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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Everyone in the greater Sussex-Lisbon community knows of the annual Sussex Chili Cook-off community event where one can do three things: eat chili to your heart’s content, meet old and new friends, and in the process, raise money for the Sussex food pantry which was created in 1985 by the six Cooperating Churches of Sussex. At this last chili cook-off,… Read more »
Sussex (Lisbon Township) Brewery History by Michael R. Reilly, editor, January 27, 2013, copyright Last updated08/16/2015 The Sussex Brewery at 36 Main Rd Emsworth PO10 8AU, United Kingdom (probably nothing like what our old brewery looked like). “Very many will remember the first turkey-shoot that came off in this town, and very likely the first in the county. In… Read more »
Sussex (Lisbon Township) Brewery History by Michael R. Reilly, editor, January 27, 2013, copyright Last updated08/16/2015 The Sussex Brewery at 36 Main Rd Emsworth PO10 8AU, United Kingdom (probably nothing like what our old brewery looked like). — “Very many will remember the first turkey-shoot that came off in this town, and very likely the first in the county…. Read more »
Lawler signed Sussex incorporation by Fred H. Keller Living Sussex Sun, Posted: May 21, 2013 Dr. George W. Lawler was an imposing, important person in old Sussex and Lisbon. From about 1910-32, he was the community doctor. However, his big claim to importance was his signing the 1924 incorporation of Sussex as a village, along with 15 other Sussex-Templeton men…. Read more »
Frederick”Fred” C. Hawes Family Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 06/15/2005 Descendants of Frederick “Fred” Hawes GenerationNo. 1 1.FREDERICK “FRED”1 HAWES was born Abt. 1850 in Germany. Hemarried SOPHIA VON WALTERS 16 Oct 1870 in Waukesha. She was born Abt. 1851, anddied 18 Feb 1931. Notes for FREDERICK “FRED”HAWES: Golden Wedding – Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hawes A… Read more »
Obituaries, Sussex and Lisbon (not buried in area) Former Sussex fire chief, war veteran dies; Arne Peterson was 82 Arne R. “Pete” Peterson claimed Sussex as his hometown for 65 of his 82 years. He died Tuesday, March 4. By FRED H. KELLER Posted: March 12, 2008 Arne R. “Pete” Peterson claimed Sussex as his hometown for 65 of his… Read more »
