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The Milwaukee Night Market returns June 11. Here's what to know about food, parking, music
The Milwaukee Night Market is officially back, starting with the first market of the summer on June 11. The free-to-attend outdoor market will take over West Wisconsin Avenue with live music, a dance floor and more than 100 vendors selling food, drinks and local goods. Wednesday's market is the first of four slated for summer 2025. Since its founding in 2014, the Milwaukee Night Market has grown to draw more than 100,000 attendees each year, according to its website. In 2021, the Westown Association acquired the market from from NEWaukee, a local engagement agency, and has been operating it since. Here's everything you need know about the 2025 night market, from vendors and entertainment to parking and street closures. The first night market of the summer is Wednesday, June 11 from 5 to 10 p.m. It will be on West Wisconsin Avenue, between North 2nd Street and North Vel R. Phillips Avenue. The subsequent markets will also run from 5 to 10 p.m. in the same location on the following dates: July 16 Aug. 13 Sept. 10 More than 100 vendors are slated for the June 11 market, ranging from food and beverage trucks to local artists. Food and drink vendors include Amy's Candy Kitchen, I LOVE TAMALES, Sweet Smoke BBQ, Little Havana Express, Miller Time Pub, Rose Mob Grill, Tots on the Street and WAN's Thai Cuisine, among others. In terms of makers, henna artists, bookstores, ceramic studios, floral vendors and jewelry makers will be among the dozens in attendance. You can find a complete list of vendors here. Here's the entertainment schedule for the Milwaukee Night Market, which will also feature an open-air dance floor: 5:30 and 6:15 p.m. – Evan Christian 6 p.m. – Water Street Dance 6:45 p.m. – Professor Pinkerton 7 p.m. – Brudny of Sound by Design 8 p.m. – Nico At Nite If you live in the area, prepare for all-day street closures during the market. The following areas will be closed to traffic from 10 a.m. on June 11 to 1 a.m. on June 12. West Wisconsin Avenue from North 2nd Street to North Vel R. Phillips Avenue North Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Drive from West Wisconsin Avenue north to the nearby alley North 2nd Street from West Wisconsin Avenue south to the skywalk North 2nd Street from Wisconsin Avenue north to the alley adjacent to the City parking garage Alley on the west side of North 2nd Street and north of West Wisconsin Avenue Parking is available at The Avenue for a flat rate of $3 during all four night markets. You can enter the garage from 615 N. Plankinton Ave. or 258 W. Michigan St. There are additional parking structures, surface lots and street parking options in the surrounding area — but you should be prepared to park a little further away and walk, given street closures and the popularity of the market. If you want to avoid hunting for parking, there are several public transportation options that will bring you right to the market. The following Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) routes stop near the market: Connect 1 and 30 stop at Plankinton and Wisconsin. GreenLine, 15, 18, and 57 stop at Water and Wisconsin. Routes 12, 19, 31, 34, 80, 81 and BlueLine stop at 6th and Wisconsin. View routes and schedules at You can also take The Hop, Milwaukee's free streetcar, to the night market. Either get off at the Wisconsin Avenue Southbound stop, just across the river from the market, or get off at the the Intermodal Station stop and walk three blocks north to the 3rd St. Market Hall, which leads to the market. Find the route map and schedules at This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee Night Market 2025: dates, street closures, parking, vendors
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29-05-2025
- Business
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ArcBest taps CH Robinson veteran to fix asset-light business
Transportation and logistics provider ArcBest announced Thursday that it has hired a former C.H. Robinson leader to head operations at its struggling asset-light logistics business. Mac Pinkerton, former president of C.H. Robinson's (NASDAQ: CHRW) flagship North American Surface Transportation (NAST) business, will join ArcBest (NASDAQ: ARCB) as chief operating officer of asset-light logistics, effective Jan. 5. Pinkerton will succeed Steven Leonard, who will retire next month after 24 years with ArcBest. (This is part of a planned succession announced earlier this year.) Leonard served as chief commercial officer and president of asset-light logistics for a two-year period ending in February shortly after his retirement was announced. He has served as the segment's chief operating officer since. Pinkerton was with C.H. Robinson for 27 years, serving in various leadership roles, before departing the 3PL in early 2024, six months after the company hired a new CEO.'We're excited for Mac to join our team. He brings a depth of experience, a passion for customers and extensive supply chain knowledge,' said ArcBest Chairman and CEO Judy McReynolds in a news release. 