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Feb. 02, 2010 12:24 p.m. | Greendale — A proposal to develop a parking lot and the old blood center next to Southridge Mall would involve up to $16 million in public and private money, create as many as 75 jobs and add up to 100 units of housing for senior citizens, according to a plan presented to the village.
The village, using a tax incremental finance district, would spend $4.1 million to $5.7 million through a 20-year loan.
An estimated $5 million to $10 million in private investment would be made.
The site is bounded by commercial buildings fronting S. 76th St. on the west, W. Grange Ave. on the south, the mall on the north and a village-owned woodland preservation parcel on the east.
Senior housing would occupy four of the roughly 24 acres available for development, Village Manager Todd Michaels said Tuesday. It is not known what else might fill the site, he said.
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Aug. 26, 2010 12:18 p.m. | We're just hours away from the first official games of the 2010 high school football season and there is no better way to find out the latest news on your favorite team then to check out NOW's comprehensive football preview page.
The page is packed with videos on area teams, a roundtable discussion from our sportswriters previewing the top teams to watch, position by position breakdowns, an interactive poll, photo gallery and more.
Go to NOW's 2010 football preview section.
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MARK SCHAAF
Aug. 17, 2010 3:24 p.m. | The Greendale Police Department has received a $10,000 grant to help crack down on drunken driving.
The department will launch a high-visibility enforcement effort on Aug. 20.
Greendale and 16 other law enforcement agencies in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties are part of the Southeast Wisconsin Drunk Driving Task Force.
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MARK SCHAAF
Aug. 16, 2010 4:56 p.m. | Southridge Mall has announced that three new retailers - Best Buy Mobile, Toys "R" Us Express and Prokop Jewlers - have opened at the shopping center.
Best Buy Mobile sells cell phones, accessories and wireless carriers on the lower level of the mall near Boston Store. Prokop Jewelers, carrying fine jewelry, is on the upper level in Center Court.
Longtime children's toy store Toys "R" Us Express, meanwhile, is just south of Center Court.
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Tom Kertscher of the Journal Sentinel
Aug. 02, 2010 2:50 p.m. | Greendale — Greendale, one of only four communities in Milwaukee County that doesn't have its own paramedics, might be making the upgrade.
The Village Board on Tuesday will consider a resolution to make the village's emergency medical technicians, now considered EMT-Basics, into EMT-Paramedics, said Village Manager Todd Michaels.
The additional training required and other costs would add about $5,000 per year to the village budget, he said.
The other communities without paramedics are Cudahy, Hales Corners and St. Francis, Michaels said.
July 30, 2010 9:52 a.m. | There's still time to help us select the best players and coach in the area for our 2010 NOW All-Suburban Baseball Team, but you need to get your votes in before 11:59 p.m. on Sunday.
Check out our nominees and their stats, and then vote for the players and coaches you think are most deserving. You can vote once a day, and everyone who votes will be entered in a random drawing for a pair of box seats to a Milwaukee Brewers game.
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July 23, 2010 8:23 a.m. | Voting has just begun for this season's NOW All-Suburban Baseball team, now in its 21st season, and we're asking fans to help us select the area's most outstanding baseball players, including the player and coach of the year.
One lucky fan who votes for this season's team will win a pair of Brewers tickets. Go online and check out our nominees and their stats, and then vote for the players you think are most deserving. You can vote once a day, and everyone who votes will be entered in a random drawing for a pair of box seats to a Milwaukee Brewers game.
Vote now
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Tom Kertscher of the Journal Sentinel
July 01, 2010 11:50 a.m. | 
Greendale - A statue made in the memory of Ava Zimmerman, a 5-year-old Greendale girl killed in a traffic accident, will be dedicated during an event near the accident site July 11.
The event, which includes a balloon launch and ice cream social following the dedication, is set for 2 to 4 p.m.
Ava died April 14 shortly after being struck by a car driven by Anita Nalencz of Franklin. Ava's mother, Tanya Zimmerman, 29, suffered minor injuries.
