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Blazing a trail Extension forwards city’s plan for 5-mile trail around river ALEXANDER CRAMER Unified Newspaper Group

Rendering courtesy Stoughton Redevelopment Authority

An open-air market, like the one in the rendering above, is one potential option for the century-old Blacksmith Shop. The building would have to be stripped of its roof and brickwork to ensure its stability - at an estimated cost of $200,000 meaning any potential developer would be working with a steel skeleton.

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RDA considering whether to stabilize century-old structure ALEXANDER CRAMER Unified Newspaper Group

The dust has settled in the riverfront redevelopment zone, and the former Blacksmith Shop is the only building left standing. In the coming weeks, the city’s Redevelopment Authority will decide what to do with the century-old building. It’s been busy gathering information, and Monday, Sept. 24, it will hold a brainstorming session during a special meeting, looking for ideas from members of the local development community. At its last meeting, Sept. 12, the authority heard an engineer’s report about the steps necessary to keep the building available for a potential Photo by Jim Ferolie developer to use, which would reduce To stabilize the Blacksmith Shop, engineer Kurt Straus outlined a plan that would much of it to its steel structure. And remove the east and west bays (where roof is failing and the large brick wall is standing, respectively) and then buttress the remaining the structure with cables.

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Here for all students Ahlgren brings long-time joy of learning to new SASD job

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died Aug. 7 at age 82 after struggling with debilitating illness for much of the past decade. Vorndran served as restoration coordinator during the 18-year effort to return the Opera House to its past

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splendor. It re-opened in 2001, and Vorndran was recognized with his name e n g r av e d o n a b r o n z e plaque that’s displayed near the theater’s front doors. He

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Growing up in suburban Chicago, Kate Ahlgren always had the best-educated stuffed animals in the neighborhood - at least, that’s what her sister said. “Energized” by both learning and teaching at a young age, the new Stoughton Area School

District director of curriculum is looking forward to continuing her path in education, especially working with district Ahlgren teachers to “help students really discover the best path in themselves.” “ I t ’s t h e p r o c e s s o f becoming a mirror and allowing students to see the brightness inside of them and see all their possible selves,” she told the

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Vorndran remembered as Opera House restorer Also named Citizen of the Year in 1997

More than two years after the project was first approved by the council, a Yahara River Trail extension has been cut on the city’s north side, though it will be surfaced with gravel as opposed to the asphalt that was originally intended. The council approved the change last Tuesday, and by 6 p.m. on Wednesd a y, a c o n t r a c t o r wa s nearly halfway finished blazing the 10-foot-wide, 1,361-foot-long trail. Ald. Regina Hirsch (Dist. 3), chair of the parks and recreation committee, urged fellow alders to approve the change, saying “parks and recreation really wants this trail in this year.” “Later on we can always pave it when we have more trails going in,” Hirsch added. “That’ll be a bigger trail going in to Settler’s Point in a year or two to make it a bigger bid for an asphalt company.”

The extension is part of a vision to create a fivemile loop around the Yahara River just north of the city. It’s also part of the plan to connect Stoughton to Madison by trail, with the county’s long-term goal to extend the Lower Yahara River Trail south to Viking County Park. The existing trail goes north from Amundson Park along the river to Viking Park. A separate segment extends from the pedestrian bridge at Cooper’s Causeway north to the business park. Currently, the river trail runs on paved streets for several blocks as it heads east from the causeway. With the new extension, people can head down the hill behind Stoughton Hospital to take the trail east along the river, where it passes a few scenic overlooks, including a good view of an osprey nest. The next steps would be to extend the trail from the hospital to Cooper’s Causeway, build a pedestrian bridge across the river at Settler’s Point, near the intersection of County Hwys. N and B, and continue the North Trail from

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St. Ann hosts family festival St. Ann’s Church, 323 N. Van Buren St., held its annual Family Fun Festival last weekend. The event featured a race, activities for children and a talent show. For more information about St. Ann’s Church events, visit stannparish.weconnect.com. — Amber Levenhagen

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Nicole Orange helps Lexi Orange, 3, play a fishing pole game. Lexi aimed the line to try to hook a prize on her pole.

Lucian Teche, a Scout from pack 162, helps serve ice cream during the festival. Kari Elsner plays a fishing pole game during the St. Ann festival on Sunday, Sept. 16.

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Video policy favors privacy Fire causes $45K in Footage from new cameras wouldn’t be reviewed without authorization SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group

When it comes to school safety, times are certainly changing, with “hardened” building entrances and security cameras quickly becoming the norm. It’s no different in Stoughton, where the school board earlier this year approved installing additional cameras to help better monitor common areas. As part of that change, the board is discussing a committee recommendation to adjust district policy on cameras and electronic surveillance to address privacy as well as

safety concerns. The board conducted a first review of the policy at its Monday night meeting, with a vote on the matter likely at its next meeting on Oct. 8, board president Frank Sullivan told the Hub in an email. Kathleen Hoppe, a member of the policy committee that recommended the changed language, said the additional security cameras necessitated a need for an adjusted policy. She said the committee has considered privacy as a “top concern” throughout the revision process, with “safeguards to protect all student and faculty privacy.” “The video is not ‘monitored’ to catch anyone or even any incidents, but rather is there to review in case of problems,” she wrote in an email to the Hub on Tuesday, noting that cameras will not be allowed in “sensitive

areas.” “For the police to view a ny f o o t a g e , w e m u s t involve them,” Hoppe said. According to the proposed policy, the district administrator would be responsible for determining where to install and operate fixed-location video surveillance/ electronic monitoring equipment in the district. Equipment may be placed in common areas in school buildings (such as hallways libraries, cafeterias, entrances, gyms, etc.), parking lots, outside areas and school buses. Except in “extraordinary circumstances” and with the written authorization of the district administrator, the surveillance equipment would not be used in areas where people have a “reasonable expectation of privacy,” such as restrooms, locker rooms, offices, classrooms or meeting rooms during

instructional time. According to the proposed policy, a request to see video must be made within seven days. No footage, unless involved in a complaint, will be kept beyond 14 days. Sullivan said having cameras in schools is an “issue that requires us to balance the legitimate privacy interests of students and staff against legitimate school safety needs.” He said cost is an issue, as well. “ S e r ve r s p a c e i s n o t cheap,” he wrote the Hub in an email. “And we had to balance the cost of storing data from all the cameras against the need for people to review it later.” Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott.delaruelle@wcinet.com.

