Bay Lane student dies from playground injury

Sept. 07, 2010 7:29 a.m. | Newsradio 620 WMTJ is reporting that a sixth-grader at Bay Lane Middle School has died after suffering a  a fluke head injury on a playground.

Evan Coubal an suffered a concussion during a youth football game about a week ago. He took some time off from the game, the radio station reports.

But on Friday, during recess, he was playing near the school's football sleds when he accidentally hit his head on one of them. He was rushed to the hospital where he died on Sunday of head trauma.

Get the complete story from Newsradio 620 WTMJ.

EPA may dig wells to monitor water

Sept. 03, 2010 5:14 p.m. | Muskego - Additional groundwater monitoring wells might be placed between an old waste dump on the west edge of the city and a public well a mile away to ensure the water supply does not become contaminated with chemicals that have leaked from the site, federal environmental officials said Friday.

Proposed changes to an ongoing cleanup plan for the former Muskego Sanitary Landfill also include evaluating the effectiveness of a system designed to extract and treat contaminated groundwater beneath one section of the dump, and whether the system should be extended to other sections.

The closed 56-acre landfill is north of Janesville Road, east of Crowbar Drive and south of Wauer Lane.

Representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Natural Resources will attend a public meeting Thursday to discuss proposed changes to cleanup and monitoring plans with residents. The meeting will be held at the Muskego Public Library, S73-W16663 Janesville Road. Meeting times are 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.

In recent years, small amounts of the toxic chemical vinyl chloride have been detected in groundwater east, southeast and south of the landfill.

Special football preview section now online

Aug. 26, 2010 12:18 p.m. | We're just hours away from the first official games of the 2010 high school football season and there is no better way to find out the latest news on your favorite team then to check out NOW's comprehensive football preview page.

The page is packed with videos on area teams, a roundtable discussion from our sportswriters previewing the top teams to watch, position by position breakdowns, an interactive poll, photo gallery and more.

Go to NOW's 2010 football preview section.

Muskego may clamp down on use of fireworks

Aug. 16, 2010 4:23 p.m. | Muskego — Residents who like to celebrate the Fourth of July with a bang won't be able to shoot off their fireworks as often as they do now, if the city approves new restrictions on the use of explosives.

Muskego is the only community in the metropolitan Milwaukee area that allows people to shoot off fireworks - as long as they have a permit. People can blast their colorful displays into the air every day, if they want, between July 1 and 7. They also can shoot them off anytime between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m.

Now Muskego officials are considering limiting the permits to three days or perhaps just on July 4.

"Seven days is just too much," said Police Chief Paul Geiszler.

In addition, hours would be limited to evenings - fireworks could only be discharged from 8 to 11 p.m.

Last chance to win State Fair tickets on Facebook

Aug. 12, 2010 8:04 a.m. | With just a few days left of the Wisconsin State Fair, you still have time to score free tickets from NOW Newspapers.

All you have to do is "like" NOW Newspapers on Facebook and respond to our last status update and tell us your favorite story from our papers this week.

A random drawing will be held at 8 a.m. Friday and announced on Facebook.

Winners will receive a four-pack of tickets to the fair, which begins runs to Sunday. Winners will have to pick up the tickets in our Waukesha office, 1741 Dolphin Drive, Suite A, 53186.

Roundabout plan may be dead

Aug. 10, 2010 9:30 a.m. | Muskego — A combination of high costs and public opposition appears to have killed plans for a roundabout on Racine Avenue near Muskego High School.

Construction of the roundabout would cost about $1 million - nearly double the $550,000 to $600,000 cost of installing better traffic signals and making other improvements at the intersection of Racine Avenue and Woods Road, said Michael Grulke, project manager for the Waukesha County Department of Public Works.

"And there was pretty stiff opposition at the information meeting" last week, Grulke said.

At that Aug. 4 meeting at City Hall, residents were shown two options for the intersection and asked to give their opinions on both. About three-quarters of the people there opposed the roundabout, Grulke estimated.

Despite the cost, every time the county does significant work on an intersection, the state Department of Transportation wants it to consider a roundabout, Grulke said.

Body found with gunshot wound in Muskego

Aug. 05, 2010 12:04 p.m. | Muskego - A 76-year-old Muskego resident was found dead in a field from a single gunshot wound to the head Thursday morning, Muskego police said.

Police and rescue personnel were dispatched to the W12900 block of Ryan Road after someone called at 6:27 a.m. Thursday to report that a body was in an open field.

The incident is under investigation, police said. No other details, including the name and gender of the person, were available.

Roundabout or traffic lights? Tell county your opinion

Aug. 04, 2010 4:20 p.m. | The public will be able to give their opinions about plans to create a multiple-lane roundabout at Racine Avenue and Woods Road or put in traffic lights at the intersection during a public information meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. today, Aug. 4. The Waukesha County Department of Public Works will hold the meeting at the Muskego City Hall, S8200 Racine Ave.

No presentation will be made, but visitors can look at the plans for both options, ask questions and give opinions. More information is available from Michael Grulke, project manager, (262) 548-7740.

Voting for our All-Suburban Baseball team ends this weekend; vote now and you could win Brewers tickets

July 30, 2010 9:52 a.m. | There's still time to help us select the best players and coach in the area for our 2010 NOW All-Suburban Baseball Team, but you need to get your votes in before 11:59 p.m. on Sunday.

Check out our nominees and their stats, and then vote for the players and coaches you think are most deserving. You can vote once a day, and everyone who votes will be entered in a random drawing for a pair of box seats to a Milwaukee Brewers game.

Vote now

City lifts no wake ban on Lake Denoon

July 28, 2010 10:26 a.m. | Mayor John Johnson announced that the Slow No Wake rule will be lifted at 5 p.m. today on Lake Denoon.

The Slow No Wake rule for Bass Bay will stay in effect until further notice.