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January 29, 2020

The Greater Port Washington Kiwanis Club held its fourth annual Chili Bowl Sunday, Jan. 26, drawing about 400 people to 11 downtown Port eateries to sample a variety of chilies. Each year, there’s been one standout chili, and this year was no exception, Kiwanis member John Sigwart said.

Family asks city for leeway on dog limit law

January 29, 2020

Jocelyn and Josh Becker have two rescue dogs and would like to adopt a third, but there’s one problem.

The couple and their children live in the City of Port Washington, which limits the number of pets a family can have to two dogs and two cats.

So Mrs. Becker wrote a letter asking that officials consider increasing the number of dogs a family can have. Their alderman, Pat Tearney, read the letter at the Common Council’s meeting last week.

City to pare applicants for administrator next week

January 29, 2020

As of Tuesday, 20 people had applied to become Port Washington’s new city administrator.

Kevin Brunner, president of public Administration Associates, the firm hired by the city to help in the search for a successor to retiring City Administrator Mark Grams, said that a number of these applicants are local, and there are some candidates “from across the country.”

The deadline for applications was Wednesday, Jan. 29, and Grams said the firm expected a few more to arrived before the deadline.

City clears way for office to move to George Webb building

January 29, 2020

The Port Washington Plan Commission has paved the way for the former George Webb restaurant on the city’s south side to have new life as a chiropractic clinic.

The commission on Jan. 16 approved a building, site and operational plan that will allow Align Chiropractic to move from its current location at 1032 S. Spring St. to the former restaurant at 1042 Spring St.

The restaurant space in the strip mall has been vacant since about 2016, officials said.

PWHS’ Burke is finalist for top school job in Rhinelander

January 22, 2020

Port Washington High School Principal Eric Burke, who during his two decades at the school has been a student, teacher, coach and administrator, is one of three finalists for superintendent of the Rhinelander School District.

Burke, who will be interviewed by the Rhinelander School Board next week, said he has also applied for the Cedar Grove-Belgium School District superintendent job. The school board there plans to name finalists for the position on Jan. 29.

Breakwater damage leaves city with bills to pay, concerns

January 22, 2020

Port Washington officials on Tuesday approved $14,300 in initial repairs to the breakwater, which was seriously damaged in a Jan. 11 gale, and at the same time reviewed plans to repair the far east end of the structure’s walkway with an eye toward ensuring it will be sound in the face of future storms.

The council agreed to pay T.P. Concrete of Fredonia to place a concrete slurry under about 30 feet of the breakwater gateway that was undermined in the storm.

The firm will also move riprap displaced by the storm back into place, Public Works Director Rob Vanden Noven said.

Port residents can expect a visit from the assessor

January 22, 2020

Port Washington property owners will be visited by the assessor beginning this summer as the city takes on a reassessment.

The Common Council on Tuesday approved a $219,000 contract with Associated Appraisal Consultants of Appleton for the revaluation, which will take place over two years beginning late this summer.

It will be a walk-through reassessment, with assessors inspecting houses inside and out.

The last time the city had a walk-through assessment was in 2012, Brown said.

At that point, the city was still recovering from the recession, officials said.

Familiar sirens to be silenced most Saturdays

January 22, 2020

Port Washington will become a quieter place on the weekends this spring.

That’s because the tornado sirens, which traditionally sound at 1 p.m. Saturdays, will only be tested once a month, Police Chief Kevin Hingiss told the Police and Fire Commission last week.

Hingiss told the commission that his decision came after Ozaukee County Emergency Management Director Scott Ziegler sent out a study recommending that emergency sirens be tested less frequently.

Port officials pan plan for Highway LL office building

January 22, 2020

The Port Washington Plan Commission didn’t mince words last week when members got a chance to review plans for an office building just west of the Country Inn & Suites on Seven Hills Road.

“The factory across the street looks nicer than this,” commission member Ron Voigt said, referring to Allen-Edmonds.

The building, intended to house Matt Nelson’s American Advantage insurance agency, is a metal structure that commission members said looks too industrial for the area.

Making off with the snow under the cover of darkness

January 22, 2020

Long before the sun rose Tuesday, Port Washington Street Department crews went to work cleaning up downtown after the first major snowstorm of the season on Friday night and early Saturday. Small loaders were used to push snow piled along sidewalks into streets, where it was plowed into rows. An industrial-sized snowthrower was then used to load a convoy of dump trucks that hauled the snow to the city yard on Moore Road.

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