Shorewood Patch Week in Review

A 71-year-old Shorewood man with one leg managed to fight off a home intruder on Friday - using his crutches to chase away the bad guy. The victim told Patch that he was sleeping in his bed when he was awakened by a man who appeared to be in his mid-30s standing above him.

The North Shore is no stranger to sharing services among municipalities. There's already the North Shore Fire Department, the North Shore Library and now with the North Shore Health Department, which serves Glendale, Bayside, Brown Deer, Fox Point and River Hills.

The Shorewood School District's 2011-12 budget gap will swell from $711,000 to $1.9 million if Gov. Scott Walker's biennial budget proposal is approved, school officials revealed Tuesday. The School Board learned of the new figure after discussing plans for the district to become financially solvent by 2016.

Village officials estimate Shorewood will lose more than $407,000 in revenue if the governor’s budget proposal sees its way through the Legislature, but it won’t see the effects until next year. Walker’s proposed budget mandates state aid reductions and a tax levy freeze. The impact reaches the village at the start of its fiscal year on Jan. 1, 2012. Shorewood schools, on the other hand, expect to see a $1.9 million shortfall come July, when the state’s fiscal year starts.

Local village and school officials called the budget repair bill insufficient Thursday after a 18-1 vote by  Senate Republicians on Wednesday passed an amended version back to the Assembly for a vote today. “We did the math,” Village Manager Chris Swartz said. “There are some tools but the tools are insufficient.”

Marcus Hoffman spends most of his time laboring over nuclear fusion reactors or discussing plans of delegating on behalf of the United States to the United Nations — that is, when he isn’t in his eighth grade class. Marcus, a Shorewood Intermediate School student, dabbles in a little bit of everything, including producing 17,000 volts of nuclear energy from his bedroom desk, and striving to become the first US youth delegate to the UN, all at the age of 14.