Schools here, and those all around the area, have closed for the day.
Several school districts in the area have called off school today because of the overnight snowstorm that began Tuesday afternoon. The Shorewood School District and St. Robert School is among the districts that have closed, according to Shorewood police. See more closing information at WISN12.
At 3 months old, doctors removed a tumor from Lindsay Tryba's retinas, permanently scaring and damaging her vision. Everyday is a struggle, but she has adapted and now shares her love of music with elementary school students.
At an early age, Lindsay Tryba learned she would have to work a little bit harder than her peers to get where she wants in life. Growing up in Whitefish Bay, she grew fond of music and performing and refined her craft playing with youth symphonies and bands. Now, she tries to pass that love on to her fifth- through eighth-grade students at St. Robert School, where she has been a band teacher for the past six years. “I’ve always known I’ve wanted to do music,” she said. “I’ve always been a band geek.” But every day brings a new challenge. You see, at just 3 months old, doctors discovered a cancerous tumor attached to the retina on her right eye, which later spread to her left eye. Tryba was forced to go under the surgical knife to have it …
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The multicultural celebration of costume, music, dance, food and cultural displays is slated for Monday from 8 to 10:30 a.m.
St. Robert third grade students will take a virtual trip around the world Monday — in a multicultural celebration of costume, music, dance, food and cultural displays during the school's annual Folk Fair. More than 40 students will particpate in ushering vistors around the school. The fair marks the culmination of several months of work during which students immersed themselves in their cultural heritage across multiple academic disciplines. The Folk Fair will be held in Reilly Hall, 2200 E. Capitol Dr., from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Students researched a specific country, compiled a report about the similarities and differences between that country and our own, and produced a travel brochure promoting unique attributes of culture, music, art, …
Here's a look at some of the church services scheduled to celebrate the Christmas holiday in the village.
The Christmas tree is up, the lights are hung and the presents are wrapped — perhaps it's time to take a look at the other side of the holiday and the real meaning behind Christmas. Churches in Shorewood have a number of services scheduled in recognition of Christmas — here's a list of some locations and times: Kingo Lutheran Church, 1225 E. Olive St. Luther Memorial Chapel and University Center, 3833 N. Maryland Ave. North Shore Presbyterian Church, 4048 N. Bartlett Ave. St. Robert Parish, 2200 E. Capitol Dr.
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With Lake Bluff and St. Robert schools now working from the same list, a Milwaukee company will pick and pack all your fall classroom needs and put them on your doorstep.
Maybe you like shopping for school supplies. Perhaps hauling the kids to the store, or to several stores, and traipsing up and down aisles looking for the right binders and folders, the markers and pens, the tape, glue sticks and book covers while checking off your list, trips your trigger. If not, there's now a way to do it from home for Shorewood parents with children at Lake Bluff Elementary and St. Robert Catholic School, with a few clicks. Then you just wait for it all to be packed and shipped to your door. As of the coming school year, the Shorewood schools have adopted the same supply list for each grade level, and a national company called School-Pak, founded in Milwaukee, has them all on its online shopping list. Terri Schulist …
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Find out if the prince and princess will live happily ever after when St. Robert School presents the musical comedy this Thursday through Saturday.
Find out if the prince and princess will live happily ever after when St. Robert School presents "Once Upon A Mattress," a musical comedy based on Hans Christian Andersen's beloved fairy tale, "The Princess and the Pea." The play runs Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. in the school's gymnasium, 2200 E. Capitol Dr. Led by director Elaine Parsons Herro and musical director Elna Hickson, the middle school students will bring the world of Prince Dauntless alive. In this adaption, Queen Aggravain has decreed that only the princess who can pass her impossible test may marry her son, and no one else in the land can marry until the Prince does. Lovesick nobleman Sir Harry can't wait that long to marry his beloved Lady Larkin, so he sets off to …
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A look ahead at the week's local events and news.
Here's a look at what's coming up this week in Shorewood. If we're missing something, you can add it to the calendar. Shorewood moving forward with sewer plan — Village officials will consider awarding several contracts related to sewer improvements in Shorewood at a regular meeting Monday night. The board will also formally recognize two Shorewood police officers who saved a man from a burning car in Shorewood High School parking lot, on Jan. 21. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at Village Hall, 3930 N. Murray Ave. Preps sports — Coming off a win, the Shorewood boys basketball team will host winless Woodland Conference rival Saint Francis on Tuesday night and 10-3 Saint Thomas More on Friday. Both games are at home. The Greyhounds are 9-8…
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The parish plans to open its doors to the public for several centennial events this year.
One hundred years ago, Milwaukee resident Farrel Reilly paid a construction team $100 to build a one-room structure in a single day on what is now the southeast corner of North Maryland Avenue and East Capitol Drive. Reilly did not tell them what it would be used for, and it was only that evening that the community realized what he was building, when he added the final piece himself: a small wooden cross for the first St. Robert Parish. “I couldn’t risk being stopped before it was done,” he told the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1954, according to St. Robert's records, because the community was not supportive of having a church constructed on such a small budget. Four pastors later, the St. Robert Parish has grown into a powerful presence in the …
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Local residents will participate in a national research project that counts and tracks Chimney Swifts as they migrate south for the winter, at St. Robert Sunday night.
Sunday, local bird watchers and nature enthusiasts alike will become citizen scientists for the night as part of “A Swift Night Out,” a national research project that counts and tracks Chimney Swifts as they migrate south for the winter. The local count, led by Dan Graves, an environmental educator at the Urban Ecology Center, will begin at 6:45 p.m. on the playground behind St. Robert School, 2200 E. Capitol Dr. Classified as “near-threatened” by conservationists, Chimney Swifts are a small bird known for its acrobatic flying. At dusk, they can be seen swooping down and almost free-falling vertically into their roost for the night. The St. Robert pack has been roosting in the school's chimney for the past seven summers. While some roosts …
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9:06 am on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Nice article. If anyone wants more info on the history of St. Robert and the surrounding area, they may want to attend this upcoming program. Historian John Gurda will be speaking on February 12th at St. Robert. http://www.strobert.org/special/libfile_files/media/1151.pdf more ›