A person very familiar to South Milwaukee is being honored at the annual 128th Air Refueling Wing Civic Dinner Dance on May 17.
Chris Bolender, wife of late Oak Creek Mayor Dick Bolender, is a longtime former teacher in the South Milwaukee School District.
Learn more in this Oak Creek Patch story.
Those interested in purchasing tickets can contact the South Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce at 762-2222, x141 or via email at laurac@smaconline.com.
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Paging through some of the South Milwaukee election results …
So, what stood out for you as you look at the results?
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Oak Creek’s new mayor is Alderman Steve Scaffidi.
Scaffidi beat Mark Verhalen, 55.5% to 44.5%, according to Oak Creek Patch.
Scaffidi will replace Dick Bolender, who passed away in December. Al Foeckler is serving as acting mayor until Scaffidi takes over.
Here is reaction from Verhalen.
Oak Creek also named a new city clerk, among other positions, Tuesday. Check out the full story here.
In St. Francis, CoryAnn St. Marie-Carls beat Jeffrey L. Mayer in the mayoral race. See the story here.
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It was a night for incumbents in South Milwaukee.
No challengers — write-in or otherwise — were able to unseat sitting local leaders in the administration, on the City Council or on the South Milwaukee School Board.
Here are the local results:
Also winning re-election was County Supervisor Pat Jursik, who was running unopposed. In the locally contested Milwaukee County court races, Carolina Stark and Lindsey Grady won large majorities in South Milwaukee.
See all local results in this PDF document … and post your comments below!
(See a post on Republican presidential primary results here.)
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David Maas and Kathleen Molus have been re-elected to the South Milwaukee School Board.
Maass got 38.9% of the vote on Tuesday, with Molus pulling in 32.8%. Challenger Sophia Williams came in third (28.3%), according to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel results posted online. Both will serve three-year terms.
Stay tuned for additional local results soon …
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Just a reminder that a special City Council meeting is planned for 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at City Hall.
The agenda is pretty light, with the awarding of two contracts for Davis Avenue — on and around the Walmart property — water main and concrete replacement the two biggest items.
See the agenda here.
Our next regularly scheduled meeting is Tuesday, April 17.
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It’s Election Day, and, whether it’s Republican, Democrat or neither, all I ask is that you do your civic duty and vote.
I’m opening this thread to take comments on the various local, regional and national races on the ballot.
Who got your vote on Tuesday? Who didn’t get your vote? Why?
I’d also like to know what you’re seeing out there. Long lines? Issues at the polling places? Been receiving a few too many robocalls the past few days?
Post your comments below (and please keep it constructive) …
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Could there be new life for Cudahy’s Iceport property?
Learn more in this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story. And here is coverage from The Business Journal.
And check out these other local headlines of interest …
Also, NOW has published a new South Shore police blotter, and state Sen. Chris Larson has published a new Larson Report, taking a comprehensive (albeit partisan) look back at the now-completed legislative session.
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Call me crazy, but I kind of like the prairie feel around the South Milwaukee high school and middle school campuses. I think it gives the properties a unique and more natural look.
Well, sometimes prairies demand controlled burns to rejuvenate and sustain healthy regrowth.
Such a burn is planned for April 7-15 — Spring Break week in South Milwaukee.
Learn more in this notice from the firm doing the burn … and be prepared for some smoke around the 4th District during that week.
Also note that our fire, police and health departments have been closely involved in the planning and execution of this. So I am confident it will be executed safely … with the end result being a better-looking school campus for the long term.
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Tuesday is election day, so please do your duty as a citizen and vote.
Here’s a quick primer of what to expect:
Also, be sure to check South Milwaukee Blog for election results later Tuesday night.
See you at the polls!
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Three people are vying for two seats on the South Milwaukee School Board on Tuesday: incumbents David Maass and Kathleen Molus and challenger Sophia Williams.
Not sure who to support? I asked all three candidates for some information about themselves, their reasons for running and their thoughts on the some of the key issues. So far, Kathee Molus and Sophia Williams have responded.
Click on their names below to learn more …
I will post Maass’ information as soon as I get it.
Also, I’m interested to see who will receive your vote. Check out the new poll!
Also, Molus has a campaign website here.
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I first heard about this yesterday — and saw the flier — and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel now has a story on it: The group organized to fight the Walmart in South Milwaukee is seeking sigatures on direct legislation campaign.
The upshot, if enough signatures are collected and verified and this ultimately comes to pass: All capital spending projects costing $1 million or more would have to be approved by voters in a referendum.
(You’ll recall the city is poised to borrow $1.5 million to help fund cleanup costs at the proposed Walmart site on North Chicago Avenue — a vote that was postponed earlier this month with a “hold over” motion from two aldermen.)
Check out the Journal Sentinel story here.
I’d like to know what you think about this. Post your comments below.
I’ll share my thoughts in a future post.
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The South Shore’s Connects Learning Center — operated out of a building owned by the South Milwaukee School District but located in Cudahy — is being held up as an example of shared services that work.
Check out the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story on the Public Policy Forum study here. From it:
The South Milwaukee School District owns the building that houses Connects Learning Center, but it’s located in Cudahy. And it’s paid for and operated jointly by the South Milwaukee, Cudahy and Oak Creek-Franklin school districts for the benefit of students struggling to make the grade.
A fourth school district, Franklin, pays for the right to seats in the school.
“We needed some place that we could have students that were having a difficult time adjusting to the routine and structure of a regular school day go and do some credit recovery and still stay connected to their high school,” said Jim Heiden, superintendent of the Cudahy School District.
Connects Learning is an example of sharing resources that the Public Policy Forum highlights in a new report that says suburban school districts in Milwaukee County are missing out on many such opportunities to band together to offer some services more efficiently, particularly for such noninstructional support services as nursing, guidance, payroll, accounting, curriculum development and staff training.
“We’re just hoping the report will raise the visibility (of sharing support services) and districts can learn from other districts that have been doing this for a while and have done so successfully, so they’re not having to reinvent the wheel to start a successful agreement,” said Anneliese Dickman, research director of the Public Policy Forum.
Learn more about Connects here.
So, is it Mitt Romney? Or Rick Santorum? Newt Gingrich? Ron Paul?
For all of my Republican readers, for whom do you plan on casting your ballot on Tuesday?
Vote in the new poll on the right side of this page … and post your comments below!
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