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Remembering the Roots of Locust Street Festival: Boulevard Killed! Locust Street Lives!

On June 11, Locust Street Festival turns 30 years old, making it one of the longest running neighborhood festivals in the city. The festivities started as a celebration of neighborhood triumph. City engineers had a plan to widen Locust Street into a Boulevard, bulldozing fifteen businesses and displacing over fifty families and individuals. In anticipation […]

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Debbie Davis

Story by Ellen C. Warren, Photo by Barbara Miner That’s Debbie Davis towering over the crowd in her Statue of Liberty regalia in the Riverwest Fourth of July parade. She’s the stilt-walker everyone loves to see. “She has quite a large fan base,” admitted her partner, Dimitri. He works in Waukesha and meets people out […]