damage to shed, trailer No injuries reported after Sept. 12 incident AMBER LEVENHAGEN Unified Newspaper Group

A structure fire Sept. 12 in the Town of Dunkirk caused an estimated $45,000 in damages. Around 3:43 p.m. Wednesday, Dane County deputies and fire personnel from Oregon, Stoughton, Cottage Grove, Evansville and Edgerton responded to the fire on the 3100 block of County Hwy. A. The owner was burning construction waste and the fire spread to an adjacent, unoccupied tobacco shed, according to a news release from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office. The owner reported the fire and shared on Facebook that the shed was not yet full of tobacco. The 24 feet by 60 feet building was completely collapsed, destroying a small trailer kept in the building, the release said. No injuries or loss of animal life were reported. County Hwy. A was shut down for two-and-a-half hours, reopening around 6:30 p.m., the release said. Contact Amber Levenhagen at amber.levenhagen@ wcinet.com.

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Impact study: Whitewater park could generate millions ALEXANDER CRAMER Unified Newspaper Group

Last week, a group from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with parks and recreation director Dan Glynn, submitted an economic impact study for the proposed whitewater park that would reshape the Yahara River along a 900foot stretch of Stoughton’s downtown. The city applied for a $500,000 grant earlier this year to pay for half of the project that would feature drops and rapids for kayakers, tubers and canoeists to navigate. This study attempts to estimate what the economic impact of such a facility would mean for Stoughton. The Redevelopment Authority is interested in the study as well, as the proposed park would be near a riverfront site the RDA hopes to redevelop. The study could inform the type of businesses that might do well in the mixed-use commercial and residential project. Ideas mentioned in recent RDA meetings have included a deli with grab-and-go sandwiches, a place to get sunscreen or towels or a tavern to watch the action on the river. T h e r e p o r t i s c o - a uthored by Tsung-Lun Hsu, a recent graduate in Urban and Regional Planning at

UW-Madison, and UW-Madison’s Cooperative Extension resource economist Dave Marcouiller and business development specialist Bill Ryan. Glynn is also a co-author. Here are some takeaways from the report: • The report estimates a warm-weather season that will last 40-80 days. • Recent studies that looked at 10 whitewater parks across the U.S. estimate that kayakers spend an average of $68 per day on their recreational pursuits including food, lodging, equipment and supplies. • Though individual parks vary greatly relative to the size of nearby population centers, the studies suggest a whitewater park averages 15,000 visits per year. Those visitors spend over $1 million per year at the parks on average. • Conservative estimates suggest that there are at least 30,000 kayakers within a 30-minute drive to the site and 82,000 within an hour’s drive. • Six million people live within a three-hour drive of Stoughton, which the report estimates includes 434,000 kayakers and over 1 million canoeists. • I f k a y a k e r s w i t h i n a 30-minute drive visit the park once per year, spending will exceed $2 million. Extending

this market boundary to an hour, potential spending increases to over $5.6 million. If extended to two hours, which would include Milwaukee and the nearby suburbs of Chicago, the estimate of potential spending increases to nearly $30 million annually. Glynn has said that people from the suburbs of Chicago have come to informational meetings about the project. • The park, which could be developed as early as next year, will probably initially draw local water enthusiasts, but its reach will expand the longer it exists, according to the study. • In addition to the potential for property values to increase, the park is “likely” to improve the river system for fisheries and the overall ecosystem, according to the study. Officials at the last Whitewater Park Steering Committee meeting began discussing removing the Stoughton Dam and heard from the Wisconsin River Alliance about the positive impact it would have on the river. • Local businesses stand to benefit, including restaurants, lodging and retail, especially those selling sports attire and gear. Contact Alexander Cramer at alexander.cramer@ wcinet.com.​

City in brief MSB environmental impact on track For those watching the clock – or calendar – the environmental assessment process on the McFarland State Bank property is on track to meet its mid-October deadline. The first phase involved historical research, which corroborated the fact that there was a gas station on the site until the 1970s and recommended moving on to phase two, which began Sept. 10. This involves testing the soil and groundwater for contaminants, which can be costly to remove. The bank’s offer to donate the property expires on Oct. 15, so the city has hurried to make sure it tests the site thoroughly before taking ownership. Mayor Tim Swadley said the results should be back in time for the council’s Oct. 9 meeting.

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Transportation solutions already exist This letter is in response to Andy Lewis’ letter “Can’t get there from here.” I have pondered the transportation situation in Stoughton for many years. Mr. Lewis offers no proposals of change, only complaints of frustration. In 2000, I began a company now known as Folks Wagons, Inc. Folks Wagons offers car service or whole cars for people living in Stoughton that prove to have a true need for transportation. It is a not-for-profit entity operating with donations and special arrangements with social workers, service and parts vendors. But this is only one solution. I have pondered about a bus system – a one route system. What if we had a 15-passenger airport bus (or small used school bus) that only ran on Main Street from County N on the East to Walmart on the west? The one-way route might take 10 minutes; stops are where anyone wished to board or depart. The charge might be $2 per ride. Since our town is not much

more than a mile North or South of Main Street, the walk to the bus system is short and manageable for many. The hours of operation might be during peak times, say 7:30-9 a.m., through lunch, and again from 3-6:30 p.m.. We might be able to get a grant or donation to operate the bus. If the bus proves to be crowded, get a bigger bus. We do have a taxi service that does a good job of door-to-door transportation for a little premium. Our area has ways to get people in need of rides to Madison. Some are SUM, (Stoughton United Ministries), We Care, Wisconsin Rideshare, RSVP and others. I believe that you can do almost everything right here in Stoughton: work, shop, dine, medical, pharmaceuticals, bakeries, entertainment, etc. Those folks needing to get to the symphony really don’t need light rail or helicopter service. Jeffrey Zarth Town of Dunkirk

It’s time to dump Scott Walker Campaigning for Governor is starting and Walker wants to look good. Will he accept money from millionaires? You bet he would. I want to protect children in schools, you can hear him say. But he does accept money from the NRA. Filling in marshes and streams really won’t hurt, Just don’t use a lot of contaminated dirt. He doesn’t mind turning

