Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Are you looking for a place to mountain bike in Waukesha? A new trail is opening soon at Minooka Park.
Editor’s Note: The following information was provided to Waukesha Patch via a news release from Waukesha County. Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas announced Monday the grand opening of the Waukesha County Park System’s first Mountain Bike Trail within Minooka Park. The first phase, approximately 1.5 miles, will open to residents on Saturday, June 1 (National Trails Day) at 9 a.m. following a ribbon cutting event open to the public. Once all three phases are complete, the network of trails will be about five miles in total length. They are located near picnic shelter 5, within Minooka Park, 1927 E. Sunset Dr. in Waukesha. “Part of the Waukesha County Park System mission is to provide our citizens with many different recreation …
A Milwaukee man is accused of pointing a BB gun that resembled a semi-automatic handgun in his former brother-in-law's face in Brookfield, according to a criminal complaint.
A Milwaukee man is accused of confronting his former brother-in-law by pointing a BB gun at the brother-in-law at his workplace in on Aug. 16. John M. Binter, 32, was charged Thursday in Waukesha County Circuit Court with negligent handling of a weapon, disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weapon. He faces nearly eight years in prison if convicted because he previously was convicted of battery to a law enforcement officer. Binter’s former brother-in-law said he was walking to his car at Guhring, 1505 Commerce Ave., when Binter told him to “get the (expletive) out of the car” and showed him his pistol, according to the complaint. The man told police he was worried Binter would shoot him because Binter pulled out the gun and was …
Monday, May 20, 2013
Did Gov. Scott Walker break a campaign promise when he vowed to keep pork out of the state budget?
Some campaign promises build in a bit of wiggle room. The one made by candidate for governor Scott Walker to “Strip policy and pork projects from the state budget” did not. This unequivocal pledge, posted on Walker’s campaign website, committed the candidate to eschewing both parties’ longstanding practice of using the budget to make policy changes and reward special interests. In April 2011, less than four months into Walker’s term, the truth-testers at PolitiFact Wisconsin branded this a broken promise. It noted that the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau had identified dozens of non-fiscal items in the governor’s budget repair bills and first biennial budget. Walker’s latest executive budget, for 2013-15, included what the Fiscal …
According to a report from WISN 12 News, with the detective were two Menomonee Falls officers and one Waukesha police officer.
A Waukesha County Sheriff’s Detective was arrested in Sparta early Sunday morning for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Patch's partners at WISN 12 News reported that the detective, Bradley Anderson, was joined in the car by two Menomonee Falls officers and one Waukesha police officer. They were stopped at 2:30 a.m. A press release from the department indicated that Anderson — a 23-year veteran — was off-duty at the time of the arrest. While the department conducts an internal investigation, the detective has been placed on administrative duty. WISN reported that the Menomonee Falls department also is doing an internal investigation.
Concerned citizen, worried by clanging alarm that something is amiss at a neighbor's home, calls police, who fly to the scene but can't put the cuffs on this home-breaker.
A usually quiet, woodsy neighborhood of Brookfield is fortunately not going to the dogs, but it is certainly for the birds. At 6:07 p.m. May 8, a resident of the 18200 block of W. Burleigh Road called police to report an audible alarm going off repeatedly at the home of a neighbor two doors away. Worried there might be a break-in, the caller had gone to his neighbor’s home, he said, and didn’t see anything suspicious. He tried the doorbell, but no one answered. But the alarm kept sounding, he said, some sort of very loud outdoor system that sounded like a big bell. He noted to officers that there are ADT alarm company signs posted on the property. Most puzzling was that the alarm would sound for awhile, then stop, then turn back on, over …
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Teen was huffing stolen propane inside his stepfather's home.
A Westfield teen is facing burglary charges stemming from his potentially explosive huffing habit, police say. The 17-year-old was recently charged with two counts of burglary of a dwelling and one count of intentionally abusing a hazardous substance. The teen was huffing propane, police say. According to the criminal complaint: On Jan. 31, police were dispatched to a home on Lois Avenue in Brookfield. The reporting person said his stepdaughters returned from home and the entire house smelled of propane. Just one week prior, the entire home had been filled with the substance while his stepson huffed it. Firefighters arrived on the scene and determined that the level of propane in the home was at a “near explosive” level. They ventilated …
Hundreds of rugby players from all over the country came to Caledonia to play in the 2013 National Girls Rugby Championship this weekend, including teams from DSHA, Catholic Memorial, Oak Creek and Tosa/Brookfield.
Twenty-four teams from across the country — including teams from Oak Creek, Brookfield, Waukesha and Milwaukee — played at the Caledonia-Mount Pleasant Park in the 2013 National Girls Rugby Championship this weekend. In Division 1, Divine Savior Holy Angels High School defeated Catholic Memorial of Waukesha 27-12 for third place. They were the only two Wisconsin schools in the competition portion. Oak Creek, the Wauwatosa/Brookfield combined team and Kettle Moraine all played in the Festival Division with the junior varsity team from Armstrong MN. Championship: Fallbrook CA 35, Kent WA 10 Fifth Place: Sacramento Amazons CA 32, Summit CO 10 Seventh Place: Danville CA 71, West Carroll MD 20 Championship: Fullerton CA 27, Armstrong MN 17 …
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A public hearing for natural grocery store on 124th Street is planned for Tuesday during the Brookfield Common Council meeting.
A natural food store could be located at the same location as Infinity Healing Center in Brookfield if the retail store gains necessary city approvals. A public hearing is scheduled for 7:45 p.m. Tuesday at Brookfield City Hall, 2000 N. Calhoun Road, where owner Saeid Rahmanpanah is asking the council to revise plans for the property, including parking lot spaces, and approve a 7,632 square foot addition to the building. “Brookfield doesn’t have an organic grocery store right now,” Rahmanpanah told the Waukesha Freeman. “We will be the first place in Brookfield.” The property at 3305 N. 124th St. is part of the city’s 124th Street Corridor Targeted Investment Area, according to a Brookfield Common Council document. “Retail development is …
Republican Party of Wisconsin says Gov. Walker is working to reduce the burden on taxpayers and wean Wisconsin residents off government dependence.
Allison Feix says her mother is tops because she has raised two children while caring for a quadriplegic husband who is also fighting leukemia.
From moms that rock the volunteer scene to moms who always know the right thing to say, dozens of entries into Patch's "Why My Mom is Best" contest warmed our hearts and made us smile. But amid all the spectacular stories was a daughter's touching tale about her mother's battle with cancer while helping a quadriplegic husband with leukemia that stole our hearts. "My mom, Lynn, deserves an escape," Allison Feix wrote about her mother, Lynn Molter. "She's raised two kids and works as a medical technologist, while being the care taker for my father, who has leukemia and has been a quadriplegic for the past twenty seven years. She is a recent breast cancer survivor, who puts the needs of her loved ones before her own. Some time away would be …
Ed Willing
8:14 am on Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Mark, are you a liberal? Trying to see what might be informing your "hypocrites" line and harsh judgment. See, you attach yourself to "common people" despite the fact that most of those common people have benefitted and support this type of legislation. But if you're a liberal, calling the state hypocritical now, I would ask if you had thr same position when your side was in charge? And if the … more ›