Greenfield - Mayor Michael Neitzke is threatening to veto a measure approved by the Common Council that would allow a tobacco shop to serve beer and wine ...
Several residents in the 6300 block of Leroy Ave. in Greenfield were evacuated from their homes Monday afternoon after a 45-year-old man told police he was trying to fill up his house with gas, Greenfield Police Capt. Paul Schlecht said.The man was described as distraught when he called police at 1:48 p.m. and made the threatening statement, Schlect said.Officers arrived and could smell gas outside the house where the man was located, he said ...
A car struck and killed a 79-year-old Greenfield woman who was walking across a street Friday evening, police said.Greenfield Police received a call from a person at 11:11 p.m. who said that the woman had walked out in front of the car in the 5000 block of S. 76th St. The woman was declared dead at the scene, police said.The woman's name has not been released. Police said that alcohol did not appear to have been a factor in the incident ...
Greenfield — As a result of city budget cuts, the public library will close for six employee furlough days and will be open three fewer hours per week in 2010.The expected saving in salary is $34,000, Library Director Sheila O'Brien said.The 2010 closure days are Feb. 15, June 8, Aug. 10, Oct. 11, Nov. 24 and Dec. 23. In 2009, the library was closed for three employee furlough days ...
A 30-year-old Milwaukee man killed Saturday in a crash at S. 60th St. and W. National Ave. in West Allis has been identified by the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office as Byron George Marshall Jr.Marshall was speeding north on S. 60th St. in a Hyundai Sonata and collided about 6:30 a.m. with a Ford F-250 pickup truck traveling west on W. National Ave., according to a medical examiner's report.Preliminary information suggests Marshall drove through red lights at W. Greenfield and W.
Thirteen people from a West Allis bowling alley have been treated to Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center on Wednesday after reporting that they were feeling sick, police said.Medical workers believe they were exposed to carbon monoxide, St. Luke's spokeswoman Myrle Croasdale said. "They are being treated in the emergency department as we speak," Croasdale said.West Allis dispatchers were told that people at the Riviera Lanes, 8600 W. Greenfield Ave., might be suffering from carbon monoxide
Greenfield — Like police, firefighters would get a three-year contract with roughly 2.75% pay raises each year, but they would have to pay more health care costs.The firefighters contract is scheduled for a vote by the Common Council on Tuesday. The council has already approved a similar deal, to cover 2010-'12, for police.Mayor Michael Neitzke said the contracts provide 2% raises on Jan. 1 of each and an additional 1% raise on July 1 of each year ...
Greenfield — The Common Council's Legislative Committee will review next Monday recent changes made to city ordinances that restrict the carrying of firearms.The review came at the request last week of gun rights activists who fear that Greenfield might be compromising the constitutional rights of people who carry guns.Greenfield has adopted state restrictions on carrying firearms, such as the ban on carrying guns within 1,000 feet of a school, and has enabled police to write tickets for those