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Henne finds new beginning in Milwaukee

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1 year ago

August 7, 2023

Seneca Valley graduate Luke Henne stands outside of American Family Field, home of the Milwaukee Brewers. Henne recently accepted a media relations position with the Brewers. Submitted Photo8/4/23

SV graduate accepts assistant media relations job with Brewers

MILWAUKEE — Timing is everything. Nobody has to tell Luke Henne that.

The 2019 Seneca Valley graduate was seated alongside his brother, Chad, in the right field stands last season when the latter snared the 3,000th home run hit in PNC Park history. Luke Henne was serving an internship with the Pittsburgh Pirates at the time.

He began this season in an internship role with the Pirates, working with Director of Media Relations Dan Hart.

“I was graduating from Duquesne and had to start looking for a full-time job,” Henne said. “I wanted to stay with the Pirates — I’ve been a Pirate fan all my life — but there were no openings in the organization. So I was looking around.”

Henne noticed a position came open in media relations with the Milwaukee Brewers. A member of that staff had accepted a similar position with the Major League Baseball office.

Henne applied for the job on Father’s Day weekend — when the Pirates happened to be playing in Milwaukee. Hart was on that trip.

“I asked Dan if he could put in a good word for me and he obviously did, because I got a call for an interview,” Henne said. “The Brewers wanted to fill the position rather quickly.”

After a while, Henne, 23, was offered the job.

“For some reason, I was hesitant,” he admitted. “I wondered if I could do the job, for one, and I had never lived more than 30 minutes from home. Just like that, I was going to be eight hours from home, on my own for the first time.

“The whole situation was a little intimidating.”

Henne said Hart helped ease his mind a bit in that regard.

“We talked about it a couple of times when he was mulling it over,” Hart said. “I gave him as much advice as I could without telling him what to do. I knew it was a tremendous opportunity for him.”

Mike Vassallo is the Brewers’ Senior Director of Media Relations and Andrew Gruman is their Manager of Media Relations. Henne would be third in that line.

“Dan told me those were two great guys and they wouldn’t give me anything I couldn’t handle,” Henne said. “I would grow into the position from there. My goal my whole life was to work in Major League Baseball.

“I know a number of people my age would kill for this opportunity. I just couldn’t let it go by.”

So Henne moved to Milwaukee, getting an apartment 10 minutes north of American Family Field, home of the Milwaukee Brewers. His first day on the job in Milwaukee was Thursday — when the Pirates came to town to begin a four-game series.

“Again, with such a familiar opponent in town and Dan was there again … It made the transition that much easier for me,” Henne said.

“The Brewers do things (in media relations) very similar to how we do it,” Hart said. “They have a small staff, so Luke will get a chance to learn and do a lot. He’s ready for this. He did a great job with us.

“He’s got all the intangibles. He works well with people. He has a good feel for things, a slow heartbeat when things ramp up a bit. He’s accessible. I know he’ll do a good job for them. I’m proud of him and the work he did for us.”

Henne’s duties with Milwaukee include working on press releases, game notes, lineup cards, statistics packs and other ways to serve the media at Milwaukee home games. Henne is not going on road trips. He said he will work on minor league information and other notes while the Brewers are out of town.

“I spent some sleepness nights trying to decide if I should take this position,” Henne said. “I went to my first Pirate game when I was 2. By the time I was 8 or 9, I was going to 15 to 20 home games. I was invested in the Pirates as a kid growing up. I still want to return home and work for the Pirates or another Pittsburgh team at some point.

“But I know I made the right decision.”

Hart is a fellow Seneca Valley graduate. Tyler Howe is a Butler graduate who is serving an internship under Hart this season. Butler graduate Allison Schubert is a communications coordinator with the Tampa Bay Rays.

“That’s four of us from Butler County working in Major League Baseball right now,” Henne said. “That’s pretty cool.”

