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While Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday heralded the holiday season of spending once again, today marks a much different kind of season opener.

The first phase of a citywide bike share program could hit the streets of Milwaukee next year following approval of $320,000 in city funding by Milwaukee’s Public Works Committee during a Wednesday hearing.

Steve Miazga, business development manager at Brookfield-based R.A. Smith National, is the new chairman of the board of directors of the Greater Brookfield Chamber of Commerce.

Journey House, Inc., a Milwaukee-based nonprofit organization focused on community development issues such as education, employment, crime prevention and neighborhood revitalization, has announced a new lineup of board directors to serve two-year terms.

With help from more than 50 area businesses, the fifth annual “Dinner on the Mayflower” citywide food drive organized by Milwaukee-based C.H. Coakley & Co., collected 21,000 pounds of nonperishable food items in support of Hunger Task Force.

United Way in Waukesha County is rallying community support for its 2013 annual fundraising campaign with concern that its goal of $4.75 million may not be met by Jan. 31 when the campaign ends.

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Former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, the outspoken president and chief executive officer of the Congress for the New Urbanism in Chicago, has announced that he will step down from his position after the 22nd Annual Congress in Buffalo in 2014.

The parent company of Diversified Machine LLC in Milwaukee plans to close the plant and leave 218 employees out of work, according to a WARN notice filed with the state this week.