Enter Patch's “Deck the House” Contest For a Chance to Win $100,000

Did you take advantage of the warm weather this weekend to hang your lights and decorate your house? Upload a photo here and Patch might pick you to pay $500 of your energy bills!

Help Make the Holidays Brighter for a Senior in Our Community

We have 50 seniors throughout Waukesha County hoping to have volunteer snow angel for this winter. Interfaith Waukesha needs help with its "Holiday Giving" program through Dec. 12 and snow removal during the winter season.

Santa, Carols and More at Town Fire Department

Families can drink hot chocolate, eat cookies and refreshments, sing holiday carols with elementary school students, see the "Celebration of Lights" and meet with Santa at the Town's annual holiday event.

Tree Lighting, Caroling in Brookfield Village

The old village area of Brookfield, along Brookfield Road, will be kicking off the holidays with its own tree lighting ceremony.

Holiday Tree Lightings, Santa, German Market in Brookfield and Elm Grove

Free, family-fun holiday activities are happening this weekend and next week in the City and Town of Brookfield and Village of Elm Grove.

Dousman Inn Transforms into Nordic Christmas Saturday

The Dousman Stagecoach Inn Museum in Brookfield will be decorated in Nordic fashion Saturday and Sunday. Come enjoy holiday traditions from Norway, Sweden, Demark, Finland and Iceland.

Shop for a Cause Tuesday at Brookfield Leukemia Event

Fifteen designer vendors will be showing their wares for holiday shoppers from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society offices at 200 S. Executive Drive, Suite 200, in Brookfield.

Enter Patch's “Deck the House” Contest For a Chance to Win $100,000

Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!

We're launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America — the best "decked" house in the country — the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center's. If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16 here: http://deckthehouse.patch.com/contest/brookfield-wi Only residents of Patch towns, including Brookfield, are eligible to enter. We'll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local …

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Stores Opening at Midnight Black Friday at Brookfield Square Mall

Brookfield Square mall has a list of more than 40 stores that will open at midnight Thursday as Black Friday begins, including Boston Store and The North Face.