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Shorewood Ripples

The Student News Site of Shorewood High School

Shorewood Ripples

The Student News Site of Shorewood High School

Shorewood Ripples

Annual Hoops for Harris event a success

Giselle Knox April 25, 2024

On April 6, the annual Hoops for Harris event took place in the SHS Arena. The annual event consists of four sections of round-robin style basketball tournaments with teams of three to four players. The...

Fresh 40 event highlights local artists

Fresh 40 event highlights local artists

Maya Schmaling and Noa Biener April 25, 2024

Fresh 40, an art exhibition showcasing the original works of local artists, was held for its second year at the Shorewood Hub on Capital Drive. The exhibition, sponsored by Dominion Properties, was open...

Meet the recently elected Shorewood officials

Sonia Bendre and Amaris Kaleka April 25, 2024

Election results for the Shorewood municipality were released on April 2, 2024. With a total voter turnout of 52.25% in the Shorewood municipality, citizens elected Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential...

CDA links stable housing to enrollment

Jillian Beaster April 25, 2024

On March 14, Executive Director of Milwaukee Community Development Alliance (CDA), Teig Whaley-Smith, presented his research on affordable housing as a predictor of school enrollment to members of the...

Habitat for Humanity visits Village Center

Amaris Kaleka, Jillian Beaster, and Landon Beaster March 8, 2024

On February 27, the Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity (HFH) hosted a Housing, Race, and Equity workshop at the Shorewood Village Center. Beth Van Gorp, Director of Advocacy at Milwaukee HFH, believes that...

Political figures attend Civics hearing

Sonia Bendre and Giselle Knox February 9, 2024

The last of three Semester One Civics committee hearings wrapped up on December 20, with four out of over twenty originally proposed bills being signed and passed.  The hearings are the apotheosis...

Shorewood Public Library’s Heide Piehler instructs the Shorewood Monarch Project

Shorewood librarian retires after over 40 years

Maya Schmaling and Sonia Bendre December 23, 2023

After 41 years as a librarian at the Shorewood Public Library, Heide Piehler retired on October 12, 2023.  Piehler began her career with the Shorewood Public Library while studying English at UW-Milwaukee....

Lanes restructured on Edgewood Avenue

Advisory Bike Lanes (ABLs), a new type of bike lane, have recently been installed on Edgewood Avenue. The new road design features a single lane for cars and two bike lanes on both sides of the traffic...

Survey indicates divide on chickens in Village

Aud Jenkins and Aiko Levick December 2, 2023

Due to a potential shift in longstanding policy, Shorewood residents may soon have the opportunity to keep backyard chickens. Under Shorewood Village Code § 192-17, the keeping of chickens is currently...

Research conducted on traffic stops

Jillian Beaster October 30, 2023

Social justice group Shorewood Moving Forward (SMF) has conducted extensive research on the viability of low-level traffic stops done by Shorewood police, and has begun a project to eliminate or amend...

Unique artifacts can be found at the Shorewood Historical Society

Jillian Beaster and Amaris Kaleka February 19, 2023

Since 1984, the Shorewood Historical Society has worked to preserve the history of Shorewood as well as educate community members on its development. Seeking to preserve and promote Shorewood’s past,...

courtesy Nathan Berkowitz

New Businesses bring fresh perspectives to Shorewood

Jillian Beaster September 22, 2022

The summer season of 2022 brought forth many new businesses to the heart of Shorewood. Several being locally owned, these entrepreneurs are excited to share their creations with the community.  Teri...