Connect with local health care professionals; clean the Mitchell Park Lagoon; discover more about your family with the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society, trade items with residents; and attend the Fondy Farmers Market spring opening day.
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Posted inClarke Square, Community, Health and Wellness
South Side walking group leads way to better health for Latino residents
On Milwaukee’s South Side, Lideres por la Salud is a walking group that aims to be a beacon of health and wellness for Milwaukee’s Latino community
Posted inCommunity
5 things to know and do the weekend of Aug. 26
Go to the Friedens al Fresco block party at Despensa de la Paz; learn T-shirt printing with Cream City Print Lounge; take a history tour of Mitchell Park; attend “the new Black Wall Street” festival on Center Street; and experience Senior Sundays at Mystic Phoenix Art Studio.
Posted inArts and Recreation, Community, Neighborhoods
NNS Summer Survival Guide: May the Fourth be with you! Here’s what’s happening in our neighborhoods.
From a pie-eating contest at Mitchell Park to free ice cream in Sherman Park, check out what’s happening in our neighborhoods.
Posted inClarke Square, Special Report
ZNI spurs quality of life improvements in Clarke Square over past decade
Since the late philanthropist Joe Zilber selected it as one of three neighborhoods where the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative would invest $50 million over 10 years, Clarke Square residents and leaders have seen positive changes.
Posted inArts and Recreation, Carousel, Clarke Square, Community, Home, Neighborhoods, News, South
Favorite of 2013: Long-awaited Packers field opens in Mitchell Park
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service covered a wide range of stories focused on central city neighborhoods during the past year. In the second of a three-part series, Reporter Edgar Mendez explains why his story about the Packers’ football field in Mitchell Park is his favorite of 2013. It was originally published on June 10.
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Long-awaited Packers field opens in Mitchell Park
The Journey House Packers Field at Mitchell Park is now open. The “field of dreams” is the only NFL field in the country that is not located at an NFL facility.
Posted inCarousel, Clarke Square, Community, Health and Wellness, Home, Layton Boulevard West, Neighborhoods, News, South
Construction begins on bridge connecting valley to The Domes
Construction has begun on a bike and pedestrian bridge that will link the Menomonee Valley to Mitchell Park. The project is part of a $26 million initiative to connect surrounding neighborhood residents to jobs and other resources in the valley.
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Green Bay Packers’ practice field soon to be laid out in Mitchell Park
For three years a $300,000 synthetic turf football field donated to Journey House by the Green Bay Packers has sat in a storage warehouse in Green Bay. But, ground has now been broken for the Journey House Football Field and Stadium at Mitchell Park, and the turf will soon be laid out.
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Cyclocross bikers overcome obstacles in Mitchell Park
Cyclists of all ages and skill levels gathered to have fun, learn and work toward a more active lifestyle and a more bike- and pedestrian- friendly neighborhood in Clarke Square at the recent “Cross the Domes” event in Mitchell Park.