Wisconsin into a dump, He is not quite as bad, but acts a little like the guy called Trump. Our taxes are high, the roads and bridges are a mess. He flies around the state, maybe he doesn’t know how bad it is, I would guess. His dealings with mine owners, to me, is a little naughty. Ladies and gents, it’s time to dump Scotty. Darrel Roy City of Stoughton

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Public schools’ purpose is to teach for tomorrow, not today

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chool started up this month again here in Stoughton. It is a time of great excitement and lots of energy. There are new classes and new friends. Most students are happy to be back (more or less), but some are wondering, “Why do I have to study this?” Some parents may also have the same question. Recently there was some discussion at a Stoughton school board meeting about foreign language offerings at the high school. The question was why we Dirks teach German instead of Chinese or Arabic. If you subscribe to the notion that the primary purpose of education is to teach marketable job skills, you might not see much purpose in offering German. English is far more widely spoken around the world and most educated Germans already speak some English. On the other hand, if you view the purpose of public school education as something much more fundamental, teaching German – or geometry or music or creative writing – makes a great deal of sense because the world is such a rapidly changing place. Forty years ago, when I graduated high school, no sensible person could have predicted the sort of world we live in now. Back then, some people still used a slide rule to make calculations. Computers tended to be very large machines at least the size of a refrigerator. There was this new little company calling itself “Apple,” which sold something called a “personal computer,” but it was

really just a glorified typewriter. You couldn’t use it to send email or shop on line because there was no “online” anything then. A phone was a device used to talk to people, and it was connected by a wire that ran into the wall and was connected to a network of wires that ran all around the world. Twenty years later, in 1998, the internet was just getting going. There were cell phones, but all you could do with them was talk to people – no camera, no music, no Google searches. If you wanted to shop for clothes, furniture, towels, computer components or groceries, you had to physically walk to a building where such things were for sale. There was this fairly new online company called “Amazon,” but it mostly just sold books. The point is we can’t possibly predict what the world will be like 20 years from now for the SHS class of 2019, much less what it will be like for the SHS class of 2039. It simply does not make sense to look at our public schools as places where we teach 10- or 15-year-olds marketable job skills. We don’t and can’t know what the job market will look like more than a few years down the road. If we want to do what’s best for our kids, it is not enough for our schools to teach “things” such as the names of presidents, atomic weights or the year when the Battle of Waterloo was fought. It is far more important to teach them how to think, how to learn, where to find information and how to critically evaluate it. If our students are not equipped to be life-long learners, able to teach themselves after they leave school, the world will eventually leave them behind.

We teach them to read, not just so that they can read a manual or a memo, but so that they can learn. We teach them algebra and geometry not so much so that they can calculate the volume of a bucket, but so that they can learn to think logically and puzzle out the answer to a question. “Extracurriculars,” such as theater, sports, forensics and FFA are not really “extra,” and they’re important not just because they are fun. They teach kids to work together on a project toward a common goal, to collaborate. We don’t offer German primarily so that a student can read a German newspaper or communicate with a pen-pal. The primary value in studying a foreign language is that it teaches a person how to learn about another culture, its history and values, to experience even a little bit the world outside of Stoughton or the United States. Our schools offer instruction in foreign languages, music, art, literature and writing to sharpen, develop and broaden our students’ minds. The mission statement of the Stoughton Area School District says, in part, that the district’s mission is to prepare our kids “to face the demands of the future, and be literate, contributing members of society.” Accomplishing that mission means our schools have to do far more than teach the “Three R’s.” It also means they have to offer our kids learning opportunities beyond what might seem to have immediate practical application. Because we can’t possibly predict what the future will look like. Scott Dirks is a former board president of the Stoughton Area School District.

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Correction In the Sept. 6 edition, the Hub incorrectly listed the address of the next R Olde House Society meeting. The meeting will be held at Shady Nook Farm, 3511 Hwy. 138, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20. The Hub regrets the error.

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Jessica Michna performs as Golda Meir at the Oregon Senior Center on March 29. Michna has a repertoire of about 20 characters, including many first ladies and historically significant women.

A look to the past Michna presents ‘The Journey Home’ AMBER LEVENHAGEN Unified Newspaper Group

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Lucian Teche, 10, watches his kite catch the wind during last year’s Kiwanis Kite Day at Sandhill Elementary School.

Go fly a kite

Kiwanis Kite Day Sept. 22 AMBER LEVENHAGEN Unified Newspaper Group

If You Go What: Kite Day with Stoughton Kiwanis When: 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Sept. 23 Where: Sandhill Elementary School, 1920 Lincoln Ave. Info: stoughtonkiwanis.org or call 669-2501

Sandhill Elementary School will once again host children and their families as they craft and fly kites around the schoolyard. Coordinated by Stoughton Kiwanis, Let’s Fly a Kite Day will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 22, at the school, 1920 Lincoln Ave. Children of all ages can participate in a kite building workshop inside outside. The first 50 children to show the school and then test their kites up will receive a free kite, plus string

and winder handle. The kites can be hand decorated by the child and assembled with the help of a parent or guardian. Members of Stoughton Kiwanis will be on hand to talk about the history of kites and the sport of kite flying. Water will be provided and all children must be accompanied by an adult. In case of rain, the event will be postponed until Saturday, Sept. 29. For more information, visit stoughtonkiwanis.org or call 669-2501. Contact Amber Levenhagen at amber. levenhagen@wcinet.com.

Golda Meir was born in the Ukraine, raised in Milwaukee and traveled a path that led her to become the Prime Minister of Israel. But how did she do it? Jessica Michna, a historical reenactor, will present Meir’s story, “The Journey Home” at West Koshkonong Lutheran Church, 1911 Koshkonong Road, starting at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29. Michna’s one-woman performance will expand on the life of Meir, who was the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. She died in 1978. It will be Michna’s fifth time performing at the church, Linda Johnson, a member and chairperson at West Koshkonong, told the Hub. “We heard about (Michna) from her performances in Edgerton, she goes all over to do this,” Johnson

said. “She’s so good, some people might have seen her before, but she tries to add a new character every year, it seems like.” Michna performs about 20 characters in the one-woman shows she researches, writes, produces and directs. She travels around Wisconsin to bring these historical characters to life, including Mary Todd Lincoln and Helen Keller. Desserts will be available at 12:30 p.m. before the one-hour performance. Reservations are required to get a head count for snacks by Wednesday, Sept. 26. Call 423-3447 to reserve a spot. “It’s a social time for people to get together and enjoy a performance by this woman who brings a lot of life to these characters,” Johnson said. The event is free, but donations will be accepted. For information, call 873-9456. Contact Amber Levenhagen at amber.levenhagen @wcinet.com.

