Karen Schroeder of Sussex will ride in this year's Community Memorial Hospital Wheeling for Healing bike ride Saturday to support the Menomonee Falls hospital's Cancer Care Center, celebrate cancer survivors and memorialize those who’ve fallen to the disease.

After four operations over the last two years, she is "doing all right" today, she said. She no longer sweats the small stuff and hopes that cancer has made her "a better person."

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Waukesha — Sussex teenager Michael Hollnagel was charged with homicide by negligent operation of a motor vehicle today for the death of 16-year-old Brian Jackson of Menomonee Falls who had been "surfing" on the hood of the car Hollnagel was driving.

The 17-year-old Hollnagel faces a 10-year prison term if convicted in the death of his friend and fellow Hamilton High School wrestling teammate.

Hollnagel crashed the car into a tree around 9:30 p.m. on Fair Oak Parkway west of Hickory Tree Lane, Menomonee Falls Police said.

Assistant District Attorney Pablo Galaviz told Court Commissioner Thomas Pieper that the vehicle had been traveling between 50 and 60 mph when Jackson was thrown from the hood. Jackson died on a helicopter taking him to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, according to the district attorney's criminal complaint.

Pieper set Hollnagel's bail at $1,000 cash and a $10,000 signature bond and ordered him not to drive unless he needed a car to get to or from work or attend a class.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) will hold a public meeting on its $7.7 million Highway 74 project from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, at the Willow Springs Learning Center, W220 N6660 Town Line Road, Menomonee Falls.

The project will reconstruct the highway from Waukesha Avenue and Main Street in Sussex northeast to Good Hope Road in Lannon and just rehab the road from Good Hope Road northeast to Elder Lane in Menomonee Falls, starting Monday, May 5. The contractor, James Peterson Sons Inc. of Sheboygan, is expected to complete work by mid November, weather permitting.