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Yule Feed nets more than $7K

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Just because the Yule Feed Families food drive was winding down with its last day on Monday, Oconomowoc's giving spirit was still fully charged. The Focus received nearly $1,000 in monetary donations during the final week. Donations came from numerous community members and one envelope included a bundle of love from the Oconomowoc Bridge Club ...

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Fun in the snow starts at Retzer Center

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 3:50 p.m.

Winter brings its own special attributes to Waukesha County and Retzer Nature Center has so many ways to enjoy them. Learn how to attract beautiful winter birds to yard; how to choose and wear snowshoes; and how to identify the various critters that track across the fields of snow ...

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Greyhounds travel safely to HAWS

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 3:50 p.m.

Five greyhounds, displaced from the soon-to-close Kenosha racetrack, found a new, safe home at the Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha on Saturday ...

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Customers support greener future

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 3:38 p.m.

Oconomowoc Utilities was recently awarded a Certificate of Recognition by WPPI Energy due to the large number of participants who are purchasing renewable energy. Oconomowoc received this award based on the number of residential power users who are currently purchasing "green blocks of power." As of Oct. 1, 3.62 percent of Oconomowoc Utilities residential customers were purchasing renewable energy. This average surpasses the national participation rate of 2.2 percent of U.S. residents purchasing

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The fun is building at Oconomowoc Public Library

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 3:26 p.m.

According to the LEGO Web site, there are more than 900 million different ways of combining six, eight-stud LEGO bricks of the same color. Just imagine what a room full of kids can do with thousands of the tiny, plastic pieces ...

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Senior Center remains popular hang out

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 3:24 p.m.

There's a poker game planned for 10 a.m. every Friday at the Oconomowoc Area Senior Center (OASC). And at 10:05, the first hand is dealt, said outgoing Senior Center Coordinator Jo Danielson ...

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Judge denies move to halt disbanding of Pewaukee PD

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 1:52 p.m.

Waukesha — A last-minute effort to halt the City of Pewaukee from disbanding the Police Department effective Dec. 31 came up empty Monday ...

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Miracle in the marsh

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 1:50 p.m.

The temperature gauge read eight below zero last Tuesday evening at Twilight Farms in the Town of Erin. Nadine Buth of Oconomowoc boards her two horses at the 120-acre farm and was leaving the barn at about 6 p.m. to go home for the evening. She called to her horse Titus, who is kept in an outside paddock ...

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Perfect Pirates spread out South Milwaukee

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 12:32 p.m.

Matt Dabney and the Pewaukee boys basketball team nursed a small lead most of the night, but extended it in the later stages of the game on Tuesday, stopping South Milwaukee in a Woodland Conference game, 56-44 ...

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Frett's basket helps Pirates ground Rockets

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 12:32 p.m.

Emily Wirth finished with a team-high 15 points, five rebounds and three steals as Pewaukee endured a late charge from South Milwaukee to take a 54-44 win Tuesday on the road ...

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