Continued from page 1 was also named Stoughton Citizen of the Year in 1997. Former Stoughton Mayor Donna Olson told the Hub the restoration of the 117-year-old theater “wouldn’t have happened” without Vorndran. “He certainly was the heart and soul of that Opera House from the minute they decided to restore it,” she said. Vorndran, who retired in 1992 after a career with the U.S. Postal Service, worked on the restoration following his retirement “at least every day and sometimes into the evenings and on the weekends,” Olson recalled. “I don’t think there’s a ny o n e w h o k n ew t h a t building more intimately than John Vorndran did,” she added. Thanks to his relatively small physical stature, she

remembered, he “crawled in between the floors and into every nook and cranny.” Vorndran was born Dec. 14, 1935, raised in Muscoda and graduated from St. John the Baptist Catholic School. He and his wife, Judy, married in 1966 and had two daughters and four grandchildren. J o h n a n d J u d y, w h o died in 2011, were active members of Experimental Aircraft Association, and he spent many days at the Stoughton Airport flying his small planes, according to an online obituary. He dedicated countless hours on the Opera House restoration, Olson said. She suspects he “spent probably most of his life at that point at the Opera House.” “I had heard that he discovered a floor that’s kind of in between floors, where the dressing rooms

are now,” Olson recalled. “He was doing all of those things – sort of crawling into these empty spaces that he didn’t know where t h ey w e n t — w h e n h e found that floor. He literally found these places that had been blocked off, I suppose, through the years for who-knows-what reason.” He was also responsible for securing grant funding through the Jeffris Family Foundation for the $1.75 million project. “(That) enabled the Opera House to be finished and restored,” Olson ex p l a i n e d , “ a n d t h e n I worked with the Opera House board to enable them to get that first year of shows off the ground and have that grand re-opening exactly 100 years to the date that the first show was held at the Opera House.” Olson said she hadn’t asked Vorndran why he

had such enthusiasm about restoring the historic auditorium. Neither had Carol Novak, whose husband, Tom, was a close partner with Vorndran on the project. “They had just retired and needed an outside interest,” she told the Hub. O l s o n c r e d i t e d Vo r n dran, Tom Novak and the late Mayor Helen Johnson as key to the restoration effort. But no one was more important to it than Vorndran, she said. “He was just such a neat guy,” Olson observed. “He was a smaller man, but what he held in passion and dedication and drive to restore the Opera House could be matched by no one.” Contact Bill Livick at bill. livick@wcinet.com

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Coming up MOPS/MOMSnext meeting The first Mothers of Preschoolers/ MOMSnext meeting of the school year will be held from 7-9:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at St. Ann’s Church, 323 N. Van Buren St. All moms with children ages 0-18 are welcome to attend for food, crafts, speakers, discussions and community outreach. Attendees don’t have to be St. Ann’s members to join. Meetings will be held at the same time on the third Thursday of the month. Fo r i n f o r m a t i o n , s e a r c h f o r “ S t o u g h t o n S t . A n n ’s M O P S @ night” on Facebook or email stamopsnews@gmail.com.

ROHS meeting

will attend a pancake breakfast, hosted by Stoughton Area Democrats and Progressives, from 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, in the Stoughton High School cafetorium, 600 Lincoln Ave. Josh Kaul, candidate for Wisconsin attorney general, Sarah Godlewski, candidate for Wisconsin state treasurer, will speak during the breakfast. Godlewski will speak on behalf of Tony Evers, candidate for Wisconsin governor, and Mandela Barnes, candidate for lieutenant governor. Senator Don Vruwink, Assembly representative Janis Ringhand, Dane County sheriff Dave Mahoney and Dane County clerk Scott McDonell will also speak. The biennial event is sponsored by the Stoughton Area Dems and Progressives before the fall election, Nov. 6, to give community members an opportunity to review candidate positions and to present concerns about state and local issues. For information, visit facebook. com/stoughtondemsandprogressives or stoughtondems.org.

R Olde House Society (ROHS) will hold its next meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at Shady Nook Farm, 3511 Hwy. 13. The house is on the south side of the road, just past the Olson Auto Exchange. The ROHS is a group of people preserving Stoughton’s treasures, one house at a time. Attendees are Church potluck asked to bring a snack to share. Visit Covenant Lutheran Church, Newcomers are welcome. 1525 N. Van Buren St., for a comF o r i n f o r m a t i o n , munity potluck and program starting email rohstoughton@gmail.com. at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25. Nathan Butler, University of Pancake breakfast Wisconsin-Madison geneticist, Several Democratic candidates

and Shelley Hermundstad Jansky, UW-Madison professor and geneticist, will preset “DNA Unraveled.” For information, call 873-7494.

Our Faith Stories St. Ann’s Parish will continue its “Our Faith Stories” series with a discussion led by Scott Wilker and Kathy Smiley at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, in St. Ann’s Church’s Healy Hall, 323 N. Van Buren St. Each month, the parish asks parishioners to share with the community how they see God working in their lives. For information, call 873-7633.

Living with diabetes Stoughton Hospital will offer a six week workshop about healthy living with diabetes starting Tuesday, Oct. 2, through Nov. 6. Classes will be held from 2-4:30 p.m. every Tuesday at the hospital, 900 Ridge St. The workshop is not designed to replace existing treatments, rather compliment the treatments a participant receives. It’s sponsored by the senior center, Stoughton Hospital and Safe Communities. The series is $20 per person and includes a book, instructions and snacks. To register, or for more information, call Sonja at 873-2356.

