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Ruhama's closing its doors after 50 years on Silver Spring
Whitefish Bay — Walking through her store, Dawn Slugg carries herself with a certain reluctance, casting lingering glances as if seeing her wares for the last time.
For 32 years now, Slugg has been the proprietor of Ruhama's Yarn and Needlepoint, a staple boutique of downtown Whitefish Bay that caters to area knitters, crocheters and needlepoint hobbyists — she calls them her "stitchers" — with materials spanning an entire spectrum of colors and textures.
Yet, after all the time, Slugg, 70, says it's time to hang up the needles and the thread and the notions, to take up a new chapter of her life in retirement, to travel and enjoy more time with her children and grandchildren on the west coast. While Slugg will continue to run her wholesale yarn importing business, she expects the Ruhama's storefront itself to close for good around June 10.
"I feel like I'm going out on top," Slugg says. "I have loved doing this, and have appreciated the support I've always had from this community. I wouldn't have been here this long if it hadn't been for them, and the staff, and family."
Takes over from 'tough cookie'» Read Full Article
Brown Deer Plan Commission holds off on Beaver Creek rezoning decision
Brown Deer — The rezoning decision to allow for a Bradley Crossing-esque development at the Beaver Creek site on Brown Deer Road and 60th Street will have to wait until June 10.
After more than two hours of testimony from developer General Capital and Brown Deer residents — a large majority of whom oppose the project — Tuesday evening, the Plan Commission decided to lay over its deliberations until the June meeting to give commissioners more time to think it over and village staff more time to gather pertinent data like North Shore rental and low-income statistics.
General Capital's plans call for a 44 rental unit expansion of Beaver Creek, with 75 percent of the units for general population and 25 percent disability, with 37 of the 44 units at a low-income rental rate and seven at a market rate. Including the 10 existing condos, four of which General Capital will buy back if the expansion is approved, 17 of the total 54 units would rent at a high-end market rate. With a combination of strict background and criminal screenings, on-site management, condo-style units, community meeting room, and a "Beaver Creek Community Association," General Capital is trying to replicate a condo feel with its apartment development.
"You can have a very good building go very bad if you have bad management, and we take that very seriously," General Capital Partner Sig Strautmanis said. "This would not be, as what is commonly referred to as low-income housing and what is stigmatized as low-income housing."
General Capital is trying to make good on its 2007 investment in the Beaver Creek site, which has stalled since the developer built 10 condos before the 2008 economic downturn, four of which sold before the remaining six languished and were eventually rented. At present the village has invested $1.75 million in the site through tax incremental financing in exchange for General Capital to guarantee certain property values.» Read Full Article
Fox Point-Bayside eliminating technology director position
Fox Point — Fox Point-Bayside Technology Director Jim Binney's position will be cut in the coming 2013-14 school year.
Binney was hired in 2012 to work in tandem with Menomonee Falls-based K-12 Technology Group, an outside technology support service with whom the district contracts. In the coming year K-12 Technology Group will provide all technology support for the district, as was the case before Binney was hired, Superintendent Rachel Boechler said.
As technolgy director, Binney has managed the district network, provided technical support, and been a part of the technology planning committee. He said he has also provided hands-on technology training to teachers, though "it's not technically part of my job, but it's something that needs to be done."
Boechler said the move is meant to help close the district's projected 2013-14 budget deficit, estimated in mid-May to be about $370,000 if the state legislature doesn't increase mandated district spending limits in the 2013-15 biennial budget.
"If we were flush with money, (keeping both Binney and K-12 Technology Group) would be a great model,"Boechler said, "but we're not."» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay officials discuss tentative budget
The tentative 2013-14 Whitefish Bay School District budget, presented to the Finance Committee on Wednesday, shows a 4.14 percent increase to the tax levy; however, this number is expected to change in coming months.
Because of the ongoing state legislative process, the school district budget is a fluid document and can change over the next few months as the state decides how much it will issue in aid. The levy and state aid projected in the preliminary budget will most likely change; however, the district is mandated to have a preliminary budget for publication. Whitefish Bay is hoping to have projections from the Department of Public Instruction sometime in June, which would allow a more accurate levy figure.
"State aid and tax levy are impossible to project because the state hasn't determined the biennial budget — so no one knows how much money is being allocated to schools," Director of Business Services Shawn Yde said after the meeting.
The district has to send a budget document to Whitefish Bay residents in the beginning of July. Numbers should be updated some; however, they can still change by the annual meeting in September when Whitefish Bay electors approve the budget and levy.
For the time being, a "placeholder" was used to project the amount of state aid that will come to the district, Yde said. The preliminary budget shows about the same amount of state aid as last year, with a moderate $100,000 increase.» Read Full Article
Two annual meetings? It's possible in Whitefish Bay
There might be two Whitefish Bay School District annual meetings held to approve the 2013-14 budget and levy; however, it's up to residents to decide.
The Whitefish Bay School Board, meeting as the Committee of the Whole on Wednesday, debated the date of the annual meeting — it falls on Sept. 4, during Rosh Hashana. At every annual meeting, the next year's meeting is set. In Whitefish Bay, the meeting is typically the first Wednesday of September. Legal counsel advised the district that once the date is approved, it cannot be changed.
Rosh Hashana is Jewish holiday marking the start of a new year. It is considered a time for prayer, and work is not allowed on Rosh Hashana.
In an effort to accommodate the Jewish community, School Board members debated whether they should ask the public to immediately adjourn the annual meeting Sept. 4 and establish Sept. 9 as a new meeting date. It is up to electors to convene the meeting and set a new date.
Board members wanted more time to debate the issue, asking for more information on the issue so they can have a better understanding of their options. They will revisit the matter in June.» Read Full Article
Mandel breaks ground next week on Whitefish Bay project
Mandel Group Inc. will break ground next Wednesday on Beaumont Place, its apartment development in Whitefish Bay.
The development will feature three buildings totaling 83 upscale units, and will be completed by summer 2014. The project site is behind the Fox Bay Cinema Building, north of E. Silver Spring Drive and east of N. Santa Monica Blvd.
The apartments, ranging from one to three bedrooms, will rent for about $1,500 to $3,200 a month and target North Shore empty nesters.
Brown Deer Village Board approves Wal-Mart financials
Brown Deer — Trustees on Monday approved the financial dealings underlying the sale of the vacant Lowe's building on Brown Deer Road to Wal-Mart, but not before altering the agreements to grant themselves more power to regulate the retailer.
Trustee Andrea Weddle-Henning was the lone Village Board member to vote against the financial deals that allow Lowe's to settle their debt with the village and lock in a guaranteed property value for Wal-Mart to pay taxes on.
"It's just not the best fit," Weddle-Henning said after the meeting. "We're a small community here, and what happened (at a recently closed location off 76th Street and Brown Deer Road) is going to move here."
The approved agreements terminate the original 2006 development agreement between Lowe's and the village, on the condition Lowe's pay the village $1.25 million to cover a portion of the outstanding debt payments on the $2.4 million the village took out to kickstart the Lowe's development. Wal-Mart will fund the remainder of those debt payments by paying taxes on a guaranteed property value of at least $11 million, as stated in the agreements.
All of the financial agreements approved Monday only take effect if the Plan Commission and Village Board later approve site and operational plans, and if the sale goes through between Lowe's and Wal-Mart.» Read Full Article
Brown Deer apartments proposal set for May 28 hearing
A Plan Commission hearing on a disputed proposal to develop apartments in Brown Deer is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. May 28, at Brown Deer High School's Novak Fieldhouse.
General Capital Group would build the 44-unit Beaver Creek Apartments west of N. 60th St., a few blocks north of W. Brown Deer Road.
The townhouse-style apartments would be near General Capital's Beaver Creek Condominiums. The firm developed 10 condos and had planned to develop additional condos until the housing bubble burst.
Village officials say allowing apartments instead of condos will help generate property tax revenue, and bring more residents into the community.
Opponents have turned in petitions, signed by over 1,000 residents, opposed to the project. They say Brown Deer already has enough rental units, and needs the stability of more owner-occupied housing.
Whitefish Bay names Myrah interim superintendent
Whitefish Bay — Effective July 1, current Curriculum and Instruction Director Laura Myrah will serve as interim superintendent, according to a district news release.
Myrah will take over for outgoing superintendent Mary Gavigan, who announced last week she has accepted the position of executive director at the southeastern Wisconsin branch of the Cooperative Educational Service Agency. Myrah was very nearly chosen to become the new superintendent of the nearby Fox Point-Bayside School District, making the shortlist of three finalists.
Myrah has been the curriculum and instruction director for four years now, previously serving as an elementary school principal in the Elmbrook School District and West Bend Joint School District, and a gifted and talented coordinator and middle school teacher in the Port Washington-Saukville School District.
"Ms. Myrah's rich background in educational research and effective practice, her passion for students and learning, and her demonstrated leadership within our district will help the School District of Whitefish Bay move forward consistent with its area of focus and statewide initiatives," School Board President Pam Woodward said in the release.
"I look forward to building on my existing relationship with students, staff, parents and community members to not only continue our tradition of excellence but to enhance and expand it," Myrah said in the release. "I am enthused and proud to serve our district as Interim Superintendent."
Ryan Braun, Aaron Rodgers opening Bayshore restaurant
8-Twelve MVP Bar and Grill, a restaurant associated with athletes Ryan Braun and Aaron Rodgers, will open its second location at Glendale's Bayshore Town Center.
