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Thursday, January 31, 2019 • Vol. 134, No. 31 • Oregon, WI • ConnectOregonWI.com • $1.25
Oregon School District
Crowded lots cause problems OPD warns it might cite for ‘aggressive driving’ at RCI, OMS EMILIE HEIDEMANN Unified Newspaper Group
Photo courtesy of Oregon School District
From left to right is Percy Brown Sr., Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, OHS senior Madison Conduah, and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. They all pose for a photo with Conduah, who holds up his scholarship plaque.
‘One of the best guys I know’
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Village of Brooklyn
OHS senior wins Betty Franklin-Hammonds Memorial Scholarship EMILIE HEIDEMANN Unified Newspaper Group
When a student wins a scholarship, it likely means they’ve made a significant impact on their community and the people closest to them. That’s the reality for Oregon High School senior – and leading goal-scorer on the Division II state championship soccer team – Madison Conduah, whose credentials won him the Betty Franklin-Hammonds Memorial Scholarship from the
Urban League of Greater Madison. Conduah received the scholarship Jan. 20 at the 35th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth Recognition Breakfast at Edgewood High School. It was the second award in his family, as his older brother won the scholarship in 2013, and he “wanted to follow in his footsteps.” “I feel honored,” Conduah told the Observer. “I was (initially) just kind of shocked.” Franklin-Hammonds was one of Madison’s most “dynamic and visionary”
leaders, according to the event pamphlet. After she died in 1999, the scholarship was created in her name through an endowment from the Madison Community Foundation to recognize seniors who wish to pursue higher education, especially those who’ve faced social or economic obstacles. Conduah, who volunteers as a school district mentor and plays club soccer, said he wishes to study medicine, a career path he realized a few years ago during a trip to
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Village of Oregon
Splash pad gets ‘huge’ donation toward project Lycon to donate all needed concrete
already built the pump house that will power the water features at the downtown site next to the Oregon pool. ALEXANDER CRAMER And last week, a “huge” part of the project fell into Unified Newspaper Group place when Lycon announced The planning is done for it would be donating all of the Oregon Brooklyn splash the concrete for the project, pad, and the school district has totaling 150-200 cubic yards,
Oregon-Brooklyn Optimist Club secretary Margaret Straub told the Observer. Straub has been working with the Janesville-based concrete and building materials firm to arrange the donation, and hopes it will be a catalyst for other large companies to pitch in. “We really felt if we could
With ongoing safety issues at the parking lots of Rome Corners Intermediate and Oregon Middle School, Oregon police have warned they may start writing tickets for drivers who break the law when dropping off and picking up students. Police have been monitoring traffic at the two schools’ parking lots, where Oregon police chief Uhl Brian Uhl said “there are more vehicles than space.” In a Jan. 23 post on the department’s Facebook page, he said people impede traffic by walking in the road to enter the parking lots,
get Lycon to donate, other companies would say ‘Hey this is really going to happen now, and we’re going to donate,” Straub said. Lycon treasurer Pat Lyons told the Observer in an email h i s fi r m i s “ p r o u d t o b e involved” with the project.
Village president resigns Jan. 30 Village will be without president until Feb. 11 ALEXANDER CRAMER Unified Newspaper Group
Clayton Schulz has resigned as the president of the Village of Brooklyn, effective Jan. 30. The village will be without a president until at least the Feb. 11 Village Board meeting, at which time it may choose to nominate a replacement to serve out the term until April. Schulz told the Observer he is moving out of village, and his decision to step down was timed with his lease ending on Jan. 31. Village clerk Linda Kuhlman said the Jan. 28 Village Board meeting, at which Schulz submitted his resignation, didn’t
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