Nelson, other locals honored at LOL gala By CHRIS SCHUCK Posted: Lake Country Reporter, Oct. 7, 2009 The Land O’ Lakes Western Division held its annual banquet on Saturday at Hartbrook Lanes. Awards were handed out for top players, managers, umpires and fans. The league’s Most Valuable Player was Luke Nelson, who was also voted the top pitcher in the… Read more »
Sports Scene Nothing like 50s and 60s for baseball by Chuck Delsman Posted: June 30, 2010,Lake Country Reporter While most people complain about getting old, I love it. I wish I was older, at least a couple of years so the government could send me those good social security checks, and maybe supply some health insurance while they’re at it…. Read more »
Lannon’s family tree keeps growing Fathers and sons take the field together for top-tier Land O’Lakes baseball team By CHRIS SCHUCK Posted: Living Sussex Sun, July 28, 2009 ]]> Matt Colby/Illustration Members of the Lannon family include (clockwise from top) Ron Kozlowski, Jim Barwick, Tyler Kozlowski and Zach Kozlowski. In Lannon, they’re just carrying on an old family… Read more »
Lannon staves off playoff elimination Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI) – Monday, September 25, 2000 Author: From Journal Sentinel wire reports Fueled by 5 1/3 innings of no-hit pitching from Tim Olszewski and five home runs, Lannon defeated West Bend Company, 13-3, in Lannon to stay alive in the Land O’ Lakesbaseball grand championship playoffs. A victory by West Bend would… Read more »
Bald Facts 03/02/11 by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, March 1, 2011 Doctor’s offices are small worlds. Recently, I was at the doctor’s office waiting my turn. There was just one other man in the waiting room and I looked him over and he reciprocated. He said to me, “I must know you. I have seen you… Read more »
Burghardt’s Sporting Goods Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Updated07/17/2014 Photograph courtesy of Milwaukee Public Library Description Title Remember When…Burghardt’s was a book store? Description The Burghardt Sporting Goods company got its start in business as a bookstore more than 100 years ago. Milwaukee in the 1880s was very German in influence, and German newspapers… Read more »
Bowling keeps shrinking in Lake Country and Waukesha Hartbrook Lanes in Hartland will close at the end of the upcoming season. It will be the 13th bowling alley over the last couple decades to close in Waukesha County as some bowling centers continue to struggle financially. Photo by: Scott Ash By Chuck Delsman Posted: June 30, 2014,Living Lake Country Reporter Drive… Read more »
Sussex Swimming Quarry edited by Michael R. Reilly updated03/17/2015 Now after 26 years of operation in 1916, a disastrous fire destroyed the wood piles, warehouses, kilns and the pump house. The business was dead, never to be revived. In 1918, the Kraemer family bought the now-rundown acreage, and the water filled quarry for a reported $5,000. In Sept. 1920, the… Read more »
Ghosts haunt ‘Dead Man’s Corners’ by: Village Historian Fred H. Keller Source: July 29, 2009, Living Sussex Sun Have you seen the ghosts at the intersection of Silver Spring Drive and Town Line Road? The story of the intersection’s interesting history starts with Thomas S. Redford, who at age 17 began walking to Wisconsin from New York in the spring… Read more »
Lisbon ponders water for Maple/K; Halquist $1 million lawsuit settlement could fund project Halquist Stone Co. and town officials might work together to install municipal water on the town’s southeast side. By KELLY SMITH Sussex Sun, Posted: Jan. 14, 2008 Halquist Stone Co. and town officials might work together to install municipal water on the town’s southeast side. One town… Read more »