‌Thursday, September 20‌

• 1-5 p.m., Personal Essentials Pantry, 343 E. Main St., pepstoughton.org‌ • 3 p.m., Photography program with Lucas Canik, senior center, 873-8585‌ • 3 p.m., Computer class, senior center, second floor, 873-8585‌ • 7 p.m., ROHS meeting, Shady Nook Farm, 3511 Hwy. 138, rohstoughton.com‌ • 7-9:30 p.m., MOPs and MOMSnext meeting, St. Ann’s Church, 323 N. Van Buren St., stamopsnews@ gmail.com‌

‌Friday, September 21‌

• 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Red Cross blood drive, Stoughton Hospital, 900 Ridge St., redcrossblood.org‌ • 10 a.m., Preschool painting party, library, 873-6281‌ • 1 p.m., Classic Movie Friday: Rear Window, senior center, 873-8585‌ • 5-9 p.m., Live music on the patio, 3097 Sunnyside St., 205-9300‌

‌Saturday, September 22‌

• 9 a.m., Stoughton Area Democrats and Progressives pancake breakfast, SHS cafetorium, 600 Lincoln Ave., facebook.com/stoughtondemsandprogressives‌

‌Sunday, September 23‌

• 2 p.m., Yoga Sundays with Stoughton Yoga, library, 873-6281‌

‌Monday, September 24‌

• 3 p.m., Brass Knuckles Brass Quintet performance, senior center, 873-8585‌

‌Tuesday, September 25‌

• 11:30 a.m., Potluck and program, Covenant Lutheran Church, 1525 N. Van Buren St., 873-7494‌ • 6:30-8 p.m, Page Turners book discussion, library, 873-6281‌

‌Wednesday, September 26‌

Baha’i Faith

For information: Alfred Skerpan, 877-0911 or Gail and Greg Gagnon, 873-9225 us.bahai.org Stoughton study classes.

Bible Baptist Church

2095 Hwy. W, Utica 873-7077 • 423-3033 Sunday: 10 a.m. - Worship; 6 p.m. - Worship

Christ Lutheran Church

700 Hwy. B, Stoughton 873-9353 • e-mail: office@clcstoughton.org Saturday: 5:30 p.m. Worship Sunday: 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Worship, 9:10 a.m. Family Express and Sunday School

Christ the King Community Church 401 W. Main St., Stoughton • 877-0303 christthekingcc.org Sunday: 10 a.m. - Worship

Christian Assembly Church

1844 Williams Drive, Stoughton • 873-9106 Saturday: 6 p.m. Worship Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

825 S. Van Buren, Stoughton 877-0439 • Missionaries 957-3930 Sunday: 9 a.m. Sunday school and Primary

Cooksville Lutheran Church

11927 W. Church St., Evansville 882-4408 Pastor Karla Brekke Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship and Sunday School

Ezra Church

515 E. Main St., Stoughton • 834-9050 ezrachurch.com Sunday: 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

First Lutheran Church

310 E. Washington, Stoughton 873-7761 • flcstoughton.com Sunday: 8:30 and 10 a.m. Worship

Fulton Church

9209 Fulton St., Edgerton 884-8512 • fultonchurch.org Sunday: 8 and 10:30 a.m. Worship Services Coffee Fellowship: 9:10 a.m. Sunday School: 9:30-10:30 a.m. Varsity (High Schoolers): 12-3 p.m. AWANA (age 2-middle school): 3-5 p.m.

Good Shepherd By The Lake Lutheran Church

1860 Hwy. 51 at Lake Kegonsa, Stoughton 873-5924 Sunday Worship: 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Education hour for all ages: 9:15 a.m. Adult Bible Study: 9:15-9:45 a.m.

LakeView Church

2200 Lincoln Ave., Stoughton 873-9838 • lakevc.org Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship

Seventh Day Baptist Church of Albion

616 Albion Rd., Edgerton 561-7450 • albionsdb@gmail.com forministry.com/USWISDBGCASD1 Worship Saturday 11- Sabbath School 10 Fellowship Meal follows service on first Sabbath

Stoughton Baptist Church

Corner of Williams Dr. & Cty. B, Stoughton 873-6517 Sunday: 10:30 a.m. - Worship; 6 p.m. - Evening Service

St. Ann Catholic Church

323 N. Van Buren St., Stoughton 873-6448 • 873-7633 Weekday Mass: Nazareth House and St. Ann’s Church Weekend Mass: Saturday - 5:15 p.m.; Sunday - 8 and 10:30 a.m.

United Methodist of Stoughton 525 Lincoln Avenue, Stoughton stoughtonmethodist.org Stoughtonumc@Wisconsinumc.org Sunday: 8 a.m. - Short Service; 10 a.m. - Full Worship

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‌Friday, September 28‌

• Library closed for staff inservice‌

‌Saturday, September 29‌

• 2-3 p.m., Scandinavian music program with Arna Rennan, Livsreise, 277 W. Main St., 873-7567‌ • 7 p.m., Arna Rennan performance ($10), Chorus Public House, 154 W. Main St., 846-3647‌

‌Sunday, September 30‌

• 6:30 p.m., Our Faith Stories, St. Ann Parish, 323 N. Van Buren St., 873-7633‌

‌Monday, October 1‌

• 6:30 p.m., Baby story time, library, 873-6281‌

‌Tuesday, October 2‌

• 9:30 a.m., Memory cafe, library, 873-8585‌ • 6:30 p.m., Evening story time, library, 873-6281‌

‌Wednesday, October 3‌

• 9:30 a.m., Morning story time, library, 873-6281‌ • 10:30 a.m., Morning story time, library, 873-6281‌ • 6:30 p.m., The Foundation book club meeting, library, 873-6281‌

West Koshkonong Lutheran Church 1911 Koshkonong, Stoughton Sunday: 10:30 a.m. - Worship

Western Koshkonong Lutheran Church

2633 Church St., Cottage Grove Sunday: 9:30 a.m. worship 11 a.m. Bible study

Altering Destiny “The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:7-8 NIV

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Covenant Lutheran Church

1525 N. Van Buren St., Stoughton • 873-7494 covlutheran@gmail.com • covluth.org Saturday: 5:30 p.m. Worship Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship, 10:30 a.m. Fellowship

• 6:30-8 p.m, Page Turners book discussion, senior center, 873-6281‌

Will things be different after we die? There is a natural tendency to think that there will be a radical transformation after death, that we will be unburdened by our bodies and that our souls will fly off to heaven and be united with God. But then shouldn’t we prepare our souls now to be with God? The truth is that God won’t be changing, and probably neither will we. Our souls and the virtues and appetites we cultivate become more or less permanent parts of who we are. If you have cultivated a spirit of love and compassion in your life, and live in the presence of God, you can certainly expect more of this in the hereafter, but if you have cultivated a spirit of anger and hatred, or any of the other vices, these have become a part of your soul. Fortunately, these things can be changed, but only with steadfast hard work and a conscious decision to alter our characters. We can change our destiny, but only if we do the hard work necessary to change our characters. If you aren’t living in the presence of God now,what makes you think you’ll be in his presence in the hereafter? Live now as you would for eternity. – Christopher Simon

Food pantries City of Stoughton Food Pantry The City of Stoughton Food Pantry is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday. It will also be open from 4-6 p.m. Thursday evenings and the first Saturday of the month from 9-11 a.m. The city’s food pantry is located at 520 S. Fourth St.