'We're confident in his ability to drive increased value for customers and shareholders.' ArcBest's asset-light unit, which includes the late-2021 acquisition of truckload brokerage MoLo Solutions, logged a seventh straight operating loss during the 2025 first quarter. Like other 3PLs and freight brokers, the segment has struggled during a prolonged freight recession. The unit is again expected to book a small operating loss in the second quarter. Asset-light will report to ArcBest President Seth Runser during the transition FreightWaves articles by Todd Maiden: Truckload spot rates to continue upward trend, RXO says Activist investor pushes Forward Air to execute 'value-maximizing sale' FedEx taps leaders from within for LTL spinoff, to Wall Street's dismay The post ArcBest taps CH Robinson veteran to fix asset-light business appeared first on FreightWaves. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
The Herald Scotland
04-05-2025
- The Herald Scotland
From the Gorbals to the Wild West, the detective who never slept
As the exhausted Isabella gathered her newborn into her arms, she may have wondered what the future might hold. She'd already buried three children – a Glasgow bairn in those days only had an 88 per cent chance of seeing its first birthday. f Allan Pinkerton's birthplace at Muirhead Street and Ruthergen Loan in the Gorbals. (Image: Library of Congress/Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones) And although her son was from an old Gorbals family, with relatives who had become prominent citizens, this was early 19th century Glasgow; there was terrible poverty, violence, disease and slums. What would become of her newborn baby? As it turned out, Isabella need not have worried too much about Allan Pinkerton. For his destiny lay 3500 miles across the Atlantic where he'd rub shoulders with the richest and most famous in the world, become acquainted with political giants and earn his living from snaring the dregs of the criminal underworld. From humble beginnings, he would become one of America's most famous men and entertain presidents to capitalists at a lavish home that paid tribute to his roots. Called The Larches, it featured 85,000 larch trees imported from Scotland to remind him of home, a golf course and resident Scottish artist to paint historic scenes from Scottish history. By his death in 1884, the founder of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency (PNDA) had achieved near legendary status, with crime-bashing skills that attracted praise from the none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Sherlock Holmes, Allan Pinkerton was the real deal – the world's most famous detective. As Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh and author of a new book that explores Pinkerton's life in forensic detail, points out, it was down to him that plans to assassinate Abraham Lincoln as made his way to be inaugurated President of the United States, were thwarted. At Antietam, Maryland, site of the 1862 Civil War battle. From left to right, Allan Pinkerton, President Abraham Lincoln, and General George B. McClellan. (Image: Library of Congress, LC- B817-7949/Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones) While intelligence he later supplied to President Lincoln and helped plan strategy in the early stages of the Civil War. And Pinkerton operatives famously chased down outlaws like Butch Cassidy and Jesse James at a time when American public policing was in its infancy, bounties were generous and the west was definitely wild. With his agencies dotted around the country's major cities, Pinkerton advertised his services for hire with a poster featuring an all-seeing eye and the slogan: "We never sleep". But as well as crimefighter, Pinkerton was also a fierce abolitionist who helped runaway slaves travel the Underground Railway to reach freedom and safety in Canada. While his undercover agents and sometimes brute force were employed to keep the wheels of American industry turning in the face of crippling and violent strikes. Pinkerton's agency would become a byword for criminal detection, spying and undercover operations. But now Rhodri has turned detective on Pinkerton, to plough through rare documents and recently digitised historical records that reveal fresh detail of the man, his crime-fighting agency and his Gorbals roots. He has now gathered his findings into a new book which explores the impact of his Gorbals upbringing and his astonishing rise to fame as the most famous detective of his times. Rhodri's curiosity over Pinkerton was ignited years ago as he carried out PhD research into US industrial violence. But uncovering important documents that would tell his whole story involved the sleuthing skills of a PNDA agent. 