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At a special meeting May 30, Shorewood’s village board moved forward with plans to find a new public works site. The current building dates to 1936.
This riverside site has been home to a resort and a series of amusement parks. Prior to the park's 1922 purchase by Shorewood Village President William J. Hubbard, the land had been used as an Indian hunting grounds, a resort (Ludemnann's-on-the-River), a mineral spring park, an amusement park, a terminal yard, cow barns, fishing shanties, and a distribution route for ice cut from the river.
Oct. 18, the village board announced it was initiating an investigation into the Shorewood Public Library after receiving multiple complaints regarding the library’s workplace environment.
The village's health department organized in 1918; the police department, in 1920; and the fire department, in 1929. In 1928, the village's elected board of trustees hired a full-time village manager to head the village's day-to-day operations, and Shorewood has had a council–manager government ever since. [5]
Shorewood Hills is served by the Shorewood Hills Police Department. Prior to 2014, the Shorewood Hills Fire Department provided fire and emergency medical services to the village. Starting in 2014, a contract with the city of Madison was established, in which the Madison Fire Department began providing these services to the village of Shorewood ...
The new Advisory Bike Lane (ABL) systems require cars to share a single traffic lane, merge into bike lanes to avoid collisions and yield to cyclists.
Since former Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele demolished the Alexander Eschweiler-designed mansion at 3534 N. Lake Drive in Shorewood in 2019, several efforts to rebuild have fallen through.
In 1937, aiming to improve the appearance of this symbol of Shorewood and to stabilize Shorewood's economy during the Great Depression, the village and the New Deal Works Progress Administration funded cosmetic upgrades which made the building more grandly Classical Revival in style.