The Milwaukee County district attorney's office has not yet decided whether criminal charges will be filed.
The accident occurred as Ava was walking with her mother and other family members across Broad St. near Northway. The statue will be at the same intersection.
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Tom Kertscher of the Journal Sentinel
June 29, 2010 4:48 p.m. | Greendale - The Greendale Historical Society is offering a bus tour of the two communities that, along with Greendale, represent three Depression-era communities spawned by Franklin D. Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration.
The impetus behind the so-called garden cities was to provide low-cost housing, put people to work and experiment with planning concepts based on European and American colonial models.
The bus tour, Sept. 25-30, will visit Greenhills, Ohio, and Greenbelt, Md., as well as sites in Washington, D.C. The cost is $599 for society members and $699 for non-members, based on double-occupancy.
For more information, call (414) 423-7064 or visit the society's Web site, www.thegreendalehistoricalsociety.org.
June 24, 2010 10:20 a.m. | It's the opening day of Summerfest, and it's also your chance to win some free Summerfest tickets.
All you need to do is follow @MyCommunityNOW on Twitter and tweet the following: "Follow @MyCommunityNOW and RT this for a chance to win a pair of #Summerfest tickets."
We will be giving away a total of five pairs of tickets in two random drawings. The first drawing will be held at noon tomorrow. The second drawing will be held at noon on Wednesday. You have to tweet the message only once to be entered in both drawings.
Winners will be contacted on Twitter and will need to pick the tickets up at our office in Waukesha.
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MARK SCHAAF
June 23, 2010 5:14 p.m. | The Greendale Historical Society will hold a coach bus tour of the other two Greenbelt communities from Sept. 25 through Sept. 30.
The tour is a fundraiser for the Greendale Historical Society to save two remaining original police and fire station buildings. The cost is $599 for members and $699 for nonmembers.
Greendale, Greenhills, Ohio, and Greenbelt, Md., were planned communities built by the federal government in the 1930s to provide jobs and housing during the Great Depression.
The event will also include visits to memorials in Washington, D.C.; Shanksville, Pa., the site of the United Airlines Flight 93 crash on Sept. 11, 2001; and the Walcott Museum in Maunee, Ohio.
For information, call the Historical Society at (414) 423-7064.
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MARK SCHAAF
June 18, 2010 5:02 p.m. | For the fifth consecutive year, Greendale High School has landed in Newsweek's list of top 1,600 public high schools in the country.
The school was ranked no. 1,252.
Newsweek ranked the schools by using a formula that takes the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests given in a year and divides it by the number of seniors who graduate in June.
Only 6 percent of the public high schools in the country qualify for the list.
To access the full list, click here: http://www.newsweek.com/feature/2010/americas-best-high-schools.html
June 14, 2010 11:35 a.m. | The Greendale High School Class of 2010 gathered for one final time Sundau for commencement at Stephen J. Gavinski Memorial Stadium, and we've just posted a photo gallery featuring the happy graduates.
June 04, 2010 7:58 a.m. | The state individual tennis tournament began yesterday at Madison's Nielsen Tennis Stadium and NOW's Peter Zuzga was there capturing the action, as seen in this photo gallery, which features more than 15 images.
The tournament continues through Saturday, with championship matches set for around 11:30 a.m. The team state tournament is Friday and Saturday, June 11-12.
Go to NOW photojournalist Peter Zuzga's photo gallery.
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Tom Kertscher of the Journal Sentinel
June 02, 2010 11:38 a.m. | Greendale - The village is seeking help in planning its 75th anniversary celebration in 2013.
Residents interested in volunteering should contact Village Manager Todd Michaels, tmichaels@greendale.org, or sign up on the village web site: www.greendale.org.
A 75th Anniversary Committee has been formed. Its next meeting is at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Community Meeting Room of the Multipurpose Building, 5647 Broad St.
