Author: Correspondent

Rozga Funeral Homes announced the introduction of its new Rozga Funeral Planning Center, slated to open in September on Mason Street in downtown Milwaukee. This marks the first planning center of its kind in Milwaukee, with only a few similar planning centers in the country. The family-owned company has provides funeral services to the Milwaukee community for five generations. The new Rozga Funeral Planning Center will offer cremation and burial services with unique, nontraditional celebration-of-life event planning services including a variety of Milwaukee venues, such as the Harley-Davidson Museum, the Art Museum, on a boat or at a variety...

More than 150 of the state’s top science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students will engage with companies in Wisconsin’s growing aerospace industry during the first-ever Milwaukee Bucks Aerospace Jam event this fall at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), the Wisconsin Aerospace Partners, the Greater Oshkosh Economic Development Corporation, and the NASA Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium are teaming up with the Bucks on the half-day event, which will take place prior to a Bucks game in October or November. During the Aerospace Jam, high school and college students from 28 academic...

The Milwaukee Bucks and Marquette University have signed a seven-year agreement in which Marquette’s men’s basketball team will play its home games at the Bucks’ new sports and entertainment arena, beginning with the 2018-19 season. Milwaukee’s new state-of-the-art sports and entertainment arena is scheduled to open in the fall of 2018 and will serve as the Bucks’ new home, as well as being a major venue for concerts, family shows, boxing, MMA, NCAA men’s basketball tournament games and other special events. “Marquette Basketball is a staple of Milwaukee and we are proud to welcome the Golden Eagles to their...

On Monday, August 21, Milwaukeeans have a chance to experience something that has not happened in almost a century, a near total eclipse of the sun. At noon, unless it’s very cloudy, the sky will begin to get unusually dark. The Manfred Olson Planetarium staff at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are hosting a NASA-sanctioned viewing and picnic event that day from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with telescopes and safety eyewear available. It will be held outside the facility on the west end of the lawn at the corner of Kenwood Boulevard and Maryland Avenue. The moon will begin...

Mayor Tom Barrett announced that the City of Milwaukee has been selected as a recipient of a grant of $150,000 from the National Endowment of the Art (NEA) to fund the new Gathering Art, Stories and Place project at the soon-to-be-opened Milwaukee Public Library Mitchell Street Branch, currently under construction at 9th and Mitchell Streets on the City’s south side. With this grant, the project team will utilize the library’s maker space and other indoor and outdoor gathering spaces to host a variety of storytelling-themed programs, including a visual storytelling festival featuring deaf storytellers, an artist lecture series, writing...

U.S, Congressman Rob Wittman released the following statement regarding the violent events taking place in Charlottesville, Virginia: “I despise and tenaciously denounce the violence, hate and bigotry that we have seen in Charlottesville. The rhetoric and actions of racists, white supremacists, and Nazi-ideologues are not the values of our Commonwealth or our great nation. I thank and pray for our brave law enforcement officers who put themselves in harm’s way to protect our Commonwealth. My thoughts and prayers are also with the victims of today’s violence and their families. We must stand united against all hate. As Americans, we...