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Thursday, May 24, 2018 • Vol. 136, No. 44 • Stoughton, WI • ConnectStoughton.com • $1.25
Proud son of Norway Stoughton’s Bolland among OSS members honored this year SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group
Photo by Kimberly Wethal
Eleanor Smith, 2, of Oregon, waves at law enforcement leading off the Sunday parade with her mother Katie.
Pride on parade
The festival attracted out-of-town visitors, some coming from surrounding cities, central Illinois and Minnesota for events like the parades, the art fair and the quilt show, as well as a new event honoring Norwegian art and culture at the Chorus Public House. More photos from Syttende Mai weekend Stoughton Chamber of Commerce director Laura Trotter said more admission buttons – designed by Kaia Pages 8-9 Sunne, for the second year in a row – were sold than have been “in a long while,” maybe the most ever. It didn’t snow, unlike last year, but the rainy weather tall balloon replica of Stoughton resident Jeanne Pruemade for an early end to Friday and a slow morning Sun- her sailed down the Main Street parade route as the real day. But attendees had a few indoor attractions to enjoy, Prueher sat knitting on her Viking ship float. such as the River Bluff art fair and Livsreise. Metal Mom stole the show on Sunday, as the 25-foot – Kimberly Wethal and Amber Levenhagen
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Big crowd shows support for whitewater park BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group
More than 100 people attended a presentation on developing a whitewater park in the Yahara River last week, and it drew lots of questions, mostly about safety. The crowd appeared supportive of the project, which Parks and Recreation director Dan Glynn began investigating a couple of years ago and talking about publicly last year. For the May 16 presentation at the Stoughton Opera House, Glynn
introduced Gary Lacy, president of 'All those wonderful pictures Colorado-based Recreation Engiof what they’ve done neering and Planning Inc. Lacy discussed other whitewater parks his elsewhere in the country company has built throughout the was a great way to build country and showed a concept plan with seven pools, pedestrian trails confidence that it would be a and a viewing area. good thing for Stoughton.' Bob Diebel, an experienced canoeist who’s a member of the city’s Riv– Bob Diebel er and Trails Task Force, appreciated the visuals Lacy presented, which included images from at least 13 parks projected on a large screen in for Stoughton,” Diebel said. Lacy explained the parks he the auditorium. “All those wonderful pictures of builds are suitable for canoeing, what they’ve done elsewhere in the kayaking, inner tubing and standup country was a great way to build confidence that it would be a good thing Turn to Whitewater/Page 2
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A copy of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded collectively to OSS members at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. in March.
being recognized more than 70 years later. Bolland, who died in 1999 at the age of 90, and
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Stoughton Area School District
Board appoints Patterson an environmental company, over Jeffrey Leverich, a senior researcher for the state teachers’ union, and Eric Benedict, a former Stoughton High School teacher and coach and current district technology board in the Madison Metropolitan School District. The first vote ended in a tie between Patterson and Leverich before Patterson won a second vote. Patterson succeeds Donna Tarpinian, who resigned in April to be able to spend
Chosen from three candidates to succeed Tarpinian SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group
The Stoughton School Board is back to full strength after members appointed Jill Patterson as their ninth member at Monday night’s meeting. After interviewing three candidates for around a half-hour each, the board voted to appoint Patterson, a a marketing manager for
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The son of Norwegian immigrants, Gerhard “Jerry” Bolland was one of many “Norskies” who could do little but watch as their ancestral homeland was invaded and occupied by Germany during the opening rounds of World War II. Bolland, who later called Stoughton his home for nearly 40 years, soon found a way to fight back, though, leading a covert mission that helped hasten the war’s end – efforts that are still