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Report: Expand by 2020 SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group
The fast-growing Oregon School District will almost certainly be building new schools soon – the questions are where, when and how much they will cost. The OSD board has many questions to answer before any shovels hit the dirt, but a comprehensive report from a growth task force should go a long way in providing some data, if not answers. That group presented five options Monday night for handling an expected
50 percent increase in student enrollment in the next 12 years. All of them call for construction of at least two new schools. Each option would call for at least one new elementary school and middle school, with various modifications to building structures and existing grade configurations. T h e b o a r d w i l l n ow examine the options in depth as it seeks feedback from district educators and residents and prepares for a likely referendum on new school construction as soon as this fall. “ T h e r e i s n ’t a c o m munity in the state that wouldn’t trade for the economic growth we have in our district,” said district superintendent Brian
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Board has favorable views of proposed youth center BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group
Showered with praise. That’s how organizer Randy Glysch described the response he and builder Dan Bertler, owner of Supreme Structures, received Monday, Feb 12,
Dinner and a show
The show went on, despite the snowstorm. Families gathered at Oregon Middle School this last weekend for the annual Madrigal Dinner. The show features a five-course meal served by OMS seventh- and eighth-graders. Dinner guests enjoyed
songs and entertainment from the royal court, court jester and the king and queen. The dinner served Wassail, soup, salad, rolls, ham, glazed carrots, roasted red potatoes and apple cake.
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– Amber Levenhagen
Town of Rutland
Rutland candidates look to April 3
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Organizers present plan to village trustees
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The royal court singers raise their glasses and toast to family and friends at the annual Madrigal Dinner on Feb. 9.
when they presented the Village Board with drawings and preliminary construction ideas for a new Oregon Youth Center. The pair unveiled renderings for a 5,165-squarefoot building that would include lounges, an indoor and outdoor basketball half-court, pool and foosball tables and space for other uses. Village trustees praised
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Town hall, managing growth, annexation top issues SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group
Nedveck
Wedged between the City of Stoughton and the villages of Brooklyn and Oregon, Rutland and its 2,000-some residents need to focus on managing growth to reduce the effects of expected continued expansion of its neighbors into the town. That’s the overwhelming opinion of four candidates for the Rutland town board as they prepare for the upcoming election April
Hill
Zentner
3. There is a full slate of four candidates for just two supervisor seats, and while focusing on growth was a common concern, the town hall, better internet and better roads will also be election topics this spring in Rutland. The four candidates – first-term incumbent Nancy Nedveck, self-employed lifelong resident Rob Hill,
Hutchinson
to budgeting, Zentner’s i n t e r e s t i n g ove r n m e n t transparency and Hutchinson’s desire to keep Rutland’s small-town feel. And all discussed the town hall, which was the subject of failed attempts to rebuild in 2014 – a new 4,800-square-foot building was soundly rejected at the town’s annual meeting in April of that year, and three building referendums were defeated that fall.
former insurance agent Deana Zentner and Waunakee police officer Geoff Hutchinson – each spoke with the Observer this month to explain why they are interested in running Nancy Nedveck and what their priorities The only incumbent in would be. the group after Jim Lunde Those included Ned - was eliminated in the cauveck’s focus on managing cus Jan. 16, Nedveck said the effects of development in the area, Hill’s attention Turn to Rutland/Page 13
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Each option calls for at least two new schools