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Thursday, December 1, 2016 • Vol. 135, No. 19 • Stoughton, WI • www.unifiednewsgroup.com • $1
Victorian HOLIDAY 2016
Stoughton takes ‘a walk through the past’ Victorian Holiday weekend blends nostalgia with new events Dec. 1-4 KATE NEWTON
Ceremony at the Stoughton Hospital, followed by the illumination of the Holiday Light Display at 5:30 p.m. in Stoughton Rotary Park Schedule of events at the corner of Sixth and JefferPage 3 son streets. The 100,000-bulb display will act as a backdrop for the StageWorks’ ‘Christmas Carol Ballet’ Stoughton Fire Department’s open house after the Festively IlluminatPage 3 ed Fire Truck Parade down Main Street on Saturday, and will light up Opening Gala and Tour of Homes through the end of the year. Beyond those and many othPages 4 and 5 er familiar sights in the weekend lineup, there are several additions, Stoughton Chamber of Commerce and the Tour of Homes benefit on Oregon and McFarland. Sunday, which are fundraisers for The schedule begins Thursday event coordinator Tricia Suess said. the American Cancer Society Relay with the 26th annual Love Light Among them are an indoor art walk For Life of Stoughton,
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With 70-degree days a not-so-distant memory, residents of many Wisconsin towns might be hard-pressed to suddenly find themselves in the holiday spirit. Not so in Stoughton, where festive activities will be found in droves in the form of the annual Victorian Holiday celebration, which runs from Thursday, Dec. 1, through Sunday, Dec. 4, in locations throughout the city. Now in its 24th year, Victorian Holiday will feature the return of two events that took the year off in 2015 – the Opening Gala on Friday
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and artisan showcase at Chorus Public House, which help Victorian Holiday continue to “appeal to a broader range and hopefully bring more folks to Stoughton to see everything we have to offer” especially once they set foot downtown, she added. “It’s a beautiful downtown anyways, but when they get the bows and the lights up, it just sparkles,” Suess said. “When it’s all decked out like that, it’s like a walk through the past.” With horse carriages traversing down Main Street and the “perennial favorite” Stoughton High School
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StageWorks presents projects
A Christmas Carol Ballet “Great fun for the whole family!”
“...a charming holiday tradition.”
December 3, 2016, 7:30 PM December 4, 2016, 1:30 PM Stoughton High School Auditorium
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