'For years, I was frustrated by evidential gaps,' he explains. 'The Great Fire of 1871 gutted every building in Chicago except the fire station. The PNDA had its HQ in that city. 'When that building went up in flames, so did many of the Pinkerton records. 'In the mid-1930s, there was a more wilful destruction of evidence. 'The US Senate opened an investigation of labour espionage. The response of Allan Pinkerton's great grandson, Robert A. Pinkerton II, was to destroy as many records as he could before federal investigators seized them. 'Finally, in 1999 Pinkerton, Inc., as it was now called, was taken over by Securitas and donated its remaining archives to the Library of Congress.' The records dated from the company's founding in 1850 to 1938, spanning mug shots and criminal files, to Pinkerton family photographs with the likes of Abraham Lincoln. Among them were documents relating to Jesse James, one of the wild west's most notorious outlaws. A prime target for railroads and banks desperate to halt his crime spree, Pinkerton and his ruthless agents were hired to track him down. With some of the records at risk of being lost, paperwork rich in detail was shared with Rhodri via Pinkerton historian and archivist Jane Adler. He then scoured online material made available by ProQuest, which digitises historical records, including Pinkerton archives. 'I set out to be the first scholar to exploit this facility in a systematic manner,' adds Rhodri. 'My research yielded some surprising findings.' Author Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones has explored rarely seen material to uncover new insight into the life of Allan Pinkerton (Image: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones) Among it, evidence of sometimes devious methods to catch criminals, crush workplace rebellions and thwart strikes. 'From private collections, I had letters written by employers complaining that private detectives played both sides: the detectives exaggerated the likelihood of strikes and disorder to win contacts from employers, then ensured that the unions survived, serving as eternal sources of revenue,' says Rhodri. And, says Rhodri, his surprisingly liberal approach to giving women the opportunity to work alongside his agents in roles fraught with risk. Although Pinkerton rose to fame and fortune in America, it as the Gorbals that moulded him. Pinkerton's father William was a blacksmith's son who stood six feet tall – unusual for the times – and who passed on his muscular physique to his son. Read more by Sandra Dick: A handloom weaver, when demand slumped, he found another job that may have influenced the young Pinkerton's future role, as a prison officer at Glasgow City's jail. His son inherited his towering presence, tall and muscular, he was more than able to hold his own in a Gorbals fistfight. 'All accounts agree that Allan was endowed with a strong will, nerves of steel, deductive powers, and a shrewd capacity to understand his fellow human beings,' writes Rhodri. His half-brother James, however, may also have shaped Pinkerton's future career - a 'wastrel who took regular advantage of the local whorehouses and drinking.' Gorbals' poverty and hardship no doubt inspired Pinkerton to join the extreme left Chartist movement that demanded a more democratic political system. He joined rowdy protests and supported the use of physical force to obtain their objectives. When the movement shifted to less violent protest, he set up the Northern Democratic Association with the motto: 'peaceably if we may, forcibly if we must.' Having been a visible figure within the movement, Pinkerton then fades from view for two years, eventually re-emerging in 1842 heading from the Broomielaw bound for Canada with his young bride, Joan. While some theories suggest he went into hiding from the police, Rhodri suspects Pinkerton may have been lying low after being suspected of informing on his former Chartrist comrades. 'He arrived in America equipped with the baggage not just of revolution, but also of counter-revolution,' he adds. Pinkerton and his wife settled at a Scottish community near Chicago called Dundee. Allan with his wife Joan Pinkerton. (Image: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ds-07127/Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones) He was running a cooperage business when by chance, he came across an encampment of counterfeiters dealing in forged coins. It ignited a passion: the toil of making and repairing barrels scarcely compared to the thrill – and cash bounties – that came with hunting down criminals and bringing them to justice. A major boost for his new detective agency was Chicago's role as a railway hub, where Pinkerton was employed to root out swindlers and robbers. While the growing city was also home to one Abraham Lincoln. Pinkerton would later claim the president would never have been assassinated had his agents been employed to look after his security. Among the most intriguing facets of Pinkerton's character, is that while he was a gruff son of the Gorbals and a strict disciplinarian at home, he was also an early feminist who championed the role of women in his rapidly expanding agency. Read more by Sandra Dick: 'Within his family, he was a patriarch in what was then the usual manner,' says Rhodri. 