The new 8-Twelve will be located in the space now leased to COA, a locally owned Mexican restaurant which Marc and Marta Bianchini opened in 2009. COA closes June 30, and 8-Twelve is expected to open in the fourth quarter, said David Moss, Bayshore general manager.
8-Twelve opened its first location last July in Brookfield. Its name comes from the jersey numbers for Braun, leftfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers, and Rodgers, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. The restaurant is operated by SURG Restaurant Group, which is owned by Mike Polaski and Omar Shaikh and has a licensing agreement with Braun and Rodgers.
Much of 8-Twelve's produce, beef and pork is provided by Polaski's Hidden Creek Farm, in New London, as well as other Wisconsin farms.
8-Twelve's Bayshore location will feature private dining rooms, as well as a large dining room and spacious bar area.» Read Full Article
Braeger calls off Fox Point-Bayside recall
Fox Point — Fox Point-Bayside School District parent David Braeger announced Monday that his School Board recall effort, launched just shy of two weeks ago, is at an end.
In a statement Braeger said that attention from outside arts interest groups, which he says would use the district for their own political ends, and assurances from teachers union president Mark Conforti, have led him to rescind the recalls he had filed against School Board President Debbie Friberg as well as board members Alice Lawton and Tim Melchert.
"Although I am in total agreement with (interest groups') cause, I can't let these highly organized groups use our community and school as the 'poster child' of weakened curriculum and schedule," Braeger said in the release, adding of Conforti, "he is the chief negotiator and the voice of the teachers and I must respect that."
While Braeger indicated he isn't confident in Friberg, Lawton and Melchert, he said newly elected board members Michael Weidner and Libby Wick can "bring in new ideas and leadership." He added that he hopes the district's incoming superintendent — recently announced to be Vance Dalzin from Williams Bay in Walworth County — can change the atmosphere in the district and resolve lingering schedule and curriculum concerns.
Friberg didn't offer any comment on the recall other than to say it hadn't influenced her recent votes on School Board matters, and wouldn't have factored into future votes.» Read Full Article
Fox Point-Bayside chooses Dalzin as new superintendent
Fox Point — Vance Dalzin, current superintendent of the Williams Bay School District in Walworth County, was selected unanimously by the School Board to become the district's new superintendent, according to a district news release.
He will succeed superintendent Rachel Boechler in August. In January Boechler announced her resignation to continue her work with Seattle-based nonprofit Center for Courage & Renewal, where she is currently board chair.
Working with search firm Hazard Young & Attea, the district began with a pool of 28 candidates, six of whom were interviewed. The School Board interviewed Dalzin twice and a group of district teachers, administrators, support staff and parents interviewed him once. Stakeholders in Williams Bay were interviewed as well.» Read Full Article
Chris Abele delivering cardiac monitors at North Shore FD
Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele is presenting 45 new cardiac monitors to firefighters and emergency responders Monday morning at the North Shore Fire Department.
The new monitors include wireless Internet capabilities to send information to hospitals in a quicker and easier manner. The cost of the monitors was included in the 2013 county budget, according to a news release.
The presentation is being made in honor of Emergency Medical Services Week.
Walmart planned for Brown Deer gets preliminary boost
The Village Board will consider that recommendation Monday. It would replace the development agreement the village had with Lowe's, which closed the store in 2011. That agreement guaranteed the building's assessed value was high enough to generate enough property taxes to repay village funds used to help finance the building.
The new agreement calls for Lowe's to make a payment to help reduce that debt, with Walmart agreeing to invest at least $11 million in the site in order to generate property taxes to pay off the rest of that debt.
All of this is contingent on the village approving Walmart's site plans. The property is already zoned for big box retail use.
Mequon Outpost Natural Foods set to open by summer 2014
A new Outpost Natural Foods supermarket planned for Mequon is scheduled to open by summer 2014, after the Common Council this week approved city financing assistance for the project.
Demolition work to prepare the development site, at the northeast corner of Mequon Road (Highway 167) and Wauwatosa Road (Highway 181), is to begin in June, said Kim Tollefson, city community development director.
The Common Council on Tuesday approved a proposal to provide $229,241 in assistance for the $4.1 million development.
That cash will be provided through the city's tax incremental financing district along Mequon Road between Wauwatosa Road and the Milwaukee River. A portion of Outpost's annual property tax bill will be rebated to the cooperative over four years.
The 16,000-square-foot store, which is the first Outpost to be developed outside Milwaukee County, will primarily serve customers from Mequon and Thiensville. It also is expected to draw shoppers from such nearby communities as Germantown, Menomonee Falls, Cedarburg and Grafton.» Read Full Article
Wal-Mart sale clears Brown Deer CDA
Brown Deer — After closed session negotiations Wednesday evening, the Community Development Authority unanimously approved a termination of its original 2006 agreement with Lowe's and approved a new agreement with Wal-Mart to develop the vacant Lowe's building on Brown Deer Road.
The CDA's actions amount to recommendations to the Village Board, which will consider the matter on Monday.
When the village partnered through tax incremental financing with Lowe's in 2006, it borrowed $2.4 million to jump start the development. Under the terms of the termination, Lowe's agrees to pay the village $1.25 million to satisfy the outstanding debt payments it would have otherwise funded through property taxes.
The Wal-Mart agreement acknowledges that the retailer will invest at least $11 million in the site. However much Wal-Mart ends up investing, multiplied by the village's assessment ratio — .95 in the 2012 tax year — will determine a fair market "floor value" that Walmart and any successors, at the least, will have to guarantee and pay taxes on.
Both the Lowe's termination agreement and Wal-Mart redevelopment agreement are contingent on the village approving site, landscape, architectural and outdoor lighting, and operational plans. Both agreements have no effect unless the sale between Lowe's and Wal-Mart goes through.
Al Calderone Club set to open Friday in Shorewood
Al Calderone Club, a pizza takeout and delivery restaurant, is due to open at 11 a.m. Friday at 4475 N. Oakland Ave. in Shorewood.
It's named for the original east side restaurant begun by Antonio and Maria Rosa Fazzari.
The restaurant will sell some pizza by the slice, and it has a counter that will seat seven. Owner Carmelo Fazzari is awaiting permission from the village to put tables outside soon that would seat another dozen or so.
The restaurant will sell thin crust, New York and Calabrese-style pizzas, as well as appetizers, salads and sandwiches.
Al Calderone Club will open at 11 a.m. daily. It will stay open until 11 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, and it could stay open as late as 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Fazzari said.
Homestead's Pelisek earns honor from First Bank/ Sports Radio 1250
Homestead senior defensive back Riley Pelisek was named the football athlete of the year by SportsRadio 1250 AM and First Bank Financial.
For his work with the WIAA State Division 2 champion Highlander squad last fall, Pelisek received a $1,500 scholarship in a ceremony at the First Bank office in Mequon Thursday morning.
1250 Radio names an athlete of the week each fall and winter for first the football and then the basketball season. They then take all the weekly winners and choose an athlete of the year for each sport.
Pelisek, who plans on attending the University of Pennsylvania with the idea of going into the school's prestigious Wharton School of Business, was grateful for the honor.
"Every little bit helps," he said. Pelisek recently helped the Highlander boys' track team win its fifth straight North Shore Conference Triple Crown with the league outdoor title on Tuesday.» Read Full Article
Auditors draw different conclusions on Azana spa shooter case
Brown Deer — Two separate reports come to very different conclusions on the interactions between Brown Deer police, Zina Haughton, and her estranged husband, Radcliffe, now infamous for gunning down Zina, two of her co-workers, and injuring three others before committing suicide.
By and large, auditor Robert C. Willis, whom Brown Deer hired in the wake of public outcry over the October 2012 Azana Spa shooting, concluded that Brown Deer police acted appropriately while dealing with the Haughtons, given the circumstances.
"BDPD and its officers acted professionally, enforced all laws and acted reasonably and appropriately in any and all dealings with the Haughtons," Willis wrote. "The BDPD has adequate training and an exemplary policy on how to respond to domestic abuse calls."
Domestic violence experts Judith Munaker and Linda Besser, consulted to review Willis' findings, tell a different story. Their report, attached as an appendix to the end of Willis' audit, repeatedly takes Brown Deer police to task for a lack of follow-ups, and includes a list of mistakes ranging from witness interviewing, evidence gathering and a lack of information sharing with Brookfield police.
More training needed» Read Full Article
Shorewood Schools Business Manager moves on
Shorewood School District Business Manager Mark Boehlke has accepted an assistant superintedent position in the Sheboygan Area School District and will leave in June, according to a district news release.
In his new post, Boehlke will be in charge of business and operational services. He has been with the Shorewood district since 2006.
"As hard as it is to leave, I am looking forward to the new challenges and the opportunity to work in my hometown," Boehlke said in the release.
Superintendent Martin Lexmond said in the release that the district will immediately begin search for a replacement, and may hire a search firm to held screen candidates before finalists are brought before the Finance and Facilities Committee, community members, staff, and School Board as part of the hiring process.
Fox Point-Bayside School Board finalizes three of 10 potential layoffs
Updated to include comment from recall organizer David Braeger.
Fox Point — After two rounds of public hearings last week over potential layoffs, the Fox Point-Bayside School Board spared seven of the 10 teachers who had been in danger of losing their jobs in the coming school year.
