Author: Editor

In preparation for the Memorial Day holiday on May 28, more than 150 Girl Scouts and family members from the Sun Lakes Council spent a day traversing nearly 200 acres of soggy grass to plant patriotic banners on the graves of veterans buried at Forest Home Cemetery. After a morning rain on May 19, the young volunteers from Muskego, Big Bend, and Wind Lake honored fourteen hundred veterans. “Each year we are involved in a service project, and for 2018 it is a military focus, around soldiers and veterans,” said Carmen Jegers, an organizer of the Girl Scout volunteers....

County Executive Chris Abele recently announced his personal donation of $250,000, together with a matching commitment for contribution from Microsoft Philanthropies, to expand Microsoft’s Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program in the Milwaukee area. The program helps high schools build and grow sustainable computer science programs through partnerships between classroom teachers and technology industry volunteers. “It is more important than ever for children in Milwaukee to be prepared for the jobs of the future,” said Abele. “Computer science is a vital and inevitable driver in today’s global innovation economy and our students need to be able to...