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Stories of 2019
Operation Fresh Start revamps space on North Main Street EMILIE HEIDEMANN Unified Newspaper Group
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Vehicles drive through high water on Netherwood Road on Friday, Oct. 4. The Village of Oregon issued nightly closures for the road so that sitting water to the north could be pumped over it.
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Flooding problems take the top spot in year’s stories regon had no shortage of exciting news this year, both good and
bad. But when the Observer staff voted on stories of the year, it wasn’t even close. The persistent flooding in and around the village was the clear No. 1. It’s flooding nothing new, as the ongoing effort to repair or rebuild the 4 year old Rotary Bike Trail from its submerged state has been stuck in the muck for the past two years. Early this year, residents sought village help with Badfish Creek overflow on Jefferson Street and stormwater ponds at the Bergamot golf
course. Later in the year, the village closed Netherwood Road for several days because of flooding and held a forum to both educate people about what the village is doing and trade ideas. It was even worse outside the village, where several residents around Lake Barney – which has grown from 30 acres to 800 over the past few years – have found their homes continually flooded and drowning in a sea of red tape, dealing with as many as seven government units. Village and school developments dominated most of the
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At a newly revamped house on 437 N. Main St., staff from Operation Fresh Start and the Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development joined local officials in reflecting on the half-year it took to make the building suitable for a family in need of workforce housing. It’s the first house the organizations have worked on in Oregon. OFS is a countywide program that mentors at-risk youth from ages 16-24. Over the summer and fall, it had 50 of those youths
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an Oregon Middle School health class lesson after Oregon School District one student started an administrators and staff online petition about its will take another look at negative effects.
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Stories of 2019 1. Flooding issues overwhelm village, nearby towns 2. Police chief under fire after SRO debate 3. (tie) Fitchburg school breaks ground, gets name 3. (tie) Carpenter becomes new village president 5. New youth center opens 6. Superintendent Busler announces retirement 7. Sleep Inn and Suites opens on east side 8. Planning for library continues, fundraising starts 9. Traffic issues around OMS, RCI 10. Anderson Farm park gets dog park, plans gardens
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Operation Fresh Start, with other organizations, revamped a home at 437 N. Main St. The house will be put on the market for $180,000.
Calorie counting prompts class review Student says health lesson can be harmful
completely overhaul the home. The home will be put on the market for $180,000, WFHD executive director Kathy Kamp told the Observer. That’s in contrast to most of the housing market in Oregon, Kamp said. The average home in the Village of Oregon is valued at $305,000, according to village statistics compiled this fall. That cost threshold, Kamp said, has created a situation where the people who work in Oregon can’t afford to live here. She said the North Main Street space is intended to help remedy that problem – though the community still has a long way to go. The house is equipped with two bedrooms, one
Evelyn Becker started a change.org petition over concerns about a calorie counting assignment she said “started my disordered eating” due to the pressure, she said in a news release from change.org. “I had a very strong belief that I wasn’t good enough, and this project made things a lot worse,”
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A gym full of generosity The Oregon-Brooklyn Lions Club joined forces with volunteers from Pure Integrity Homes to collect and organize a massive haul of toys into the big gym at Netherwood Knoll Elementary School on Thursday, Dec. 19. A culmination of the Operation Joy toy drive, area families were able to pick from the collection of toys, books and candy later that day. - Justin Loewen
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Holy Mother of Consolation Catholic Church filled and donated dozens of candy bags to the Operation Joy toy drive. The Oregon-Brooklyn Lions consolidated the sweets alongside other items at Netherwood Knoll Elementary School on Dec. 19. From right, volunteer Tony Antoniewicz of Pure Integrity Homes gives directions to his coworker Anna Petrie while organizing the collected toys.
Volunteer Jason Holtman of Pure Integrity Homes arranges a variety of collected sports balls.
Toys neatly organized by age group.
A pair of ‘Eagles’ at the park If Anderson Farm County Farm is soon host to more wildlife (though hopefully fewer mosquitos) the credit belongs to two Eagle Scouts. Oregon Boy Scout Troop 168 members had a busy 2019, including two Scouts who earned their Eagle Scout awards with environmentally minded projects at the park. This fall, Adam Hanke constructed animal shelters and Zak Bonnell erected eight bat houses around the park. Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott.delaruelle@wcinet.com.
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Equity grant recipients announced Three agencies receive funds to address racial justice inequalities Three Madison-area agencies received nearly $60,000 worth of grants to address systemic racial inequities in the criminal justice system. M e n t o r i n g P o s i t iv e s w i l l receive $15,000 for programming enhancements, Families Back to the Table, Inc. will receive $15,000 to help families having “difficulties with life circumstances” and Today Not Tomorrow, Inc. will receive $27,500 to expand family support services,
according to a Dec. 5 county news release. The agencies have been selected to receive the Tamara D. Grigsby Office of Equity and Inclusion’s 2019 Partners in Equity (PIE) – Racial Equity and Social Justice (RESJ) Grants, Dane County officials announced last week. “Dane County is honored to partner with this year’s grant recipients and support their work to address racial inequities in the community,” county executive Joe Parisi said. “By partnering together, we can ensure opportunity for all and help Dane County residents reach their full potential.” State Representative and Dane
County Board Supervisor Shelia Stubbs said in the news release the grants “will continue to foster partnerships with programs that continue to address the daunting racial disparities that exist in this county.” Funding for Mentoring Positives will be used to “design and evaluate enhancements” to programming for youths referred by the Neighborhood Intervention Program. “These youth have had exposure to the juvenile justice system and will take classes to help earn high school credits, meet court-ordered community service requests, and/or earn a ‘Positive Path’ degree from the organization to recognize their hard work,”
according to the news release. Funding for Families Back to the Table, Inc. will assist families in jeopardy of out-of-home p l a c e m e n t , h av i n g c h i l d r e n placed in foster care or coming into contact with the criminal justice system. The program will “provide family support groups, offer nutrition education, encourage attendance at local events and community meetings, and host weekly discussions with participants,” according to the news release. The organization will also work with families on communication skills, conflict resolution, gang prevention and career development.
Funding for Today Not Tomorrow, Inc. will be used to expand programming with clients at ARC Community Services and the ARC Maternity and Infant Care Program, and help expand parenting support-related services to incarcerated women. “The organization is designed to improve lifespan health disparities by offering community based programming and early intervention through an infant mental health and trauma informed lens,” according to the news release. Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott.delaruelle@wcinet.com.
Spring election filing Group to discuss start/end times deadline nears Oregon School District
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A new workgroup will examine feedback on starting and ending times for Oregon School District schools. With a new elementary school opening next fall, district officials introduced a plan this month to unify start times across the district. But the prospect of extending the school day and starting school earlier for some elementary schools met criticism from some parents and staff. The district presented eight options at three listening sessions in December. The new workgroup, comprising parents, teachers, school staff, board members and administrators, will have a goal to present its report to the
board by Feb. 24. OSD superintendent Brian Busler told the Observer last week it “makes good sense” not to rush things. “We have some time in our timeline that we Busler can have a small work group and spend some more time looking at the points,” he said. “It’s something we’ve historically done when there’s an issue of concern, and we’re always interested in the feedback parents give us.” The issue of changing start times is always difficult, Busler said, noting that the district’s last change was in 2000, when Rome Corners Intermediate School opened. “There’s a reason school districts
“It’s something we’ve historically done when there’s an issue of concern, and we’re always interested in the feedback parents give us.”
Superintendent Brian Busler don’t change school start times very often, and it’s often connected to when a new school is opened,” he said. “At the end of the day, all the relevant facts will get on the table, and I know the group will come up with a good report and a good recommendation for the board.”
‘No threat’ after bullet found at high school Unified Newspaper Group
A bullet found at Oregon High School on the last day of school before break was not an indicator of a threat, district officials announced Friday, Dec. 20. An OHS staff member found a single .22 caliber shell lying on the seat of a chair in a classroom earlier that day. The staff member reported this to a school principal and immediately communicated this to the
Oregon Police Department, according to a letter to parents. “We quickly identified the student in question and learned the shell was accidentally in the student’s backpack and fell out,” the letter said. “The Oregon Police Department determined there was no safety threat.” The letter also asked parents to discuss with their children what sort of items should not be brought to school, something OSD
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A simple thank-you to the community For the kindness you showed during the recent passing of my father, Bill Faust, thank you. For welcoming my father and our family to the Oregon community back in 1978, thank you. For always greeting my dad with a smile, a handshake, a joke or a story, thank you. Long after dad “retired” he was still going into the store several times a week for no other reason than to see his friends and Bill’s Food Center family. He would hope
he’d run into folks he hadn’t seen for a while just so he could catch up and make sure that their families were all doing well. He loved being part of Oregon and giving back to all who had treated him with such kindness. So, thank you to a community that meant more to my dad than you will ever know. I wish you peace and joy during this holiday season! Linda Stace Town of Rutland
Correction
In a story about the death of community icon Bill Faust, the Observer had two key facts incorrect. Faust was the owner and proprietor of Bill’s Food Store, not the general manager. And when he purchased the store, it was from Paul Kohlman, who’s name had been spelled incorrectly. The Observer regrets these reporting errors.