The decision came in the wake of weeks of public outcry over proposed staffing and schedule changes which amount to reductions in the district's arts, music, technology, and physical education — known colloquially as "specials" — in the coming year. The furor came to a head last week when district parent David Braeger turned in paperwork to begin the process of recalling School Board President Debbie Friberg alongside board members Tim Melchert and Alice Lawton.
On Tuesday Braeger called the board's decisions a "good first step." Since he turned in the recall papers, statewide arts special interest groups have contacted him in an effort to attach themselves to his campaign, Braeger said.
Braeger has extended invitations to School Board members to meet and come to some resolution over staffing and scheduling. He said he has put the recall effort on the back burner for now, in an effort to find a solution without the limelight the interest groups would invoke, should the recall move forward.» Read Full Article
Brown Deer Walmart store likely
Brown Deer — A planned Walmart at the former Lowe's site on the 6300 block of Brown Deer Road is likely, pending sale of the property between the two retailers and negotiations with the village Community Development Authority.
Walmart is planning to expand the approximately 130,000 square foot Lowe's building to about 150,000 square feet to accommodate a full grocery and pharmacy in addition to the typical layout.
Serving the North Shore
Wisconsin Regional Manager and Mequon resident Mitch Cox said the nearby location off Brown Deer Road and 76th Street, recently relocated to Silver Spring and 103rd Street, took its customer base with it. He said the Brown Deer location would stock more upscale merchandise compared to other Walmarts, in an effort to target area customers.
"We need to serve the North Shore customer," Cox said, "and we haven't."» Read Full Article
Eddie Bauer closing Bayshore store
The Eddie Bauer store at Bayshore Town Center, in Glendale, is closing May 26.
A spokeswoman for the Bellevue, Wash.-based clothing retailer couldn't be reached for comment Monday.
Bayshore General Manager David Moss said he hopes to announce a replacement tenant for that space within a few weeks.
Vinamo, a wine bar with small plates, to open in Whitefish Bay in August
When Rosemarie Niles opened a frozen yogurt shop with her husband in DeLand, Fla., last year, she soon discovered the tapas place across the street and the wine bar next door. Now she's combining the concept of both in Vinamo, a wine bar and small-plates restaurant at 402 E. Silver Spring Drive in Whitefish Bay.
Vinamo is expected to open in August.
"I love wine, I love small-plate dining, too," Niles said. "It makes the whole dining experience more enjoyable" because it encourages guests to share, linger and talk about food.
The restaurant would serve soups, salads and sandwiches at lunch, small plates at night and brunch on the weekends. Niles said she's planning to offer dishes that would appeal to diners who are health conscious "without scaring away people who aren't." Vinamo would use ingredients such as free-range chicken and grass-fed beef, and incorporate organic ingredients such as greens when possible, she said.
Niles, whose parents owned the former Sardi's Italian restaurant in Mequon, said menu will have European dishes in general, and a number of Italian dishes.» Read Full Article
Indoor sports facility planned for Glendale
A Glendale warehouse would be converted into an indoor sports facility under a plan that's seeking financing help from a nonprofit business lender.
A group that includes developer Josh Jeffers plans to buy and convert the 25,000-square-foot building, 2920 W. Vera Ave., according to a report from the Milwaukee Economic Development Corp.
MEDC's Loan and Finance Committee will consider Tuesday a request for a $440,000 loan to help finance the $1.1 million project. Cornerstone Community Bank would provide additional financing.
The development would provide space for futsal, a derivation of indoor soccer, Jeffers said, along with court space for volleyball, basketball and other sports.
The building was originally built in the 1960s as an indoor tennis club, and is next to a similar building that's used by the Paley Tennis Center.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay superintendent resigns
Whitefish Bay — Superintendent Mary Gavigan has announced she will be leaving the district in favor of an executive director post at the Cooperative Educational Service Agency.
She will be taking over CESA #1, one of 12 regional service providers in Wisconsin. According to the CESA #1 web page, the provider's southeastern Wisconsin coverage area spans 45 schools districts across six counties, containing more than 29,000 educators and more than 300,000 students. Oftentimes districts contract with CESA for services like special education, staffing, consultations, professional development services, student learning programs, and student support and intervention services.
On a broader level, CESA is advancing what Gavigan calls a "three-pronged approach" consisting of regional collaboration between area superintendents, college and career readiness for students, and a "transformational initiative" aimed at individually customized lesson plans.
"The future is very much about personalizing student education," Gavigan said. "It's a dynamic time, so it's an exciting time to work regionally, and across the state."
Gavigan was chosen in 2010 to succeed Whitefish Bay School District Superintendent James Rickabaugh. Coincidentally, she will again succeed Rickabaugh when she takes over as executive director of CESA #1. The School Board will meet in closed session Tuesday evening to begin hashing out a transitional plan for the superintendent position; the agenda indicates the board may select an interim superintendent.» Read Full Article
Elmbrook recommends Stormonth's Westfahl as new Brookfield Elementary principal
Daniel Westfahl, currently principal at Stormonth Elementary School in the Fox Point-Bayside School District, has been chosen to take the reins at Brookfield Elementary School.
The Elmbrook School Board is set to vote on a two-year contract for Westfahl on Monday. It stipulates a salary of $99,000.
Westfahl has been principal at Stormonth for three years. He began his career in education as a first-grade teacher at Marcy Elementary School in the Hamilton School District in 1993.
Brookfield Elementary Principal Lynn Raines announced her retirement in March. She has been with the district since 2004, starting as a first-grade teacher at Burleigh Elementary, and began her position as principal at Brookfield Elementary in 2009.
Elmbrook received 68 applications in response to the posting for the position, according to School Board documents posted today. Eight candidates were initially screened, and three finalists were selected by an interview team.
Elmbrook recommends new Brookfield Elementary principal
Daniel Westfahl, currently principal at Stormonth Elementary School in the Fox Point-Bayside School District, has been chosen to take the reins at Brookfield Elementary School.
The Elmbrook School Board is set to vote on a two-year contract for Westfahl on Monday. It stipulates a salary of $99,000.
Westfahl has been principal at Stormonth for three years. He began his career in education as a first-grade teacher at Marcy Elementary School in the Hamilton School District in 1993.
Brookfield Elementary Principal Lynn Raines announced her retirement in March. She has been with the district since 2004, starting as a first-grade teacher at Burleigh Elementary, and began her position as principal at Brookfield Elementary in 2009.
Elmbrook received 68 applications in response to the posting for the position, according to School Board documents posted today. Eight candidates were initially screened, and three finalists were selected by an interview team.
Mequon seeks residents' opinions on development issues
The City of Mequon is seeking opinions on development issues through a survey of its residents.
The city has traditionally done a survey every five to 10 years, according to a letter posted on the city's website.
This survey, on the nature and extent of future development, is designed to help city officials make decisions that better reflect the views of Mequon residents, said the letter, which urges them to fill out the survey.
The letter is signed by newly elected Mayor Dan Abendroth; his predecessor, Curt Gielow, and two other former mayors, Christine Nuernberg and Connie Pukaite.
Abendroth, who defeated Gielow in the April election, doesn't have the same level of enthusiasm for urban-style developments as Gielow, something I noted in this recent article.» Read Full Article
Germantown softball team edges Bay, 1-0, to improve to 11-0 in NSC
As if it needed to be told to Germantown softball pitcher Felicia Kons, nothing about defending a North Shore Conference championship is ever going to be easy.
Take the day the Warhawks had on Wednesday, where due to numerous rainouts and cancellations, they found themselves in the situation of having to play an unusual doubleheader.
Earlier in the day, Germantown edged Grafton, 2-1, in a road game behind the pitching of Amanda Witzlib.
Then before the Warhawks had a chance to breath, they hopped back on the bus and made their way back to their Kennedy Middle School home fields for a night game with Whitefish Bay.
And as noted, nothing would be easy. The Warhawks needed an unearned run in the first, and the steady pitching of Kons to pull out the 1-0 win, a victory that helped them improve to 11-0 in North Shore play.» Read Full Article
Stein's Gardens and Gifts again takes root in Shorewood
Shorewood - Almost 70 years after Stein's Gardens and Gifts made its beginning in Shorewood, the retailer has finally come home.
Last week Stein's opened a 2,500-square-foot seasonal satellite at the site of the former Pig N' Whistle on the western edge of the village on Capitol Drive, where a variety of pots, planters, baskets and gardening supplies mark the retailer's first foray into Shorewood in almost 50 years.
Maurice and Mary Stein opened Maurice Stein Flower and Garden Center in 1946 on the corner of Capitol and Wilson drives. Back then the store was a florist shop, where Mary ran the books and Maurice plied his trade for patrons around the North Shore, recalls their daughter-in-law Joan Stein.
"(Maurice) was the flower man," Joan says. "He had been the head of the flower department (at a local department store)."
Joan married their son Jack, who had struck out on his own in 1957 to go into business on Milwaukee's south side. She describes Jack as a deft businessman whose entrepreneurship was the fertilizer for what would eventually become a staple of southeastern Wisconsin: Stein's Gardens and Gifts.» Read Full Article
NSFD board trying to take funding formula discussion behind closed doors
Members of the North Shore Fire Department board of directors say deliberations over a revised funding formula should take place in closed session, away from the public.
