Author: Staff

Milwaukee manufacturer A. O. Smith Corporation, along with the United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County, announced a partnership with Mayor Tom Barrett and the City of Milwaukee Health Department to provide Aquasana-branded water filtration products to city residents living in homes with lead service lines. The two products offered through the program, the Aquasana Claryum countertop unit and the Claryum “Clean Water Machine” powered water filtration pitcher, are NSF-certified to remove more than 99 percent of lead from drinking water as well as more than 65 other potentially harmful contaminants including heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, cysts, and organic...

Historic Milwaukee, Inc. held its annual Halloween Tour at historic Forest Home Cemetery on October 31. The sold out event was attended by several dozen visitors, who walked among the graves of city founders as the sun set and blanketed the cemetery in darkness. The tour was once again hosted by Bob Giese, a local historian who has written a number of articles on various Milwaukee topics, including the Beer Barons, the Milwaukee River, the MacArthur family, City Hall, and how Milwaukee got its name. Located in the city’s Lincoln Village neighborhood, Forest Home Cemetery is the resting place...

Library Loud Days continued with free Haunted Central events and interactive workshops. The Milwaukee Public Library (MPL) invited visitors to shriek freely, pardon the screams, and leave their inside voices at the front door once again. In a continuing effort to dispel the notion that libraries are silent establishments that collect books, the latest Library Loud Days event took place over the October 22 weekend. Haunted Central was hosted at MPL’s Central Library location at 814 W. Wisconsin Avenue. It became one giant haunted house for all ages. There was haunted-themed activities throughout the building and the main attraction,...