by Sonya Jongsma Knauss
Emil Kuester has watched Center Street change from a quiet neighborhood with stores on every corner to a street peppered with empty storefronts. Now, from his front porch, he’s watching it come back to life.
August 2002
Posted inUncategorized
Ooooh! She Said What????
by Tanya Cromartie-Twaddle
Check this out! I heard that a small group of Riverwest women get together at a local bar to stitch and bitch! Yeah!
Posted inNeighborhood News
Tamarack Community School Offers Waldorf Education
The aim of Waldorf schooling is to educate the whole child, “head, heart and hands.” The curriculum balances academics with artistic and practical activities and is designed to respond to the various phases of a child’s development.
Posted inBusiness Spotlight
Urban Patrons Reclaiming Our Culture
A visit to the new skateboard/hip-hop clothing store UPROCK on a hot summer’s night found two of the three store owners, Matt Nowak and Jason Francis, minding the store and acting the part of big brothers to several younger kids in for a game of a chess, a free video game, and to hear what the DJ was spinning.
Posted inNeighborhood News
Residents Show Up In Force to Oppose the Transfer of Community Block Grant Funds to City Coffers
A public hearing took place Thursday, July 26, at Milwaukee Education Center (MEC), housed in buildings from the old Schlitz brewery at 1615 N. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. Three hundred people showed up and 51 testified in a tightly controlled forum on spending proposals for federal grant monies targeted to low and moderate income residents.
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