At a special meeting Tuesday morning, facilitator Rob Henken - president of the southeastern Wisconsin-based Public Policy Forum - presented a summary of his meetings with individual NSFD board members, the issues facing the board as it begins to revise the funding formula, and a list of preliminary options the board can consider as the debate continues. The board hired Henken in March to help mediate negotiations between board members as they work to define a funding formula that will replace the current formula in 2016 and determine how much each of the seven member communities contribute to NSFD's budget.
Henken reported that most NSFD board members find the current formula to be fair and were unanimous that the current components of the formula, population, equalized values and usage, were the right community measurements to include in the formula. Most board members are open to changing the weighting of different property types in the formula; in the current formula residential properties are taken at face value, industrial property value is counted twice and manufacturing property value is counted three times. Henken reported mixed feelings among board members on whether non-levy revenues, like ambulance fees, should be subtracted from the share of the community in which they are generated - currently those revenues are pooled together regardless of where they come from - through "revenue offsets" and whether community contributions should be the product of negotiations between board members or the result of an analytical formula.
At the end of his report Henken brought forward a series of potential formula changes for the board to consider, all of which would weight all types of property equally and increase the emphasis on usage to 40 or 50 percent of the formula, which is currently split equally three ways between usage, population and equalized property value. Some would add revenue offsets as well. At the request of board members he will also bring forward models that would keep the three-way split but include tweaks to property weighting and revenue offsets.
Yet, when Henken asked board members to weigh in on the potential changes - in effect to begin the heavy lifting of negotiating the particulars of the new formula - they balked, saying the negotiations should take place in closed session rather than in an open meeting. Bayside Village President Sam Dickman said he was "blindsided" by the meeting, after which Brown Deer Village President Carl Krueger and Glendale Mayor Jerome Tepper piped up to support the idea of closed session negotiations.» Read Full Article
Thiensville Village Park beer garden gains backing
Thiensville - After a lengthy debate, a proposed beer garden at Village Park won conceptual approval from the Village Board, which met on Monday as a Committee of the Whole.
Trustees Rob Holyoke, David Lange, John Treffert, and Village President Van Mobley voted for the approval, while trustees Ron Heinritz and Ken Kucharski voted against. Heinritz said he couldn't vote for it without more information. Kucharski voiced concerns that Thiensville businesses, including his own Skippy's Sports Pub & Grub, would lose business to the beer garden, and that drinking in the park could harm public safety.
"I think it's a sad disregard to the established businesses and the younger families that expressed concern," Kucharski said of the vote. "I don't think it's a good fit for our park and our community."
Under a proposal assembled by Lange and Sprecher Brewing Company President Jeff Hamilton, the Glendale-based brewer would supply infrastructure like tables, chairs and umbrellas, along with management and bartenders. Sprecher would serve eight to 10 types of beer alongside soft drinks and light snack food, and would plan to host beer tasting events and seminars. The proposal says the beer garden would operate seven days a week, from 5-9 p.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends, from mid-June to early fall. Sprecher would rent the Village Park "kitchen" building from the fire department, and contribute 15 percent of food and beverage profits to the Thiensville Business Renaissance Committee and fire department. According to the proposal, Sprecher would allocate roughly half of its southeastern Wisconsin radio advertising to the Thiensville beer garden.
Lange emphasized that Sprecher intends to work with local businesses with promotions meant to encourage beer garden patrons to eat at local restaurants and pubs. An important component of the proposal, said Lange, would be a fall review meant to measure the beer garden's impact on area businesses. The hope would be for beer garden traffic to boost sales in nearby businesses, he said, but a negative impact would end the experiment.» Read Full Article
Fox Point-Bayside School Board recall set in motion
Fox Point - District parent David Braeger, alongside his attorney, turned in documents Wednesday morning to begin the process of recalling three Fox Point-Bayside School Board members.
The three recall petitions will target School Board President Debbie Friberg along with board members Tim Melchert and Alice Lawton. Braeger himself has filed as a recall candidate against all three.
According to recall guidelines from the state Government Accountability Board, after registering a recall, petitioners have 60 days to gather signatures. A recall petition must have 25 percent of the number of votes cast in the last gubernatorial election.
According to Braeger's attorney, separate petitions will need to be circulated to initiate a recall for each board member. Braeger estimates he will need approximately 1,400 signatures for each petition.
Braeger decided to begin the recall after attending public layoff hearings Tuesday night, where parents, teachers, and staff testified on behalf of four district teachers in danger of being laid off. The recalls are the culmination of a controversy stretching back over several recent board meetings at which crowds of angry teachers, parents, and students have protested staffing and scheduling changes which amount to reductions in "specials" - arts, music, technology, and physical education classes - in the coming school year.» Read Full Article
University School of Milwaukee sues charter group for trademark infringement
University School of Milwaukee, a private K-12 college preparatory school in River Hills, has sued one of its own board members and a nonprofit company that plans a charter school in the area with a similar-sounding name.
The suit, filed Tuesday in federal court, claims The Universal Companies and one of its agents, Ronn Johnson, are infringing on University School's trademarked names, including USM. Johnson is executive vice president of education for the Mid-West Region for defendant Universal Companies, according to the complaint. The Pennsylvania-based operation certainly knew the local school's reputation, and use of USM, the suit points out, because Johnson is a member of the USM board of trustees.
The defendant has been planning to open a charter school called Universal School of Milwaukee, and uses a common shorthand for University School, USM, on its logo. The complaint includes a photo of an ad for the new school on a Milwaukee County bus.
University School notes that all six of the Universal's other schools use the word charter in their names.
"Instead of continuing the pattern of using the term 'charter' in the name of the school, the Defendants purposefully attempt to trade off the goodwill and reputation of Plaintiff by naming the school Universal School of Milwaukee and making repeated use of the USM mark," the suit claims.» Read Full Article
Azana audit raises questions
After seeking input from domestic violence experts, consultant Robert C. Willis disregarded their scathing conclusions and released an analysis Tuesday saying Brown Deer police responded appropriately to incidents involving gunman Radcliffe Haughton and his wife in the months and years before the Azana Salon & Spa shootings.
Experts Judith Munaker and Linda Besser said Brown Deer police failed to follow their own policy - and state guidelines - and made more than 20 mistakes in their interactions with the Haughtons, including problems with investigation, evidence collection, interviewing and sharing information with other departments.
Their report was attached to the analysis by Willis, who was hired by the Brown Deer Police Department to review its dealings with the family leading up to the October shootings at the Brookfield spa. Radcliffe Haughton killed his estranged wife Zina and two of her co-workers, and wounded four others before committing suicide.
A Journal Sentinel investigation found police had been called to their Brown Deer home two dozen times in 11 years, never making an arrest. At least seven calls were to investigate domestic violence, records show. The one time Brown Deer police arrested Haughton, they did so at the request of Brookfield police after he slashed his wife's tires outside the spa.
Willis concluded Brown Deer officers "acted professionally, enforced all laws and acted reasonably and appropriately in any and all dealings with the Haughtons."» Read Full Article
Walmart to submit plans for former Lowe's in Brown Deer
Walmart will submit plans to the village of Brown Deer to convert the former Lowe's home improvement store into a new supermarket and discount store, the company announced Tuesday.
The retailer will host a neighborhood meeting to present the project and seek community comment at 6 p.m. Monday at Brown Deer Middle School, 5757 W. Dean Road.
The former Lowe's building is 140,000 square feet, which is about the size of other combined supermarket and discount stores Walmart has been developing lately in the Milwaukee area.
"We're excited to present a proposal that will expand shopping opportunities for North Shore customers," said Lisa B. Nelson, senior manager, public affairs and government relations for Walmart in Wisconsin, in a statement. "We look forward to working with the village to enhance the business corridor, create jobs, grow the tax base, and repurpose an existing vacant building into a vibrant shopping destination."
The new store is expected to create about 300 full- and part-time jobs, the company statement said.» Read Full Article
Bay trustee announces resignation
Whitefish Bay Village Board trustee Lauri Rollings has announced she will resign effective June 1 to focus on working and the imminent birth of her first child in mid-June.
"I have been doing a lot of soul searching over the last few weeks and I just don't feel confident that I will be able to balance the demands of my full-time job, new parenthood and my responsibilities to the village," Rollings wrote in an email to Village President Julie Siegel, Village Manager Patrick DeGrave, and assistant manager Kayla Chadwick. "The village deserves someone who will be able to devote his or her full attention to village business."
Rollings was elected in 2011 to a three-year term ending in 2014, and has also served on the Community Development Authority and an ad hoc subcommittee which deals with Private Property Infiltration and Inflow, the amount of rainwater getting into the village's sanitary sewer system.
The Village Board tonight will begin to choose whether to appoint someone or hold a special election to fill Rollings' seat for the remainder of her term, or simply allow the seat to remain vacant until the next regular election in April 2014.
Fox Point-Bayside announces superintendent finalists
Fox Point - The search for a new Fox-Point Bayside superintendent has narrowed to three finalists, the district announced Wednesday.
Laura Myrah, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Whitefish Bay School District; Vance Dalzin, Superintendent of the Williams Bay School District in Williams Bay, WI; and Rick Burchell, Director of the Fox Valley Career Center, part of the Kaneland Community School District in Maple Park, IL, are still in the running.
An interview team composed of district staff, parents, and administrators will interview the three finalists alongside the school board between May 2 and May 4. The district expects to announce its choice on May 15.
