Pleasant Prairie News

The village's tax levy will rise 3.9 percent under the 2010 budget approved by the Village Board Monday.

On a narrow bridge between freedom and death, Johanna Schlottke stood with her two young daughters on the dark night of March 18, 1950.

Round Lake Area Library had a full house Sunday for its first mini powwow. Representatives from three tribes performed six traditional dances and shared American Indian culture with about 75 people from the community.

Two Wisconsin residents a ' Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel and Capt. Russell Seager, 51, of Pleasant Prairie a ' are among 13 killed in a shooting rampage by Maj.

The Village Board voted Monday to create one sanitary sewer district for the whole community, continuing a consolidation effort needed to comply with the approaching end of a 20-year-old Great Lakes water diversion.

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the busiest and most popular shopping day of the year.

Holy water and hand sanitizer are two very different things. But the latter is a key to the holy grail of hygiene that local churches are preaching this flu season.

A burning pile of leaves turned into a grass fire Sunday morning, which spread and damaged at least two sheds.

A fire was reported about 5:15 a.m. at 1905 89th Street in Pleasant Prairie. Initially the fire was reported as a grass fire, but the first responding officers said the blaze had spread to a shed and flames were about a story high.

A glorious day - more typical of June than just before the snow flies - was packed with emotion as some 200 people attended a Veterans Day ceremony in Prairie Springs Park.

Bristol residents created a new village Tuesday. Residents voted 295-269 to incorporate the central core of the town, creating a nine-square-mile village of Bristol inside the boundaries of the town.

Some development is cooking again in Pleasant Prairie with the village Plan Commission's approval last month of a new Olive Garden restaurant.

Breanna Mayer and Eric Ries, both of Pleasant Prairie, were married Aug. 1, 2009, at St.

The Wisconsin Welcome Center in Pleasant Prairie will once again become more welcoming Nov.

Pressing the keys of the grand piano with a mix of airy lightness and robust energy, Les Stahl shares a chuckle with choir members as they prepare for Mass at St.

Dairyland Greyhound Park employees rallied for jobs Thursday - for their own and for the estimated 3,000 more that supporters say would come with the proposed Kenosha casino.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Racine man expected to stand trial for allegedly stealing from a fire-damaged mobile home in Pleasant Prairie.

PROMOTION: Prinz Ltd. has promoted Bruce Hirschel of Libertyville to senior vice president of sales.

As 30 Kenosha firefighters battled a blaze on the city's west side Friday night, others from surrounding communities reinforced seriously depleted local fire stations, said Kenosha Fire Department Battalion Chief Matthew Haerter.

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