Franklin News

Franklin toughens rules on hotel check-ins Nov. 18, 2009 7:08 a.m. Franklin - If you pay cash for a hotel or motel room in Franklin, you're going to have to show a photo ID before you get your roomand the hotel will have to hang on to a copy of that ID, under new rules approved by the Common Council last night.

Franklin a ' The Common Council on Tuesday adopted a 2010 budget that restores funding for one vacant police officer position and one vacant firefighter position and gives the council the option of filling a second vacant police job sometime next year.

If you pay cash for a hotel or motel room in Franklin, you're going to have to show a photo ID before you get your roomand the hotel will have to hang on to a copy of that ID, under new rules approved by the Common Council last night.

In the wake of the arrest of a suspected serial killer at a Franklin motel, the Common Council tonight will consider strengthening the guest registration requirements at the city's hotels and motels.

Published Nov. 16, 2009 at 12:29 a.m. West Allis will decide this week whether to cut five police officer positions, while Franklin and New Berlin each will decide whether to fill two police officer positions and one firefighter position that are vacant.

This Just In ... Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.

West Allis will decide this week whether to cut five police officer positions, while Franklin and New Berlin each will decide whether to fill two police officer positions and one firefighter position that are vacant.

WAUKESHA The University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Symphonic Band will present a spring concert Friday, Nov.

State wildlife officials say they found the emerald ash borer in the city of Oak Creek on Thursday, about two miles from where the tree parasite was found in August.

Franklin a ' Common Council members say they want to fill a vacant firefighter and two open police officer positions, contrasting with Mayor Tom Taylor's initial budget proposal that left those jobs empty.

This Just In ... Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.

This Just In ... Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.

A Franklin man who runs an alcohol and drug abuse counseling center in Greenfield was charged Thursday with 18 felonies, most of them alleging that he defrauded a government program by falsifying treatment forms.

A delicate compromise would rescue the perennially threatened Milwaukee County farm and fish hatchery in Franklin, by placing it under authority of the county Parks & Recreation Department.

A Franklin man must pay nearly $37,700 in forfeitures after he failed to remove a sunken barge from the Menomonee River.

This Just In ... Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.

Franklin a ' The city's Environmental Commission is leaning towards the removal and replacement of the ash trees infested with emerald ash borers.

Basil Ryan, a former Franklin alderman, was ordered Tuesday to pay $37,691 in fines for failing to remove a barge that sank in the Menomonee River in Milwaukee, according to a statement issued by state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.

As you would imagine, the Franklin Fire Department is a full-time24-hour fire department.

Vernon J. Vandehei 'Vern' passed away on Oct. 29, 2009. Vern was born in De Pere, Wis., the oldest child of Frank and Josephine Vandehei.