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🌱 Patch AM: Jewelry Center Staff Are 'Friendly, Knowledgable': Best Of 2025

And on the Brookfield Patch calendar - New Years Eve Party

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Cheers Brookfield! We’re back, helping you stay up to date with what’s happening. Let's take on the day together! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Brookfield’s Jewelry Center shines in Best of 2025 community spotlight
  • Brookfield native lighting up Division I scoreboards and eyeing March glory
  • Why a Brookfield country club must repay over a million dollars

Also on today's calendar: New Years Eve Party and 9 more events.

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Not as cold, becoming breezy, with a high of 36 and low of 27 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 33, low: 30.
  • Thursday: Morning rain; cloudy, breezy, with a high of 40 and low of 6 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!

📰 News we're reading

• Jewelry Center Staff Are 'Friendly, Knowledgable': Best Of 2025 (patch.com) — Brookfield residents are celebrating The Jewelry Center as a standout local business in Patch’s Best of 2025 series, praising its friendly, professional staff and wide selection. The feature invites Brookfield community members to nominate their own favorite people, places, and businesses that made the year brighter, highlighting local pride and convenience of area shops and restaurants.
   

• Does St. Thomas have the best mid-major player in college basketball? (bringmethenews.com) — A Brookfield native is suddenly one of college basketball’s most explosive scorers. St. Thomas sophomore Nolan Minessale, a Marquette University High School alum, is averaging 22 points per game, drawing NBA attention and powering the Tommies’ push for a potential first-ever Division I NCAA Tournament berth.
   

• Brookfield golf club to pay $1.2M for 'improperly obtained' PPP loan (jsonline.com) — A Brookfield country club has agreed to repay $1.25 million to the federal government after officials said it was ineligible for a COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program loan it received in 2021. The Westmoor Country Club settlement, announced by federal prosecutors, resolves the allegations without any admission of liability and stems from membership limits that made the club ineligible for PPP funds.
   

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★ Featured events ★

    Wednesday December 31
  • New Years Eve Party
    Embassy Suites by Hilton Milwaukee Brookfield, 1200 S Moorland Rd, Brookfield
    7:00 pm

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    Our go to serviceman recently died and we do not have any other connections. My husband has been calling all morning to try to get someone. Thanks. (Nextdoor Phillips Garden Acres)
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    You can find a variety of 5 out of 5 star rated chapter books. Just type in this web address: Amazon.com/author/paulsbookcasebooks They are all… (Nextdoor Imperial Estates)
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🗞 Nearby News

Pewaukee

  • Pewaukee fundraiser for boy with 'extraordinarily rare' disorder (fox6now.com)
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