Susan Bence
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In urban areas, parcels of undeveloped land are becoming rarer and rarer. One of them is Seminary Woods in St. Francis.
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Maayan SilverA regional flood mitigation task force is working on long-term solutions to better protect the Milwaukee area from the next major storm. -
Sam Woods/WUWMLake Effect's Sam Woods sits down with Addison Lathers, real estate reporter for the Milwaukee Business Journal, for a monthly roundup of local commercial real estate news. This month covers top stories from August 2026.
This WUWM series focuses on the challenges of food accessibility in Milwaukee and examines solutions.
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Milwaukee's first day of school is September 1, 2026. What to know about MPS teacher openings and new renovation projects on the north side. -
How do teachers in Milwaukee recover from 2025 floods that destroyed their classrooms? Inside one class at Riverside High School and how the students and teachers moved on. -
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Community organizers are bringing together Milwaukeeans affected by flooding to learn what changes they want to see before another historic storm hits. -
In the mid-1900s, a Racine man named Anton Kratochvil built more than 20 round or semi-circular houses and apartments in southeast Wisconsin. But why round? -
Milwaukee librarian Jacki Potratz shares some of MPL's hottest titles from the past six months. -
Rebecca Jabs is a science illustrator and ARTservancy resident drawing, painting and printmaking migratory birds she’s seen at Forest Beach Migratory Preserve at life-size scale. -
“Passionate” doesn’t even come close to describing one Milwaukee resident’s commitment to conserving habitat for monarch butterflies. We visit the Monarch Trail to learn about its nearly 20-year evolution.
Your connection to the community. Lake Effect brings you local conversations about the people, places and organizations that shape Milwaukee.
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