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Coordinated start times chosen Earlier start for elementaries, later day for middle, high schools SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group
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Each year during the annual Klondike members from the Brooklyn Sno Hornets celebrate the end of the snowmobile season. The 2019/20 snowmobiling season is the 50th for the Brooklyn Sno Hornets.
50 years for snowmobile club MACKENZIE KRUMME Unified Newspaper Group
A half century ago, Brooklyn snowmobile riders gathered in a shed on a secluded farm to discuss how to start a snowmobile club. In the early 1970’s, marked snowmobile trails were non-existent, and riders relied on both memory and experience to navigate the
“We might get one more blizzard and get out on the trails one more time.” A Sno Hornet member. countryside. As the riders met – and eventually moved toward incorporation – they called their hideout the “Hornet’s Nest.” This March marks Brooklyn Sno Hornets 50th anniversary as a snowmobile club – although they no longer meet in a farmer’s shed. The club maintains roughly 70
miles of snowmobile trails and installs thousands of traffic signs for the riders, including mile markers and stop signs. Through the fields of 83 landowners, the trails connect Albany, Evansville, Bellville, Dayton, Oregon and Brooklyn. The trails are regularly groomed or packed down, so snowmobilers across the state of Wisconsin can ride them. Each season the club families, which has more than 100 individuals from 49 families, spend weekends and nights cleaning the trails, getting permission from landowners,
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Village of Oregon
Perry Parkway should be signalized, study concludes Trustees plan to examine findings at March 16 meeting EMILIE HEIDEMANN Unified Newspaper Group
Signalizing the Perry Parkway and Janesville Street intersection might be a feasible option for improving traffic problems, a village evaluation has concluded.
Some Oregon residents are likely happy to hear that, though how the village will fund it has yet to be determined. A three-month traffic and signal analysis through SRF Consulting Group, which the Village of Oregon posted on its website Wednesday, March 4, looked into, among other things, crash data spanning the last five years at the intersection. It also explored four improvement options, concluding the best would be traffic signals and an added right-turn lane.
Village Board trustees plan to discuss the study at their Monday, March 16, meeting, village president Jeanne Carpenter and village administrator Mike Gracz told the Observer in an email Sunday, March 8. Public works director Jeff Rau is expected to devise a recommendation for board review, based on the study’s findings and suggestions. The increasingly busy intersection gained the attention of local
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A mother’s mantra Oregon resident starts workshop about girls in youth sports MACKENZIE KRUMME Unified Newspaper Group
During the Sports Mom Mantra workshop, a participant recalled seeing disappointing behavior at one of her 12 year old daughter’s softball games. After a tense and competitive ending, the teams lined up to show camaraderie and sportsmanship, the participant recalled. As the middle schoolers were high fiving, the opponent’s coach went down the line and struck
the students hand’s aggressively; angry over how the game played out, the participant said. The 15 other mothers in the room shook their heads in disappointment during the inaugural workshop at the Netherwood Knoll Elementary School library on Feb. 10. And many wondered out loud, how do parents and athletes balance the positive impacts of youth sports with the negative? That is exactly why parent Amy Crowe started this workshop, she said. After years of weekly practices and weekend tournaments, Crowe saw the positive experiences her daughter
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Brooklyn Sno Hornets maintain trails for riders across Wisconsin
After months of research, discussion and public meetings, the Oregon School District has new, coordinated start and end times for all its buildings for next school year. With little discussion after some public outcry earlier this year, school board members on Monday, March 9, approved two different start times recommended last month by a 20-member work group that had been studying the issue since Decemb e r. T h e c h a n g e s w e r e spurred by the opening of a new school, Forest Edge Elementary, and the
additional transportation coordination that will be required. The middle school and high school will start later than the elementaries and Rome Corners Intermediate, at 8:35 a.m., and end at 3:50 p.m. K-6 students’ days will start at 7:50 a.m. and be seven hours, ending at 2:50 p.m.. T h o s e f o l l ow e d r e c ommendations that older kids’ days be limited to 7 hours and 15 minutes and done before 4 p.m. and that elementary kids start at 7:50 or 7:55 a.m. and be no more than 7 hours. That means earlier start times for elementary schools by 10-15 minutes, which had been at either 8 a.m. or 8:05 a.m., though ending times will remain about the same. Rome Corners’ days are shortened 20 minutes from 3:10 p.m to 2:50 p.m..