'But he was a feminist who had a women's division in his agency. 'For those times, it was pretty forward-thinking.' The women often worked as undercover agents, with one taking a leading role. 'In the Graceland Cemetery on Fair View Avenue, Chicago, the Pinkerton family plot has a corner in which are buried his two most esteemed operatives,' says Rhodri. 'One is Kate Warne. 'It was Kate who befriended the wives of pro-slavery elements in Baltimore, discovering by this indirect means details of the plots to assassinate Lincoln. Kate Warne pictured in 1866 became a key figure in Allan Pinkerton's detective agency (Image: Chicago History Museum, ICHi-075012/Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones) 'Thereafter, she spied with consummate skill having been secretly insinuated into the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.' Kate became the head of the female detectives' division of the PNDA. 'Allan later explained his decision to place his trust in a woman with the words, 'we live in a progressive age, and in a progressive country'.' Perhaps part of his support for women came from his tough Gorbals roots where women faced challenging lives revolving around childbirth and child loss, poverty and hard work often, like Isabella, at one of the area's weaving mills. Meanwhile, Rhodri adds that another underappreciated element of Pinkerton's legacy is his contribution to the modern security state. 'Both the FBI and the CIA borrowed his methodologies, for example his nationwide rogues' gallery and the Pinkertons' habit of kidnapping suspects without regard to habeas corpus. 'More than this, Pinkerton foreshadowed that striking post-9/11 development, the privatisation of American national security. 'By 2006, 70 per cent of the $28 billion spent on US national intelligence went on private contracts.' But his reputation is also smeared by anti-labour approaches in a nation renowned for them, which seem at odds with his earlier years of protesting for greater rights for working people. 'His 'operatives' penetrated unions, advocating rash strikes and identifying troublemakers who were then fired and blacklisted,' adds Rhodri. Pinkerton's interference in workers' efforts to fight for better conditions sometimes had deadly consequences. 'Pinkerton operatives worked as armed 'guard' intimidating workers on the picket lines. Pinkerton advert with the slogan We never sleep (Image: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE/Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones) 'In the 1870s, on the pretext of combatting a secret society, the Molly Maguires, that supposedly carried out acts of terrorism in the Pennsylvania coal mining region, Pinkerton's operative James McParland penetrated local workers' unions. 'He gathered what the courts accepted as evidence and 20 men, today regarded as martyrs, went to the gallows.' After his death Pinkerton's agency, by then managed by his sons, continued to attract criticism. In one case, a Pinkerton detective's testimony that led to the execution of four protesters following an explosion during a workers' rights rally, was discredited. Then in 1892, 300 armed Pinkerton agents clashed with workers at the Homestead Steel mill, near Pittsburgh, the pride and joy of Dunfermline-born steel magnate, Andrew Carnegie. The battle made a villain of Carnegie and sealed the reputation of the Pinkertons as enemies of the working class. Wild West outlaw Jesse James was hunted by Allan Pinkerton's detectives (Image: Library of Congress, 2005682818./Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones) He died in 1884, after a fall when– perhaps ironically for someone whose agents often relied upon loose lips - bit his tongue, leading to gangrene. A 'Marmite' character, says Rhodri, he was forged in Scotland and moulded by America's wild frontier, slavery, feminism, workers' rights and carceral reform. 'He was rich, his home had all the trappings of grandeur, and he was a household name. 'But there was a dark side to his character,' he adds. 'He had an incredible life.' Allan Pinkerton: America's Legendary Detective and the Birth of Private Security by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is published by Georgetown University Press.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Health
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Connecticut Universities take part in ‘Speak Your Mind Ice Bucket Challenge'
