Sunday, May 19, 2013
The peanuts, beer, hotdogs and summer sun - it's baseball season in Wisconsin and we want to hear all about the Milwaukee Brewers or your other favorite team!
Calling all sports fanatics, Patch wants you! Are you passionate about the Milwaukee Brewers? A local softball league? Attend every little league game? An expert on sabermetrics? Then we want hear all about it! Part of the Patch mission is to strengthen communities and improve the lives of their residents, but we can't do it without you. Our Local Voices section allows members of the community—from cooking enthusiasts to local politicians and everyone in between—to interact and post directly to the site. These posts then appear on the homepage, in the daily newsletter and are shared by editors via Facebook and Twitter. The best thing about sharing your stuff on Patch is it's your space so it's your rules. Write as frequently, or …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The FBI compiles crime statistics annually and Patch has used that data to create a searchable database for Wisconsin information.
Every year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation uses data reported to it by nearly every law enforcement agency in the country to build a report on crime in the United States. Patch has taken the Wisconsin data and put it into a searchable database. Fill in the name of a community to see the number of reported property crimes in 2011, and click through to learn more about the types of offenses within each community.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants another lowering of the blood-alcohol standard for drunk driving. It stands at .08; the NTSB wants it at .05.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants the blood-alcohol threshold for drunk driving to be lowered to .05 from .08. Wisconsin followed the rest of the country from a .10 to .08 standard in 2003, under the threat of losing federal highway funds. The state had almost 29,000 DUI arrests in 2011, almost 10,000 fewer than in 2000 but still the sixth-highest per-capita amount in the country. And police regularly arrest people for driving with concentrations two and three times the current legal limit, and/or for multiple convictions. Will a lower limit make Wisconsin citizens safer in any way? Or is it simply an unnecessary government intrusion? Vote in our poll and comment below. Related polls:
This week's "Wow House" is a condominium in Racine that has a 65-foot-long deck with a great view of the lake.
From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally friendly abodes, southeastern Wisconsin is chock-full of one-of-a-kind homes for sale. Each week, Patch highlights one "Wow House" that caught our attention. This week, it's a condominium on Gaslight Drive in Racine. This condo unit has amazing panoramic views of Lake Michigan and marina from your that can be seen from a 65-foot-long deck. As soon as you step in the front door, you are facing two sets of double-wide sliding glass doors overlooking the lake. This 1,425-square-foot unit has an open-concept floor plan and has two bedrooms and two bath. There's a chef's kitchen with maple cabinets and granite countertops matched with stainless appliances. The kitchen includes an 11-…
Friday, May 17, 2013
William Henderson owns Sweet Frog Frozen Yogurt in Brookfield, but the treats being handed out to children with autism on Thursday were iPads, and the Kiwanis Club hopes it's only the beginning.
For families who have a child with autism, there are really no easy days, but a recent breakthrough has found that the use of iPads equipped with special apps can provide a way to communicate with and teach children with the disorder. Deemed the Governor's project for the Kiwanis Wisconsin and Upper Michigan District, the goal of the service organization for 2013 is to put at least 1,000 iPads in the hands of such children. The iPads are furnished with apps for learning language and math, for basic communication and even to promote calming behavior, according the Jerry McCormick with the Elm Grove Golden K Kiwanis Foundation. This would equate to at least $500,000, so the Kiwanis have teamed up with former Green Packer William Henderson, …
If you drew the Powerball winning numbers in Saturday’s lottery, you could score $600 million, the largest Powerball jackpot ever.
Powerball results were watched closely Wednesday when the jackpot was $363 million. After no one picked all six winning numbers, the new Powerball prize for the Saturday, May 18, drawing is now $600 million, which makes it the highest Powerball jackpot ever — and the second-highest U.S. lottery jackpot. The numbers drawn Saturday night were: 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and the Powerball was 11. The one-time cash payout is estimated at $376.9 million. Tickets are $2 and the game is played in Wisconsin and 42 other states, including Florida, Texas, California and New York. You can buy tickets until 9 p.m. CST for the 9:59 p.m. drawing. Buy tickets online here, or search for a local retailer. Until Saturday, the largest Powerball jackpot was $587.5 …
Each week, Brookfield Patch is featuring teachers from the Elmbrook School District. This week, we catch up with two teachers from Burleigh Elementary School.
What’s the best part of teaching in the Elmbrook School District: There are many wonderful aspects to teaching in the Elmbrook School District. Above others, I would say the motivation shared by educators and families to do what is best for children really stands out. Why I wanted to be a teacher: After attending what was Wisconsin Hills Elementary School, I realized the difference my second grade teacher made in my life. From then on I knew working in education was what I wanted to do. If I wasn’t a teacher, I’d be: That is a hard question. I have always had the desire to work in an educational setting. If I had taken a different path I might have become the director of a summer camp or a photographer traveling around the world and …
A list of eight best-paying summer jobs. Provided by Jobs at AOL.
The following story was provided by AOLJobs.com By David Schepp Getting a summer job is a rite of passage for many young people. In addition to earning wages to help pay for tuition or make car payments, it's where many first-time employees learn the fundamentals of work -- showing up on time, teamwork, communicating effectively, managing workloads and more. But summer jobs can also be fun, giving teenagers an opportunity to bond and hang out with a group of people beyond their schools and neighborhoods. In recent years, because of the recession and subsequent slow recovery in the labor market, summer jobs have been hard to come by for many teenagers. This year, many economic indicators point to an improved job market, suggesting that …
The newly launched website provides practical advice and innovative ideas for those small business owners.
Patch has launched a new site — smallbusiness.patch.com — to educate and empower small businesses with the digital tools, social media strategies and marketing know-how needed to ensure long-term growth. Readers will have access to exclusive interviews with well-known founders and CEOs, and small business industry experts who share their experiences, advice and tips for success. One of the latest articles features an exclusive interview with successful real estate entrepreneur, Barbara Corcoran, founder of The Corcoran Group. In this Q&A, Corcoran discusses the how to take advantage of the size of a small businesses, and why making big “mistakes” made all the difference in her success. Click here to read about the tactics Corcoran used to…
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Brookfield resident finds his home broken into and quickly comes to suspect one of his oldest acquaintance's daughter. According to police and the district attorney, he was right.
Burglary charges have been filed against a man and his girlfriend from Oconomowoc accused of breaking into the Brookfield home of a lifelong friend of the young woman's mother. The victim said he had often, and recently, helped out his friend's daughter with financial support. In a case just short of a year old, Calvin G. Rolbiecki Dobson, 30, and Natasha B. Harland, now 19, were charged last Friday in Waukesha County Circuit Court. Dobson is charged with burglary and as a repeat offender, having been convicted in 2008 of dealing cocaine. As such, he could face up to 12 years, six months in prison on the burglar charge and up to six more years as a repeat felon. Harland is charged as party to the crime of burglary, punishable by up to 12 …
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