Friday, September 14, 2012
The owner of the popular Mexican restaurant at Ryan and Howell was told to vacate the building by Sept. 1, according to the city clerk's office.
Popular Mexican restaurant La Terraza, 9454 S. Howell Ave., has closed. The city clerk's office was informed the building has been sold and La Terraza's owner, which leased space, was told to vacate by Sept. 1, Deputy City Clerk Christa Miller said. For-sale signs have been up on the building, at the corner of Howell Avenue and Ryan Road, for some time. La Terraza owner Jose Alvarez told the city he hopes to open in another location, but wasn't sure if it would be in Oak Creek, if it happens at all, Miller said. Alvarez could not be reached. The phone number listed to La Terraza is disconnected, and no one was at the building when Patch stopped by Thursday. La Terraza offered reasonably-priced authentic Mexican food and featured an …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Testing done in advance of the April 3 general election has discovered a flaw in the election ballots sent to Milwaukee County municipalities.
Add late delivery of ballots and ballot misprints as two more issues causing problems before the April 3 general election. Testing done in advance of the election discovered a flaw in the election ballots sent to all 19 municipalities in Milwaukee County, including Oak Creek. The ballots failed to work in the optical readers and, according to WISN-TV, nearly 450,000 printed ballots are flawed and need to be reprinted. Those ballots were already late. They were supposed to be delivered by March 12 in time for absentee voting, but they did not arrive for most municipalities until late last week, Acting Oak Creek City Clerk Christa Miller said. Following the advice of the Government Accountability Board, the Oak Creek clerk's office instead …
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
City clerk notes that new poll book law is still in effect.
A Dane County judge's decision to temporarily halt the voter identification law could cause confusion for Oak Creek residents going to the polls April 3. Particularly given that the law was in effect during the last election on Feb. 21, Acting Oak Creek City Clerk Christa Miller said. "When laws are implemented and then changed or suspended it can cause confusion," she said. Miller said residents could also confuse the photo ID law injunction with another new law, which is still in effect, that requires voters to sign a poll book. "These two items are independent of each other as they were brought forth under two different laws," Miller said. "So while voters will not have to comply with the photo ID law, they will still be required to …
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Clerk's office says problems in Oak Creek appear to be straightened out.
The glitch that resulted in some Wisconsin voters listed as living in Africa caused its share of problems in Oak Creek. Some Oak Creek residents were inaccurately assigned to voting districts in nearby communities, such as Franklin and Muskego, and some as far away as the west coast of Africa, Acting City Clerk Christa Miller said. The problems happened after state lawmakers redrew legislative maps last summer, a process that happens every 10 years in conjunction with the U.S. census. But this year, legislators relied on census data that contained errors, resulting in thousands of voters listed in the wrong district, according to a Journal Sentinel report. Miller said she's confident the city's information is now accurate after going …
Chad Millard
2:43 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
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