Whoever is chosen will in August succeed current Superintendent Rachel Boechler, who was hired by the school board in 2010 and in January announced her resignation to continue her work with Seattle-based nonprofit Center for Courage & Renewal, where she is currently board chair.
New Nicolet superintendent brings broad background
Glendale - Robert Kobylski has been a lot of things. A grocery store night manager. A pit runner at the Chicago Board of Trade. A Bears fan (let's try to forgive him). A futures trader. A teacher, and later an administrator in the Chicago Public Schools system. A school board president. An amateur woodworker and hobbyist pig farmer. A principal and superintendent of several Wisconsin school districts.
And if you live within the boundaries of the Nicolet School District, he'll be your superintendent come July.
Kobylski, a married father of six in his mid-50s, grew up in Chicago's North Shore, in Skokie, Ill. He was an academic, he says, with a focus on working with his hands - and, he adds, a bit of a jock.
"Any sport," he says. "You name it, I played it."
He describes his alma mater, Niles East High School, as similar to many North Shore Districts whose emphasis is on fine arts, high achievement and athletics.» Read Full Article
Questions remain on Brown Deer School District budget
Brown Deer - Several key, current unknown pieces of information will affect the Brown Deer School District budget in the coming 2013-14 school year, though Business Manager Emily Koczela is confident the books will balance.
On Tuesday evening, Koczela presented a preliminary budget summary to a modest crowd of School Board members, staff and district parents who weighed in on several critical budgeting factors like spending priorities and increases to the local tax levy.
According to Koczela's presentation, revenue projections are difficult to make at present, since the amount of general state aid coming to the district won't be known until July 1, and the community hasn't come to a consensus on how much, if any, the tax levy should increase; on the flip side, expenditures are hazy at this point as well. Administrators are planning to give modest raises to staff, and total staffing remains unknown while the district consolidates from three buildings to two. Benefit costs are projected to be flat since administrators are working with the district insurance provider to keep premiums flat from year to year, but Koczela noted the Affordable Care Act - known commonly as Obamacare - may be expensive as a result of more employees becoming eligible for greater coverage.
More employees covered
If the district is compelled to provide more coverage to more employees, Koczela said, she would try to strike a balance between lowering the overall cost and providing acceptable coverage.» Read Full Article


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I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing postpartum joint pain. My daughter is 7 months now and I am still struggling with chronic joint pain. I would love to speak with anyone who is experiencing similar pain.
Postpartum Joint Pain
I wonder if we should open up a new thread. This one has been going since 2009!!!
I started with SEVERE joint pain 5 months PP (about a month ago). I ws fine one day and the next I couldn't move without horrible pain. It was so bad in the morning that I would feel like I was going to throw up from the pain. I had pre-e with a placental abruption. Pretty traumatic birth but my LO is a healthy and happy almost 6 mo old. I am currently on 20mg of Prednisone daily as I can't function without it. I also tested negative for all of the autoimmune diseases (neg ANA, rheum factor). I did have a high sed rate and c reactive protein though. I am so scared and Dr. Google just makes everything worse. I'm really glad I found this thread though. I really hope its just something PP hormone related and not something chronic.
I'm seeing a Rheum and since I didn't have a primary care physician when this started, I will see one this week. I'll update when I get some sort of answer.
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I had joint pain following my third baby at 6weeks postpartum until I got pregnant with my fourth. Pain started in my hands and wrists and spread everywhere. I also had a feeling of easy muscle fatiguability
that affected my walking, swallowing and movement of my eyes. I was admitted to a hospital and no cause was ever found despite extensive testing. My symptoms gradually resolved on their own.
Now, I am 6mos postpartum after fourth baby with no reoccurrence although I can still feel it in my hands sometimes still. I am hoping that it never comes back!
Good luck to you all!!!
Wanted to update & ask you all- how is everyone's sleep going? Did you know that chronic sleep loss can cause joint pain? How many of you are getting good sleep? My DS is STILL getting up at night at 9 months!!! I am EXHAUSTED. I did end up seeing a Rhuematologist for my ongoing joint pain - he believes that my sleep loss and my ongoing anxiety issues are causing this. I have suffered with anxiety/depression for a few years. Anyway, I was surprised by his conclusions, but he said he sees this a lot - both long term sleep deprivation being a cause of it AND anxiety/depression issues. As a side note, a couple of years ago my anxiety was so bad and I was having all these weird physical symptoms, one of them being joint pain in my hands and feet - but it went away when I started anxiety meds, which I can't take now because I'm nursing.
OMG..I am not alone! I have been to the doctor and had complete labs done, including RA. Found out I was Vit D deficient, but continue to have pain in hips and left knee, also my feet and my hands become swollen from time to time. I also experience a warm sensation radiating up my arms. My DR gave me alist of exercises to try, but I feel too stiff to do them! I wake up feeling 95 years old. Help!!! Any ideas or recommendations are appreciated!
First and foremost, Time, things for me seem to just be ever so slowly fading with time. I am now 14 mos. PP. The hand swelling really flares at ovulation though. I would also suggest a progesterone cream for your hips and knee. It really helped my feet pains, but not my hands. I was also Vit D deficient too (borderline); taking that vitamin may help. I tried every supplement under the sun (ie glucosimine, chondroitin, Vit C, magnesium etc. etc., don't waste your money, as nothing helped). You are probably getting those vitamins and minerals just from healthy eating. Also, exercise and stretching may help. I have been doing this for a couple of months and it seems to be helping, that and time...
Wow! What a long thread this is! It goes to show that this is a real problem for so many of us!
Good luck!
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A former Internal Revenue Service agent in Kansas is expected in court to answer a charge of receiving more than $26,000 in salary and mileage payments for meetings with taxpayers that never took place.
Forty-nine-year-old Becky L. Book of Pittsburg is scheduled to be formally arraigned before a federal magistrate Thursday on one count of theft of public money. A defendant can only plead not guilty at such initial hearings in federal court, but Book is then set to immediately go before a federal judge for a change-of-plea hearing.
Prosecutors allege Book claimed she worked 744 hours between March 2010 and April 2011, when she actually took those hours off as unauthorized personal time.
A lawyer for the former IRS agent did not immediately return phone and email messages Wednesday.
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Bringing 20+ Years of experience in the educational field in the US and abroad, Gail attributes her success to encouraging open communications, hard work and dedication to the children, the parents and her staff. AppleTree Learning Care will be hosting an "Open House" very soon and Gail looks forward to meeting all the parents. She hopes to receive plenty of suggestions, input and feedback.
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AppleTree's increasing popularity and reputation for being the absolute best daycare and learning center in the area is rapidly pushing them in the direction of reaching full capacity. After that, they'll need to begin juggling a waiting list.
This is one of the many reasons Gail Morrill has been brought on-board. When a daycare's numbers begin to reach maximium capacity, resources soon become readily available to enrich the lives and learning experiences of the children. That's when Gail is at her best.
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These rights rank highest amongst the rights of all creatures. No other creature is eligible for a higher right than that due to the Allah's Messenger (peace be upon Him).
Allah says:
"Verily, We have sent you (O Muhammad) as a witness, as a bearer of glad tidings, and as a Warner. In order that you (O mankind) may believe in Allah and His Messenger, and that you assist and honor him ..." (Quran 48:8+9)
Hence, love dedicated to the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) must assume precedence over love to all people even oneself, offspring, and parents. In this context Allah's Messenger said:
"None of you will taste real Belief until I come closer to his heart than his child, parent and all other people." (Bukhari and Muslim)
Amongst the rights due to the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) come veneration, paying him high tribute and giving him his due honor with neither excess nor negligence. When Muslims honor their Prophet in life and after his death, they in fact honor his Sunnah (tradition) and his flawless law. If you had had the chance to witness the honor paid to him by his Companions, you would surely have realized how those virtuous people had done their duty towards him to the best. Urwa Bin Mas'ood, when sent to negotiate a peace treaty in Hudaibiya, addressed the tribe of Quraish saying:
"I have been admitted into the audience of several kings like Khusro of Persia, Caesar of Rome and Negus of Ethiopia, but I have never witnessed anyone who honors them more than the Companions of Muhammad do to him. If he gives an order, they will carry it out on the spot; if he observes Wudu (ablution), they will compete to imitate him; if he begins to speak, they will lower their voices; they will cast their eyes down in complete reverence to him."
Thus did the Companions of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) honor him because he was naturally disposed to honorable manners, and used to be gentle hearted. Had he been severe and harsh-hearted, they would certainly have broken away from him.
He has the right over us to believe whatever he said about the past and future, to abide by his orders and to eschew what he forbade. We are under obligation to believe that his guidance is the most perfect and his canonical law is the most comprehensive and comes before any other law or system of whatever source.
"But no, by your Lord, they can have no Faith, until they make you judge in all disputes between them, and find in themselves no resistance against your decisions, and accept (them) with full submission." (Quran 4:65)
"Say (O Muhammad to mankind): "If you (really) love Allah then follow me (i.e. accept Islamic Monotheism, follow the Quran and the Sunnah), Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." (Quran 3:31)
We are also under obligation to defend his canonical law as much as we can in accordance with the situation involved. If the enemy were to use arguments and ambiguities, we would have to resort to science and counter arguments to refute their allegations and reveal their ill grounds. Should they use weapons and guns, it is then incumbent upon us to utilize identical means. A believer can never stand tongue-tied while his sacred law is being undermined or the Noble Prophet slandered.


