Category Archives: History

Baseball and Land O’ Lakes ( LOL )

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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 »

Local Sports History – Sussex / Lisbon / Lannon Area

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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 »

Land O’ Lakes 2009 Banquet

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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 »

Lannon Barwick and Kozlowski Families – Land O” Lakes Baseball

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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 »

Sussex Swimming Quarry

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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 »

Bowling keeps shrinking in Lake Country and Waukesha

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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 »

5th Generation joins Burghardt Sporting Goods – GermantownNOW

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    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 »

Local Water Related News

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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 »

Sussex Estates remains friendly place in the country

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Sussex Estates remains friendly place in the `country’ – Built in the early 1960s, subdivision is still home to some early residents Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Sunday, June 15, 1997 Readability:10-12 grade level (Lexile: 1160L) Author: KRIS RADISH ; Special to the Journal Sentinel When Mardene and Norman Waldhauser bought their ranch home in the Sussex Estates subdivision in 1962,… Read more »

Rural Free Delivery and area Postal Memories

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  The Postal System in the Wisconsin Territory: Early Milwaukee County; Waukesha County and the Sussex-Lisbon Area by Mike Reilly, Editor, January 17, 2004, Revised 09/16/2007 also see Post Offices, Postmasters, Mail Carriers and Mail Delivery History for Sussex, Lisbon, Lake Five, Colgate, Templeton and Lannon, Waukesha County, Wisconsin and Postal Finder lists postmasters of other nearby communities     While… Read more »