Stoughton United Methodist Church Food Pantry The Stoughton United Methodist Church Food Pantry is open from 9-11 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesdays. It will also be open from 5-7 p.m. Tuesdays. The pantry is located at 525 Lincoln Ave.

Support groups Diabetic Support Group • 6 p.m., second Monday, Stoughton Hospital, 8732356

Low Vision Support • 1-2:30 p.m., third Thursday, senior center, 8738585

Dementia Caregivers • 2 p.m., second Thursday, senior center, 873-8585

Parkinson’s Group • 1:30-2:30 p.m., fourth Wednesday, senior center, 873-8585

Crohn’s/Colitis/IBD Support Group • 5:30 p.m., third Wednesday, Stoughton Hospital, 873-7928 Grief Support Groups • 2 p.m., third Wednesday, senior center, 873-8585

Multiple Sclerosis Group • 10-11:30 a.m., second Tuesday, senior center, 873-8585

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First-time restaurateurs finding success on Main St. Yellow Bird and Brown embrace a ‘new hometown’

51 South Restaurant Owners: Ariya Yellow Bird and Trisha Brown Location: 208 W. Main St., Stoughton Telephone: 205-2207 Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Reservations: Accepted Credit cards: Accepted Wheelchair access: Yes Vegetarian items: Yes Website: 51southrestaurant.com

BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group

Ariya Yellow Bird and Trisha Brown, co-owners of 51 South Restaurant, which opened June 1 on West Main Street, were going about their business one summer day when a busload of Norwegian visitors poured into their new dining room. It was “a total surprise,” the business partners said. “They just showed up and they kind of all came in at once,” Yellow Bird recalled last week during an interview with the Hub. “Our whole front dining area was full of Norwegians.” A big group of Scandinavian visitors might not seem so unusual in Stoughton, but the guests didn’t arrive during a special occasion, like Syttende Mai, so it was unexpected. Yellow Bird said it was fun having all the tourists converging on the restaurant at once. She thinks they enjoyed the experience as well, despite a language barrier. “I knew how to say ‘many thousand thanks’ in Norwegian,” Yellow Bird added with a laugh, “and they thought that was funny. That’s all I know in Norwegian.” As surprised as the two restaurateurs were, she remembered, their guests also seemed a bit off-kilter. “I think they were a little taken by surprise because they wanted authentic American burgers and stuff,” she observed. “Ours are a little bit on the healthier side.”

Getting started Brown and Yellow Bird had lived here for a few years – Yellow Bird arrived in 2015 and Brown the following year – before they had the idea to launch their first eatery. That happened Jan. 1 this year, which gave them about five months to prepare and execute a business plan. Their concept was for a cozy, comfortable dining establishment that offered healthy, good-tasting food. They also wanted to become more deeply involved with the community because both loved living here, they said. “Our first restaurant name idea was The Good Neighbors,” Brown explained. “It was a little too bland, and our food stands out so we wanted the name to stand out as well.” They liked 51 South for a name because it gave the

Photo by Bill Livick

Ariya Yellow Bird (left) and Trisha Brown opened 51 South Restaurant June 1 in downtown Stoughton. restaurant a location and an identity. That identity has become more pronounced as the women have put their touch on the building. They redecorated the dining room with a new coat of sunflower-yellow paint, making it a bright, energetic space, painted and re-upholstered chairs and essentially made their own tabletops. “We did almost all the work ourselves,” Yellow Bird said. “Everything was on a really tight budget.” Now, dining room walls display the work of local artists, which the owners plan to use as a “rotating gallery.” The result is a quaint, downto-earth setting – a vibe that’s matched by tasty fare and pure flavors. “The whole place – the atmosphere, food and environment – kind of reflects our personality,” Brown said. Their made-from-scratch ethic is represented in the food served as much as the work they did on the dining room. Customers order at a counter and food is served at the table. A chalkboard above the counter lists the menu and daily specials, and the dining room has large windows in front that allow in natural light and a view of the vibrant downtown. Yellow Bird describes the menu as “new American” and says it will change with the seasons. She said they try to source locally as much as possible, regularly shopping at the Stoughton Farmers Market and buying much of their produce from Vitruvian Farms near McFarland. The business partners hired a California-trained chef and friend, Chris Ault, to run the kitchen, but said they all contribute there and collaborate

Business in brief

on the menu, which includes alcohol matter carefully. “We listen to our customa few appetizers and salads and eight-to-10 main courses ers and would like to accommodate that, but it’s not with sides. something to rush into,” she

Old friends

Brown and Yellow Bird said they met in 2012 when they worked at The Chocolate Shoppe in Madison. They became friends and stayed in touch, and a few years later started their first business together – Stoughton Snacks. “It was a late-night delivery here in town that operated from 8 pm. – 3 p.m.,” Brown explained. “We delivered frozen meals, snacks, candies … We did it for a year or so but it never took off. It was a lot of late nights kind of sitting around waiting for orders.” She said they were doing their snack business on New Years Eve and having “kind of a busy night” when a customer ordered food to be delivered near West Main Street. That’s when they noticed the vacant storefront at 208 W. Main St. “We saw that this place was vacant and thought it would be a good place for a restaurant,” Yellow Bird said. The next day, Jan. 1, they called the building owner to inquire about opening a business.

