Republican presidential nominee John McCain and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin invited Wisconsinites to look forward with them at Thursday's Straight Talk Town Hall meeting in Waukesha.

One thing that makes Oconomowoc unique is its publicly owned utility company, which strives for environmental efficiency and cheaper prices.

As of last Friday, Oct. 3, all of the underground construction work for the downtown road reconstruction project was completed, according to project officials during Wednesday's community construction update.

With a month to go before the fall elections, voters are already beginning to cast absentee ballots, which became available Monday.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, have scheduled a town hall meeting for 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Waukesha County Center Court Sports Complex on Northview Road across from from the Waukesha County fairgrounds.

Waukesha County food pantries are feeling the pinch of a troubled American economy.

The Summit Park & Ride at the southeast corner of Highway 67 and Delafield Road will remain closed for a couple more weeks.

Have you heard the roars, the cheers, and such names as Prince and Braun, or even initials such as J.J. and CC?

The Oconomowoc wastewater plant's hopes to replace current equipment with newer technology that would optimize its excess gas byproduct and convert it to renewable electricity and heat has likely flared off due to high costs and not enough financial support.

For 16 years, the Oconomowoc Fire Department has combined a fun family event with an opportunity to provide life-saving information and education to area residents.

If weather remains fair for most of October, construction officials say that the downtown road reconstruction project will be completed by the originally targeted Nov. 1 deadline.

Karren Kraemer's daughter Becky Marzo disappeared five years ago, and is believed to have been murdered. Kraemer continues to not only search for answers in her own life, but also to help others.

While most of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted yes to the $700 billion bailout, the House ignored warnings from President Bush and defeated the rescue plan.

After a high number of protests by residents in the Town of Summit, the Board of Review finished its semijudicial hearings at 12:15 a.m. Sept. 16, about nine hours after the meeting began.

Oconomowoc officials' hopes to extend Lake Bluff Drive over Rosenow Creek, connecting it to North Lake Road, has been shot down, at least temporarily, by the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

The bids have been placed, and the salt will soon be on its way to area municipalities.

Retail tenants such as Target, Kohl's, PetSmart and OfficeMax are not what some Waukesha County Board members think will give the Pabst Farms shopping center a regional draw.

Despite the recent free fall in the stock market, the gloom of government bailouts and the overall tumultuous nature of the economy, financial advisers caution people not to panic.

Traffic east of the roundabout on Wisconsin Avenue will be shifted next week to the north side of the road.

The body of the man recovered from Fowler Lake Sept. 16 has been identified by authorities as Jerome Jeffers, who resided on South Worthington Street in the City of Oconomowoc.

Six months after their spiritual home was destroyed in an explosion, members of the First Baptist Church are seeking temporary quarters in the Town of Ixonia.

It's not a secret that Oconomowoc is growing and developing into what could soon be a major shopping powerhouse as the anticipated 2010 opening of the Pabst Farms shopping center nears.

It's on with the "SHOW" in Oconomowoc.

Waukesha County Technical College will use $71,863 in Wisconsin Workforce Advancement Training grant funds to train workers at Bruno Independent Living Aids of Oconomowoc.

Dorner Inc., a Luxemburg-based road and sewer construction company, might contest the two citations it received for violating employee safety standards in connection with a natural gas explosion earlier this year that leveled a historic church and destroyed two neighboring properties.

A Lake Country family of restaurateurs has reopened the Golden Anchor restaurant on Maple Avenue along the shore of Pewaukee Lake.

On Sept. 20, the quiet streets of Oconomowoc will roar to kick off a fun run/walk to raise money for the Courtney Bella and Jennifer Bukosky funds to support student education on substance abuse.

The body of a 68-year-old City of Oconomowoc man was found in Fowler Lake early Tuesday morning by a police officer on patrol.

With the exception of some planting on the northern end of the road, North Main Street reconstruction is complete, said Matt Athey, superintendent for Dorner Inc.

A 24-hour vigil that honors those missing in action and prisoners of war still unaccounted for more than three decades after the Vietnam War ended is planned for Sept. 19-20.

Should the City of Oconomowoc and Town of Summit merge their fire departments? It was a possibility raised by Mayor Maury Sullivan during his State of the City address last Thursday.

Waukesha Circuit Court Chief Judge J. Mac Davis has been nominated by President Bush for a seat on the federal bench.

Call them what you will - rubbish rummagers, Dumpster divers, can coppers or just plain scavengers - but people who take recyclable materials from the curb are causing a pain in the pocketbook.

Summit officials have been busy hearing from disgruntled residents who think the recent increases in the town reassessments were too high in what they believe is a soft market.

Inching closer toward incorporation, the Town of Summit has filed its community-signed incorporation petition with the state, to hopefully turn the town into a more stable village.