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I am playing around with HierarchyId, and I have not figured out a set based way to do the following:
- insert all subtree at once
- retrieve all subtree at once
This question is related to my previous one, and I suspect the only way to accomplish these two tasks with HierarchyId is one node or one level at a time. If I am using materialized path, both actions are easily accomplished by a single (and trivial) set based command.
What am I missing?
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Saratoga Automobile Museum - Right Coast RodsWritten by on September 1, 2011 Contributors: Chuck Vranas Legendary East Coast- And Midwest-Built Hot Rods Star At New York's Saratoga Automobile Museum
Vintage hot rods are hot. What the late-Boyd Coddington liked to call "our ancestor cars" continue to attract and inspire today's builders. There's been a great collection of these '50s-era cars on display in upstate New York.
The Saratoga Automobile Museum, located half an hour's drive north of Albany, in scenic Saratoga Springs, New York, is in its 10th year. Over time, they've presented everything from fine classics and storied sports cars, to collections loaned by generous enthusiasts, like Nicola Bulgari, Jim Taylor, Dennis Dammerman, and Jack Gillette.
A few years ago, the museum exhibited Real Hot Rods, Straight from the Street, a tribute to the locally based Rolling Bones Hot Rod Club, two of whose members, Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell, received national attention after they built a pair of mean-looking '32 Ford three-window coupes that became known as "the wicked sisters." The response to these seminal coupes, and a subsequently built '32 highboy roadster, prompted both men to quit their "day jobs" and open the Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop in Greenfield Center, New York.
For students of East Coast hot rodding, "new" cars with their low stances, hammered tops, bulldogged front ends, and heavily patina finishes evoke memories of hot rods built back in the '50s. It seemed fitting, when it was again time for hot rods at Saratoga to honor historic cars from the East Coast and Midwest, to pay tribute to their regionally popular practice of severe channeling, and display one of the latest Rolling Bones' shop's efforts, so museum visitors could see and appreciate the origins of the genre.
Here's a bit of rodding history with an East Coast focus: Although hot rodding arguably began and flourished in California, the practice quickly spread cross-country, accelerated by the explosive growth of Hot Rod magazine, which started in January 1948. Ten years later, a Feb. '58 Hot Rod cover story featured prominent East Coast rods. HRM's editors reported that they were very impressed with the quantity and quality of cars they saw.
Right Coast rods always had a distinctive look. Because their hop-ups weren't raced at the dry lakes, hot rodders who lived east of the Mississippi often opted for enclosed cars, and they could perform many streamlined alterations without worrying about being moved up in competition classes. Most East Coasters (myself included) wanted roadsters, but given our severe winter weather, enclosed coupes and sedans were more practical, and for that matter, more available. Channeling a car (cutting out the floorboards and lowering the body down over the frame to achieve a sleeker silhouette) was cheaper, more expedient, and easier to do than chopping a top and frame Z-ing.
Hoods were usually optional on East Coast cars, no matter what the weather. The East even had its own Hot Rod magazines like Rodding and Re-styling and Rod Builder & Customizer. The mid-to-late '50s, what TV called the "happy days," represented the peak ... and that's the period that's being showcased in Saratoga. Thanks to its proximity to the heart of the automotive industry in the '50s, the State of Michigan also produced some great hot rods. The Detroit Autorama, now in its 60th year, is still going strong. So we've included a few Midwest-based cars, first because they were sensational, and also because car owners from the two regions occasionally competed against one another at the famed Joe Kizis Autoramas in Hartford, Connecticut; Springfield, Massachusetts; and many other venues.
As the Saratoga Automobile Museum's Curator, and author of The Art of the Hot Rod and Hot Rod Milestones, it was left to me to gather up a select group of historic East Coast and Midwest hot rods, many of which have been restored or are well-preserved. Several of the cars on display hadn't been seen together in half a century. For nostalgic East Coasters, as well as hot rodders from all over the country who remember them, the Saratoga show has been a trip down memory lane.
The '32 Ford is clearly hot rodding's favorite car, so this exhibit, while not all '32s, is skewed toward Deuces. Call them East Coast cars, or the more modern term Right Coast Rods, they're unique, iconic, loud, fast, and hot.
We were able to assemble 15 great cars, 11 of which are channeled. All but one were built back in the day. Many were featured in major car magazines. The seminal '32 Ford roadster, built by Norm Wallace, loaned by Larry Hook, of Providence, Rhode Island, was a Hot Rod magazine cover car in February 1958. It is on display pretty much as it was built, with the exception of a polished S.Co.T. blower added by its present owner. I recall that the Norm Wallace lowboy was considered one of the best '32s in New England in the '50s, and it remains a tribute to the fine build quality of many East Coast hot rods.
Paul "Fitzie" FitzGerald's '32 Ford roadster was another well-known car in its era. A member of the well-known Boston Area No-Mads Club, Fitzie was an engineering student who was constantly updating his ride, from a solid front axle to independent front suspension of his own design, from a series of hot Flatheads to an early Chevy small-block V-8, and from steel wheels to early Halibrands. He successfully drag-raced his roadster, competed (and usually won) in hill climbs, and garnered his share of show trophies. Fitzie sold his '32 years ago and regretted that move. So he painstakingly tracked down what remained of the car and reconstructed it using a few Brookville steel body components. The car was shown at Pebble Beach in 2007, helping celebrate the Deuce's 75th anniversary. Fitzie presently lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
If you attended any of the Joe Kizis Autoramas in the '50s, or a host of other shows, as I did, you couldn't miss the striking, chopped-and-channeled Ruby Red '32 Ford three-window coupe, owned and built by Andy Kassa. Its muscular four-carb Flathead, topped with a quartet of Ferrari-style aftermarket air cleaners, was a consistent trophy taker. Kassa continuously updated his car for the show circuit, even changing its color several times, and trailered it all over the country. When he retired from show competition, he held on to his old coupe for years. Just before Kassa died, the car was restored by a contingent of his loyal friends and admirers led by Gary Mekita and Dennis Dahlinger. Rebuilt at first with its unusual Barris-built "Cyclops" single headlight grille, it's recently been fitted with a full-sized, chrome-plated Deuce shell, restoring its trademark look from the '50s. Best of all, the iconic three-window is still based in North Jersey.
As a New England kid, I loved Fred Steele's severely chopped-and-channeled, metallic purple '32 Ford roadster. Its signature bored and stroked, four-carb Flathead, white pinstripes, and impossibly low top epitomized what I thought the perfect Deuce would be. Steele had worked out a deal with a Boston area plater to where nearly everything that could make it into a dip tank was chromed. While this roadster's functional Columbia two-speed rear would have been unusual for a West Coast car, it came in handy on Route 128 because Steele really liked to drive his roadster. He made it to a lot of shows, and I can close my eyes and see his Deuce rumbling into the parking lot at Nel-Nick Ford in Lynn, Massachusetts, during a Hi-Winders Club event in 1958. I thought it was the "cat's ass" back then, and I still do. It's loaned by Ross and Beth Myers, Three Dog Garage, Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania.
Other cars on display include a barn find, rusty/dusty channeled '33 Ford roadster, originally built by Bill Schultz, who owned Country Club Auto Body, in Norton, Massachusetts. This car was last driven in 1962, after which Schultz covered it up in his garage so he wouldn't have to answer questions about whether it was for sale. (It wasn't.) Noted builder and ace parts finder, Dave Simard, from Leominster, Massachusetts, first learned about the car in 1975. Over time, Dave approached the Schultz family to tell them he was interested. After Schultz died, Simard was able to buy the car, looking just as it did when its builder tucked it away. Simard hasn't had time to get 312-cid Ford Y-block V-8 started (it still turns over). He doesn't want to lose this car's decades of patina. When the exhibit ends, Simard will sympathetically clean it up and get it running so people can see and appreciate this time-warp roadster.
Another heavily patina car in the Saratoga exhibit is a '32 Ford three-window coupe, formerly owned by Bill Kelly from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gerard Christensen, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, found it advertised in a local PennySaver newspaper. Christensen came up with a sweet deal, trading a lathe, a boat, other stuff, and a little cash for it. He had no idea of its history, but an old Pennsylvania registration, found in the car, led him to Bill Kelly, who was delighted to hear his coupe had survived. Kelly street-raced his Cad V-8-powered terror on Philly's Roosevelt Boulevard and at local dragstrips. Christensen had Dave Simard chop the top ("I always wanted a chopped-and-channeled '32 coupe," he confesses), but other than that mod, the primered and weathered Bill Kelly three-window remains almost exactly the way it looked when its first owner was winning races and outrunning the cops decades ago.
We all wish we'd kept our high school rides, and this '32 Ford five-window coupe, built by George Veracka of Stow, Massachusetts, and co-owned now with his son, Scott, is exactly that ... a beautifully preserved peek into the past, with its faded and cracked red paint, and an authentic button-tufted white Naugahyde interior. Still running sweetly, it's been in the Veracka family since 1957, and that's where it will stay. Channeled 8 inches, chopped 4 inches, with a radically Z'd frame and a sectioned grille to match, it's powered by a bored and stroked, six-carb, Isky-cammed 425-cid early Cadillac V-8 with a rare Sky (Gardena, California) racing cam and a coveted Spalding Flamethrower distributor hitched to a '40 Ford three-speed with a Zephyr cluster, backed by a Columbia two-speed. This Chrysler Carnation Red beauty is an object lesson in "the way we were."
