Dear Royal Purple Reader,
The New Hall has become tiresome to become accommodated with. To begin, the time of estimated completion was scheduled for three to four months prior to the fall 2019 semester....
Carli Pope, Assistant Biz & Tech Editor
• May 6, 2019
Construction is definitely not everyone’s favorite thing, especially in a college town like Whitewater and especially on a main drag like Newcomb and Milwaukee Street.
The Newcomb and Milwaukee Street...
The new renovation to the Center of the Arts printmaking lab will cost over one million dollars. This project will take place from April to September 2019.
This project will compress several printing...
With the holiday season beginning, there are many things to look forward to. Snow, lights, family, all the things that make the holidays fun. With it, however, there is also one thing people do not...
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is building a new engagement center next to Walmart on West Main Street. The building’s former occupant, a Sentry grocery store, sold the space to the university. The...
Time is money. For business owners in Whitewater, the extension of the East Milwaukee Street project was a tiresome affair.
“For big projects like this I understand things happen, but it’s still frustrating,” Jene Mills said.
Mills, owner of Mills Automotive, has been located on East Milwaukee Street since 2000, and she says her business dipped almost 30 percent over the summer, as a result of the construction.
As the winter season ends, construction season begins in Whitewater. Renovations on the $2.4 million Milwaukee Street project have already begun, and two more projects on Prince Street and Prairie Street...
“Do you know what it’s like to come to work for nine years and be a problem?” Associate Professor of dance Barbara Grubel asked referring to getting in everybody’s way.
Carlson Hall will soon be known as Laurentide Hall, pending approval from the UW System Board of Regents.
The board will meet tomorrow at UW-Superior, and the name request is on its agenda.
Associate...
Street lights rise on the corner of Whiton and main street. Progress at noon was one light pole up and two assembled which may be up by the end of the day.
The intersection of Main and Whiton Streets is finally getting a stoplight. The construction started last week and the pedestrian yield sign that previously hung over Main Street will be replaced.
Anyone...
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