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🌱 Patch AM: How a Shorewood beach walk reshaped shoreline rights across Wisconsin
Also check out IKEA Frank Mots Int'l Kite Festival on the Shorewood Patch calendar
Hi Shorewood! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How a Shorewood beach walk reshaped shoreline rights across Wisconsin
- What this shoreline court win means for walks past Atwater Beach
Also on today's calendar: IKEA Frank Mots Int'l Kite Festival and 10 more events.
Today's riddle: What do you get when you cross an angry cow with an angry sheep? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Mostly sunny and less humid, with a high of 75 and low of 58 degrees.
- Friday: Nice with plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 77, low: 64.
- Saturday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 78 and low of 59 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Communities reconsidering Flock cameras, The fight over beach access, Massive gift to the Kohler Arts Center (wpr.org) — A recent episode of Wisconsin Today spends significant time at Atwater Beach in Shorewood, unpacking the legal fight over whether people can walk along the Lake Michigan shoreline past the village-owned beach. Experts and local officials explain how a judge's ruling in favor of Shorewood resident Paul Florsheim reinforces public trust rights, and how communities statewide, from Door County to inland towns, are rethinking beach access, surveillance technology, and public land investments. 
• Professor Emeritus Paul Florsheim Prevails in Lake Michigan Shoreline Access Case (uwm.edu) — A Milwaukee County judge has thrown out a trespassing citation issued to a man walking along Lake Michigan past Shorewood's Atwater Beach, ruling his shoreline stroll was protected under Wisconsin's public trust doctrine. While the decision applies directly to his case, it strengthens arguments that the public can use the wet sand area below the ordinary high water mark near Shorewood and could influence future shoreline access disputes statewide.
📸 Around Shorewood
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Shorewood
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★ Featured events ★
- IKEA Frank Mots Int'l Kite Festival →
Milwaukee
9:00 am - North Shore School for Seniors fall session begins this month →
United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay, 819 E Silver Spring Dr, Whitefish Bay
9:00 am
Saturday September 12
Monday September 14
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Other local events
- Shorewood 12 Bike Race →
Shorewood WI
9:12 am - Tour de Taps 2026 →
Estabrook Park, 4400 N Estabrook Pkwy, Shorewood
10:00 am - Shorewood Farmer's Market →
Estabrook Park, 4400 N Estabrook Pkwy, Shorewood
8:30 am - Shorewood Farmers Market →
Estabrook Park, Shorewood
9:30 am - Municipal Court →
Village Hall, 3930 North Murray Avenue, Shorewood
4:30 pm - NOTICE OF POSSIBLE QUORUM: Public Art Committee →
Shorewood WI
8:30 am - PTO Touch a Truck Event
Cumberland El Milwaukee, WI 53211
3:00 pm - Table Tennis →
Shorewood Intermediate School, 3830 N Morris Blvd, Shorewood
2:30 pm - Stone Soup Shakespeare Presents: Merry Wives of Windsor →
Shorewood Public Library, 3920 North Murray Avenue, Shorewood
6:00 pm - Shorewood Farmers Market →
Estabrook Park, Shorewood
9:30 am - Village Board →
Village Hall, 3930 North Murray Avenue, Shorewood
7:30 pm
Saturday September 12
Sunday September 13
Tuesday September 15
Friday September 18
Saturday September 19
Sunday September 20
Monday September 21
📣 Shorewood Shout Outs!
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🗞 Nearby News
Whitefish Bay
- Wisconsin Lottery Pick 3, Pick 4 results for Sept. 8, 2026 (jsonline.com)
- Waukesha County Week 4 prep football preview (gmtoday.com)
- Classical: Concert Remembers and Honors 9/11 Victims (urbanmilwaukee.com)
Glendale
- Skowronska, Castaneda Guerrero Earn Spots in Milwaukee Tennis Classic (mkepanthers.com)
- Milwaukee police shooting, suspect killed identified (fox6now.com)
- Brew City Buzz, Events Happening Sept. 10-Sept. 16, 2026 (shepherdexpress.com)
Milwaukee
- Milwaukee Area Suburbs Ranked From Safest To Least Safe In 2026 Report (patch.com)
Ok Shorewood! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!
-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: An animal that's in a baaaaad mooood! (Thank you Lisa A. for sending it in!)
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