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Lake Geneva Oktoberfest is coming soon.
The Lake Geneva Business Improvement District is hosting this wonderful event with the help of the downtown businesses. Lake Geneva’s traditional Oktoberfest weekend will include a pre party kick off Friday night, October 7th, at the Topsy Turvy Brewery. The Oktoberfest fun will happen Saturday and Sunday, October 8th, and 9th, in Flat Iron Park. Get ready for a fun fall weekend with live music, great food, beer, stein hosting, doxie dash races, kid’s activities, pumpkins, and so much more. For more information and to sign up for the stein hosting competition or to enter a pup in the doxie dash race (for small dogs only) go to www.streetsoflakegeneva.com/oktoberfest.

 The Richmond Café and Coffee Shop is not coming to Lake Geneva.
The idea for this wonderfully successful coffee shop to come to Lake Geneva and be built into the Lake Geneva City Structure called The House on Cook Street fell on fallow ground.  There will be, as yet no outreach of that Illinois-based facility in Wisconsin.  It would seem, although the real cause remains unknown, that the owners of the House could not come to terms with those of the coffee shop owners.  Both couples, the two people who own the coffee shop and the two people who own Brick and Mortar are very specifically definitive in what they expect in the way of process and results.  They finally, in the last analysis, could not agree.  This result is a shame for Lake Geneva, as the coffee shop in Richmond is such a wonderful place and the entire lake community in and around Lake Geneva would have been the better for its coming.

Person of the Week

Mary Jo Fesenmaier, one of Lake Geneva’s Alderpersons, is an advocate of green space and the city’s natural beauty. The vote to purchase Hillmoor (which she has fought for) was a personal and emotional win for her Your constituents thank you May Jo!