Oconomowoc News

July 2, 2009 3:42 p.m. The Sentry store at 630 E. Wisconsin Ave. in Oconomowoc will close at the end of the month, the store's manager confirmed today.

Like most village employees, Police Chief Peter Hoell is going to receive six unpaid furlough days over the next six months as part of a budget-cutting plan for Germantown.

Jun. 30, 2009 5:45 a.m. So there will be all sorts of fireworks this weekend. And they will be pretty cool.

Anne Parks of Belgium and Brian Nord of Port Washington are engaged to be married.

Here in Wisconsin we often complain about the cold. But for one man, cold was the key to saving his life! John Yaeger and his newborn daughter Sophia share a special gift--life. Sophia was born on John's 37th birthday...Which he almost didn't live to see.

Harry Koepke, an Oconomowoc area farmer, who died in March, 2008, was honored at a luncheon celebration given by Children's Hospital Foundation on June 16th.

A 25-year-old man from Oconomowoc was the victim in a weekend motorcycle crash. The Washington County Sheriff's Department says that Kenneth Christensen was going too fast for a curve on a rural highway when he crashed his bike.

Jun. 19, 2009 11:32 a.m. A nurse at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee has been disciplined by state regulators for making improper withdrawals of the addictive painkiller oxycodone.

A former surgeon accused of slamming his sport utility vehicle into a car while under the influence of prescription drugs pleaded no contest to vehicular homicide Tuesday.

Former physician Mark Benson entered no-contest pleas this afternoon to three charges of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle and two counts of causing injury while driving intoxicated in return for other charges being dropped in the deaths of a pregnant Oconomowoc High School administrator and her 10-year-old daughter.

A man from Oconomowoc, accused of fondling himself in a department store, is pleading no contest.

Oconomowoc developer Mike Schutte is planning to redevelop Stonewood Village in Brookfield by adding more than 80,000 square feet of retail and office space and investing up to $15 million in the 32-year-old commercial complex on West Capitol Drive.

Mark Benson is expected to enter a guilty plea next week under a plea agreement, according to sources who spoke on a condition of anonymity.

Aurora Wilkinson Medical Clinic in the new Aurora Medical Center in the Town of Summit will open Oct.

A man from Oconomowoc, accused of fondling himself in a department store, was charged Monday with one count of Lewd and Lascivious Behavior.

Pabst Farms Development Inc., developers of the largest master-planned community in southeastern Wisconsin, together with S&L Hospitality, a hospitality development and management company in Madison, Wis., welcomed business owners, chamber members and community leaders to a Grand Opening Ribbon Reception on June 2, commencing the opening of the ...

A state Senate committee held a public hearing Thursday on a drunken-driving reform package thata s a bit tougher than whata s being pushed in the Assembly.

Vice President Joe Biden offered encouraging words Wednesday about Midwestern high-speed rail plans during and after a meeting with Wisconsin Gov.

A 28-year-old driver from Watertown and his 4-year-old passenger were flown to a hospital Friday afternoon after their car collided head-on with a truck near the Town of Oconomowoc.

Charges were filed Monday in a serious crash in Oconomowoc. A 28-year-old man slammed his car head-on into a pickup truck Friday while driving his 4-year-old son.