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MIKE BROWN, A CLINICAL PHARMACIST at Concordia University Wisconsin’s School of Pharmacy, was one of the healthcare professionals who administered the Moderna vaccine to local first responders last week at the Grafton Fire Department. Photo by Sam Arendt

Covid-19 vaccine trickles into Ozaukee County

Administration of the Covid-19 vaccine in Ozaukee County began last week as first responders gathered at the Grafton Fire Department Thursday, Jan. 7, to get their shots. As of earlier this week, all...

More than 100 parents attended Port Washington-Saukville School Board meetings in the Port High Performing Arts Center on Jan. 4 and Jan. 11 to describe how their children have suffered academically and emotionally under the district's hybrid learning model and call on board members to return students to classrooms full time. The board voted to do that at the end of the Jan. 11 meeting. Photo by Bill Schanen IV

Pressured by parents, board will send kids back to school full time

Parents who were vocal critics of the Port Washington-Saukville School Board last week cheered this week as board members voted unanimously to follow the recommendation of administrators and return...

BALD EAGLES like the juvenile and adult photographed along the Lake Michigan shore in the Town of Port Washington (above) and pileated woodpeckers like the one pictured pecking a dying ash tree in rural Saukville (left) are among the once rarely spotted birds that are now more commonly seen in Ozaukee County. Press file photos

What a year for wildlife

While there was little in 2020 to take pleasure in, wildlife in Ozaukee County seemed to prosper, much to the delight of naturalists, bird watchers, hikers and others. “It was a good year for...

THE SS MILWAUKEE (top photo) sank in 1929 while heading from Milwaukee to Grand Haven, Mich. Despite the fact its lifeboats were launched, the crew was lost. The Port Washington Historical Society owns one of those lifeboats (lower right photo), which it is refurbishing and plans to display in a shelter at the Light Station on Johnson Street (middle photo). Light Station photo by Bill Schanen IV

Lifeboat’s story one of tragedy at sea

A precious piece of maritime history — a lifeboat from the SS Milwaukee, which sank in 1929 — is being refurbished by the Port Washington Historical Society, which recently sought approval from the...

SEVERAL BUILDINGS IN Port Washington’s Wisconsin Street commercial district are being repurposed. The former Gary’s Automotive Solution property at 922 N. Wisconsin St. is proposed to become a used car lot and automotive repair shop while the former Shopko Express at 1011 Wisconsin St. is being transformed into a Dollar General convenience store (above). Photos by Sam Arendt

New businesses change look of Port’s Wisconsin Street

A Dollar General convenience store and a used car lot and auto repair shop are the latest changes proposed for Port Washington’s Wisconsin Street neighborhood commercial center. The center, a cluster...

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Sports

CEDAR GROVE-BELGIUM’S Alyssa Mentink looked for daylight on the baseline around Ozaukee’s Madison Karmasin in the second half on Monday in Fredonia. Photo by Mitch Maersch

CG-Belgium girls top rival on the road

On a night when the Ozaukee High School girls’ basketball team struggled mightily shooting from the outside, a Cedar Grove-Belgium bomb gave the Rockets the lead for good. The Rockets, in their second week back from being quarantined due to the...

Op-Ed

PRESS EDITORIAL: Day of infamy

Eighty years ago, seven words steeled the American people for a looming fight for the life of their democracy. The words were “a day which will live in infamy.” They were spoken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the U.S. Capitol. The day of infamy was December 7, 1941, the day Japan attacked the American Navy base at Pearl...

Good Living

Saving the Rivoli

It all started with filling in the blank on licensing paperwork. Jerry Voigt of Cedarburg had been organizing volunteers to work at the Rivoli, the downtown theater that was taken over by the Cedarburg Landmark Preservation Society in 2006 after the...

Obituaries

Business

TWISTED WILLOW RESTAURANT reopened on Tuesday, Jan. 12, after a two-week hiatus due to water pipe break during the holiday season. Libation Manager Tony Cronk (top photo) moved glasses and dishes from the dining room to the kitchen during the clean up process on Saturday, Jan. 9. Above, flood damage shows ceiling tiles being replaced due to the pipe break that occurred on the third floor. Top photo by Sam Arendt

Twisted Willow back in business after pipe break

If 2020 wasn’t tough enough on the restaurant industry, the year had one last jab to throw at Twisted Willow Restaurant in downtown Port Washington. The restaurant at 308 N. Franklin St. closed after a pipe broke Dec. 27 on the third floor, shutting...

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