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Pauline Haass Public Library History 2006 thru Present

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Lisbon to vote to end Haass library agreement By Kelly Smith Posted: June 9, 2014, Living Sussex Sun Lisbon — The town board is expected to formally take action next week to terminate at the end of this year the long-standing agreement with the Village of Sussex over sharing most of the operating costs of the Pauline Haass Libary. Town… Read more »

Pauline Haass Public Library and Early Lisbon and Sussex Library History

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  Library History – Part 1 Library History- Part 2 Library History Part 3  Library History – Part 4 Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly October 10, 2005, Last Revised 12/17/2014 Early Library History:Milwaukee County     The first library was createdin 1848 by the Young Men’s (Literary) Association formed the preceding year. Itwas located in a single leased room on… Read more »

Sussex Library and Joint Lisbon – Sussex Library (Pauline Haass PublicLibrary) History

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Cliff Loker, a seventh-grade student at Templeton Middle School, helped break a record Dec. 14 when he checked out the 200,000th item at the Pauline Haass Public Library in 1998. That’s a one-year record for the 10-year-old library. The library opened in January 1988 in the former Orchard Drive School in Sussex and moved into a new building just to… Read more »

Pauline Haass Public Library History 2006 thru Present

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Haass Library talks failing By Kelly Smith Printed Living Sussex Sun, Nov. 11, 2014 Efforts to reach an out-of-court settlement in the dispute over the Pauline Haass farm land are failing — or have failed — and lawyers for the town of Lisbon and the Pauline Haass Library Board are preparing to go to trial, possibly later this year or… Read more »

1923 SUSSEX PARADE POSTCARD – Firetruck

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Tales are told of firefighters’ early banquets by Fred H. Keller Posted: May 9, 2014, Living Lake Country Reporter On Jan. 30, 1922, the then-9-year-old Sussex Main Street School caught fire and was totally destroyed, with only four brick walls left standing. In quick order the then-unincorporated village had a special meeting of the Sussex-Templeton Advancement Association and the end… Read more »

Lisbon Fire Department

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Lisbon Fire Department presents 2008 service awards The Fire Department honored two of it firefighters, Matthew Mertens and Jeff Drager, with its 2008 Lisbon Fire Department Chief’s Award at the department’s awards dinner Jan. 17 at Fairways of Woodside. Living Sussex Sun, Posted: Jan. 27, 2009 The Fire Department honored two of it firefighters, Matthew Mertens and Jeff Drager, with… Read more »

Lannon Fire Dept Updates

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Fire levels Lannon home Posted: March 17, 2009, Living Sussex Sun Village of Lannon – A fire completely destroyed a mobile home in the 20000 block of West Good Hope Road. The three people inside the home are now staying with family members, according to Lannon Fire Chief Gary Georgenson. The heat from Monday’s conflagration also damaged the vinyl siding… Read more »

Sussex Fire Department – Sheriff substation architect hired

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Sheriff substation architect hired The Village Board voted unanimously last Tuesday to hire Yaggy Colby architects to design the new Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department substation addition to the Sussex Fire Station on Main Street. By LAURA DRITLEIN Living Sussex Sun, Posted: March 4, 2008 The Village Board voted unanimously last Tuesday to hire Yaggy Colby architects to design the new… Read more »

Archives: Collections: Church: St. James

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Retrospect: Brogan log cabin hosts first Catholic services By FRED KELLER Posted: Apr. 9, 2008, Sussex Sun As settlers arrived in the Towns of Lisbon and Menomonee (Menomonee Falls today), Irish immigrants made the area around Town Line Road an extended Irish and Catholic enclave, extending it eastward eventually to include what is now the Village of Lannon. James Brogan… Read more »