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WAUBEKA’S RIVER ROAD looked more like a river than a road after the Milwaukee River poured into the community like, in the words of one witness, a tsunami early Saturday afternoon. Several buildings, including the firehouse, were flooded. Other communities along the river, including Saukville, Newburg and Grafton, also experienced serious flooding. Photo by Sam Arendt

Ice-choked river unleashes record flooding

A Milwaukee River choked by ice, crested at record-high levels and caused historic flooding that overwhelmed houses and businesses, swept away trees and devastated a park in northern Ozaukee County’...

A MINIVAN that went airborne after hitting a retaining wall slammed into a Newburg house and became lodged, wheels first, in a bedroom wall in June. One of the owners of the house was in bed at the time, and although covered with debris, was not injured. Photo courtesy of the Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Office

Man who launched minivan into house pleads to felony charge

A 36-year-old Waubeka man who in June launched his minivan into a Newburg house where it became lodged, wheels first, in a wall 15 feet off the ground pleaded no contest to a felony charge in...

THE CITY OF Port Washington has approved tax incremental financing district development incentives for three projects on Washington Street — $1 million for the proposed Blues Factory entertainment complex (foreground), $330,000 for Ansay Development’s Lake Harbor Lofts condo project (back, left) and $365,000 for the Lakepointe condo project (back, right). Photo by Bill Schanen IV

TIF deal worth $4.25 million is a new high for Port

When the Port Washington Common Council approved tax incremental financing for Ansay Development’s Newport Shores project, it was approving the largest incentive plan for a developer in its history....

Weldon Reed Photo by Sam Arendt

Port veteran to receive a special gift for his 95th birthday

When Weldon Reed turns 95 later this month, he will have a special birthday gift — his discharge papers from the Maryland Minute Men. Those papers, signed by the Maryland governor in 1945, when the...

LARGE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION MATS that will serve as makeshift roads and construction platforms for heavy machinery to be used by American Transmission Co. as it replaces transmission lines between Port Washington and Saukville are being laid along the route. A path of sorts was created by the mats in this view of the lines looking from Highway W east toward the lake). Photo by Sam Arendt

Timber roads pave way for wire work

Roads of timber have sprung up around Port Washington recently, a sign that a two-year utility construction project is beginning. American Transmission Co. brought in the mats of large, squared-off...

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Huibregtse leads local NSC choices

One year after finishing tied for last place in the North Shore Conference, the Port Washington and Grafton high school boys’ basketball teams showed marked improvement. Grafton finished 11-7 for fourth place in the NSC and Port was 9-9 in fifth....

Op-Ed

PRESS EDITORIAL: Some study and worry, others bribe and cheat

Anyone who isn’t mad as hell about the college admission fraud scheme revealed by federal prosecutors last week must be numb. There may be worse white-collar crimes, but few are affronts as personal and painful to millions of American families as these offenses by affluent parents and their crooked enablers. Fifty people were...

Good Living

Basketball would be a natural topic of conversation around the dinner table at the Brian and Terri Miller household in Saukville. Brian has been the men’s coach at the Milwaukee School of Engineering the past 14 years and this year was named...

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Business

PLAYGROUND PREMIUM AUTO RECYCLING owner Justin Fisk (left) and operations manager Jeff Richson stood beside a 2004 Mercedes-Benz the company is dismantling. The Port Washington company takes apart high-end cars and sells the parts to car enthusiasts. Photo by Sam Arendt

For company new to Port, a car’s value is in its parts

Playground Premium Auto Recycling in Port Washington is stripping damaged high-end vehicles to the bare bones to provide hobbyists with hard to find parts. “We pride ourselves on having the parts that other people don’t have,” operations manager...

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