Whitefish Bay Week in Review: March 20 to March 27

In case you missed it, these are the top headlines from Whitefish Bay Patch this week.

The Blue Dukes girls basketball team's season came to an end Friday afternoon, when they were defeated 50-39 by Luxemburg-Casco (26-1) in a WIAA Division 2 state semifinal game in Madison. Luxemburg-Casco dominated the first half, building a 30-8 lead, and the Bay girls were unable to rebound from the first-half deficit.

Dominican High School's girls basketball team lost its first game of the year Friday in a 61-56 loss to Kewaunee in a Division 3 state semifinal game in Madison. The Lady Knights were the last remaining undefeated team in the state.

Whitefish Bay Patch is sponsoring a candidate forum to give the public the opportunity to directly hear from the four write-in candidates running for the Village Board. The forum will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium of the , 600 E. Henry Clay St. The forum will also be videostreamed live on Whitefish Bay Patch that night, and a video of the event will remain on Patch until the April 5 election.

While some teachers were helping with the Monday afternoon, other teachers were outside the building raising awareness of a different cause - a contract extension proposal the union has submitted to the School Board.

Union President Mark Yanisch said he submitted a proposal to board members to maintain the existing teachers contract provisions for another two years, with modifications to mirror the 5.8 percent pension contributions and 12 percent health insurance contributions proposed under Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill. Mark Kapocius, the district's human resources director, said the board replied to Yanisch, saying it was too early to consider a contract, given the uncertainty surrounding the budget repair bill and the biennial budget.

The consultant hired to conduct an analysis of the village’s sanitary sewer and storm water issues recommends pushing back the study's deadline until October in order to gather more realistic data.

Steve Stricklen, of consultants Donohue and Associates, told Trustees at a Monday night Village Board meeting that earlier sewer models are deficient and new rainfall data needs to be collected to move forward with the study. He said the study update would cost an additional $42,500, and the final report would be ready near the end of October instead of April, as originally expected.