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Year in Review: March

A look back at the top headlines and more on Brookfield Patch in 2011.

As 2011 comes to a close, Brookfield Patch is looking back at the year's biggest local stories and conversation starters, month by month. Here’s a recap from March.

In one of the largest projects to be announced in southeastern Wisconsin, the Marcus Corp. says it wants to build an sprawling retail and office complex at the I-94/Barker Road exit in the Town of Brookfield anchored by Wisconsin's first Von Maur department store.

City leaders object, saying Brookfield Square mall is a preferrable location and it might cannibalize a Blue Mound Road corridor already suffering high vacancies., giving the town authority to create a tax incremental financing district for just the Marcus project.

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State Sen. Leah Vukmir defended the governor's budget repair bill as a needed reform, at a Town Hall meeting in Brookfield hosted by U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner. There were some tense exchanges, but nothing like the drama that erupted at Sensenbrenner's Wauwatosa meeting which he ended early amid a chorus of boos and shouts of "shame."

Meanwhile, police were investigating who lives in Brookfield.

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Dixon Elementary students presented flowers and to their principal Jeanne Siegenthaler at a ceremony recognizing her as Wisconsin Elementary School Principal of the Year.

The Spartans Forensics team won its ninth consecutive conference championship at the Greater Metro Conference Forensics Tournament, dominating the results winning 14 of 19 individual conference champions.

The teachers performed a surprise talent show to reward students for reading more than 130,000 minutes in a contest. A captures many of the diverse acts by staff and teachers.

March means St. Patrick's Day, and the Trinity Irish Dance troupe entertained Tonawanda Elementary. Three members of the troupe were Tonawanda students: first-grader Helen Hicks, 7, fourth-grader Lizzy Oliver, 10, and fifth-grader Mary Laughlin, 11. Patch was there to shoot of the energetic dancing.


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