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Supported by the school’s Giving Tuesday fundraising campaign, St. Thomas More High School will be able to acquire additional Smart Boards for its classrooms. Alumni, parents, and other community members donated over $10,000, with an average gift of $339, for this technology during the school’s one-day online fundraiser on November 28. “Giving Tuesday gave parents, alumni, and volunteers the opportunity to make a direct investment in the education of St. Thomas More students,” said president Mary McIntosh. “We are truly humbled for this outpouring of support, and I am excited to see how our talented teachers utilize this new...

Celebrating a decade in the community, Milwaukee Film is excited to announce that the 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival will take place from October 18 to November 1, 2018. The annual 15-day festival will include feature films, shorts programs, education screenings, post-film conversations, panels, and parties. “We couldn’t have reached this incredible milestone without the warm embrace of the Milwaukee community,” states Jonathan Jackson, Executive and Artistic Director of Milwaukee Film. “Over the past ten years, we have strived to bring the best independent and international cinema to the city, and our amazing audience, members, donors, and sponsors have repaid...

Sports Destination Management, the sports tourism publication with the largest circulation of sports event planners and tournament directors, has awarded the 2017 USA Gymnastics Championships, in partnership with VISIT Milwaukee, as one of the 2017 Champions of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism. Held June 26-July 3, 2017, the prestigious USA Gymnastics Championships involved events at both the Wisconsin Center and the BMO Harris Bradley Center. The event attracted more than 2,000 young athletes from around the country accompanied by their families, resulting in 4,345 hotel room nights and 4,500 total attendees. Organizers credit the success of the event to...

Public television in southeastern Wisconsin had a big night at the 2017 Emmy Awards Gala. Milwaukee PBS was honored with three regional Emmys, the most it has received in recent years. The ceremony held was on December 2 by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Two of the local series that comprised the new Milwaukee PBS Presents format – 10thirtysix and Adelante! – each received an award. And the station’s highest-rated local program, Around the Corner with John McGivern, won for Best Magazine Programming as a series. “As southeastern Wisconsin’s public television station,...

As the Ambassador Hotel prepares to celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2018, hotel management announced plans for “A Roaring 20’s New Year’s Eve” party to kick off their celebration. The hotel’s Embassy Room will be transformed into a 1920’s speakeasy, complete with gaming tables. The 10-piece jazz swing band “Southport Sound” will be on hand for dancing in the Fitz, the hotel’s restaurant that launched this past summer. “Our party is going to be unlike any other New Year’s event in the Milwaukee. We are going to make sure it is a memorable evening from start to finish,” said...

The private agreement ensures that workers running the streetcar system will be able to join the transit union. Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 998, the Milwaukee transit workers union, recently announced a labor peace agreement for The Milwaukee Streetcar with Transdev, the company contracted to run the City’s new streetcar system. The deal also provides that workers can negotiate a contract without threats, coercion, or intimidation while preventing adversarial labor relations between the union and the company from causing pickets, boycotts, or strikes that might negatively impact the system. “Whether on buses or streetcars, transit jobs should be good,...