Author: Staff

The City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works (DWP) annual Project Clean & Green (PCG) will run from May 6 to June 24, with all residents assigned to one of seven collection zones. Normally, residents are charged $50 to $150 for all bulky item pick-up requests larger than one cubic yard, about the size of an easy chair. However, on a resident’s PCG collection day, DPW crews will pick up unwanted household items at no charge. PCG consists of three-steps: find your zone, clean it up and set it out. The city has a dedicated web page with information...

Mayor Tom Barrett and the city’s Environmental Collaboration Office have created programs and worked with local partners for the past several years to make Milwaukee into an ecoCity, with Lindsay Heights bearing the literal fruit of that labor. Through a collaboration with Walnut Way, the city certified Lindsay Heights as the first ECO neighborhood and Eco Tour destination in Milwaukee. The Eco Tour route highlights the significant environmental interventions in the neighborhood. “We’re often so busy doing the Lindsay Heights revitalization work that we don’t take the time to talk about it. The Eco Tour gets us talking, sharing,...

While the Milwaukee art scene is in a constant state of change, the closing of RedLine marks the end of an important era. Since its inception in 2009, RedLine Milwaukee developed a national reputation. The visual art incubator and nonprofit began at a time when there was nothing like it in Milwaukee, RedLine was the first to offer programming that featured artistic professional development and social justice art workshops for all ages. The gallery at RedLine was named “Best of Milwaukee” by the Shepherd Express in 2017 and 2018. Sadly, after exactly a decade of success, on July 2019...