Teachers, parents and students at Milwaukee Environmental Sciences celebrated the debut of a mobile greenhouse, which was made possible through an Arts @ Large initiative with various community partners.
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Teen programming at Silver Spring Neighborhood Center promotes positive lifestyle
An anti-pregnancy program, called the Loving and Developing Yourself (LADY) group, encourages teenage girls to seek academic excellence and set career goals while avoiding pregnancy.
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COA scholarship provides path to driver’s license for hundreds of local teens
A decade-old program provides free driver’s education for Milwaukee teenagers who hold a 2.3 grade point average, participate in community service and attend an after-school program.
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Homeownership fair highlights affordability for potential buyers
Milwaukee’s range of affordably priced homes, combined with lower mortgage rates than a year ago attracted more than 250 house hunters to a recent homeownership fair organized by Take Root Milwaukee.
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With Swing Park, city hopes to look forward, not back
Almost three years after a local group, in a “guerrilla act,” revived a once-forgotten public space under Holton Street by creating a swing park, the city has taken control of the space, but questions still remain.
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Pan-African group helps refugees, immigrants adjust to U.S.
The Pan-African Community Association, an official refugee resettlement agency, offers support and a range of services to about 300 individuals and refugee families a year.
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OHMS construction skills training moving to Barack Obama School
Working to find new workshop space for more than six months after being forced out of North Division High School, One Hope Made Strong, which teaches construction industry skilled trades to low-income adults, has found a home at the Barack Obama School.
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Favorite of 2014: Basketball league builds brotherhood of black role models
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service covered a wide range of stories focused on central city neighborhoods during 2014. NNS reporter Raina Johnson explains why the story republished here is the favorite of those she wrote this year.
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Greater Milwaukee Foundation chooses new ‘Healthy Neighborhoods’
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation announced new neighborhoods that will be included in its Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative.
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Job Corps prepares young adults for realities of difficult job market
Job Corps, a federal program created 50 years ago as part of the War on Poverty, attempts to pull economically disadvantaged youth and young adults out of poverty.