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Fox Point fire Sunday night, multiple crews respond

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5 hours ago

December 23, 2024

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Fox Point fire Sunday night, multiple crews respond

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FOX POINT, Wis. – A fire broke out in a Fox Point neighborhood on Sunday night, Dec. 22.

The Brown Deer Fire Department and Milwaukee Fire Department confirmed multiple units responded to the fire in a neighborhood on Barnett Lane.

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It’s currently unclear what started the fire.

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Wisconsin holiday gas prices falling as thousands hit the road

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December 22, 2024

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Wisconsin holiday gas prices falling

Holiday travel comes at a good time – because GasBuddy experts predict nationwide gas prices will be at their lowest point on Christmas Day since 2020.

MILWAUKEE – Thousands across Wisconsin are expected to hit the road for the holiday. The travel comes at a good time – because GasBuddy experts predict nationwide gas prices will be at their lowest point on Christmas Day since 2020.

At Good Hope and Green Bay roads, Victor Tran is filling up – and it’s not a bad time to do so.

“The gas right now. Very, very good right now. They’re getting lower. Better than they were before,” Trans said.

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According to AAA, the average for a gallon of regular gas in Wisconsin is around $2.82 per gallon. The average in Milwaukee County on Sunday, Dec. 22 was around $2.79. That is lower than Ozaukee County with an average of around $2.93. All those prices are below the $3 per gallon national average.

Patrick De Haan is the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.

“It’s the seasonality that’s really been the primary reason for gas prices that have fallen compared to where they were this summer,” De Haan said. “In the last couple of days we have seen a big jump in some parts of Wisconsin ahead of the holiday. That has to do with oil prices jumping up.”

But De Haan believes prices will once again fall in Milwaukee. He suggests waiting until closer to Christmas to fill up.

GasBuddy suggests people always check fuel prices before filling up – especially when crossing the state line.

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“I do think a high number of Americans are likely going to be hitting the road in light of the relatively low gas prices,” De Haan said.

De Haan predicts prices will rise after the cold winter months.

“What goes down eventually will go up in the spring,” De Haan said.

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Milwaukee shooting near 14th and North; 25-year-old accused

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December 22, 2024

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MILWAUKEE – A 25-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of shooting another man near a gas station near 14th and North. The accused is Dreaten Burch – and he faces a single charge of first-degree reckless injury.

According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukee police responded on Sunday evening, Dec. 8 to a shooting near 14th and North Avenue. Officers spoke with relatives of the shooting victim who came home with a gunshot wound to his face. They believed he had been at a nearby gas station.

That same night, a detective went to Froedtert Hospital where the shooting victim was being treated for his wound. He indicated he “exchanged words with the driver of a white vehicle, then ran west on North Avenue and got shot in the face as he ran,” the complaint says. The victim said he did not see who shot him.

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Milwaukee police responded to the Citgo gas station near 14th and North and reviewed surveillance video showing the suspect and victim. The complaint says the “video shows that at about 5:31 p.m., a man walks into Citgo, then leaves and walks through the parking lot. At about 5:33 p.m., a white vehicle turns into the parking lot and appears to nearly strike the man in the parking lot, who has to avoid the vehicle. The vehicle parks, then a suspect exits the driver’s door, then heads in the same direction as the first man.”

Investigators found a casing and unspent cartridge northeast of the intersection of 14th and North. Police “later found additional surveillance video showing the man and suspect heading to this location, and showing the man returning to the white vehicle,” the complaint says.

Investigators reviewed photos of the suspect vehicle. They also queried the Flock Safety database and found a matching vehicle within three days of the incident. Officers had previously stopped the vehicle — and identified the driver as Dreaten Burch.

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Burch was arrested on Dec. 9. When police tried to question him about the shooting incident at the gas station, Burch “said he may have been at the gas station and may have been in the car, but he didn’t know about anything else,” the complaint says.

Burch made his initial appearance in Milwaukee County court on Saturday, Dec. 14. Cash bond was set at $10,000.

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