Looking ahead Brown and Yellow Bird said 51 South has exceeded their expectations, and they have ideas about how to improve and expand the business. They’re open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and note that lunch is their busiest time. They’d like to offer brunch, and perhaps eventually serve beer and wine. Yellow Bird said they’re considering the

next year and has been family owned and operated since the beginning. Joe Crubaugh, It’s certainly no secret around Stough- the current owner, is a third generation baker. ton, but now the rest of the state knows, too, after Fosdal’s Home Bakery won the title Pleasant Springs travel plaza opens of Sweetest Bakery in Wisconsin in Dawn Travelers along County Hwy. N thorugh Foods’ Sweetest Bakery in America contest. the Town of Pleasant Springs have a new Gig Gastevich of Fosdal’s said store place to stop for a snack as a new travel plaemployees “lobbied hard from March to za opened late last month. August for votes.” The plaza, at 2763 Hwy. N, includes a BP “We are just thrilled that our efforts paid gas station, Cinnabon and Chester’s Chickoff,” she said. “We have received an outpour- en restaurant. ing of support from the Madison communiThe plaza is managed by Golden Oil ty.” Company. For information on the company, The business will be turning 80 years old visit goldenoilcompany.com.

said. “It is a big responsibility and takes a lot of planning, and before we think about that we want to be 100 percent ready.” She said adding beer and wine would change how the restaurant operates. “Right now, we have a really good flow,” Yellow

Bird said. “If we add beer and wine, we’d want to have it set up in a really nice way and make sure it’s in a secure area.” The big change they’re definitely planning is to get a business sign on the front of the building. “We don’t want to be a hidden restaurant forever,” Brown said, laughing. “We planned to have one but wanted to give the front a fresh coat of paint first, and it kind of took a little longer than we thought it would.” The women said they couldn’t be happier with their first restaurant, especially its location and the community support they’ve received. “We love Main Street and love that we’re kind of close to the river,” Yellow Bird said. “I really like our neighbors, and we feel like this end of Main Street is going through a cool revitalization.” Contact Bill Livick at bill. livick@wcinet.com

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Stoughton sweeps Monroe

From Sept. 12-19

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The Stoughton volleyball team spent extra time in practice last week focusing on its hitting while not running the offense. The added work appeared to benefit the team Thursday as the Vikings overcame an eight-point deficit in the second set and rolled by Monroe 25-19, 29-27, 25-21. “We have really been encouraging our hitters to be aggressive without making error after error after error,” coach Jillian Bauer said. “This week in practice we did a ton of out-of-system swings (setting to the outside), which I think really helped their confidence.” The victory over Monroe marked the first Badger South Conference win for Stoughton (9-8 overall, 1-3 Badger South). “Overall, we were pretty pleased with the things we have really been focusing on in practice – communication, effort and endless pursuit.” The Vikings dropped a threeset nonconference match to Verona on Senior Night Tuesday. For Bauer, a 2012 Verona Area High School alumnas, it was a chance to face her almer mater and mentor in Wildcat coach Kelly Annen. “It’s a good rivalry because it’s my hometown,” Bauer said. “I have a ton of respect for that volleyball program and all they do. She’s been there for a long time so she’s been able to instill a winning culture. “They (Verona) have a lot of solid athletes and volleyball players,” Bauer said of the Wildcats. “That makes them what they are.”

Verona 3, Stoughton 0 The Vikings lost a nonconference match to Verona 25-17, 26-24, 25-11 on Tuesday. The Wildcats (20-1) built a 10-4 lead in the first set they didn’t relinquish.

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Stoughton sophomore outside hitter Kat Eugster spikes the ball Thursday in a dual match against Monroe. Eugster had 10 kills to lead the Vikings to a sweep over the Cheesemakers. Stoughton jumped out to a 10-7 lead in the second set. The Vikings got strong digging from senior libero Hannah Wirtag and senior Molly Brickson. The Wildcats rallied to win the second set. Verona freshman Claudia Bobb had 14 straight service points in the final set as the Wildcats stormed out to a 14-1 lead they didn’t give up. “To be honest I’m a little disappointed with how we played,” Bauer said. “In the second set we came out and gave it a little bit of a go. “It was an opportunity to compete against a lot of really good volleyball players, and I just don’t think we really rose to that occasion tonight.” The Vikings had six service errors and just one ace. “I thought our defense did dig some balls given the seams we had to fill,” Bauer said. “It was just kind of

Badger South Team Watertown Oregon Milton Fort Atkinson Madison Edgewood Monona Grove Stoughton Monroe

Wins Losses 4 0 3 1 3 1 2 2 2 2 1 3 1 3 0 4

struggled in the second set, making five service errors but strong front row hitting and miscues by the Cheesemakers helped them pull out a sweep. Sophomore outside hitter Kat Eugster and Stoughton 3, junior outside hitter Paige Schuttemeir each had a Monroe 0 In a 3-0 victory over team-high 10 kills. Senior M o n r o e o n T h u r s d a y, M e g a n A d a m s d i s h e d S e p t . 1 3 , t h e Vi k i n g s out 21 assists and senior disappointing with how we played in the first and third set.” Bauer said the Vikings really struggled passing. Stats were unavailable as the Courier Hub went to press Tuesday night.

What’s next The Vikings host Madison Edgewood at 7 p.m. Thursday.

libero Hannah Wirag had 12 digs. “We needed a lot of energy to come back from that (deficit),” Eugster said. “I think after pushing yourself that hard, it just pushes you to want to win that next set.” M o n r o e s e n i o r L ex i Davis had a team-best seven kills and junior Cassi Gersbach had two blocks. “Monroe definitely had a lot of great hitters,” Bauer said. Stoughton will play at Madison Edgewood on Thursday.

Honorable mentions: Katie Zacharias and Annika Goetz (girls tennis) earned wins against Monroe and Fort Atkinson to help the Vikings close out the regular season with a pair of dual meet wins. Drew Anderson (football) caught eight balls for 103 yards, including the game-winning touchdown in a 13-6 win over Monroe. Leire Begona (girls swimming) won the 100-yard butterfly in a personal-best 1:05.73 and was part of the Vikings’ first place 200 medley relay. Coltin Holtan (boys soccer) stepped up Saturday and scored one goal as the Vikings went 2-1 at the Berlin tournament. Paige Schuttemeir (volleyall) had 10 kills Thursday to lead the Vikings to a sweep over Monroe.

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S t o u g h t o n b oy s s o c c e r coach Michael McIntosh wanted to limit the wear and tear on the legs of his varsity players in the Berlin tournament Saturday, so he had his junior varsity Purple team play. The Vikings then got back into Badger South Conference action Tuesday and defeated Fort Atkinson 4-2.

