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Posted inNeighborhood News

Christmas in the Red

by Currents Staff

by Lawerence Dugan Nichols
Together we make up a consumer culture, and everywhere you look there are nonessential commodities for sale. Each Christmas, Americans purchase billions of dollars worth of these for gift-giving. Meanwhile, stores pump out carols over the loudspeakers, adorn the walls with wreaths, and hold special sales the day after Thanksgiving. 

Posted inNeighborhood News

Nik Kovac Gets to Work

by Matt Czarnik

Defying the predictions and surprising prognosticators, native son Nik Kovac beat fellow
Riverwest resident Patrick Flaherty by a cheesecloth thin 71 vote margin on April 1 to claim
Milwaukee’s coveted Third District aldermanic seat.

But for Alderman-elect Kovac, the election isover, and the celebration is old news.

Posted inFurther Down Stream

Further Down Stream April 2008

by Tess Reiss

Send news & tidbits to tess@riverwestcurrents.org

The winter of 2007- 2008 went on record as the snowiest of the century when 12.4 inches of snow fell from 6 am on Good Friday, March 21 until Saturday at 4 am. It’s the second highest total in Milwaukee with 96.9” – just behind the top spot of 109.8” in 1885-86.

All of the previous snow had just melted down when the city got socked again on the second day of Spring. If this keeps up, number one is just around the corner!