Brothers Bill and Don Leslie built their '31 Ford Starlite coupe to win the Buffalo Autorama in 1964. Already chopped 4 inches, the car was channeled and a unique steel nose with floating grille tubes was constructed. A full-width rear taillight, hooded rear license plate, sectioned '33 Ford dash and twin frenched antennas are just a few period features. Points were awarded for as many modifications as possible, so the Leslie brothers piled on the features, like '57 Buick Starlite blue lacquer, a woodgrain veneer-trimmed console, a T-bird steering wheel and matching chromed column, a plethora of Stewart-Warner gauges ... even a tinted glass roof insert so occupants could see the night sky (hence the show name). The Starlite coupe's engine is classic: a 303-cid Olds V-8 with a three-carb manifold, Mallory ignition, clear red plug wires, and Offenhauser valve covers. A '37 Buick three-speed floor shift is coupled to a torque tube and banjo-style Ford rear. Custom-made lake-style headers are capped at the doors and run through Smithy mufflers and exit ahead of the rear wheels. Like many elements on this car, the chromed steel firewall was built to win more show points. The Starlite coupe won Best of Show in its first event, competed just one more time, and then was stored for decades until Gerry Christensen, owner of the Bill Kelly coupe in this exhibit, was able to buy it. Complete with the show programs and the original 4-foot-high Autorama trophy, Gerard Christensen owns this one too.
The late-Joaquin Arnett, of Bean Bandits fame, a skilled metalman in his youth, chopped and sectioned a pristine '34 Ford coupe in 1950 without removing the body from the frame. Arnett, who worked for Burner's, a San Diego company that built funeral car bodies, expertly jigged the coupe's shell and then painstakingly "cut and pasted" the metal so beautifully-it's impossible to see where any surgery was performed. Andy Granatelli saw the car on display at Bob Petersen's Second Annual L.A. Motorama in 1951, bought it from Arnett, and installed a full-race, 276-cid GranCor-equipped (Granatelli Corporation) Flathead V-8. After spotting the coupe for sale on a used car lot in Chicago, 16-year-old Bill Couch talked his father into letting him buy it, and he's owned it ever since. He taught his wife, Ellie, to drive in this car, cruised Woodward Avenue back in the day, drag raced the daylights out of it, and since he lived on a Washington, Michigan, farm and had a barn in which to store it, he kept the coupe salted away until 1996 when he had it fully restored just in time for a special appearance at the 1998 Detroit Autorama. Bill Couch visited Andy Granatelli in San Clemente, California, a few years ago. Granatelli noted, "he'd like to have the car back," but Couch, who's held onto it for over half a century, isn't selling. You can't blame him.
It's hard to know who's more of a fixture in New England, the late-Sebastian "Sabie" Rubbo, whose seminal '36 Ford roadster was (and still is) a permanent part of the Bay Area hot rod landscape, or the car's present owner and caretaker, Lenny Biondi. After buying a wrecked '36 Ford roadster, Sabie discarded the front fenders and channeled the body over a '40 Mercury frame, installed a healthy 286-cid Flathead, then made the car into one of the more unusual '36s ever by skirting the rear fenders and altering the front end with a beautifully fitted '37 Ford truck grille, fabricating a custom hood with lunch box latches and creating a pair of front cycle fenders out of a '36 Ford tire cover. A trio of transit bus seats helps make the interior as unusual as the exterior. Sabie drove this car everywhere, rolling up over 400,000 miles, including a historic trip to the first NSRA Nationals. Whether this iconic roadster is defined as a rod or a custom doesn't matter, and it never did. Lenny Biondi owns Biondi's Service Center in Quincy, Massachusetts. After Sabie died, his old friend, Biondi, and his shop metal wizard, Bobby Fuller, performed a ground-up restoration, and Biondi drives the gleaming black '36 to many events-just the way Sabie did.
Tommy Foster was a Pontiac Division GM engineer whose channeled, baby blue '32 Ford was an HRM feature car on two occasions, once with a modified Flathead, the second time with a new 331-cid Cadillac "crate motor", purchased from Jerome Cadillac, his local dealer. Foster fitted it with a Detroit Racing dual-quad intake manifold. The top wasn't chopped but the windshield was remade without its top frame edge for a cleaner look. The Deuce's ivory and blue Naugahyde exemplified what custom interiors were all about, and the big Ford Crestliner steering wheel topped it all off. Foster stepped up to an eight-gauge Stewart-Warner accessory panel, a then-pricey $89.65 item available from Bell Auto Parts or SO-CAL Speed Shop. The '41 Mercury hydraulic brakes, 15-inch wheels with big 'n' little whitewalls, '50 Pontiac taillights, a rolled rear pan, with twin exhaust tips protruding, were just a few of the standard hot rod touches from that era. Foster sold his beautifully crafted roadster in 1978. It passed through several hands, and was completely disassembled before Pat Sleven restored it, with Foster's help. Kirk F. White, noted East Coast hot rod purveyor, acquired it next. It then passed to Harry Levy in Pennsylvania before Richard Munz, of Madison, Wisconsin, was able to acquire it and add it to his fabulous collection of new and vintage hot rods. The roadster was displayed at the first hot rod presentation at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 1997, and it appeared at the 2002 Detroit Autorama, with Foster present to take a well-deserved bow. The Tommy Foster roadster is a distinctive mid-century rod that most old-timers (like me) recognize the moment they see it.
Although the Northeast United States was a hotbed of hot rodding in the '50s and early '60s, Southwestern Virginia had its share of modified cars, as well. Restored after decades of storage, Bob Bateman's channeled Model A/V-8 roadster, so called because it rides on a '32 Ford frame, was a Hot Rod magazine feature in January 1961; no mean feat for a hot rod built completely across the country from HRM's Los Angeles offices. Bateman had drag-raced his roadster before turning it into a show rod. An 8-inch channel and a severely Z'd frame dropped the roadster into the weeds in proper East Coast fashion. Its classic button-tufted interior, with 220 buttons, was a rolling ad for Bateman's own Roanoke Seat Cover Shop. The '51 Olds mill was bored out to 338 cid, topped with a six-carb log manifold, and juiced up with a Chet Herbert roller cam setup. Metalflake paint, a "drawpull" grille, and quad headlights brought this car squarely into fashion until Bateman retired it in 1965. Discovered in 2003 by Roddy Moore, director of the Blue Ridge Institute, it starred at Blackie Gejeian's 49th Fresno Autorama and the 59th Grand National Roadster Show before being bought by noted San Francisco hot rodder, Al Engel, who generously shipped it back East for the Saratoga show.
The one pure competition car in the exhibit is a '23 Ford Altered roadster, owned by Laura and Ron San Giovanni, Wallingford, Connecticut. This was the Cam Carriers competition car, and years after it dragged its last race, Ronnie Roadster restored the car and brought it to the AACA Fall Meet at Hershey, Pennsylvania, where, after a few years of upgrades, it won a First Junior and a First Senior in the racing car class. It was the first hot rod to "crack the code" at Hershey. San Giovanni realized that a documented hot rod was eligible for Class 24, and he paved the way for Kirk F. White, with the famous Ray Brown roadster, and many others to qualify for AACA recognition.
Fred Steele and Donn Spinney built this cute '20 Ford roadster out of a steel roadster body that was hauled out of Honest John's wrecking yard, in Thomaston, Maine, around 1958. Perched on a modified Model A Ford frame, this white-painted early example of a Fad T resembles an Ed "Big Daddy" Roth caricature. Powered by a three-carb '55 Chevy V-8, with Mallory ignition and fitted with chromed cast-iron "Ram's Horn" manifolds, the tiny T-bucket rolls on custom-chromed 15-inch steel wheels. Fred flat-towed this car to Los Angeles in 1962 where he joined the L.A. Roadster Club. Finished with a Tijuana tuck 'n ' roll interior, the roadster was photographed for a trio of '60s-era record album covers, by Hal Blaine, The Ventures, and The Tokens, respectively. Bob Collins of Woburn, Massachusetts, the car's present owner calls his ride "The Album T," and he's kept it exactly the way it was built, with the exception of an upgrade to a dual chamber Mustang master cylinder. Collins likes to display his car with the record albums, and why not?
Rounding out Saratoga's collection of 15 historic hot rods, is the '32 Ford three-window coupe owned by Richie Whalen, Medford, Massachusetts. Whalen commissioned the Rolling Bones' Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell to build a car that resembles a survivor that's just been dragged out of decades of not-so-benign storage. Its Brookville steel reproduction body was severely chopped, and a set of original '32 'rails was pinched, Z'd, and fitted with Model A crossmembers. The framehorns were bobbed, and a beamy '32 Ford front axle was supported with split wishbones. The wheelbase was stretched to 1091/2 inches. Under that weathered hood is a S.Co.T.-blown 286-cid Ford Flathead by H&H, with new-gen Stromberg 97s and a Vertex magneto. This car is a mix of vintage and new components, arranged to look appropriately old and authentic. A T5 transmission, Schroeder racing steering and Posies springs are big improvement over the stock Ford items.