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External factors will restrain us if we don’t limit ourselves
The Oregon Observer welcomes Community Voices opinion columns in addition to letters to the editor. Community Voices pieces can exceed our normal 400-word limit and open to anyone with a strong connection to our community, but they go through a much more stringent review and editing process than standard letters to the editor. In some cases, Observer staff have asked community leaders to write columns to help inform our readers, and in other cases, community members with an interest in writing thought-provoking pieces or delving into a particular topic ask the Observer for an outlet other than letters to the editor. o ship at sea has ever If you are interested in working with our editorial staff on occasional survived a belief that its or regular Community Voices columns or would like a single essay to crew and cargo could be considered, please contact editor Jim Ferolie at oregonobserver@ increase without limit. Nor have wcinet.com. the contents of the hull and deck been the only factors that needed to be held in check. On the open sea, recognizing and adapting to the unforgiving limits of Nature have always been essential. Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019 • Vol. 135, No. 28 This naval metaphor applies to Man as a whole and to the USPS No. 411-300 Periodical Postage Paid, Oregon, WI and additional offices. “ship” we call Earth. Published weekly on Thursday by the Unified Newspaper Group, Captains’ quarters, for examA Division of Woodward Communications, Inc. ple, have always been larger POSTMASTER: Send Address Corrections to and more luxurious than those The Oregon Observer, PO Box 930427, Verona, WI 53593. of ordinary seamen, but they Office Location: 156 N. Main Street, Oregon, WI 53575 never approached the extremes Office Hours: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday which characterize the lifestyles Phone: 608-835-6677 • FAX: 608-835-0130 of today’s ultra-rich. e-mail: ungeditor@wcinet.com Even if the captain himself Circulation customer service: (800) 355-1892 could have afforded lavish mulConnectOregonWI.com tiple quarters for his enjoyment, adding more and more of them This newspaper is printed on recycled paper. would inevitably displace cargo and crew – and eventually sink Circulation General Manager the ship. ungcirculation@wcinet.com Lee Borkowski This logic extends beyond the News lborkowski@wcinet.com captain and top officers. The Jim Ferolie consumption and waste genSales Manager ungeditor@wcinet.com erated by typical middle-class Kathy Neumeister Americans is between 10 and Sports kathy.neumeister@wcinet.com 20 times greater than that of Adam Feiner the other 4 billion or so humans Advertising ungsportseditor@wcinet.com who occupy spaceship Earth’s Daniel Duquette Community/Business most modest quarters. oregonsales@wcinet.com Emilie Heidemann A few hundred ultra-rich ungbusiness@wcinet.com Classifieds aren’t enough to swamp our ungclassified@wcinet.com Reporters vessel, much as we might resent Kimberly Wethal, Mark Nesbitt, them. But multiply the middle Inside Sales class’ ecological impacts by our Mackenzie Krumme, Neal Patten, Suzy Schleeper sheer numbers and the grand Scott De Laruelle, Renee Hickman insidesales@wcinet.com totals are sinking us. It isn’t peasants in Africa and South America who are most In memory responsible for blasting the sky UNG Reporter Amber Levenhagen (1994-2019) full of greenhouse gases. It is “ordinary” people like you and Unified Newspaper Group, a division of me. Woodward Communications,Inc. In short, the axioms of the A Diversified, Employee-Owned Media Company growth capitalism that now Good People. Real Solutions. Shared Results. dominate the economies, poliPrinted by Capital Newspapers - Madison tics and popular expectations of our age have never been viable in the naval realm. Nor were they viable throughout most NATIONAL NEWSPAPER of human history, though Man ASSOCIATION constituted a tiny fraction of Earth’s living cargo. SUBSCRIPTION RATES A few perceptive souls intuit$ One Year in Dane Co. & Rock Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 ed that we live on an enormous One Year Elsewhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $55 ship of sorts, but they couldn’t begin to quantify Earth’s size Oregon Observer
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or full inventory of natural wealth. Imagining an end to limits was a luxury few of our ancestors could afford. Noeldner Their day-today world was much smaller than it is for today’s motorist, air traveler and online shopper. They had to concern themselves mainly with just staying alive. The virtues of modesty, thrift, and self-restraint were practical necessities for them, rather than what they have become for us today: impediments to “healthy” growth, higher quarterly earnings, rising wages, increased tax revenues and footholds on political office. What happened was several hundred years of explosive growth in population, technological power, specialization of labor, societal complexity, material prosperity and control over nature. We found concrete evidence that Earth is a sphere of finite size after we discovered vast new continents for Europeans to conquer. Even the first glimpse of Earthrise on Christmas Eve in 1968 did not persuade us to live within our planet’s natural limits. By then, many generations of very rich, powerful men – ably assisted by legions of sycophants and ideological lackeys – had succeeded in a colossal publicity campaign to establish and prolong a consumptive stupor in the masses. Greed would lift all boats, they assured us, and like sheep we went along. And why not? Never before had so many of us been so well off in a material sense. Easing back on the throttle of growth when things are getting even better seemed downright insane. We pointed to the evidence that the Malthusians and doomsdayers were wrong. Farmers produce more than enough food to feed everyone. A nuclear winter never
In short, the axioms of the growth capitalism that now dominate the economies, politics and popular expectations of our age have never been viable in the naval realm. Nor were they viable throughout most of human history, though Man constituted a tiny fraction of Earth’s living cargo. a
happened. Peak Oil turned out to be a myth. Who needs whale oil when gasoline costs $2.19 at Woodmans? Today, few of us can bear to hear climatologists’ warnings that we are greatly hastening our collective demise. We want to believe we have advanced much too far along the arc of progress for that. If we created some problems inadvertently, surely our scientists and engineers will rise to new heights of innovation and provide us with solutions. As bad as things are in Washington right now, sooner or later America’s leaders will rise to the challenges. They just have to. So we tell our children that faith in a better future will make that better future happen. I myself write these words hoping against hope they will help make the difference between collapse and a severe, but survivable contraction. But faith in economic growth and demands for a maximum of individual liberty dominate our world today. Those of us who have thus far avoided the worst of climate disruption may have to crash into much more severe ecological limits before a decisive number of us wake up. I want to believe it won’t already be too late. Hans Noeldner is a Village of Oregon resident.
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Community hosts New Year’s Eve festivities
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From left, Sue Schadewald and Sadie Jackson sort through donated presents. Many Host a Family recipients asks for household products like dish soap and paper towels, in addition to food.
The ‘magic’ of the holidays MACKENZIE KRUMME Unified Newspaper Group
On Thursday, Dec. 12, the lower level of LakeView Church in Stoughton was like Santa’s workshop. As the Host a Family organization geared up to give 300 families presents for the holiday, volunteers buzzed through the church organizing and categorizing. There were at least 1,000 black garbage bags, scattered through six different rooms, which had donated presents for children. On one end of the church was the “Elf Bazaar” with 10, 8-foot tables stacked high with clothes, five coat
in Stoughton, Oregon or Mcfarland and the donor purchases specific gifts for that family. Twenty-seven years ago, the present drive started out with purchases presents for a handful of families and today it serves about 300 families every year. Lisa Clark, a volunteer of HAF, said every year this event brings out the “magic of Christmas.” If you’d like to host a family or take advantage of the program for 2020 visit From left, Lisa Clark, Sadie Jackson and Sue Schadewald help make the Host a Family holiday drive a reality. This year hostafamily.org. To view or buy the phothe organization donated presents to nearly 300 families. tos in the slideshow, visit racks and six round tables w e r e w e l c o m e d t o t h e smugmug.com. filled with gently used bazaar to shop for free. Contact Mackenzie toys. After families picked The HAF organization Krumme at mackenzie. krumme@wcinet.com. up their donated gifts they pairs a donor with a family
Oregon is ringing in the new year with three seperate holiday events. Community members can celebrate from 5:307:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31, at the Oregon Public library, Oregon Area Senior Center or Netherwood Knoll Elementary School. Each location has events for the evening. At the library, families can enjoy a scavenger hunt, photo booth, crafts at a ball drop at 7:15 p.m. The senior center is offering toss games and live music by “Grey and Casey” from 6-7 p.m. Finally, NKE is opening up the gym for activities and games. The event is sponsored by the Oregon Community Education and Recreation department, senior center, library and State Bank of Cross Plains-Oregon. For information, visit https://www.oregonwi. com/
Host a Family donors pack shopping carts full of gifts for families during the HAF drive on Thursday, Dec. 12 at LakeView Church in Stoughton.
What: Community New Year’s Eve celebration at senior center When: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31 Where: Oregon Senior Center Info: 835-5801
If You Go What: Community New Year’s Eve celebration at NKE When: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31 Where: Netherwood Knoll Elementary School, 276 Soden Dr Info: 835-4100 Contact Mackenzie Krumme at mackenzie. krumme@wcinet.com.
If You Go What: Community New Year’s Eve celebration at library When: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31 Where: Oregon Public Library Info: Kelly Allen at kallen@oregonlibrary.org.
Annual Free Throw contest returns on Sunday, Jan. 5 Holy Mother of Consolation Knights of Columbus Council 13480 will be conducting a Youth Free Throw Competition 1:15 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5 at Prairie View Elementary School Big Gym, 300 Soden Drive. The contest is open to all children ages 9 to 14. Judges will score one point for each completed free throw out of 15 free throws. There is no cost for participating in this contest. The contact person for this event is Marty Prew at uknight.org
Volunteers Naomi Gavol and Amie Edgington help check in volunteers and guide donors who drop off their presents at LakeView Church in Stoughton. Gavol is holding two of the 50 blankets that were donated by a local church that day.
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If You Go What: KC Free Throw contest When: 1:15 Sunday, Jan. 5 Where: Prairie View Elementary School Big Gym, 300 Soden Drive. Info: Marty Prew at uknight.org Contact Mackenzie Krumme at mackenzie. krumme@wcinet.com.
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Memory cafe
The public is invited to attend a memory cafe from 9:30-11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, at Sienna Crest Corporate Offices, 845 Market St. A Memory Cafe is a place where individuals with memory loss and their care partners can get together in a safe, supportive and engaging environment. The Memory Cafe encourages friendship and acceptance, and participants can share conversation in a relaxed atmosphere. For information, call the senior center 835-5801.
Blood drive
A Red Cross blood drive will take place from 7-11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 625 E Netherwood St. To schedule an appointment or for more information, call 1-800-REDCROSS or visit redcrossblood.org.
First Monday
A presentation on “Yoga and laughter” is being presented at noon on Monday, Jan. 6, at the United
Thursday, Jan. 9, at the senior center. Registration is required. The class runs 1-3 p.m. Thursdays from Jan. 9 to Feb. 20. The cost of the class is $35. The class is meant to help participants address their falls risk, balance concerns or fear of falling. The class includes instruction by Ron Dorr, guest expert presentations, printed materials, and snacks. Scholarships available upon request. For information and to register, call Cardboard crafts Use cardboard to make some crafts Anne at 835-5801 to register. 10 a.m. Jan. 7-9, at the library. Preschool open gym Children 6 years and younger are Kids ages 5 years and younger are welcome to make cars and trucks out invited to engage in a preschool open of cardboard boxes. gym from 6-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, All supplies are provided by the in the Netherwood Knoll Elementary library but students are welcome to School big gym, 276 Soden. Dr. bring their own boxes. The children can enjoy gym games, The following week participants but must be accompanied by an can watch a “drive- in movies” at the adult. The event is sponsored by Orelibrary with their new creations. For information, contact Kelly gon Community Ed and Rec and the library. Allen at kallen@oregonlibrary.org. Enter through Door 10 or the dis‘Stepping on’ trict office main entrance. For information, call 835-3656. A falls prevention course starts Methodist Church, 103 N. Alpine Pkwy. A potluck lunch is set to be served at 11 a.m. The presentation is put on by members of the Oregon Area Historical Society. The conversation targets adults 50 years and older and everyone is encouraged to bring a dish to pass. For information, call the church at 835-3755.
