Michela Miller and Madison Sveum were seventh-graders working on their Girl Scouts Silver Awards in December 2015 when they led efforts to bring a Holiday Train stop to Wauwatosa.
Whether those bills will be received with angst or relief is likely a case-by-case judgment. It is particularly difficult this year for Tosa taxpayers to compare those bills with those that came before, for at least two reasons.
The newly released police reports from the incident describe a volatile confrontation between the officers and a group of students and unauthorized visitors who said they were upset because a sibling had been bullied.
The owners of Cuppa Tosa Kitchen & Cafe have applied for a conditional use permit to reopen at 11320 W. Bluemound Road, with plans for "a breakfast/lunch concept restaurant with on and off-site catering for special events."
Several news outlets have reported on significant Wauwatosa police presence at the school Nov. 19, which resulted in citations issued to three individuals.
The Sonesta hotel on the southeast corner of Watertown Plank and Mayfair roads would be converted to apartments under a redevelopment plan now in the works.
Yard waste collection was one of two lingering issues that dominated the council's debate before it voted, 12-3, to approve the 2026 budget. The other primary debate was over an ongoing city subsidy for Bublr Bikes.
It was perhaps no surprise that there was no love lost between Dennis McBride and Andrew Meindl, who have sparred since facing each other in the last mayoral election in April 2024.
Without state or federal aid, that cost would be born by city taxpayers, either through a one-time tax levy increase, use of a portion of the city's cash reserves or a combination of those two options.
