Hip hop is back on the menu at the Red Zone Bar and Grill. The Kenosha City Council voted Monday night to grant a probationary cabaret license to the Sheridan Rd. establishment that features a deejay playing hip hop on weekends. Two weeks ago, the council voted against a permanent cabaret license in reaction to a series of disturbances that occurred outside of the bar in recent months. An extension of the probationary license was seen as a compromise. The vote was 15 to 1. Later this month, the council’s License and Permit Committee is expected to impose a series of operational requirements that relate to the tavern’s liquor license.
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A Kenosha alderwoman who runs a home-flipping business on the side paid a $561 fine Monday for failing to take out three building permits. Holly Kangas said she had wrongly assumed that a contractor that she and her husband had hired to do the work had pulled the permits. The work in question was performed over a four-year period beginning in 2014. The matter came to light after media outlets received an anonymous email, and Kangas started checking her records. “Somebody did a lot of investigative work,” she said Monday. The flap prompted Kangas and her husband to end their side business in order to avoid the potential for additional trouble.
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For a short while Monday night, first responders in Kenosha thought that may have a second water-related emergency on their hands in as many days. Police and firefighters were called to the lakefront just south of Carthage College for a welfare check. The man that had been sought was eventually located in the school’s chapel. On Sunday, firefighters recovered the body of a man from an ice shelf near the Southport Beach House. The death remains under investigation, and police on Monday provided no additional information.
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