Community calendar Thursday, Dec. 26
• 1 p.m., Movie matinee: “The Lion King,” senior center, 835-5801 • 4-7 p.m.., Food distribution and collection, Oregon Area Food Pantry, 107 N. Alpine Parkway, oregonfoodpantry@hotmail.com • 6:30-8 p.m., Book Mobile, Brooklyn Gazebo, brooklynwi.gov
Tuesday, Dec. 31
• 9-11 a.m., Food distribution and collection, Oregon Area Food Pantry, 107 N. Alpine Parkway, oregonfoodpantry@hotmail.com • 5:30-7:30 p.m., Community New Year’s Eve (scavenger hunt, crafts), library, 835-3656 • 5:30-7:30 p.m., Community New Year’s Eve (toss games), senior center, 835-5801 • 5:30-7:30 p.m., Community new Year’s Eve
gym games and activities, Netherwood Knoll Elementary School, 276 Soden Dr., 835-4100 • 6-7 p.m., Community New Year’s Eve music by “Grey and Casey,” senior center, 835-5801 • 8 p.m., Time Travelers performance, Oregon Bowl, 214 Spring St., 8353133 • 9 p.m., The Underground Project performance, Headquarters, 101 Concord Dr., undergroundproject44@gmail. com
• 5 p.m., Deadline for spring election candidates to file nomination papers
Wednesday, Jan. 8
• 10 a.m., Make a cardboard car, library, 835Saturday, Jan. 4 3656 • 7-11 a.m., Blood drive, • 1 p.m., Movie Matinees St. John’s Lutheran (“The Bookshop”), senior Church, 625 E Nethercenter, 835-5801 wood St., 291-4311 • 10-10:30 a.m., Dads and • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Energy assistance program, donuts, library, 835-3656 senior center, 333-0333 Sunday, Jan. 5 • 10:45 a.m., Quilts by • 1:15 p.m., KC Free Karen Saunders, senior throw contest (ages 9-14), center, 835-5801 Prairie View Elementary Thursday, Jan. 9 School, 300 Soden Drive. • 10-10:30 a.m., Sensory 835-8037 Wednesday, Jan. 1 storytime (registration • Village of Oregon officMonday, Jan. 6 required for ages 0-5), es, Village of Brooklyn • 11 a.m., First Monday, library, 835-3656 offices, library, senior cen- “Laughter and yoga” pre• 1-3 p.m., Stepping on ter closed sentation, United Method- falls prevention class ist Church, 103 N. Alpine ($35), senior center, 835Thursday, Jan. 2 Pkwy., 835-3755 5801 • Oregon School District classes resume Tuesday, Jan. 7 Friday, Jan. 10 • 9:30 a.m., Memory • 10 a.m., Make a card• 10 a.m., Make a cardCafe (first Thursday of board car, library, 835board car, library, 8353656 the month), Sienna Crest 3656
Community cable listings Village of Oregon Cable Access TV channels: WOW #983 & ORE #984 Phone: 291-0148 • Email: oregoncableaccess@charter.net Website: ocamedia.com • Facebook: ocamediawi New programs daily at 1 p.m. and repeats at 4, 7 and 10 p.m. and 1, 4, 7 and 10 a.m.
Thursday, Dec. 26 WOW: Oregon Progressives Open Mic (Dec. 6) ORE: OHS Panther Girls Basketball vs Edgewood (Dec. 6) AIRS Friday, Dec. 27 WOW: Senior Center Presentation: Antique Tractors (June 26) ORE: Icebergs Girls Hockey vs Viroqua (Dec. 13) Saturday, Dec. 28 WOW: Movie: On the Waterfront (1954) ORE: OHS Band Concert (Dec. 16) Sunday, Dec. 29 WOW: Christ Memorial Lutheran Church Service ORE: OHS Girls Basketball vs Edgewood (Dec. 10)
Corporate Offices, 845 Market St., 835-5801 • 6:30-8 p.m., Book Mobile, Brooklyn Gazebo, brooklynwi.gov
Monday, Dec. 30 WOW: Oregon Progressives Open Mic (Dec. 6) ORE: OHS Boys Hockey vs Stoughton (Dec. 17) Tuesday, Dec. 31 WOW: Senior Center Presentation: 2019 Volunteers with Bob Lindmeier ORE: Boys Basketball vs Edgewood (Dec. 20) Wednesday, Jan. 1 WOW: Oregon Village Board Meeting (Dec. 16) ORE: OHS Orchestra Concert (Dec. 12) Thursday, Jan. 2 WOW: Senior Center Presentation: Middleton Jazz Concert (April 17) ORE: OHS Wrestling vs Fort Atkinson (Dec. 6)
Senior center Monday, Dec. 30 Lemon Baked Fish Baked Potato Sour Cream Fruit Cocktail Whole Wheat Bread Sugar Cookie MO – Veggie Wrap NCS – SF Cookie Packet Tuesday, Dec. 31 Italian Sausage on White Bun Oven Roasted Potatoes Stewed Tomatoes Orange Juice Strawberry Ice Cream Cup MO – Veggie Hot Dog NCS – SF Ice Cream Wednesday, Jan. 1 Closed Happy New Year! Thursday, Jan. 2 My Meal, My Way Lunch at Ziggy’s Smokehouse and Ice Cream Parlor! Drop in between 11:30 AM and 1:00 PM Friday, Jan. 3 BBQ Pulled Pork on Whole Wheat Bun Creamy Coleslaw Carrot and Raisin Salad Pineapple Vanilla Pudding MO – Black Bean Burger NCS – SF Pudding SO — Chicken Confetti Salad
Monday, Dec. 30 9:00 CLUB 10:30 Dominoes 10:30 StrongWomen 1:00 Weight Loss Support 1:30 Bridge 1:45 Balance Class Tuesday, Dec. 31 Morning: Foot Care 8:30 Zumba Gold Advanced 9:30 Ride to Food Pantry 9:45 Zumba Gold 12:30 Sheepshead 12:45 Silver Sneakers 5:30 New Years Eve Community Party Wednesday, Jan. 1 Closed Happy New Year Thursday, Jan. 2 8:30 Zumba Gold Advanced 9:00 Pool Players 9:30 Memory Café at Sienna Crest Corp. Office 9:45 Zumba Gold 10:30 StrongWomen 12:30 Mahjongg Friday, Jan. 3 9:00 CLUB 9:00 Gentle Yoga 9:30 Blood Pressure 10:45 Balance Class 11:45 Shopping at Bill’s
All Saints Lutheran Church 2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg (608) 276-7729 Interim pastor SUNDAY 8:30 a.m. classic service 10:45 a.m. new song service Brooklyn Lutheran Church 101 Second Street, Brooklyn (608) 455-3852 Pastor Rebecca Ninke SUNDAY 9 a.m. Holy Communion 10 a.m. Fellowship Community of Life Lutheran Church PO Box 233, Oregon (608) 286-3121, office@ communityoflife.us Pastor Jim McCoid SUNDAY 8:45 a.m. Education Hour, 10 a.m. Worship at 1111 S. Perry Parkway, Oregon Brooklyn Community United Methodist Church 201 Church Street, Brooklyn (608) 455-3344 Pastor George Kaminski SUNDAY 9 a.m. Worship (Nov.-April) 10:30 a.m. Worship (May-Oct.)
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church 143 Washington Street, Oregon (608) 835-3554 Pastor Jeffrey Hendrix SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship Holy Communion 2nd & last Sundays First Presbyterian Church 408 N. Bergamont Blvd. (north of CC), Oregon, WI (608) 835-3082 - fpcoregonwi. org Pastor Kathleen Owens SUNDAY 10 a.m. Service 10:15 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Fellowship 11:15 a.m. Adult Education Memorial UCC 5705 Lacy Road, Fitchburg (608) 273-1008, memorialucc. org Pastor Kristin Gorton SUNDAY 8:15 and 10 a.m.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church ECLA
Central Campus: Raymond Road and Whitney Way SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship SUNDAY - 8:15, 9:30 and 10:45 a.m. Worship West Campus: Corner of Hwy. PD and Nine Mound Road, Verona SUNDAY - 9 & 10:15 a.m., 6 p.m. Worship (608) 271-6633 Hillcrest Bible Church
752 E. Netherwood, Oregon David Bartosik, Lead Pastor (608) 835-7972, www.hbclife.com SUNDAY 8:30 a.m. worship at the Hillcrest Campus and 10:15 a.m. worship with Children’s ministries, birth – 4th grade Holy Mother of Consolation Catholic Church
651 N. Main Street, Oregon Pastor: Fr. Gary Wankerl (608) 835-5763 holymotherchurch.weconnect.com SATURDAY: 5 p.m. Worship SUNDAY: 8 and 10:15 a.m. Worship People’s United Methodist Church 103 North Alpine Parkway, Oregon Pastor Jason Mahnke
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Communion is the 1st & 3rd weekend SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship and Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. Worship St. John’s Lutheran Church
625 E. Netherwood, Oregon Pastor Paul Markquart (Lead) (608) 291-4311 SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship SUNDAY - 8, 10:30 a.m. Worship Vineyard Community Church
Oregon Community Bank & Trust, 105 S. Alpine Parkway, Oregon Bob Groth, Pastor (608) 513-3435, welcometovineyard.com SUNDAY - 10 a.m. Worship
Zwingli United Church of Christ – Paoli
At the intersection of Hwy. 69 & PB Pastor Rich Pleva paoliucc.com, (608) 225-1278 SUNDAY - 9:30 a.m. Family worship
Support groups • Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, First Presbyterian Church, every Monday and Friday at 7 p.m. • Relationship & Divorce Support Group, State Bank of Cross Plains, every other Monday at 6:30 p.m. • Navigating Life Elder Support Group, People’s United Methodist Church, 103 N. Alpine Pkwy., every first Monday at 7 p.m.
Who Are Your Brothers and Sisters? A brother or sister is much more than someone who shares the same parentage. A brother or sister is someone who loves and supports you, who has your back when enemies surround you and gives you shelter when no one else will. Holy men and women have always reminded us that the “family of man” makes us all brothers and sisters. The Bible tells us repeatedly to treat widows, orphans and immigrants well, for they are God’s children and thus our brothers and sisters. Mystics and saints have taken this one step further in telling us that all of creation is God’s handiwork, and thus both the animate and inanimate parts of nature are also quite literally our brothers and sisters. Modern science elegantly demonstrates that we are all made of the same basic stuff; the carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in every cell of our body is the same material from which the stars and planets are made, and the DNA which maintains our bodies is shared by every creature on the planet.We share more of that DNA with our human brothers than with our non-human ones, but it’s all the same basic stuff. Treat the earth and all of its inhabitants as your brothers and sisters, for we are all children of the same God. – Christopher Simon
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Fresh: Tile floor installed Continued from page 1 bathroom and a half bath in the basement. It has a washer and dryer in the unit and has a kitchen complete with stove, microwave and refrigerator. It has two stories – three if you include the basement. Kevin Gutierrez, an OFS staff member from Madison took the Observer on a tour of the home and said the OFS team installed the trimming on the floors and painted the house walls. He said the railing along the stairs took one of the staff members around a week to sand down. Downstairs, the dozens of people who showed up to the open house event to see the home were gathered in the kitchen with refreshments donated by Firefly Coffeehouse and Artisan
Cheese. They stood on a tile floor the OFS staff installed and against the counter they assembled. Gutierrez said OFS staff put together the kitchen cabinets. More visitors socialized in the living room with carpeting the same color as in the bedrooms upstairs. Gutierrez reminisced about the last few months of working on the house and said the experience has taught him in particular about how to better express himself and communicate with others. “It feels really nice … knowing that a family is going to live here,” Gutierrez said. Email Emilie Heidemann at emilie.heidemann@wcinet. com or follow her on Twitter at @HeidemannEmilie.
