Pleasant Prairie News

BY JOE POTENTE jpotente@kenoshanews.com Four minutes. That's how long it took for the 32-inch TV door buster to run out after the Pleasant Prairie Target store opened its doors at 5 a.m. Friday.

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Top destination: Discount stores, 69% When: 43% of those who shop Friday will start by 6 a.m. How many will shop: 25%, definitely; another 34%, maybe What to buy: clothing, 71%; electronics, 70% Shopping for self: 66% Napping after dinner could turn into a necessity this Thanksgiving, as more and more Americans plan to be awake and shopping in the ...

Folks filled up on turkey and then headed outdoors, to wait in line. All to shop the Pleasant Prairie Prime Outlets.

People were lining up at the outlet stores in Pleasant Prairie before midnight. The mall near the Illinois border opened at midnight, among the first to open on Black Friday.

Holiday shoppers race around for gifts after braving the cold temperatures out side of Target as they start the traditional holiday shopping season November 28, 2008 in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.

Share + Nov 25, 2009 11:45 am US/Pacific NEW YORK 1 of 1 Holiday shoppers race around for sale items after braving the cold temperatures outside of Target as they start the traditional holiday shopping season Nov.

The village's tax levy will rise 3.9 percent under the 2010 budget approved by the Village Board Monday.

On a narrow bridge between freedom and death, Johanna Schlottke stood with her two young daughters on the dark night of March 18, 1950.

Round Lake Area Library had a full house Sunday for its first mini powwow. Representatives from three tribes performed six traditional dances and shared American Indian culture with about 75 people from the community.

Two Wisconsin residents a ' Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel and Capt. Russell Seager, 51, of Pleasant Prairie a ' are among 13 killed in a shooting rampage by Maj.

The Village Board voted Monday to create one sanitary sewer district for the whole community, continuing a consolidation effort needed to comply with the approaching end of a 20-year-old Great Lakes water diversion.

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the busiest and most popular shopping day of the year.

Holy water and hand sanitizer are two very different things. But the latter is a key to the holy grail of hygiene that local churches are preaching this flu season.

A burning pile of leaves turned into a grass fire Sunday morning, which spread and damaged at least two sheds.

A fire was reported about 5:15 a.m. at 1905 89th Street in Pleasant Prairie. Initially the fire was reported as a grass fire, but the first responding officers said the blaze had spread to a shed and flames were about a story high.

A glorious day - more typical of June than just before the snow flies - was packed with emotion as some 200 people attended a Veterans Day ceremony in Prairie Springs Park.

Bristol residents created a new village Tuesday. Residents voted 295-269 to incorporate the central core of the town, creating a nine-square-mile village of Bristol inside the boundaries of the town.

Some development is cooking again in Pleasant Prairie with the village Plan Commission's approval last month of a new Olive Garden restaurant.

Breanna Mayer and Eric Ries, both of Pleasant Prairie, were married Aug. 1, 2009, at St.