Jim Schramek News Today

The family of a woman staying at a Waukesha nursing home said $600 worth of gift cards are missing from her room. They filed a police report.

SEMINOLE — Worn out sofas — and their owners — throughout town may be grieving after the proprietors of one of Seminole’s longest-running upholstery shops closed after nearly 50 years in business. When brothers John and Jim Schramek opened Seminole Upholstery while still in their 20s, they had already served long apprenticeships in the trade. Their father, Joseph, got into the business in the late 1930s and made sure his eight children helped out. “We all grew up in it ...