Calorie: Lesson had been in used for past decade Continued from page 1 food I swallowed.” Becker wrote that after only two days she became “fixated” on the numbers in the calorie counting app. “That week I believe I started my disordered eating,” she said in the release. “I continued to use that app after the assignments, and I didn’t stop until I met with my first therapist, who immediately prompted me to delete it and told me that no student should be allowed to use the app at all, let alone for school work.” In the release, Becker called the assignment a “breeding ground for low self-esteem students to develop unhealthy
relationships with food.” “Young people do not need more reason to feel that their bodies are inadequate,” she said. OSD superintendent Brian Busler told the Observer Friday that the assignment, which has been used in health classes at the school “on again and off again for about 10 years” and has been completed for this year, will be reviewed before next school year, given the concerns. “We always review our culture, and if a student brings us concern or a parent brings us a concern, we take it seriously,” he said. “We certainly don’t want to cause any stress to students… we’re sensitive to that.”
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Holiday traditions highlighted NEAL PATTEN Unified Newspaper Group
On Monday, Dec. 2, JoAnne Swenson of the Oregon Historical Society was the guest speaker at People’s United Methodist Church’s First Monday gathering. This monthly gathering of PUMC members ages 50+ meets for fellowship on the first Monday of each month, followed by an educational or inspirational program. Swenson’s presentation was an overview of Christmas and winter holiday traditions throughout the world including in China, Japan, Denmark, The Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom. She discussed the history of gift-giving, how Christmas greeting cards started, the origins of the yule log, the symbolism of poinsettias and where the Elf on the Shelf came from. She also shared the background on the “Christmas pickle” tradition and explained what “wassailing” is. There were some interesting surprises during her talk, such as that Japan residents love to eat Kentucky Fried Chicken for Christmas dinner. It’s one of the only times many Japanese eat it all year, she said, leading them to call it “Kentucky Fried Christmas.” The first known “personalized” Christmas card was mailed by actress Annie Oakley in 1891 when she sent a card she had designed featuring a photo of herself to friends and family in the United States while she was abroad visiting Scotland. PUMC’s next First Mondays gathering in January will teach attendees laughter yoga. Neal Patten can be reached at neal.patten@wcinet.com
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Mary Culp looks through a collection of several decades of Christmas greeting cards at a presentation by the Oregon Area Historical Society on Dec. 2.
JoAnn Swenson of the Oregon Area Historical Society presents a lecture about ‘Christmas Around the World’ to members of the People’s United Methodist Church.
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Sports Stories of the Year
1. Golden girls of the pitch Oregon goalkeeper Melia Moyer stepped up when her team needed her most in a shootout in the Division 2 state championship June 15 at Uilhlein Soccer Park in Milwaukee. Moyer stopped two kicks in the shootout against Whitefish Bay to help the second-ranked Panthers win their second state title in five years. Oregon won the shootout 4-1 after the score was tied at 1 at the end of regulation and two overtime periods. The Panthers earned a shot at the title after shutting out Brookfield East 2-0 in the state semifinals June 13. Oregon (18-0-1) made its fifth straight state appearance and won the championship for the first time since 2015. The Panthers finished with a school-record 103 goals and posted 15 shutouts, one away from
the school record. Senior defender Sydney McKee said the state title game was reminiscent of her freshman year, when Oregon to Homestead 2-1 in a shootout in the 2016 title game. McKee, fellow seniors Randey Lewis and Katie Eisele and junior Emma Halverson scored in the shootout. Halverson gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead in the shootout, and Moyer kept the Panthers ahead with a diving save of Whitefish Bay’s Liz Murphy. The Blue Dukes outshot the Panthers 24-8 and had 14 corner kicks, but Moyer stepped up big with 10 saves. Whitefish Bay scored first in the 48th minute, but Oregon tied it four minutes later when junior Hanna Rohrer scored on a direct Photo by Mark Nesbitt Oregon goalkeeper Melia Moyer (right) makes a leaping save on a corner kick in the Division 2 state championship game kick from 23 yards. — Mark Nesbitt Saturday, June 15, at Uihlein Soccer Park in Milwaukee. She made 10 saves in the Panthers’ victory.
2. Fundraising for scholarships 3. Beauchaine breaks record
Photo by Kimberly Wethal
Kristin Kellerman speaks about how the Opportunity 34 Foundation seeks to help students who have had adversity in their lives afford post-secondary school during the first Ride for Opportunity event on Saturday, Sept. 14, at Verona Community Park.
On Feb. 15, Oregon High School hosted an Opportunity 34 Foundation “Make it Rain” fundraiser during its rivalry game against Stoughton to raise money for college scholarships for OHS students. The fundraiser was hosted in honor of 2019 OHS graduate Ethan Victorson’s cousin, Will Kellerman, who played basketball for Verona Area High School and Milwaukee Area Technical College before his death in a rollover crash just a couple of miles from his parents’ Verona home and a few days after he celebrated his 21st birthday. The fundraiser raised $10,200 for OHS
scholarships. The Opportunity 34 Foundation said it would match up to $3,400 in money raised. The Opportunity 34 Foundation, a nonprofit organization, raises and grants scholarship money to student-athletes. Ke l l e r m a n ’s p a r e n t s created the foundation in Will’s honor to provide scholarships for Verona basketball players, but it has since expanded to offer scholarships to other Dane County schools and MATC. The only requirement is that athletes have played one year of basketball and demonstrated a financial need. — Mark Nesbitt
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Oregon’s Lauren Beauchaine (left) closed out her prep career with an eighth-place finish in the 3,200-meter run at the 2019 Division 1 state meet. She broke her own school record with a time of 10:57.43.
Oregon’s Lauren Beauchaine broke the 35-year old school record in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:06.75 at the Division 1 Lake Geneva Badger Sectional on May 23. She went on to finish eighth at the D1 state track & field meet in the event June 1, breaking her own school record with a time of 10:57.43. T h e p r ev i o u s s c h o o l record was 11:08.8 set by Jacinta Fuller in 1984. Beauchaine won the 3,200 at the Badger South Conference Meet, Sun Prairie Regional and Badger Sectional. She now competes in cross country and track & field at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. — Mark Nesbitt
4. Boys soccer wins regional 5. Softball wins regional title The Oregon boys soccer team entered the 2019 season with the challenge of replacing 17 players from a Division 2 state championship team. New contributors stepped up to fill roles, while veterans served as leaders. The result was a third straight Badger South Conference title and a D2 regional crown. The Panthers finished the season 14-7-1 and 7-0 in the Badger South. They edged DeForest 2-1 on Oct. 26 at Huntoon Field in the regional finals, setting up a second showdown with conference rival Monona Grove. Oregon posted its 12th shutout of the season on a snowy Nov. 1 against the Silver Eagles, winning 2-0 at McFarland High School. The Panthers had defeated Elkhorn in the sectional finals the past two years on shootouts, but the Elks won 2-0 on Nov.
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Oregon junior Ben Statz (second from left) is congratulated by senior Jaison Fishwild (4), senior Collin Bjerke (second from right) and junior Micah Mitchell after scoring a goal on a penalty kick in the 15th minute against Monona Grove on Friday, Nov. 1, at McFarland High School. The Panthers won the sectional semifinal 2-0.
2 to prevent Oregon from a third straight trip to state. — Adam Feiner
With six returning starters and 14 letterwinners back, the Oregon softball team had high expectations entering the 2019 season. The Panthers delivered with a Division 1 regional title for just the second time in 20 years. It was a banner season for first-year coach Scott Mirkes, as Oregon went 10-5 over the final month of the regular season after a team meeting. Seventh-seeded Oregon looked like it might extend its run to the sectional finals, but sixth-seeded Wilmot Union scored three runs in the fifth inning to beat the Panthers 3-1 in the sectional semifinals. Oregon finished the season 16-8. The Panthers upset second-seeded Milton 3-2 in the regional championship game May 23. Bailey Bastian had the game-winning RBI groundout in the top of the sixth
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The Oregon softball team upset secondranked Milton last spring to win its second regional championship in 20 years.
inning, scoring Sadie Gaberell. Sam Mikkelson hit a solo home run to right field in the third inning. Oregon pitcher Kenadee Nelson struck out 13 in a complete-game performance. — Mark Nesbitt
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Girls basketball
Panthers’ offense too much for Vikings ADAM FEINER Sports editor
A close game between Badger South Conference rivals Oregon and Stoughton quickly became a one-sided affair. The Panthers built a big lead to begin the second half and breezed to a 67-44 home win over the Vikings on Thursday, Dec. 19. Oregon (5-3, 3-1 Badger South) used a 16-2 run to increase its lead to 39-21 just four minutes into the second half. Kaitlyn Schrimpf connected on a layup and four free throws, Carleigh Roberts and Liz Uhl each drilled a 3-pointer, Emily Statz had a steal and layup, and Jaelyn Nedelcoff raced up the court for a transition layup. “We have a goal to win the first five minutes of each half,” Oregon coach Adam Wamsley said. “That gives us confidence for the rest of the game and puts doubt in the opponent’s head. I was really proud of the way we started both halves.” Stoughton (2-5, 1-3) went almost eight minutes of game time without scoring. Victoria Ashworth made a pair of free throws at the 13:02 mark of the second half, but the Vi k i n g s c o u l d n ’t c o m e back from a double-digit deficit. The Panthers made their first five shots to lead 13-3.
Megan Bloyer started the game with a layup, Uhl and Statz knocked down backto-back 3s, and Schrimpf drilled a jumper and a corner 3. “We went into the game with a lot of confidence,” said Schrimpf, who finished with a game-high 19 points. “We knew if we started fast, our shots would fall.” Oregon then went 17 possessions and more than 12 minutes without a field goal, which allowed Stoughton to fight its way back into the game. Ashworth slashed into the lane for a layup to tie it at 18 with a little more than four minutes left in the first half, and Mya Davidson split a pair of free throws at the three-minute mark to give the Vikings their only lead of the game. Oregon finished the first half on a 5-0 run. Payton Lang split a pair of free throws to tie it, and Izzie Peterson made a transition layup and a pair of free throws. Thirteen Panthers scored in the contest. Uhl finished with 10 points, and Peterson scored seven of her nine points in the first half. Bloyer added six points, while Statz and Nedelcoff had five apiece. Av a L o f t u s p a c e d Stoughton with 11 points. Ashworth, Davidson and Delaney Seidel added six apiece.
