Hazardous Waste Pick-up, Saturday, June 27: 8am – 2pm at Shorewood High School

Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewage District is setting up a Mobile Unit for the processing of hazardous waste (e.g. gasoline, oils, anti-freeze, varnish, pesticides, weed killers, etc.) for Milwaukee County Residents in our area at Shorewood High School, 1701 E. Capital Drive on Saturday, June 27th from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm.   View the types of acceptable and non-acceptable materials as well as other potential

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Downer Bike Races- Saturday June 27, 10 am – 8:30 pm

The Downer Classic Pro Criterium Bike Races are coming to the neighborhood on this Saturday, June 27th from 10 am to 8:30 pm.  These Pro-Am bike races are part of the Tour of America’s Dairyland Cycling Series. International and local racers will provide a full day of racing and the event also features a popular kids’ race, a Belgian Beer Festival and the famous

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Solar Group Buy Update, and info session this evening

This note is from Peter Murphy at MREA.  If you haven’t had a chance to get to one of the solar group buy info sessions and are interested in solar power installations, you have three more chances starting tonight. They are very informative sessions. ———————————————————- Hi everyone, A quick update from Solar East Side: We have contracts signed for over 11kW, and we’re only

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A rash of vehicle entry thefts in the neighborhood…

This note is from MPD District 1. —————————————————- District #1 north Sector Neighbors, My shift commander wanted me to send out an email to create some awareness regarding a rash of recent crimes in your sector. Please be cognizant of things left in autos. Entry to autos are up. Dodge/chrysler/plymouth autos are being targeted for theft. Five to six black males stealing autos and

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Lake Park Wonderful Wednesdays – Free Concerts for Kids and Families

Lake Park Friends Wonderful Wednesdays is a series of seven summer concerts geared for children and their families. These concerts are presented from June 24th through August 5th and are FREE and open to the public. This Weeks Concert is “Ms. Jen and the Jellyfish” – Wednesday, June 24 @ 6:30–7:30 pm Ms. Jen will have audiences up and moving to the “kindie rock” musical stylings

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The Eastside Solar Group Buy continues…

If you have attended one of the solar group buy community information sessions with Milwaukee Shines, the Midwest Renewable Energy Association and the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association. Solar East Side is off to a great start and the program’s first installation has been scheduled! We wanted to remind everyone to sign up for a free site assessment with the Solar East Side selected installer

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UWM Names New Police Chief

From UWM… ———————————————— UWM NAMES NEW POLICE CHIEF; LeMIRE SERVED SIMILAR ROLE AT UW-OSHKOSH MILWAUKEE _University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee administrators have named Joseph LeMire as the university’s new police chief, effective July 13. LeMire has served as police chief at UW-Oshkosh since 2010. In that role, he helped develop one of the largest student security programs in the University of Wisconsin System and worked with

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Solar East Side Installer Selected & Upcoming Info Sessions

Neighbors: If you have not been able to attend one of the East Side Solar info sessions, there are several more opportunities, starting with this Thursday, June 11 at 6 PM at UWM’s Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA) at 2155 N Prospect Avenue.  Here is a full list of the upcoming info sessions: 6/11  Thursday @ 6pm; UW-Milwaukee INOVA (2155 N Prospect Ave.) 6/16  Tuesday @

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Next Week’s Solar East Side Info Sessions

The Solar East Side program is hosting two info sessions next week: Monday, June 1 @ 6:00 PM @ Urban Ecology Center (1500 E Park Pl) Thursday, June 4 @ 4:00 PM @ Nick’s House (1864 E Kenilworth Pl) Note: This meeting is tailored towards businesses The Murray Hill events calendar includes all future sessions as well!  Hope you can make it to one of these

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