The Best of Patch: September

As the year comes to a close, we all tend to look back at what exactly we've accomplished over the past 365 days.

September marked a return to normalcy after a long, hot summer of politics and recalls. Children went back to school during the month as village officials dealt with a number of pressing issues such as a $76.9 million assessment error, a feud with a store owner and taking the public's temperature regarding a plan to deal with faulty sewers. 

Village officials enlisted the help of Ehlers and Associates to analyze an error in which the assessed value of a tax incremental district was $76.9 million too high. 

Shorewood celebrated homecoming with a parade before the football game against Southeast Wisconsin Christian Homeschool Athletics Saints and a boogie-themed homecoming dance.  

Four framed advertisements posted on the Verizon store on North Oakland Avenue, which had been the center of a months-long battle between store owner Dan Rosenbaum and village officials, were taken down by the owner.  

William Feerick, co-owner of a prominent Shorewood funeral home, pled not guilty to felony drug charges in September. The 52-year-old Shorewood man was charged back in early June with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana after a February incident in which police responded to a report of a heroin overdose at Feerick’s Shorewood home at 4322 N. Wildwood Ave. 

By a wide margin, the majority of Shorewood residents support the village’s comprehensive approach to faulty sewers, a survey showed. The survey conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Urban Initiative and Research on behalf of the village revealed that 78 percent of Shorewood property owners who responded approve of the village's large-scale sewer improvement plan.