Photos by Adam Feiner
Oregon’s Izzie Peterson (left) guards Stoughton’s Ava Loftus during the second half Thursday, Dec. 19, at Oregon High School. Peterson scored nine points in the Panthers’ 67-44 win. Oregon’s Jaelyn Nedelcoff (middle) drives into the lane past Stoughton’s Ava Loftus (right) and Delaney Seidel on Thursday, Dec. 19, at Oregon High School.
Oregon’s Emily Mortenson shoots a free throw during the second half against Stoughton on Thursday, Dec. 19, at Oregon High School.
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Panthers snap skid against rival Vikings MARK NESBITT Assistant sports editor
Everything came together on the ice for senior forward Laszlo Orosz and Oregon in the Panthers’ 8-1 road win over Stoughton on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at Mandt Community Center. Orosz scored two goals and dished out two assists to power the Panthers (2-4-1, 1-2 Badger South Conference), who snapped a four-game losing streak with the victory. “ We k n ew w e h a d t o step it up in practice,” Orosz said. “The tempo picked up a lot more and we came prepared for this game.” The Panthers were outshot by opponents and averaged 8.5 penalties per game during their skid. Oregon outshot Stoughton 45-24 and only committed three penalties. Junior forward Adam Franken had two goals for the Panthers, while senior forward Colton Eyers and sophomore defenseman Kaden Peterson added three assists. “We were in a little bit of a slump,” Franken said. “It feels good to get a win and get back on track. We are moving in an upward direction.” Peterson and senior forward Ben Wiedholz fired shots on the power play, and Orosz tipped in the rebound at the with 8:19 left in the first period. The Panthers exploded for four goals in the second period. Franken scored his first goal off assists from Wiedholz at the 3:35 mark. Stoughton senior forward Brody Hlavacek answered with a
Photo by Mark Nesbitt
Oregon sophomore forward Joe Roemer (right) looks to follow up a shot on goal against Stoughton senior goaltender Quinn Ziemann on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at Mandt Community Center in Stoughton. The Panthers won 8-1. power-play goal off a pass from junior defenseman Tyler Peterson to cut Oregon’s lead to 2-1 at the 4:50 mark. Oregon sophomore forward Joe Roemer scored off a pass from freshman forward Kyle Rohrer with 9:25 left in the second. E y e r s f o l l ow e d w i t h a power-play goal two minutes later off passes from
Orosz and Peterson. Orosz scored on a breakaway with 22 seco n d s t o g o i n t h e s e cond. Franken and Rohrer assisted on the goal. “ We k n ew w e h a d t o keep putting the pressure on in the offensive zone,” Orosz said. “The chances were going to come and we were just going to keep burying them.”
T h e Pa n t h e r s o u t s h o t the Vikings 14-7 in the second period. “We have been telling the guys to keep playing the same way and find our true identity,” Oregon assistant coach Alec Vanko said. “I think our practices and habits have improved, and I think that was reflected out on the ice.”
Rohrer scored 39 seconds into the third period off passes from Orosz and Kaden Peterson. Franken scored off a pass from Eyers six minutes later. Wiedholz capped the scoring with a goal off a pass from Franken with 3:50 left. Va n k o , a 2 0 1 2 O H S graduate who played collegiate hockey at
Minnesota State-Mankato, said the Panthers have worked on moving their feet and supporting each o t h e r i n t h e o ff e n s iv e zone. “If we can outnumber t h e p u c k i n a ny s i t u a tion, we will try to work on that,” he said. “I think we took a step in the right direction.”
Wrestling
Niday captures first high school title in Mount Horeb ADAM FEINER Sports editor
Oregon freshman Seth Niday won the 152-pound title at the Mount Horeb Invitational on Saturday, Dec. 21, and the Panthers placed second in the team standings with 174 points. Oregon won six matches, but lost a Badger South Conference road dual against Milton on Thursday, Dec. 19.
Mount Horeb Invitational
Niday pinned Mount Horeb’s We s l e y D r a g e r i n 5 6 s e c onds, Brodhead/Juda’s Brian McCullough in 1:53 and Whitewater’s David Cushman in 41 seconds en route to his title. Brandon Liddle finished second at 126 with a 3-1 record. He pinned Edgerton’s Chris Ramirez in 4:42 and won decisions over Deerfield’s Jack McDonough ( 6 - 3 ) a n d Ve r o n a ’ s B e n Grandau (6-2), but was pinned in the championship match by
Poynette’s Cash Stewart. Michael Schleim (138) placed second with a 2-1 record. He pinned Dodgeville’s Dylan Roen (2:15) and Madison West’s Dylan Chambers (1:04) before falling to Poynette’s Gunnar Hamre 5-3 in the championship bout. Dakota Brown (120) took second with a 1-1 record. He beat Whitewater’s Brian Porcaro 13-8 and lost via pin to Deerfield’s Nicholas McDonough. Ryan Payne (106) finished third with a 3-1 record. He beat Verona’s Blake Herburger 5-1 and pinned Madison Memorial’s Griffin Paulson in 42 seconds. Payne was pinned by Evansville/ Albany’s Caleb Miller, but beat Poynette’s Isaiah Gauer 11-7 in the third-place match. Karl Brooks (170) also took third with a 3-1 record. He beat Stoughton’s John Harman 9-2 and pinned Whitewater’s Denver Isbell in 4:57, but was pinned in the semifinals by Edgerton’s
Trevor Wilkinson. Brooks beat M a d i s o n M e m o r i a l ’s P i e r c e Kaufman 5-3 in overtime of the third-place match. Nate Hall (195) placed third with a 2-1 record. He pinned Verona’s Adam Murphy in 1:38, lost to Memorial’s CJ Green 9-5, and pinned Edgerton’s Sam Hedding at the 1:46 mark of the third-place match. Cooper King (160) and Tyler Wald (182) took fourth in their divisions with 1-2 records. King pinned Edgerton’s Andrew Hanson in 3:49, while Wald won a 14-0 major decision over Deerfield’s Sid Jackson. R a m i r o R a m o s ( 1 1 3 ) wa s fourth with a 1-3 record. He pinned Madison West’s Andres Villalobos in 4:46. John Ruth (152) placed fifth with a 4-1 record. He pinned Montello’s Thomas Putz-Huttner in 33 seconds, then lost to Deerfield’s Ray Bach 8-3. Ruth bounced back with pins of Big
Foot’s Julian Klein (31 seconds) and Nathaniel Hoyt (50 seconds) and Evansville/Albany’s Matt Armitage (4:42). Brandon Bello-Albino (220) finished sixth with a 1-2 record. He beat Fennimore’s Bailey Schaefer 6-5 in the consolation bracket. Cammron Hall (145) also went 1-2. He pinned Fennimore’s Cooper Fitzgerald in 4:22. Alex Vieaux (132) received a forfeit victory, but finished the tournament 1-3. Whitewater won the team title with 195.5 points.
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Kelly Janssens and Lexi Verhage competed in the girls tournament Saturday at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison. Janssens took third at 160 pounds. She pinned Holmen’s Erin Brings in 54 seconds, lost to Waukesha South’s Emily Siewert 7-3, and pinned Milwaukee Reagan’s Deyana Jaraba in 2:13 in
the third-place match. Verhage (285) went 1-1 in the round-robin-style bracket. She pinned Beloit Memorial’s Nancy Villalba in 5:03 after losing via pin to Oconomowoc’s Leah Mindiola. Reagan won the girls team title with 106 points.
Milton 48, Oregon 33
All six of the Panthers’ victories came in dominant fashion. Hall (195) pinned Caleb Peters in 1:31, Niday (152) pinned Justin Sanchez in 2:25, Schleim (138) pinned Zak Shore in 3:07, and Liddle (126) pinned Evan Schoen in 3:12. Owen Heiser (145) won by 19-4 technical fall over Seth Haldiman. Ruth (160) won a 13-4 major decision over Andrew Hoard. Ramos (113), Brown (120), Vieaux (132), King (170), Wald (182), Verhage (220) and Bello-Albino (285) lost via pin. Oregon forfeited at 106.
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Same score, same result for Oregon ADAM FEINER Sports editor
Oregon lost a pair of Badger South Conference games 71-59 the week before Christmas. The Panthers lost at home to Edgewood on Friday, Dec. 20, three days after a road loss to Monroe.
Edgewood 71, Oregon 59
The Crusaders had an answer for every bucket the Panthers made in the second half. Oregon (3-4, 1-3 Badger South) took a 30-27 lead early in the second half thanks to Ryne Panzer. The sophomore guard drilled a 3-pointer to give the Panthers the lead, then recorded a steal and layup. Edgewood (3-4, 2-2) swiftly responded with an 8-2 run to retake the lead. Michael Regnier made a 3 from the left wing and converted a four-point play after draining a 3 from the same spot. Will Klipstine’s jumper pushed the Crusaders’ lead back into double digits (44-34) with a little more than 10 minutes left. “We’re not as sharp as we’d like to be defensively,” Oregon coach Chris Siebert said. “Edgewood has players that are really smart and solid. They looked really comfortable against our ball pressure. They consistently made shots and capitalized on everything we gave them.” Erik Victorson scored 10 points on four consecutive possessions to cut the Panthers’ deficit to 51-48 with 4:48 left. The junior point guard converted a threepoint play, knocked down a 3 from the right wing and sank four
free throws. Once again Edgewood answered, as Regnier’s 3 from the right wing made it 59-50 with 2:50 remaining. The Crusaders went 10-for-10 from the freethrow line in the final 1:55 to salt the victory. Victorson scored 15 straight points and 18 of Oregon’s last 21. He finished with a game-high 23 points. “I struggled in the first half with my shot,” Victorson said, “but I gained some confidence in the second half. Once you see a couple fall, things starts to open up.” Panzer helped with 15 points, Brandon Kerns cracked double figures with 11, and Adam Yates added seven. Edgewood scored 20 of its first 21 points in the paint, and finished with 22 in the first half. The Crusaders used an 8-0 run to jump ahead 19-10, but Kerns knocked down three 3s in the half to keep Oregon close down 27-25 at intermission. Regnier paced the Crusaders with 21 points. Nate Golden helped with 17 points, Isandro Jimenez added 12, and Wallace Schmotzer scored eight in the paint.
Monroe 71, Oregon 59
The Panthers had three players in double figures, but Cade Meyer poured in 23 points for the Cheesemakers. Kerns scored a team-high 17 points for Oregon. Panzer and Victorson added 11 and 10, respectively. Monroe led 32-23 at halftime. JT Seagreaves and Tyler Matley had 12 and 11 points, respectively. Photos by Adam Feiner
Oregon’s Erik Victorson pulls up to shoot a jumper during the first half against Edgewood on Friday, Dec. 20, in Oregon. He scored a game-high 23 points in the Panthers’ 71-59 loss. Oregon’s Ryne Panzer dribbles in transition during the second half against Edgewood on Friday, Dec. 20, in Oregon.
Oregon coach Chris Siebert instructs his players during the second half against Edgewood on Friday, Dec. 20, in Oregon. The Panthers lost 71-59.
