Teen Center at Sussex Civic Center, Old Orchard School Location edited by Michael R. Reilly Original March 7, 2015 Updated 03/08/2015 Sussex signing lease to take over Main-Orchard School, Feb 1980, photo: Fred H. Keller. Left to right: Front row seated: ?, Paul Fleishman, ?; 2nd row:S al Maglio, ?, ?, Joanne Smith, ?, Kathy Klager(?), Cheryl Wilde;… Read more »
Lisbon, Sussex plan joint meeting Town Board members have agreed to a face-to-face meeting with the Sussex Village Board to discuss potential shared and consolidated services. By KELLY SMITH Living Sussex Sun,Posted: Feb. 10, 2009 Town Board members have agreed to a face-to-face meeting with the Sussex Village Board to discuss potential shared and consolidated services. A date for the… Read more »
Dump & Garbage Disposal History; Town of Lisbon by Michael R. Reilly October 22, 2005 Updated 12/18/2005 Do you have Town garbage stories to share? Ijust learned that Sussex had a dump near Locust and Main Sts. (east side) andlater an apartment complex was built on the site. Some residents had a sinkingfeeling come over them. As society… Read more »
Sanitary – Are you Ready for Cholera? Privy Vaults The following information has been transcribedand/or edited by Michael R. Reilly to document early sanitary conditions inWaukesha County and its’ local municipalities. For further reading by Mike Reilly on this subject, click on: The World & Milwaukee Early Sanitation History – Outhouses, Privies, Scavengers & Sewers, or Privileged Privy Prattle First Added December… Read more »
Sewer History in Waukesha County and Sussex Transcribed and edited by Michael R. Reilly December 20, 2005 Updated 12/20/2005 The Sewerage Bill Some long-eared Waukesha people have discovered , as usual, adeep-laid plan in the Assembly bill empowering villages to arrange forconstructing sewers, to enable the trustees of such villages to raise money forthe construction without a previous vote… Read more »
Swine Flu-1918 variety by Fred H. Keller, Village Historian Living Sussex Sun, Retrospect, Posted: Nov. 17, 2009 Several features about “swine flu” are appearing in local newspapers and on TV. This type of information has been seen before, from Asian flu, to avian flu, and back to the 1918 epidemic of the Spanish influenza. History does repeat itself. On Nov…. Read more »
Sewer History in Town of Lisbon / Village of Sussex Transcribed and edited by Michael R. Reilly December 22, 2005 Updated 12/23/2005 Sussex has smaller building lots, and services them withmunicipal wells and sewer lines, while Lisbon has larger lots with septic tanksand residential wells. Eventually, however, Lisbon did begin sewer service tosome subdivisions whose location and problems… Read more »
The World & Milwaukee Early Sanitation History – Outhouses, Privies, Scavengers & Sewers or Privileged Privy Prattle by Mike Reilly, copyright 2/19/97 Last Revised 12/18/2005 Back in 1996 the Iowa Antique Bottleers published anarticle in their newsletter describing the duties of a “scavenger”. Ioften wondered if Milwaukee had similar ordinances and names for people whocleaned outhouses or privy vaults… Read more »
Cholera and Its Prevention Transcribed and edited by Michael R. Reilly December 19, 2005 Updated 12/20/2005 Waukesha Freeman, Thursday, August 21, 1884 Prevention of Cholera Mr. Editor: Please give the annexed circular issued by theWisconsin State board of Health, a space in your valuable paper. The specific directions for the prevention of cholera (orany other filth disease) are… Read more »
Podolske playground, Sussex Village Park by Fred H. Keller Living Sussex Sun, Posted: Aug. 18, 2009 During the Sussex Lions Daze Festival in 1992, the lower playground of Sussex Village Park was named for a family important to both Sussex and the park. The Podolske family was well-known in Sussex from 1915 until the late 1980s when the members moved… Read more »
