Port Washington

The life and times of Oscar Grady

October 02, 2019

Oscar Grady is a name with which many Saukville residents are familiar, being the name of their library.

But most don’t know the story of the man who was one of the most influential in the history of the village, even the region, and in his day one of it most colorful and perhaps notorious.

Volunteers rally around Possibility Playground again

October 02, 2019

MORE THAN 400 volunteers, from teenagers to senior citizens, lent their time and talents to the five-day renovation and expansion of Possibility Playground in Port Washington’s Upper Lake Park last week.

Agatha the iguana gives firefighters a new challenge

October 02, 2019

When Port Washington Fire Chief Mark Mitchell told Assistant Chief Steve Schmidt he had a special job for him last Wednesday, he wasn’t surprised.

Then Mitchell told him the job — to rescue an iguana named Agatha that was stuck in a tree on Moore Road.

“I thought he was kidding,” Schmidt said. 

While he understood Schmidt’s reaction, Mitchell told him he wasn’t joking. He had just met with a woman on Moore Road whose pet iguana had been missing for weeks and was just spotted in a tree across the street from her house.

Port police say speed a factor in fatal motorcycle crash on Wisconsin St.

October 02, 2019

A 27-year-old North Minneapolis man died Friday, Sept. 27, of injuries he suffered during a motorcycle accident in Port Washington two days earlier.

Adam Kellner, who died at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, suffered massive internal injuries during a single-vehicle accident on South Wisconsin Street at South Beach Road about 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, Port Washington Police Chief Kevin Hingiss said.

According to Hingiss, Kellner was in Port Washington visiting a friend when they decided to go on a motorcycle ride. 

Battling hunger on the home front

September 25, 2019

The harsh reality is that school lunch is the only meal of the day for some students. On weekends, they go hungry.

That’s what a school counselor and a food pantry director said not about students in a large urban school system but those in the Port Washington-Saukville School District.

“We have several students who say they don’t have dinners or get enough food to eat over the weekends,” Suzy Michel, a counselor at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Port Washington, said. 

Narrow streets continue to drive debate among officials

September 25, 2019

Port Washington’s policy of narrowing streets when it rebuilds them, which has been in effect for the last 20 years, came under fire last week from Ald. Deb Postl, who said she fears it is sending bicyclists onto the city sidewalks.

Bikers, she said, don’t feel safe riding on the narrow roads.

“I see more and more bicycles on sidewalks,” Postl said. “I think that is causing a safety issue in the city. I think the narrowing of the streets needs to be reviewed.”

Utility sees solar power potential in PWHS roof

September 25, 2019

We Energies would pay the Port Washington-Saukville School District about $8,700 a year to install and maintain a 750 solar panel system on top of the new southern end of the high school, a utility official told School Board members Monday.

“You would basically be leasing us your rooftop,” Richard Stasik, director of state regulatory affairs for We Energies and a Port Washington resident, told members of the Buildings and Grounds Committee. 

“It’s a completely turnkey solution. The district doesn’t have to invest one penny in the installation of the facility.”

A childhood cancer success story

September 25, 2019

It’s amazing what a dog can do.

In Joe Dean’s case, his book “A Dog Named Hope” has raised more than $50,000 for childhood cancer research and support during the past two years.

And that amount’s sure to climb with the release of a stuffed “Hope” dog that will not only compliment the book but also be a companion for youngsters.

“Our dream was always to do a companion puppy,” Dean said. “We felt the dog in the book was so adorable it would be great to bring it to life.”

Revised townhouse plan called better but not great

September 25, 2019

A revised concept plan and design for a townhouse development that would be built on Jackson Street in downtown Port Washington got the nod of approval from the city’s Design Review Board last week.

The board recommended the concept be approved but noted that the final design should still be tweaked before it is submitted.

“You’ve come a long way. You’re definitely much more on track,” board member Mike Ehrlich, an architect, said. “I do think this brings in the materials and language of what’s around here. I would like to see a little more refinement. 

New possibilities for a Port playground

September 25, 2019

In an effort reminiscent of the creation of Possibility Playground 11 years ago, volunteers on Tuesday began work to refresh the play area in Upper Lake Park. Skilled and unskilled volunteers are needed to help build benches, a tree house for the twisty slide and other amenities.

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