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The Milwaukee public is invited to meeting snakes, turtles, and lizards, up close and personal at the Wehr Nature Center on June 10 for Reptile Day. Families will see and learn about a variety of reptiles and amphibians from Wisconsin and around the world at the Wehr Nature Center. Experts, including wildlife biologist Randy Hetzel and members of the Madison Area Herpetological Society, will present their animals, give visitors the opportunity to touch or hold the critters, answer questions about reptiles in the wild, and discuss responsible ownership of reptiles as pets. “There’s a lot of myth and half-truths...

Mayor Tom Barrett recently named Adam Schlicht as Municipal Port Director, to direct operations at Port Milwaukee, oversee a staff of nineteen people, and administer Foreign Trade Zone No. 41. Schlicht succeeds former port director Paul Vornholt who was appointed Chief of Staff to Mayor Barrett in April. His appointment is subject to Common Council approval. “The City relies on the port director to promote commerce and support the local economy. At the same time, we count on Port Milwaukee to operate efficiently and continue to return a dividend to the city’s general fund,” Mayor Barrett said. “Adam’s background...

The Water Council (TWC), along with program supporters, Fund for Lake Michigan (FFLM) and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), have chosen four 2018 Pilot Program winners to receive funding and support to help develop and validate new, revolutionary water technology products from prototype to small-scale production and manufacturing. Announced at WEFTEC last October, program applications were accepted from October 1, 2017 through November 11, 2017. The four winning companies were selected based on their product’s ability to address integrated water solutions through innovation, application and demonstration while maintaining a cost-efficient, scalable and deployable model. “Supporting the progression of new...

The sixth annual VA Mental Health Summit will be held on June 23 and focus resources on African-American veterans. Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, guest speakers at the mental health summit will include Delphine Metcalf Foster, first woman and first African-American to serve as national commander for the Disabled American Veterans, and Reggie Jackson, head griot for America’s Black Holocaust Museum. “Part of our mandate is to make sure that all of the veterans in our community know all of the services that are available and what the VA has to offer,” said William Johnson, minority veterans program...

World history and imaginative artistry collide in a summer collaboration involving the UWM Libraries, UWM’s Peck School of the Arts, RedLine Milwaukee, and Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. The exhibition “Look Here!” runs from June 28 through September 16 at Villa Terrace, and will feature the work of 14 Wisconsin artists and their reinterpretations of artifacts from the UWM Libraries. The materials featured will span centuries and continents, from Milwaukee’s turn-of-the-century south side to colonial India. “We keep these cultural heritage items as evidence of the past, to document and provide access to our history,” says Ann Hanlon, head...

Good City Brewing, an upstart urban brewery on Milwaukee’s East Side, is opening a second production facility and taproom as a key part of the Entertainment Block development in downtown Milwaukee. In signing a lease to occupy 11,000 square feet of Building A located along Juneau Avenue, Good City will be one of a few select tenants anchoring the Entertainment Block, a new development currently under construction that is slated to open in spring of 2019. “Andy Jones, David Dupee and I intentionally put down roots and made a bet on Milwaukee when we founded Good City in 2016,”...