Brookfield City News
Cindy moved to Brookfield in 1994 with her husband and three children in tow. It's been a very interesting seventeen years.
The Shire is on the Plan Commission schedule for Monday, May 7
Right there next to the Mosque on the agenda, which sadly I can't link yet because it's not on the city's website.
Checking out a book on the Kindle
I finally gave in and bought a Kindle a few months ago. I am a book person, a hard-core bind-my-own signed-collection book person. And now, I love my Kindle.
The sirens never sounded
I'm writing this in part as a follow up to our own recent tornado siren debate, and in part just to share my story. Of course you all remember the City of Brookfield debate that ended up in our spending another hundred thousand to update the equipment and keep warning sirens in our area going for a few more years. Though the media kind of tried to get a few stories out of it, the whole thing will little more than staff thinking one way and residents thinking another and the mayor and aldermen getting caught in the middle.
Brunner, Ziegler signed recall petitions
As did candidate Lynne Thomas who is running against current member Meg Wartman. I'd call the election April 3rd a case of "better the devil you know" and will be voting for Wartman, and also for Jean Lambert.