Alderman Mike McGee, 6th District, says he’s had enough.
He says the many overwhelmingly positive contributions that the Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater Milwaukee makes to the city are being unfairly tarnished.
December 2004
Posted inNeighborhood News
La Escuela Fratney Students Celebrate “A Sense of Place”
At La Escuela Fratney even the gymnasium and hall corridors have been turned into classrooms, and students and staff are confronted with space issues on a daily basis. As part of a unique multi-disciplinary arts project coordinated by a local non-profit called Artists Working in Education (AWE), a group of 54 second through fifth graders […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
DARNELL, ROBERTSON, CASHBOX, KLINK
Whatever, they’re all the same person. When working as “vice-president and fine crystal buyer” at George Watts and Son’s Jefferson Street emporium, the lady who lives across from Gordon Park is Chrisanne Robertson. When exhibiting her pen and ink drawings and other of her art works about town, she assumes the persona of “Ilse Klink.” This isn’t as odd as it sounds, and actually makes a kind of funky sense because it rhymes (a coincidence?) with the last name of her artist spouse, Matt Fink.
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New Lease on Life for Kenilworth Building
For the past several years, UW-Milwaukee has struggled to find housing and classroom space for its growing population. One solution is the Kenilworth building, 1925 E. Kenilworth Pl., on the corner of N. Prospect and N. Farwell Avenues. Built in 1914, the former Ford assembly plant was later sold to the federal government, which leased it to defense contractors.
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Fed Approves Funds for Johnson Controls Site
The “largest vacant lot in Riverwest” is in the news again. On November 22, US Senator Herb Kohl announced approval of federal funding for three major environmental initiatives in Milwaukee. Included is $300,000 to help clean up the former Johnson Controls site south of the corner of Bremen and Concordia Streets, once occupied by a battery manufacturing plant.
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