12 Days of Patch: March

Waukesha Patch’s one-year anniversary is Dec. 28, 2011. It’s been an action-packed year here in Waukesha and we are proud to bring you the 12 days of Patch. Each day, we will bring the most popular stories of each month for Patch readers to vote for their favorite each month.

On our anniversary, Dec. 28, we will present the top 12 reader’s selection for the community to pick the top story of 2011.

March 2011 (Voting ends at 1 p.m. Dec. 19)

While judicial races in Wisconsin are supposed to be above politics, the political leanings of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser Jr. emerged as a key issue in his bid for a second 10-year term on the high court.

Officially, all state judicial races are non-partisan – candidates cannot run as representatives of political parties.

Seth Sanford faced a number of decisions in the early morning of Feb. 21 as he was heading to his job clearing snow off of buses.

Should he drive to work or should he just walk? It was cold and it had just snowed. It felt like it hadn’t stopped snowing because it was a few weeks after a blizzard had halted business, government, church and school in Waukesha. 

Sanford, 19, a student at New Tribes Bible Institute decided to walk to work. He didn’t make it very far – he was at the corner of Arcadian and Greenfield avenues around 4:30 a.m. – when he saw someone he wasn’t expecting.

Chants of "Kill the bill"  and "Tax, tax, tax the rich, we can kill the deficit" resonated on Golf Road as the protests that have continued in Madison extended to Waukesha on Monday.

Gov. Scott Walker was speaking at the Country Springs Hotel on Golf Road in Waukesha on Monday. Protesters lined the street to protest the governor and his budget repair bill.

Walker was at Country Springs Hotel for “Insight 2011 with Charlie Sykes on Newsradio 620 WTMJ.”

"What the heck does recertifying a union have to do with the deficit?" said Brookfield resident Michael Brown. "If that doesn’t show he is union busting, then what is?"

Two people were taken into custody after a gun was pulled during a fight that broke out around 10:30 p.m. Thursday at George's Bar on Delafield Street near Speedway and , Waukesha Police Sgt. Jerry Habanek said.

A 31-year-old man with ties to Waukesha was taken into custody for the gun incident and the other person was arrested for an unrelated issue, said Habanek at the scene.

Just a week after the Waukesha School Board for this school year and last school year, 15 teachers have submitted their names for retirement.

The school district could have as many as 80 teachers retire this year. Until the contracts were approved, because they stood to lose retirement benefits that they receive for five years after teaching.