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) —The ice bucket challenge is making a comeback, and it has some local universities challenging each other to take the plunge. This time, it is all about mental health, especially among young people. 'Mental health, I think, has certainly become something more folks are talking about, they're open about,' said Dr. Nick Pinkerton, associate dean of counseling services and wellness at Southern Connecticut State University. Southern's mascot, Otus the Owl, recently did the Speak Your Mind Ice Bucket Challenge. Nyberg: Ice Bucket Challenge is back to raise awareness for mental health The challenge started at USC as a way to change how mental health is viewed and to prioritize it, especially on college campuses, where Pinkerton says the top issues are anxiety, depression and loneliness. 'But loneliness is interesting because a lot of the college students, they don't necessarily come in saying, 'I feel lonely,'' Pinkerton explained. They say, 'I feel depressed' or 'I feel anxious,' but right underneath that is a deep well of loneliness, social avoidance.' On social media, the folks getting drenched still get to challenge others. Southern's video challenged the University of New Haven, UConn, and Quinnipiac University, which led Dr. Jens Frederiksen, the president of the University of New Haven, to do make his own challenge video, and then later to talk about the issues he sees. 'There's feelings of isolation, anxiety, all sorts of stress, and the world is a complicated place,' Frederiksen said. 1 in 5 adults live with mental illness, here are the resources to help Connecticut residents On a big college campus, it can easy to feel alone, but the point of this challenge is that students are not. If they are experiencing any kind of mental health issue, there is a whole team ready to help. 'You've got to meet students where they are and you can't conflate, you can't push it upon them, and yet you've got to make it comfortable for them to want to reach out,' Frederiksen said. He is now challenging his university vice presidents, the Allingtown Fire Department, and West Haven's Mayor. For more information on the challenge and how you can help, go to: Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Sport
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New faces, new look for Pinkerton boys lacrosse team this spring
DERRY — Marty Auger heard a similar refrain from his Pinkerton Academy lacrosse players as they returned to the sideline on Monday. They were good things, namely that the plays and mindsets Auger and his staff implemented during preseason worked as planned on game day. Auger, a former Astros attackman and an assistant coach under the legendary Brian O'Reilly from 2015-19, got his first win leading Pinkerton in the team's season opener, a 21-0 NHIAA Division I triumph over Salem. Advertisement Auger said he preaches making the extra pass, passing up good scoring chances for great ones, and playing fast. 'We're trying to instill that in these guys and it's like breaking (in) a wild horse,' Auger joked. 'It's tough, but when they do it, it looks awesome. 'A couple times (Monday) we had guys coming off the field smiling, saying, 'Coach, that was wide open.'' The Astros are coming off a 10-8 regular season and a semifinal appearance last spring under former coach Steve Gaudreau, now the head coach at Bedford. They're young: nine underclassmen, 13 juniors and six seniors dot the roster. Junior Matt Gormady is one of Pinkerton's skill players. On Monday, the attackman logged a game-high six goals alongside three assists. Advertisement Gormady's objective this season is to either reach the 100-point or 100-goal plateau — hopefully both, he said. As a sophomore last year, Gormady recorded 43 points. 'I'm very shifty,' Gormady said. 'I like to dodge my guys. When they press me out, that's what I like a lot because I like to just go and it leads to a bunch of goals.' Auger said Pinkerton has scoring depth rather than one or two superstar scorers. Freshman attackman Levi Weaver (four), Gormady's senior older brother Jeff (three), freshman midfielder Tyler Pinardi (two) senior midfielder Ben Quintiliani (two) all had multi-goal games on Monday. Advertisement The Astros have sets and run plays, but Auger said he wants his players to learn on their own where to be and what to do on the field. Auger mostly works with Pinkerton's offense. Ken Blaszka, who coached Timberlane for the past 10 years, joined the staff this spring and works mostly with the Astros' defense. Goalies Owen Perkins and Gavin Burwell, Brendan Carney, Caleb Hobden and Blaszka's son, Brady, are some of Pinkerton's notable defenders. Perkins, a sophomore, and Burwell, a junior, combined for a four-save shutout against the Blue Devils. Both goalies will see playing time early in the season. Advertisement With a 'phenomenal' defensive unit, Auger said he feels like Pinkerton has a shot against some of the better teams in the division. Matt Gormady agrees with his coach. 'Those other teams better look out for us this year,' the attackman said. ahall@