The louvered roof insert is a Bobby Walden fabrication. Louvers Unlimited punched the hood and the decklid. A '39 banjo wheel, vintage gauges, and faded war surplus blankets ensure the interior looks very period. Ken Schmidt, an artist in his own right, created a distressed four-color, multi-layer finish using correct vintage Ford paint colors that look as though this car is weathered, cracked, battered, and decades old. Although Whalen's car isn't channeled, it has that combination East Coast/California look that fools most people into thinking it's a survivor, and not a freshly built car.
A.B. Shuman, former HRM editor, whose book, Cool Cars and Square Roll Bars, chronicles and celebrates East Coast hot rodding, along with legendary No-Mads Hot Rod Club member, Paul FitzGerald, and I hosted a big group of enthusiasts on opening night, last fall. My Massachusetts accent was back in spades as I enthusiastically introduced the "cahs," talking about each coupe and "roadsta." I'd seen most them when they were new. Little did I ever imagine, over 50 years later I'd be looking at them in a museum.
Hot rods are truly American icons. Ingenuity, craftsmanship, power, and speed underscore the provenance of these historic rods from the last mid-century. If you thrill to the roar of steel pack mufflers, delight in the rumble of a Flathead V-8, hate fenders, love chopped tops, and think any stock old Ford is ripe for modifications, you will dig this exhibit.
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The opening wall sets the stage for Right Coast Rods. That's the former Andy Kassa coupe before Kassa channeled it, axed the fenders, and hit the show circuit. That car was on display at Saratoga, along with 14 others, for Right Coast Rods. Restored a few years ago with its Cyclops nose, it has been "backdated" to look the way it did when I saw it at the Hartford Autorama in August 1958. I've still got the program.Many decades separate the heavily patina'd '32 three-window (left) of Richie Whalen, built last year by the Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop in Greenfield Center, NY, and the restored ex-Fred Steele/Don Spinney '27 T (right) that's now owned by Bob Collins of Woburn, MA. Whalen's coupe will fool you. It appears to have been dragged out of a barn last week. Fred Steele flat-towed this T to Los Angeles in 1962, and then joined the L.A. Roadster Club. Finished with a Tijuana tuck 'n' roll interior, the roadster was photographed for a trio of '60s-era record album covers.There were several well-preserved oldies at Saratoga. But Richie Whalen's chopped Deuce three-window was not one of them. Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell of the Rolling Bones have gotten patina down to a science. The drag link for the Schroeder steering in this coupe looks decades old. It's brand new.The Veracka family has owned this five-window Deuce coupe forever. It was father George's high school ride. His son, Scott, maintains it now, and they bring it to the Ty-Rods Old Timers' Reunion each year. With its cracked lacquer, button-tufted Naugahyde interior, double front whitewalls, six-carb 425-cid Cad mill, and weathered paint, it looks like a ghost, for all of us who remember it way back when.The late Sebastian "Sabie" Rubbo's channeled '36 Ford roadster on a '40 Merc frame was built from a wreck, like many early rods. It's a hot rod in front, and a custom in back. Sabie drove it 400,000-plus miles, including to the first NSRA Nats. Owner Lenny Biondi restored it. You can put your arm in that lustrous black lacquer, right up to your elbow. The triple seats are from a Boston area streetcar.Ron and Laura San Giovanni's Altered T roadster was the Cam Carriers' Club (Branford, CT) car. San Giovanni restored it a few years ago, took it to Hershey, and won Junior and Senior honors in the racing car class. Safety touches are few; that was the way we were.Gary Mekita, Dennis Dahlinger, and a talented group of New Jersey-based friends restored Andy Kassa's seminal coupe. Thankfully, Kassa got to see their work before he died. Kassa showed this car all over the country. At one time it had a curious Cyclops nose that was built to upstage the Lil' Deuce Coupe of Clarence "Chili" Catallo.Fred Steele's chopped-and-channeled Deuce roadster was a well-known car when I grew up north of Boston. Steele's four-carb Flattie, hammered canvas top, Caddy discs, and the car's Columbia rear were proof positive that East Coast guys did their own thing. Steele drove this car everywhere. Owned now by Ross Myers of Three Dog Garage, it's checked, cracked, and really cool. We dig that polished firewall. The bored and stroked Flathead in Fred Steele's Deuce displaces 296 cid. A quartet of Stromberg 97s handles the induction, and Edelbrock heads do the honors for compression. Note the plated tops. Steele had a deal with a chrome shop. Harman and Collins dual point, dual coil ignition is an authentic period touch. The headers are chromed and so is the steering box.
Bill and Don Leslie built their chopped-and-channeled Model A five-window coupe show car to win the Buffalo Autorama, and win it they did. Gerry Christensen bought it last year, and has preserved it exactly as it was. Check the $0.04 cent stamp on this mailing to Bill Leslie.The Saratoga Automobile Museum is housed in a former bottling plant for Saratoga mineral water. Restored to a fare-thee-well, the Georgian building was a perfect place to display 15 historic East Coast hot rods. Big crowds all winter voiced their approval. The exhibit ended in May 2011.The big Cadillac mill in Tommy Foster's roadster was purchased from a local Detroit-area Caddy dealer. Think "crate motor," but it was back in the '50s. Foster was a GM engineer. Nice touches include '50 Pontiac taillights and a filled cowl with the radio antenna replacing the vent.Dave Simard chased this '33 Ford barn find for years. Owner Bill Schultz covered it up so people wouldn't pester him about it. After he died his family decided to sell it. The Ford hubcaps are a clue. That's a Y-block, covered with dust, and a Deuce grille. Note the single master cylinder on the firewall, and the crude but effective mount for the hairpin. Simard plans to get it running soon.Paul FitzGerald, a member of the infamous No-Mads, built this beautiful '32 and did it all: drag racing, car shows, hill climbs. He won everywhere he took the car, then sold it, and eventually tracked it down. Re-constructed with many original parts, FitzGerald's truck-grilled beauty went to the Pebble Beach Concours in 2007.


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A while back, I wrote one of my favorite posts: about my wife Margie and what I've learned from her in terms of what makes a relationship work out. On this our 26th anniversary, I thought I'd share a few perspectives on love:
* "Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung
* "Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
* "Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde
* "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." - Elie Wiesel
* "Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones
* "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." - Mother Teresa
* "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning


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Most tasks can be done using the network's internet connection (3g for me) like uploading photo to facebook or downloading a new app. But sometimes I end up having to wait to find a wifi connection to say, upload a video to youtube or download a game for my Xperia Play. Why do these tasks require wifi? Are these software restrictions placed by my provider?
Most apps do this now to protect the user's mobile data usage. Knowing that most data plans are limited (200 MB a month, in the case of my roommate), developers prevent users from, say downloading a 45 MB game from the Play Store/Amazon App Store via mobile network, as this would not be beneficial, seeing as it would take almost 1/4 of your data and would take a significant amount of time and battery. Same goes with uploading.
Most apps do this as an option, though some (
NOTE: I have found that some apps that prevent Wi-Fi-less downloads (i.e. Amazon App Store) allow me to do these on my network as long as it is over 4G. If you have this option, try it and see if it works for you as well!
Most of the time it's because Battery Saver Mode is on. 3G is (often) slow compared to Wifi, so it takes a lot longer to complete large downloads and drains the battery a lot more. Turning battery saver mode off will allow you to download via 3G on many phones.
Another possible (app-specific) reason is that it just uses up too much bandwidth and wouldn't be practical on a limited-transfer 3G connection; if this is the case there's not much you can do about it.


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St. Joseph County has earned a top ranking in Site Selection magazine's recent issue for the number of new facilities and facility expansion projects.
Defined as the "Sturgis micropolitan," the county ranks No. 23 for projects in 2012. The area did not make the Top 100 in the previous two yearss.
Site Selection reports six projects in St. Joseph County in 2012 that helped the area earn the ranking. The Coldwater area showed two projects reported.
"The Sturgis micropolitan was not even on the list in 2010 and 2011, so its ranking in 2012 is quite an accomplishment and represents work resulting from Southwest Michigan First's contract with the St. Joseph County Economic Development Corporation," said Southwest Michigan First Vice President Heather Baker.
A micropolitan is an urban area based around the urban cluster with a population of 10,000 to 49,999. The Sturgis micropolitan is St. Joseph County with Sturgis serving as the "urban" center. There are 576 micropolitans in the U.S.
"Our businesses in St. Joseph County are working hard to grow and maintain their competitiveness. It's nice to see these efforts recognized in Site Selection magazine," said John Wiedlea, president of the Sturgis Economic Development Corporation. "The city of Sturgis, working in partnership with the St. Joseph County Economic Development Corporation, Southwest Michigan First and our business leaders, will continue to ensure that we are a first-class place to conduct business."
The six projects include American Axle and Manufacturing in Three Rivers, which is currently in the process of executing the largest 2012 facility expansion in the county.
Joe Bippus, Three Rivers city manager, said the area's quality workforce is key.
"I think it's good for Michigan and it's good for our county to see manufacturing jobs expanding," he said.
In total, Michigan posted 90 new manufacturing facilities in 2012 and 160 facility expansions.
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I have a Dell E6400 and have been using Ubuntu on this machine for just over a year. Previously I used 9.10 on 32bit. When I upgraded to use 10.04 I remained on 32bit and battery life seemed just fine. I changed to 64-bit and since then I get the "battery life is old" notification and the battery just doesnt last more than 20mins even with a full charge.
How would I tell which application is draining off the battery? Also is this a known issue?