They say you can’t buy happiness, but you can buy local! The Green Holidays section is a handy guide to local holiday music, fairs, art, books, shopping, and dining. “Green Holidays” means local shopping and keeping the “green” in the hood. It also means going “green” with eco-friendly gifts. Our local shopkeepers offer many ways […]
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Hello from Alice Waraxa
Hello citizens and people of our great neighborhood, I thought it only fair that I write this to you as I am the new editor of your newspaper. Don’t you worry, the hurricane that is Alice M. Waraxa will not disrupt too much, just yet. I am a native to this fine neighborhood. My family […]
Posted inCommentary & Opinion, Editorials
“I’m just passing through on my way to Australia.”
Title quote – Sheriff Jason McCullough, Support your Local Sheriff (1969) by Janice Christensen When I arrived in Riverwest in 1999, I was just passing through. I had been on the road for a couple of years, passing through intentional communities in Wisconsin, Colorado, California and Oregon. I had been living by my wits, picking […]
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Neighbor Spotlight – Martha Davis Kipcak
by Ellen C. Warren. Photo by Peter diAntoni Although Martha Davis Kipcak has lived in Wisconsin for over fifteen years, her sweet voice still betrays a touch of Texas. She likes it that way. “If it starts to slip, if people tell me they can’t hear an accent, then I know it’s time to go […]
Posted inBusiness Spotlight, Neighborhood News
WWBIC – Opportunity Given – Followed by Economic Abundance Conversation
When the Currents told Wendy Baumann, chief visionary officer of the Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation about this month’s focus on Economic Abundance, she responded with an enthusiastic “Great … Love the theme,” via her iPhone. Which makes perfect sense, since the corporation that she has guided for 20 years, WWBIC, has been all about […]
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