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The Port Washington Town Board on Monday got its first look at a request from the Lakeshore ATV/UTV club to allow these all-terrain vehicle to operate on town roads. The board took no action but is expected to consider the request when it meets on June 7.

Town of Port is next to grapple with ATV issue

The controversial question of whether to allow all-terrain and utility task vehicles on town roads has made its way to the Town of Port Washington. The Town Board on Monday was asked by the Lakeshore...

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Thomas Cavanugh took advantage of a warm spring day to practice his skills at Port Washington’s skateboard park, which is one of the busiest recreational areas in the city. The Common Council last month approved giving the park a facelift with new equipment this year. Photo by Sam Arendt

Ramping up to redo popular park

One of Port Washington’s most used parks is about to get a facelift. The Common Council recently approved $60,000 in improvements to the skateboard park on Moore Road. The improvements will include...

A CHANGE IN ambulance billing approved by the Common Council Tuesday may help ease the ambulance staffing crisis that Port Washington Fire Chief Mark Mitchell has been discussing for months. Press file photo

Port ambulance fee may solve staffing crisis

The Port Washington Common Council on Tuesday took a leap forward in its quest to fund a second full-time paramedic. Aldermen agreed to change the way the city bills for ambulance services, charging...

COLORFUL BIRDHOUSES IN several Port Washington parks, including Rotary Park, were created as a community service project by members of a social and life skills group offered by Harrington Development Services of Grafton, including (from left) Jen Wilke, who helped steady Sol Weingrod, Sarah Gosse and Erica Geurts. The group donated the houses to the Port Parks and Recreation Department. Photos by Sam Arendt

A gift of kindness for Port, birds

A flock of brightly decorated birdhouses are providing shelter for feathered friends in several Port Washington parks. The colorful birdhouses have caught the eyes of people wandering through the...

Students at Dunwiddie Elementary School in Port Washington arrived for the first day of school in September wearing masks and have kept them on in school since. The Port Washington-Saukville School District will require masks indoors through the end of the school year, Supt. Michael Weber said. Press file photo

Schools on front lines of fight over masks

Public schools in Ozaukee County are the latest battleground over the use of masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Despite the fact there is only about a month left in the school year,...

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Sports

GRAFTON’S SARA PASCHKE fired a pitch in a 17-2 shellacking of Cedar Grove-Belgium during the Black Hawks’ first win of the season on Friday in their home opener. Photo by Mitch Maersch

Youth excelling early in softball

After struggling on the road against its first two North Shore Conference opponents, the Grafton High School softball team got Cedar Grove-Belgium right where it wanted it last Friday. The Black Hawks clobbered the Rockets, 17-2, in a 15-run mercy-...

Op-Ed

PRESS EDITORIAL: Solar energy is a good use for spare school land

School districts are not in the real estate business and should not own land unless it is being used for school purposes or is needed as a site for future school facilities. Neither exception applies to the Grafton School District’s Zaun Field land in the Town of Grafton. So the land, along Cheyenne Road, should be sold to help...

Good Living

The love of horses

Bernadette Ruckdashel found her equine dream a few miles from where she grew up and she has been living it for more than half a century. The founder of Appy Orse Acres in the Town of Fredonia has more than 100 acres for her 40 horses to roam and...

Obituaries

Business

HAMM’S FARMSTEAD GREENHOUSE Owner Diane Hamm started her new business on Friday, April 30, in the Town of Saukville. Hamm said she has always wanted to have her own nursery and decided to build one on her family’s dairy farm that has been with the family since 1852. She is selling annual, perennials, vegetables and hanging baskets. Photo by Sam Arendt

Longtime family farm still blooms

There’s a new greenhouse in Town of Saukville for people who want to spruce up their garden this season. As the warm, seasonal climate allows flowers to bloom, Hamm’s Farmstead Greenhouse owner Diane Hamm said she is living out a lifelong dream...

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