Girls hockey
Boys swimming
Olson shines for Icebergs in losses Panthers split pair of dual meets MARK NESBITT Assistant sports editor
Aeryn Olson scored two goals last week, but the Icebergs girls hockey co-op dropped a pair of games. The Icebergs lost an overtime nail-biter 3-2 to Wisconsin Valley Union on Friday, Dec. 20, at Ice Hawks Arena in Stevens Point. The Icebergs were coming off a 4-1 Badger Conference loss to the Rock County Fury on Thursday, Dec. 19, at Edwards Ice Arena in Beloit. The Icebergs (0-8-1) will look to pick up their first win when they play Northland
Pines on Friday, Dec. 27, in to tie it. the Rhinelander Tournament. Wisconsin Valley Union outshot the Icebergs 35-21. Wisconsin Valley Union Icebergs goaltender Cora Zim3, Icebergs 2, OT merman had 32 saves. The Icebergs got off to a fast start, but Cadie Ash scored a Rock County 4, goal at the 5:14 mark of over- Icebergs 1 time to hand the co-op a loss. Anika Einbeck had a goal The Icebergs got on the and two assists to lead the board first when Izzy Newton Fury past the Icebergs. scored off assists from Sydney Olson scored on the powSchipper and Kylie Babcock er play goal off passes from just 3:05 into the game. Olson scored a go-ahead Schipper and Newton at the goal at the 9:26 mark of the 11:47 mark of the first period, second period to give the Ice- but Rock County netted four bergs a 2-1 lead. Wisconsin unanswered goals. The Fury outshot Icebergs Valley Union’s Lyndsey Glodosky tied the game a little 45-19. Icebergs goaltender more than three minutes later Aren Gruner had 41 saves.
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The Oregon boys swimming team went on the road and knocked off Fort Atkinson 102-68 in a Badger South Conference dual Tuesday, Dec. 17. The Panthers dropped a nonconference road dual against DeForest 90-80 two days later.
DeForest 90, Oregon 80
The Panthers won three events against the Norskies. Senior Blake Anderson won the 100-yard butterfly (58.60), and sophomore David Stevenson finished first in the 200 individual medley (2:12.85). Junior Connor
Braatz took first in the 200 freestyle (1:59.34).
Oregon 102, Fort Atkinson 68
Braatz had a hand in winning three events to lead the Panthers past the Blackhawks. He won the 50-yard freestyle (24.98) and 100 butterfly (1:02.65). Braatz, Stevenson, Andersdon and Nathan Sorensen won the 200 free relay with a time of 1:39.60). Stevenson took first in the 200 free (2:00.17), and Blake Pankratz won the 500 free (5:36.35). Mason Konopacki finished first in the 100 backstroke (1:07.43). Stevenson, Pankratz, Konopacki and Riley Fahey won the 400 free relay in 3:55.42.
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2019: Changes at the top in village, school district; School resource officer agreement gets contentious Continued from page 1 list, topped by the Village Board’s sharp rebuke to its police chief after he got on the wrong side of the Oregon School District. OSD has had a plenty busy year planning for its new elementary school in Fitchburg, which tied for third with the election of the first new village president in a decade, Jeanne Carpenter. At No. 5 was the construction of the new Oregon Youth Center, all with money donated from the community. That was followed on our list with the announcement that Brian Busler would be retiring as OSD’s superintendent. No. 7 was the opening of the village’s first full-service hotel in decades, the Sleep Inn and Suites, a few blocks from U.S. Hwy. 14. That was followed by the ongoing fundraising and planning for the new library, which is expected to get its budget determined in June. Concerns over traffic at Oregon Middle School and Rendering courtesy Oregon School District Rome Corners Intermediate The design of the Forest Edge Elementary school incorporates more natural light, as shown in this rendering of the cafeteria. A planned courtyard can be were an issue early in the seen on the left side, one of several features designed to incorporate a natural look within and around the building. year, and plans for Anderemotional testimony from organization. Brassica Road, off the Lacy son Park to get a dog park around a dozen concerned Uhl told the Observ- Road interchange east of and a market garden were parents. er he has yet to plan more U.S. Hwy. 14. The approxiannounced in the summer. Hours after the Aug. 26 meetings with the public, mately 130,000-square-foot 1. Flooding vote, Uhl commented on but remains open. He said building will include severthe Oregon Police Depart- during the November board al playgrounds, three inner issues overwhelm ment Facebook page, a post meeting he reached out to courtyards and a buttervillage, towns that drew around 170 com- some people as well. fly garden, and will be the ments debating the deci— Emilie Heidemann first”Net Zero” school in As the climate has continsion and Uhl’s approach to Kimberly Wethal the state, with its solar panued to change, Oregon has reporting it. els and geothermal features seen increased issues with “As early as April of this 3.(tie) OSD builds taking in more energy than flooding and precipitation. year, the Oregon Police new elementary expending. But finding a long-term Department and the VilThe building will initially solution to a global problem lage Board requested to school in Fitchburg be grades K-6, with plans that affects small municipalhave meaningful discusF a c i n g o v e r c r o w d e d to switch to a K-5 once a ities like Oregon is a tough sions with School Board classrooms in 2020 due to planned middle school is feat, public works director about the SRO agreement, a recent boom in student in place, likely in the midJeff Rau told the Observer in but those meetings were population — mainly in the 2020s. Land for that middle November. While there are denied,” it said. “It is our northern part of the district school was purchased earimmediate fixes, those aren’t sincere hope we will start — the Oregon School Dis- lier this year, off the Hwy. going to best suit the needs meaningful discussions in trict has focused on build- 14/County MM interchange of the community as things order to come to a speedy ing a new elementary and just outside the village, are projected to get worse, he resolution to this matter and middle school to serve the though the district would said. to have an SRO assigned to growing area. It can be done, however. need to hold another referthe schools.” This year, that process — endum to fund the building. In November, the village Then in late November, funded by $47 million from held a public water forum In September, the disUhl’s performance and the successful November trict selected veteran OSD to educate residents and conduct came under scruti- 2018 referenda — started educator and Brooklyn visitors about the issues ny by the village board — in earnest, with site work Elementary principal Kerthat have plagued the vilhis conduct in making the starting in March, followed ri Modjeski as the new lage. — the starting point Facebook post as well as a by a June 6 groundbreak- school’s principal. This that leads to understanding “particularly contentious” ing on a K-6 elementary fall, staff submitted appliand action. interview with WIBA FM, in Fitchburg’s Terravessa cations for the new school, Rau said in November the president said in her Development. Construc- and once that’s sorted out he was hearing complaints statement. tion is on schedule for the (including filling spots in about Oregon’s worsening Photo by Kimberly Wethal In response to the com- building to open in August, existing schools that open water issues almost daily. He has heard stories John Brown, Town of Oregon, shows off the measuring stick plaints, Uhl gave a presen- and be ready for students to when teachers leave for the tation to the board during arrive Sept. 1. about homes and businesses he used to calculate how high the water table was on his Turn to 2019/Page 13 that meeting about how The school is on 4848 getting flooded — resulting property. he and department heads in months of repairs, high Village president Jeanne costs and sometimes reloca- 2. Police chief under C a r p e n t e r d e t a i l e d t h e intend to improve relationtion. He said lower income fire after SRO debates n a t u r e o f t h e m u l t i p l e ships with the community and school leaders. families might not even be The Village of Oregon closed session discussions Say Yes to the Uhl opened with an apolable to pay for the repairs. has had some tough deci- the board conducted regard- ogy to community memStreets like Netherwood sions to make in 2019 with ing the matter. biggest savings of the year! bers, saying there would Road have been closed, Since August, the new police chief Brian Uhl restricting the routes resiagreement for the SRO had be more of a focus on comdents take to get to work, under investigation and been in the works, though munity policing, outreach, a new Bath 1 school and home. 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2019: Major building projects include youth center, Fitchburg school, library, Jaycee Park West Continued from page 12 Fitchburg school), the list of students who will attend will be determined in the spring. And the school finally has a name. Last week, the longcalled “elementary school number four” was given its name by a district K-12 student vote after a public submission process, with “Forest Edge” Elementary winning in a runaway over “Nine Springs,” with a 72-28 margin, and nearly 2,500 students casting ballots. — Scott De Laruelle
3. (tie) Carpenter takes over as village president
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Oregon School District superintendent Brian Busler speaks at the June 6 groundbreaking at Forest Edge Elementary School, with community members from Fitchburg and Oregon standing behind him. conditional use permit, etc. When she served on the Planning Commission, she sought the help of fellow commissioner Scott Meier, who would tutor her after meetings. Back then, she was the only woman on the board. So when her term is up, Carpenter said she hopes the village will be on the path of building its first apartment building with affordable housing unit. She also envisions an environmentally sustainable library and other projects that will push Oregon ahead of the coming decade. — Emilie Heidemann and Alexander Cramer
5. Youth center gets building, loses director The Oregon Youth Center had an exciting 2019 with its new 6,000 square foot building at 110 N. Oak St. I t f a c e d u n c e r t a i n t y, though, after the resignation of Diane Newlin, who had been its director since 2010, and the exit of her successor shortly afterward. The building was officially opened May 30 with speeches by Oregon Community Resource Network chair Randy Glysch, Newlin and OYC board president Erin Chisman. The first kids to use the center came in right after the ceremony. The $1 million building was funded through community donations, including $800,000 given by an anonymous donor, and Supreme Structures donated its labor and many of the furnishings, from the pool table to kitchen appliances. Along with table games, the center also includes a half basketball court and quieter seating and work areas for kids who want to do crafts or homework while they are there. There is even a printer if kids need to print something for school and a kitchen where kids can get a free bowl of cereal and a sandwich each day. After seeing the building project through – including a stay in a temporary home at Hillcrest Bible Church
