Brook Hotel, livery stable become Clock Tower Park By Fred Keller Sussex Sun, Posted: Oct. 1, 2008 Downtown Sussex sports a 1-acre mini park known for its clock tower, though it no longer keeps accurate time. The park has had various names Brook Park, Village Square, Clock Tower Park and variations. The village lists it as Old Brooke Park… 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 »
Lisbon Town Chairmen According to the town records, the first election was held April 5, 1842, at the stone schoolhouse in Section 35 on the north side of what is now County Trunk Highway K, just west of State Trunk Highway 74., when Samuel Dougherty waschosen Moderator, and David Bonham, and Lucius Botsford, Side Supervisors. DavidBonham was also… Read more »
Does Lisbon board ‘bickering’ matter? By Kelly Smith Living Sussex Sun,Posted: March 31, 2009 Town of Lisbon Delores Scharmer and Beverly Mudlitz are two voters who believe that preserving the town’s rural residential character and fixing its roads are among the most important issues in the April 7 municipal election. Mudlitz said she agrees with some of incumbent Chairman Michael… Read more »
Editor’s note: The following is an accumulation of Milwaukee Journal, Sussex Sun and Lake Country Reporter newspaper articles concerning the Town of Lisbon efforts to incorporate itself into a village. They are presented in publication chronological order. Articles beginning in 1981 and continue through 2009 Continued onPage 2 – Lisbon Incorporation Efforts – Page 2, Page 3 – Town of… Read more »
Editor’s note: The following is an accumulation of Milwaukee Journal, Sussex Sun and Lake Country Reporter newspaper articles concerning the Town of Lisbon efforts to incorporate itself into a village. They are presented in publication chronological order. Articles continue here beginning in 2010 Retrospect 01/13/10 Posted: Jan. 12, 2010 Since the start of the homesteading of Sussex and Lisbon… Read more »
County officials: Support Lisbon- Sussex vote Vrakas, Trawicki urge passage of consolidation referendum By Kelly Smith Posted: Lake Country Reporter, Aug. 1, 2012 Town of Lisbon – Two of Waukesha County’s most powerful elected officials pleaded Tuesday night with town residents to vote in favor of a nonbinding, advisory referendum. Voters will be asked on Aug. 14 whether or not… Read more »
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 »
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 »
