A Green Bay native with a journalism degree and criminology and law studies minor from Marquette University, Lisa Sink comes to Patch.com after working for more than 15 years at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / JSOnline.com and the Milwaukee Sentinel. She also has freelanced for other media, such as the Business Journal, Wisconsin Builder magazine and the American Planning Association.
Way back in those heady college days, Lisa says she naively thought she had life figured out. But then she got married, bought a house and had two children. And she learned that life is messy and learning is a lifelong adventure.
Learning about new people and ideas is what keeps Lisa in journalism during this uncertain time for the industry. Patch.com will offer her new editing and managerial challenges that she is sure to stumble upon. But then she'll get up and keep moving.
Bob Ziegler will step down in April from his at-large seat on the board, while Glen Allgaier will run for a third term. Candidates seeking to be on the ballot may begin circulating nomination papers Saturday.
Police issued an alert, saying elderly female shoppers were targeted in several thefts this month that may be part of a crime ring.
The public is invited to bid on auction and raffle items at all six All About Learning day care centers, all to benefit Courtney Felecia Buss, a preschool teacher who was shot in the Azana Spa tragedy.
After a one-year drop in Elmbrook School District taxes last year, December total bills will increase slightly. Aldermen Tuesday adopted their portion of the total bill, calling it a status quo budget for 2013.
New purple gift cards will be released Dec. 1st, the day Azana Salon & Spa reopens following remodeling.
Elmbrook's elementary schools stuffed a school bus with even more food than they did last year, all to help the Hunger Task Force.
The old village area of Brookfield, along Brookfield Road, will be kicking off the holidays with its own tree lighting ceremony.
Sneak peak of the new show at Music Under Glass at the Mitchell Park Domes.
But the Hostess store at 21200 Doral Road is among the many across the country that could close if Hostess Brands goes out of business, as sought in a bankruptcy filing Friday.
The newly opened Culver's of Elm Grove donated more than $14,000 to the Azana Spa Benefit Fund for the families of the women slain in the Oct. 21 mass shooting. Red Oak Counseling also raised funds.
More than 100 spas in Wisconsin and at least eight other states agreed to donate a cut of their proceeds Tuesday to an anti-domestic violence fundraiser to help the families of Azana spa shooting victims.
I think of my Dad and his two brothers who all served in World War Two — a sailor, infantryman, and pilot.... I think of my father in-law.... trudging through the snows of Belgium in that Christmas of 1944.
Just five months after Republican Gov. Scott Walker handily won his recall election, GOP nominee Mitt Romney didn't have the same success in the presidential race.
Some 50 stores at Brookfield Square mall plan to open at midnight on Black Friday, including Boston Store and Old Navy, with Sears opening even earlier on Thanksgiving. See Patch's calendar of mall hours through Jan. 5.
The newly opened Culver's in Elm Grove — around the corner from Azana Salon & Spa — was hopping Thursday after announcing it will donate 100% of its Thursday sales to the families of women killed in the spa shooting.
Town of Brookfield voters chose Mitt Romney by a nearly two-to-one margin, with a town-wide voter turnout of 89 percent.
Romney garnered 68 percent of the vote in Brookfield, with a citywide turnout of 89 percent.
The Brookfield store opened Monday with free leis, face-painting and the specialty products and wines have made the quirky grocery chain a big hit with fans.
The popular grocer will kick off with a "lei cutting," its unique twist on the traditional ribbon-cutting, before the doors open at 8 a.m.
With some 400 mailed absentee ballots outstanding, Brookfield already has more than 9,000 early ballots cast, exceeding the total from the 2008 presidential race.