– Newlin announced her resignation in early September. She had led the center through the loss of funding from the YMCA of Dane County and turned it into an independent non-profit in 2014. In an email to the Observer, board member Ashley Disrud wrote that the center was especially proud of the expansion of their programs this year, including collaborations with the library and Academy of Sound. “Our board has been working very hard, but without the diligent work of our former Director, Diane, support of the community, and excitement of the participants, our program would not be what it is!” Disrud wrote. Newlin’s successor, Ashleigh Smiley, was hired in early November but was no longer working at OYC a month later, Disrud told the Observer. Former Assistant Director Elisa Kaether is serving as Interim Director and the center will not be looking for a permanent replacement immediately. — Connor Wood
6. Busler retires after 14 years leading OSD After more than three decades working with educators and students, first a s a bu s i n e s s m a n a g e r and since 2006 the Oregon School District superintendent, Brian Busler announced in September his plans to retire at the end of the school year. The school board selected deputy superintendent Leslie Bergstrom to succeed him, starting July 1. Busler, 58, moved into education from a business background in 1988 as district business manager for the Verona Area School District. There, he worked for Tony Evers, Wisconsin’s current governor, then VASD’s superintendent. Busler was later recruited to join the Sun Prairie School District, where he was deputy superintendent for 10 years before being hired as superintendent of the Beaver Dam School
District in 1998. He was hired as OSD superintendent when the position opened up in 2006. Fourteen years later, he leaves a growing school district that has won a bevy of awards in recent years for healthy schools and standout educators. Likely, his greatest legacy will be the shepherding of successful referendum drives in 2014 (capital improvements), 2016 (teacher compensation) and 2018 (new school, land), totaling more than $100 million. When asked about his time in the district, Busler quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson, saying, “We all have an opportunity to take care of the garden for a period of time, and we do our best during our time to take the best care of the garden as possible.” — Scott De Laruelle
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When village president Jeanne Carpenter was sworn into her new position back last spring, she envisioned big things for the community. To her, Oregon wasn’t a small town anymore — it surpassed the 10,000 mark within recent years. In April, Carpenter told the Observer she was excitCarpenter ed to focus on larger projects including workforce housing and establishing a new business park. She said her No. 1 priority was increasing the business tax base by establishing the long-planned southeast business park on the east side of U.S. Hwy 14. Even if it meant everything else had to take a back seat for a few years, Carpenter had said the village needs to make room for business to achieve a fiscal balance. With Alpine Business Park being nearly full, Carpenter voiced concerns the village had to turn away some businesses that were interested in relocating to such a vibrant community. She also said she wanted to prioritize there being housing for the employees of future Oregon businesses. Also the owner of Firefly Coffeehouse and Artisan Cheese, 114 N. Main St, the president has made efforts to make sure they can afford to live in the village they work. In April, Carpenter said she could see Oregon becoming a rich suburb of Madison, which she said threatened the diversity of voices that make up the community. But one strategy she said she was excited to pursue was working with developers who know how to take advantage of tax credits available for those who devote a percentage of housing units to workforce housing. She said she has pushed that for years, but it never went anywhere. So as president, Carpenter is now able to help steer the conversation where she wants it to go. Carpenter joined government in 2013. In April, she reminisced about learning all the governmental lingo — certified survey map, capital improvement plan,
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Continued from page 12 supportive of the hotel,” Harms said. The facility features a salt-water pool area with a hot tub, both equipped with lift chairs to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Rooms on all three floors have rustic orange walls with paintings of plants. Harms said they were “nature-inspired.” He said the hotel offers 40 double-queen beds, 15 king-sized beds and six efficiency suites – “little apartments” for guests who are in the area on business and might need a place to stay. The efficiency rooms have amenities like a small kitchen with a stovetop, coffee maker and fridge. The cupboards are also conveniently furnished with dishes and glasses. In December, Harms told the Observer he and staff were planning to work with local organizations like the Oregon Area Food Pantry to be more than a hotel in the Oregon community. “It’s really like visitors are coming into our home and they are guests of ours,” Harms said last winter. — Emilie Heidemann
8. Library planning continues, fundraising starts Fundraising for the new Oregon Public Library, which started this year, might be taken public earlier than anticipated in February 2020. At the most recent joint library and Oregon Village Board meeting on Monday, Dec. 16, trustee Randy Glysch said since donors are wondering when things will take off, fundraising for the project will go to the public in February. Having already amassed funds from the village — $6 million — it is up to the community — individual and collective donors alike to come up with the other $4 million. The library’s capital campaign kicked off in August. Soon after, an anonymous donor gave $500,000 to the project whose concept plans call for a two-story, 33,000 square foot facility on Oregon’s North Main Street. The same donor had given $800,000 to the Oregon Youth Center project. “I think the donor is challenging the community … I’m challenging everyone else now to come forward — to get this $10 million library built,” Glysch said in September. If fundraising efforts continue to go well, director Jennifer Endres Way told the Observer in September the project would be set to start construction in 2021. The building wouldn’t just be a center for knowledge, but a community gathering space for people from all walks of life. And now that Glysch has stepped
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Oregon senior Sydney McKee scores a goal on a penalty kick in the shootout against Whitefish Bay. The Panthers beat the Blue Dukes in the shootout 4-1 to win the WIAA Division 2 state title.
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Roe Parker, president of Anderson Park Friends, Inc., gestures to the 12-acre space that would eventually be the Anderson Farm County Park market garden. down as the Oregon Community Resource Network chair, there’s a new more library-oriented chair who is up for bringing the library to full fruition — youth services librarian Kelly Allen. — Emilie Heidemann
9. Winter traffic issues at OMS/RCI After a mild start to the winter, a brutal six-week stretch at the end of January and early February not only forced cancellation of a half-dozen school days, it also affected driving patterns around district schools. The change was felt most at Rome Corners Intermediate and Oregon Middle School — already around full capacity with students — where the cold weather likely prompted more parents to drive kids to school rather than let them walk or bike. The increase in traffic caused problems during that six-week stretch, and the Oregon Police Department posted twice on its Facebook page about “traffic congestion and aggressive driving” around the two schools, and warned about issuing tickets. “Drivers are impeding traffic by waiting in the roadway in order to enter the parking lots,” the post read. “This is creating a dangerous situation as other drivers are not able to pass. Consequently, drivers are becoming frustrated and making aggressive driving maneuvers in order to get around the stopped traffic … putting everyone at risk of a potentially tragic accident.” District superintendent Brian Busler told the Observer in February dropoff and pick-up times have always been busy, with “long lines” at times, but traffic had increased recently with more parents driving their children to and from school because of the weather. “I’ve been in school districts for a long time, and the challenge gets even bigger as the various enrollment at the schools increase,” he said.
— Scott De Laruelle
10. Anderson farm gets dog park, plants gardens Oregon and Brooklyn residents might soon have close access to an off-leash dog park and market garden in their backyard — the plans for which kicked off this year. The Dane County Board approved a $48,934 contract in September with KL Engineering for design and architectural work for a dog park at Anderson Farm County Park, targeted for a 2021 opening. And plans to implement a pilot market garden project are expected to get going next year, Anderson Park Friends, Inc. president Roe Parker told the Observer. Parker said the garden and dog park are a part of the Anderson Farm County Park Master Plan, which was completed in 2013. The next step for the dog park, Dane County parks facility planner Alex DeSmitt told the Observer in September, is to assemble the design plans, with construction anticipated to begin this autumn and conclude by spring 2021. The market garden concept is less set, with a goal to have construction on a pilot garden project by 2020, accommodating five to six growers. The garden, Parker said, would be modeled after that of Silverwood County Park located in the Town of Albion and the Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability in Verona. Growers or farmers would lease a patch of land in the garden and grow produce to sell for a profit. Parker said the Anderson Park Friends, Inc. and other organizations like Community Groundworks and the University of Wisconsin-Extension are working to bring the garden to fruition, but Dane County Parks must approve any plans. — Emilie Heidemann
The Jaycee Park Renovation project kicked off its fundraising efforts in September 2019 as it continues to amass community interest since last year. The $3.7 million plan, presented by Rettler Corp. in 2018, showed four ball fields, eight soccer fields, t w o n ew p a r k i n g l o t s , walking paths, three new pedestrian bridges and a concessions plaza on 25.3 acres. The first phase involves grading and preparing the site with utilities and parking, which is costing close to $1.5 million. Former Oregon Community Resource Network chair Randy Glysch told the Observer in September that the community has to raise $500,000 for the project, which costs $4 million in total.
Another girls soccer gold medal Melia Moyer stopped two kicks in a shootout between second-ranked Oregon and top-ranked Whitefish Bay as the Panther girls’ soccer team
won its second Division 2 state championship in five years. It was the fifth straight appearance at state for Oregon (18-0-1). The Panthers finished with a school record 103 goals and posted 15 shutouts, one away from the school record.
Food pantry adds hours The Oregon Area Food Pantry has had a busy year. It expanded its hours last spring, ventured its way into a pocket of Oregon High School and implemented a garden project at Anderson Farm County Park. All efforts have resulted in patrons having more time and more options to choose from when they browse the pantry – or when Oregon Alternative School and Integrated Studies program students want a bite to eat. Patrons are happy with all the changes, pantry managing director Diane Sliter told the Observer in September. Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott.delaruelle@wcinet.com.
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In spring, the Oregon Area Food Pantry added a second monthly distribution day. It added morning hours to its longstanding afternoon hours in April 2017.
