reportedly among the departments who responded to the incident Saturday afternoon on Packard Avenue.
Check out stories in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and WTMJ radio. From WTMJ:
It began around 8:30 Saturday morning when witnesses reported shots exchanged between two men in the alley behind the apartments in the 62-hundred block of Packard.
One man was taken in for questioning right away, but a second ran into the apartments, and holed-up inside for four hours.
Filed under Crime
Another mass shooting. Another senseless tragedy.
Please keep Friday’s victims and their friends and families in your thoughts and prayers. And hold your kids a bit closer tonight. I know I will … because I know that could have been my kindergartner or second-grader at the end of that gun.
South Milwaukee police have identified the man killed in Thursday morning’s crash near 9th and Edgewood Avenues as 40-year-old John Janick of Caledonia.
Here is my previous post on this, and check out coverage in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Fox 6.
I love the fact that my kids love books … and I love the fact that we have a renowned children’s book author in South Milwaukee.
She’s Janet Halfmann, and her books are wonderful.
Janet has written dozens of them, and we’re the proud owner of several. Her most recent books …
Learn more about Janet and her books — including the titles of a couple upcoming titles and details on getting free bookplates for the holidays — on her well-done website.
One thing you’ll notice when you visit: the strongly positive reviews her books regularly receive.
Count me and the Brooks kids as fans too.
You can buy Janet’s books on Amazon.com and local independent booksellers.
Filed under 12 Days of South Milwaukee Christmas
The parents of a Cudahy High School student who committed suicide recently are claiming bullying was behind the incident.
Check out TMJ 4 stories on protests over the death here and here, and this NOW blog post on the subject.
And check out these other headlines from around the South Shore …
Filed under Headlines
Update: Check out coverage from TMJ4, WISN and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
There was a scary — and tragic — incident early Thursday morning near 9th and Edgewood, as a car crashed into a house and caught fire, killing the driver and setting the home on fire.
Everyone in the house got out safely.
Check out an updated press release from the South Milwaukee Police Department, noting that police “were not actively pursuing the vehicle at the time of the crash.” From it:
On Thursday 12/13/12 at about 0151hrs, an SMPD officer, while running stationary radar, observed a vehicle pass him at approximately 25mph over the posted speed limit. The vehicle failed to stop for both audible and visual signals and subsequently crashed.
The fleeing vehicle had accelerated to a point that the officer could no longer see the vehicle. The officer was not actively pursuing the vehicle at the time of the crash. After traveling approximately 11 blocks, the officer discovered a vehicle which had crashed in the 700 block of Edgewood. This vehicle is believed to have been the fleeing vehicle.
The vehicle was on fire and the fire spread to a nearby house. The residents of the house were safely evacuated. SMPD is still working to identify the driver, and lone occupant, who was deceased. The Wisconsin State Patrol assisted in the accident investigation. Investigation is ongoing. No further information is available at this time.
Here is coverage, including video, from Fox 6.
I’ll keep you posted if I learn more.
South Milwaukee has a new fire chief — one that’s technically been in the job for nearly a year.
The Police and Fire Commission appointed Joe Knitter the city’s new fire chief at its meeting on Tuesday. Knitter had been acting fire chief since February, as South Milwaukee looked to permanently replace retired Chief Jay Behling.
That replacement is Knitter, and it’s a great choice. I have been extremely impressed with Chief Knitter’s work in his “acting” role — and as a captain before that. He’s stepped up department communications, embraced technology and personally sought to better himself through education and training, keeping the department strong during a period of transition and difficult budgets.
I’m happy to see him rewarded for that.
Check out these headlines from around the South Shore …
Also, NOW has published a new South Shore police blotter.
Filed under Headlines
We got our property tax bill late last week … but if you haven’t, you can now see yours (or the bill for any South Milwaukee address, for that matter) online.
Check out this link from the city website.
What did you tax bill show? Post your comments!
Filed under 2013 Budget, City Services
Time for a shoutout to my favorite local florist, Parkway Floral.
Bryan Lorentzen and team do a great job, whether it’s roses for the missus or an arrangement for my wife’s grandmother’s recent funeral, these guys are first class, and reasonably priced.
For the holidays, they have some beautiful arrangements on their website and other special items in store.
You have lots of options to buy flowers these days, from Pick ‘n Save to the local gas station. Join me in shopping one of our treasured local independent retailers — one of our downtown anchor businesses — instead.
Parkway Floral
Filed under 12 Days of South Milwaukee Christmas, Local Business
Check out these South Shore headlines …
Also, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is holding a public information meeting on Tuesday to discuss adding a second westbound lane on 794 through the Marquette Interchange. It’s from 4 to 7 p.m. at the DOT’s Southeast Region office, 1001 W. St. Paul Ave. downtown. Here is the story.
Filed under Headlines
The South Milwaukee Health Department is holding a parenting focus group, as they seek “ways we can support the parents and future parents in our South Milwaukee community.”
Anyone who lives or works in South Milwaukee is invited to the event, which starts at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
Learn more here.
Filed under City Services, Community, Health
More than 70 vendors selling arts, crafts, organics, baked goods and much, much more. Live, local entertainment, including two hours of performances by student musicians. And Gypsy Geoff.
That’s just some of what you can find at Saturday’s South Milwaukee Christmas Market at South Milwaukee High School. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enter off Oak Creek Parkway, door nine.
Learn more here, and see you there!
Filed under Community, Schools, South Milwaukee PAC
This is really, really cool …
So, there are three new Aaron Rodgers-Ford television spots being released, and they have a distinctly local feel — as in, large parts of them were shot in South Milwaukee.
See the story and ads here.
And I’ll let Ante Udovicic, athletics and activities director for the South Milwaukee School District, take it from there …
“If you watch the commercial shown at the top and 2 others down below on the website page, you will see commercials featuring Aaron Rodgers. What is most interesting about these commercials is the location for parts of this shoot that was shot on a Sunday in July. If you look closely, you will see the following areas from the South Milwaukee 6-12 campus:
COMMERCIAL #1
COMMERCIAL #2 (labeled http://www.cutters.com/q?id=3940)
COMMERCIAL #3 (labeled http://www.cutters.com/q?id=3944)
COMMERCIAL #4 (labeled http://www.cutters.com/q?id=3952)
While it is not immediately obvious that these scenes from the 3 Ford commercials were shot on the SM 6-12 campus, this explanation hopefully will help you notice it next time you see one of these commercials on TV.”
I told you this was cool 🙂 Ante, thanks for sharing.
The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission added the extension of the Lake Parkway to the Year 2035 Regional Transportation Plan, unanimously approving the six-mile project at its meeting Wednesday.
Check out the press release from Milwaukee County Supervisor Pat Jursik, a champion of this project, and coverage from Oak Creek Patch.
Jursik’s statement:
An extended Lake Parkway will provide the necessary transportation infrastructure to promote economic development in Milwaukee County’s South Shore and around the Port of Milwaukee and General Mitchell International Airport. We are part of the increasingly powerful lake corridor mega-region that stretches from Gary, Indiana through Chicago, Illinois to Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. I call upon State elected officials to fund this important corridor project.
Indeed, that is the hardest part about this important initiative. I’ll keep you posted.
Filed under Construction, Milwaukee County, Transportation
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