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Milwaukee Brewers host annual Negro League tribute game

Posted by News Content | Jul 5, 2016 |

The Milwaukee Brewers will hosted the franchise’s 11th annual Negro League Tribute Game at Miller Park on Saturday, June 25, when the team took on the Washington Nationals. The Brewers honored the significance of the Negro League and their impact on the game by donning Milwaukee Bears uniforms, the city’s 1923 Negro League representative. The Nationals also showed their honor for the Negro League by wearing uniforms from the Homestead Grays, who played home games in Washington, D.C. from 1940-42. At the game, the Brewers paid tribute to former players and baseball contributors Roosevelt Jackson, Ray Knox and William...

Department of Labor Funds Milwaukee HiTech training

Posted by News Content | Jul 4, 2016 |

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett announced on June 28 that $8 million in workforce funding had been awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor, with the focus to train Milwaukee residents for careers in technology fields. These employment opportunities are critical to the economic stability of urban communities and the economic competitiveness of all industries, particularly for professional business and financial services, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. Employ Milwaukee and UMOS were each awarded a $4 million grant to support information technology training primarily serving young adults between the ages 17-29 with a high school degree or equivalent and barriers to employment....

Newly renovated Johnsons Park opened to community

Posted by NNS | Jun 28, 2016 |

The newly renovated Johnsons Park, in the Lindsay Heights neighborhood, is now officially open. The occasion was marked by a community celebration. The $1 million park renovation was part of Milwaukee County’s Johnsons Park Initiative, which also included renovations to Alice’s Garden, completed in 2010 and the Brown Street Academy schoolyard, completed in 2012. A private-public partnership that complements other redevelopment efforts underway in Lindsay Heights spearheaded the project. Milwaukee County, Center for Resilient Cities, the Rotary Club of Milwaukee, LISC-Milwaukee, and Johnsons Park Neighborhood Association are all partners in the revitalization project. “Johnsons Park is the biggest park...

Harambee property owners hope for aid from Improvement District

Posted by NNS | Jun 18, 2016 |

Harambee resident Roberta Lyles remembers a time not long ago when her neighborhood was dominated by prostitutes, drugs and gangs, forcing her to sleep underneath her bed in order to avoid stray gunfire. “A bullet doesn’t have anybody’s name on it,” the 79-year-old said. Refusing to be terrorized by the constant threats of violence, Lyles teamed with several of her neighbors to take action. They called their alderman, held meetings, went door to door and formed block clubs, all in the name of creating a safer neighborhood. “We decided to get our neighborhood cleaned up and that is what...

Beulah Brinton of Bay View

Posted by Guest | Jun 5, 2016 |

A pioneer of Bay View, Beulah Brinton left her mark on the community with her compassion and humanitarianism and was the 1987 inductee into the Halls of History Museum at Forest Home Cemetery. She had a free spirit and strong notions about duties to her fellow men, and she carried them out. She was determined and dauntless. It seems that everyone who knew her, admired and loved her for it. I did. She was my great-grandmother. When I was nine, Beulah Brinton came to live with us. My mother, father, brother, and I occupied the old homestead that she...

Self-Storage to revitalize Silver Spring area

Posted by News Content | May 24, 2016 |

Cris and Orphie Schroeder officially kicked-off their redevelopment efforts at the site of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant along Silver Spring Drive with a symbolic ground breaking on May 19. Attending the ceremony were civic and business leaders invested in seeing the area revitalized with employment stability. The Schroeders demolished the 232,200 square-foot industrial building earlier this year. Abandoned for two decades, and with unsuccessful bids for development over the years since, the 12-acre site is finally positioned to be part of the area’s economic engine. “I’m excited about the fact that somebody was interested in the site. They...