POLICE REPORTS
Reports taken from electronic Oct. 9 log books provided by the Ore4:02 p.m. A man was informed my by a bus driver gon Police Department. that his tire was on fire in the Sept. 27 parking lot of Oregon Middle 8:25 p.m. Anonymous School. An officer arrived on called called for a silver sedan scene and did not observe with a male on the side of the any flames or smoke. The fire road with his pants down not department evaluated and adattempting to expose himself. vised they no longer needed The caller did not want contact assistance. and officers searched the area but did not locate the suspect Oct. 12 8:29 p.m. Oregon Police Devehicle. partment received a call about Sept. 28 an individual curled up in a 6:34 p.m. A stop sign on chair outside of this residence Walnut St was taken.The sign for an extender period of time cost $60.00 to repair and Pub- in 39 degree weather. Upon arlic Works has been given a vic- riving the officer made contact tim’s rights worksheet. with the individual who was locked out of the residence. Sept. 30 The individual was intoxicated 3:38 a.m. An anonymous and had thrown on her clothes. caller called about a burglary The individual was taken to dein progress with four suspects tox. seen leaving in a vehicle to8:30 p.m. Bystanders obwards S Perry Parkway. The served a dark truck strike a vehicle was located but re- tree in the north end of the fused to stop. DCSO engaged McDonald’s parking lot. A in a pursuit of vehicle on US male was seen fleeing, no deHwy 14 towards Madison but scriptors were provided. Open terminated. A laptop and Xbox intoxicants were inside the was stolen from the residence. vehicle and a shattered liquor bottle was found lying next to Oct. 1 where the tree was struck. The 7:12 p.m. An anonymous officers attempted to make caller advised that they ob- contact with the owner. served a vehicle driving through a gated community, Oct. 14 going from house to house in 7:36 p.m. A caller said at an abnormal manner. The offi- 5 p.m. a white male approxicer identified the owner of the mately 25-30 years old rang vehicle who admitted to being her doorbell asking if she needin the area and advised he was ed him to mow her lawn. She building a house out in the gat- stated he must have gone door ed community. The owner was to door because her neighbor agitated and annoyed with the had the same thing. The caller fact that someone called in. found this suspicious. The officer informed the caller that the Oct. 2 person was most likely a lawn 6:46 p.m. An Oregon resi- care worker but will pass the dent advised the Oregon Police information onto other patrols. Department he believed someone left dead trees in his yard. Oct. 15 Upon further review he advised 7:09 a.m. A caller thought the branches in his yard came she had confiscated a counfrom his trees on his property. terfeit $20 bill at Kwik Trip. The officer took the bill to Oregon Oct. 4 Community Bank where they 5:18 a.m. An officer ob- determined it was real. served a white/black Tesla parked in an area. Made con- Oct 16 tact with the person in the ve2:34 p.m. A caller reported a hicle who was playing his geo- sick possum with broken legs caching game. that needed to be put down. 2:48 p.m. A driver was upset An officer arrived on scene that N. Main St. was closed for and observed a possum that the Homecoming Parade and was sick and dying. The offiaccelerated heavily through cer transported the possum the intersection of Nether- to Anderson County Park in wood and N. Main St causing the Town of Oregon and dishis tires to squeal. The driver patched the possum. then circled around through 3:41 p.m. In a complaint Walgreens and drove through labeled “neighbor trouble,” a the church parking lot to get female called and stated that around the roadblocks and an another female was being officer’s fully marked squad car confrontational towards her with red and blue lights activat- in regards to a previous case. ed. The officer made contact The original caller stated there with the driver and spoke to was no yelling or swearing him about his behavior, stating and she only wanted the other that at anytime he could have female to leave her alone and simply contacted the officer be warned. When the officer and the officer would have let made contact with the second him through. caller, she said it was actually the initial caller being conOct. 8 frontational. Both parties were 4:28 p.m. An anonymous warned for their behavior. called saw a grey sedan with a hand and a flannel shirt stick- Oct. 17 ing out of the trunk. Caller 10:14 a.m. A resident called thought it may be a hallow- and state she had to leave her een decoration but wanted it building due to a strong odor checked on. Officers did not of bleach while a company locate anything. was power washing. An officer
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arrived and did not observe an overpowering odor of any chemicals. The officer checked the welfare of other individuals in the building and they advised they were not experiencing any issues. Oct. 18 5:44 a.m. A person woke up to find that all of his vehicle’s tires were slashed with a knife. The person believed it was his fiance’s ex-husband. Non consent and charges wished to be pursued. Photographs were added to evidence and a restitution request form completed. 6:12 p.m. An officer’s patrol vehicle appeared to have mucus and saliva on its windshield. Oct. 21 2:16 p.m. A female found a gold diamond ring at a bus stop. She did not find the owner so she turned it into the police department. 6:01 p.m. A male caller stated that he gave another person a phone but she is now refusing to give it back. The caller wanted the Oregon Police Department to talk to her to get his phone back. An officer spoke with the female who said she did have the phone but offered to pay for it so she could keep it. The two could not agree and the officer explained to both of them that this is a civil issue and it should go to civil courts. Oct. 22 8:12 a.m. An officer assisted a Brooklyn Elementary student get to school after he missed the bus. 4:59 p.m. Firefly Coffee House called to say that there was an elderly man in their shop that did not know his name or where he lived. An officer made contact with the individual who is suffering from dementia. The man stated that he had been walking around Oregon for a couple of hours and was not sure where he came from. The officer was able to make contact with the individual’s daughter who said he was living in Oregon Manor. The officer returned the individual and talked to the director of nurses about watching the individual and the director informed the officer that they would get the individual a bracelet to notify staff if he should try to wander off again. Oct. 23 11:27 p.m. An individual was arrested for OWI third offense and cited for speed, and failure to obey traffic officer. The individual submitted to an intox test with the result of .23%. Oct. 26 1:10 p.m. A female reported her wallet was stolen at the craft fair. An officer advised her to check her bags in which she had while shopping. The caller found the wallet located inside the shopping bags. 5:36 p.m. An anonymous caller advised that there were two male black teenagers riding their bikes in the area that “didn’t belong here.”
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LOST DOG. Have you seen Katie? Very shy, Black-Tan, Female, Yorkshire Terrier is missing. Please do not chase her. Please text or call us at 608-4695439 or 608-469-5440 if you have seen her or have any information. $2000 Reward if brought home safely. For more info., see our FB page: BRING KATIE HOME.
BUYING US Gold & Silver Coins and Collectibles. Call 608-988-6406 Rick Miles Coin.
Help Wanted HELP WANTED: full time beef farm help. Call 608-558-3024. HOMEVIEW SENIOR CARE, LLC is looking for dependable, compassionate caregivers to join our team. We provide exceptional non-medical in-home care for senior citizens and individuals with disabilities in the Evansville area. Flexible schedule, paid training, immediate openings. Background check and references required. Send resumes and inquiries to: homeview.senior.care.llc@gmail. com. To see all requirements, visit: https:homeviewseniorcare.comparttime-in-home-non-medical-caregiver
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Pets Ask about our Christmas Specials! STANDARD AKC Poodle puppies Champion blood-lines. Health & color coat tested. Temperament tested. Service dog potential. Home raised. Pet price $1,200. Serious inquiries only. Call or text 563.495.0926 or email info@hollyspoodle.com www. hollyspoodles.com Look up Windsor Poodles on Facebook. CUTE! Cavapoos, Cockapoos, 2 Shorkie Teddys, 2 Yorkies, Poochons, Mini & Petite Goldendoodles, 3 Wheaton Terriers, 2 Whoodles, Papillions, $795 to $1,595 or more. Shots, dewormed, certified health guarantees by Licensed Vet, experienced, caring, prudent, helpful training advice. www.SpringGreenPups. com (LLC). Lic #484991 Brenda 608574-7931. GERMAN SHEPHERD puppies, black and tan with red outlines, farm raised, 8 weeks old, vaccinated, wormed, with health papers. $375 each. Joesph Glick, 4370 Ivey Rd, Mineral Point, WI. No Sunday Sales. Labrador RETRIEVER puppies, black and yellow, AKC, shots, de-wormed, dew claws removed, micro-chipped and vet checked. 608574-6204. License #267233.
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Miscellaneous FOR SALE. Oak Firewood. Dried for 2 years. The Best! Face cord $150. Delivery available. 608-217-6662. SEASONED SPLIT OAK, Hardwood. Volume discount. Will deliver. 608609-1181.
Wanted WE BUY Junk Cars and Trucks. We sell used parts. Monday thru Friday 8am-5:30pm. Newville Auto Salvage 279 Hwy 59 Edgerton 608-884-3114
Rentals GREENWOOD APARTMENTS. Apartments for Seniors 55+, currently has 1 & 2 bedroom units available starting at $810 per month,includes heat, water, and sewer. 608-835-6717 Located at:139 Wolf St., Oregon, WI 53575 STOUGHTON 2-BEDROOM 2 unit building. Parking for 1 car per unit in back lot. No Pets. Rent $760. Available. 608-332-6013. ROSEWOOD APARTMENTS for Seniors 55+. 1 & 2 bedroom units available starting at $810 per month. Includes heat, water and sewer. Professionally managed. Located at 300 Silverado Drive, Stoughton, WI 53589. 608-877-9388
Storage Spaces For Rent ALL SEASONS SELFSTORAGE 10x10 10x15 10x20 10x25 10x30 Security Lights-247 access OREGON/BROOKLYN CALL 608-444-2900 DEER POINT STORAGE Convenient location behind Stoughton Lumber. Clean-Dry Units 24-HOUR LIGHTED ACCESS 5x10 thru 12x25 608-335-3337 FRENCHTOWN SELF-STORAGE Only 6 miles South of Verona on Hwy PB. Variety of sizes available now. 10x10=$65-month 10x15=$75-month 10x20=$85-month 10x25=$95-month 12x30=$120-month Call 608-424-6530 or 1-888-878-4244 NORTH PARK STORAGE 10x10 through 10x40, plus 14x40 with 14' door for RV & Boats. Come & go as you please. 608-873-5088
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RASCHEIN PROPERTY STORAGE 6x10 thru 10x25 Market Street/Burr Oak Street in Oregon Call 608-520-0240 SELF-STORAGE lock-and-leave dry metal pole barn, gravel floor, rural Verona, 4000 sqft, only $400/month. 608-848-2345. UNION ROAD STORAGE 10x10 - 10x15 - 10x20 - 12x30 24-7 Access Security Lights & Cameras Credit Cards Accepted 608-835-0082 1128 Union Road, Oregon, WI Located on the corner of Union Road and Lincoln Road
Office Space For Rent OFFICE/RETAIL Space for rent in Downtown Oregon. Available now. 1274 sqft, $1062 per month or 480 sqft, $400 per month. Heat included in rent. Contact 608-333-4420 or 715891-4784 for showing and further information. OFFICE SPACES FOR RENT In Oregon facing 15th hole on golf course Free Wi-Fi, Parking and Security System Conference rooms available Kitchenette-Breakroom Autumn Woods Prof. Centre Marty 608-835-3628 VERONA OFFICE Space for Rent. 1000 sqft. 3 separate offices, reception area, bathroom, storage, offstreet parking and room for your sign on the building. Call or text Mike at 608-577-3766.
Real Estate New Factory Built Homes: 3 BR, 2 BA put on your foundation. $59,980. HORKHEIMER HOMES. Hazelton, IA. 800-632-5985
Livestock FOR SALE: Scottish Highland cattle, different ages. 608-348-8132. WANTED: CONSIGNORS for the upcoming PAPA Alliance Black hided Feeder Calf and Yearling sales at Bloomington Livestock Exchange, Bloomington, WI. Sale date is January 3. Call and get on the early listings. No dairy crosses. For information contact Greg May 608-574-0719 or BLE 608-994-2020.
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‘We name the stars’ A volunteer solar system ambassador with NASA walked audience members through the Milky Way, identifying different stars and constellations on Thursday, Dec. 12. During the “Star Heroes” presentation at the library, John Heasley read “Look Up,” a book about Henrietta Leavitt, one of the first female and pioneering astronomers and shared
secret spots where families can go stargazing. Through the volunteer solar system ambassador program, Heasley shares information and discoveries to get students excited about science. For information, visit solarsystem1.jpl.nasa.gov. Contact Mackenzie Krumme at mackenzie. krumme@wcinet.com.
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Students listen as John Heasley, a NASA solar system ambassador explains how to identify stars in the solar system during the “Star Heroes” presentation at the Oregon Public Library on Thursday, Dec. 12.
Avery Webster listens to the book “Look Up” about Henrietta Leavitt, one of the first female astronomers.
Audience members laugh as John Heasley identifies the Betelgeuse star, which inspired the name for the 1988 “Beetlejuice” movie.
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Owen Webster points to a star on the projection machine.
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Wreath placed at Brooklyn Area Veterans Memorial The Brooklyn Area Veterans Memorial Council Inc placed a wreath at the memorial park in memory of all fallen soldiers. From left, Pat Hawkey, Lyle Wanless, Kathy Pennington, Jim Brown and Dannie Leonard; (not present: Dean Meister, Linda Kuhlman, Todd Hanson and Ann Wanless.
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The Oregon Wisconsin Photography Group meets once per month to discuss different photography techniques and goes on field trips to practice and gain field experience. This photo was taken by Heather Johnson on the groups field trip to Hyde’s Mill in Ridgeway on Aug. 18.