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Football

Kicking game helps Vikings rally against Monroe JEREMY JONES ​Sports editor

The Stoughton football team opted for 2-point c o nve r s i o n s ove r PAT s and picked fourth-down attempts rather than punts through its first four weeks of the season. Friday, with the team’s long-snapping issues seemingly cleaned up, the kicking game played a

pivotal role in the Vikings’ 13-6 win over Monroe. The Vikings (5-0 overall, 3-0 Badger South) fell behind 6-0 in the first quarter but Stoughton rallied to score 13 unanswered points with a pair of field goals and an extra point by senior Cade Spilde. “Cade is a good kicker, and with points at a premium, it was an easy decision

to kick the field goals,” coach Dan Prahl said. “Monroe was a physical team but we hurt ourselves more than they were hurting us on offense.” Junior quarterback Adam Hobson found senior senior wide receiver Drew Anderson on the game-winning touchdown pass. Spilde, had cut the Cheesemakers lead in half with

Hobson, who completed 14 of 24 passes for 147 yards, found senior wide receiver Drew Anderson Stoughton (5-0, 3-0) on a 11-yard hitch route to travels to Oregon (3-2, cap the comeback. Anderson finished with a game2-1) at 7 p.m. Friday. high 103 receiving yards on eight catches. Hobson ran for 59 yards a 36-yard field goal in the on 12 attempts, and senior second quarter and tied the r u n n i n g b a c k D w i g h t game at 6-6 with a 25-yard Walker had 64 yards on 19 boot in the third. carries to lead the Vikings.

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Monroe struck first with a 17-yard touchdown run by Jordan Montgomery in the first quarter but missed on the PAT. Montgomery finished the game with 53 yards on 13 carries. Ethan Kleckler had a game-high 85 yards rushing on 21 carries as the Cheesemakers rang up 154 yards on 48 carries as a team.

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Vikings win Milton Invitational for the first time JEREMY JONES ​Sports editor

Coach Katie Talmadge said the Stoughton girls swimming team put in a very competitive lineup for Saturday’s Milton Invitational. As a result, the Vikings won the meet for what Talmadge believed to be the first time in program history, a feat the SHS boys accomplished last year as well. Saturday was definitely the first time the Vikings have won the meet in the last 17 years of its 24 years of existence. “It was great for the girls’ spirits to be able to go to Milton and win the title,” Talmadge said. “Everyone was gunning for it.” W h i l e Ta l m a d g e acknowledged it was great to take home a trophy and individuals medals, she was most proud of the team’s 25 personal-best with limited entries. “Trophies and medals are great, we value those things as a society, but that many season-bests is what stands out for me,” she said. “That’s what our program is built around.” Stoughton won four of 11 events for a team-best 341.5 points, while the host Red Hawks finished second with 299. Lodi rounded out the top three with 293.5. “The moves paid off better than expected for our individual races, and the relays were very competitive as well,” Talmadge said. Av a S c h i g u r , S o f i a Bormett, Leire Begona and Savy Borroughs won the 200-yard medley relay in 1 minute, 59.08 seconds nearly three seconds faster than second place Milton, which finished in 2:01.89. Stoughton turned in a pair of top-five individual finishes in the 100 butterfly and 200 free as well. Begona took the 100 bu t t e r f l y i n a p e r s o n al-best 1:05.73 just ahead of Sophia Thompson, who was second in 1:06.18. Bormett won the 200 free in 1:58.71 and Evelyn Schaefer added a fourth-place finish in

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The Stoughton girls swimming team won the Milton Invitational on Saturday with a team-best 341.5 points. a personal-best 2:09.76. Bormett doubled up, adding the 100 free title in 54.81. Thompson, Begona, Ava Schiguar and Bormett finished third as a 400 free relay in 3:53.11. Milton posted the top time of 3:49.51 and Janesville Craig took second .82 ahead of the Vikings in 3:53.11. Savy Borroughs posted a personal-best 26.85 seconds for third in the 50 free. Only Janesville C r a i g ’s J o s i e P e t e r s o n (25.66) and Halle Peterson (26.55) were faster. Schigur was third in the 100 back with a 1:05.88 to finish behind only Milton’s Danielle Cramer (58.23) and Craig’s Megan Duffy (1:02.88). Schaefer added a thirdplace finish in the 500 free (5:45.76) to finish behind Edgewood’s Ruby Schieldt (5:30.05) and MR’s Azia Koser (5:35.74). Stoughton’s Audrey Killian was

its season-team best times goal of 600. Senior captain Erin McCune swam a long-awaited best time in the 100 back. “She’s been chasing that time since her freshman year and she was ecstatic,” Talmadge said.

What’s next Stoughton travels to nonconference Edgerton for a dual meet at 6 p.m. Thursday. sixth in 6:06.81 and Melanie Regan was seventh in 6:10.26. T h o m p s o n t o o k fi f t h place in the 200 IM (2:34.44) and Melanie Regan was sixth in the 100 IM (1:12.03). S t o u g h t o n ’s 2 0 0 f r e e relay of Savy Borroughs, S c h i g u r, S c h a e f e r a n d Begona finished sixth in 1:50.36. Brynn Sproul, Gabby Greenwald, Rachel Louis, Lily Trautman, Cora Borroughs and Laci McPhee all have perfect meets, posting best times every time they entered the water. The team is now are well over halfway (347) toward

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Monroe 107, Stoughton 63 Wi t h f i v e g i r l s o u t between varsity and junior varsity, Talmadge said she had to change her lineup five times before Tuesday’s meet started. Bormett won the lone two events Tuesday for Stoughton in a 107-63 loss at Monroe/New Glarus. She won the 200 free in 2:16.79 and the 100 free in 1:03.87. “Monroe was way strong e r t h a n I ex p e c t e d , I kind of underestimated them,” she said. “There was a rumor recently that they were going to cut the

all my teammates every practice, it’s one of the biggest highlights of my day and am sad that this is my last year. I’m honored to be part of such a great team.” “We had a lot of good s p i r i t t o n i g h t . We h a d new swimmers try scary events and while they were very nervous, our experienced swimmers guided them through it and in the end we had a really awesome vibe through the whole team,” Thompson said. “It’s great how well we are bonding, with the hardest part of our season approaching.”

Stoughton, Edgerton Talmadge said she plans to rest her injured and ill swimmers rather than have them swim in Thursday’s nonconference dual meet against Edgerton. “Thursday is going to be another meet that I can use to explore the nooks and crannies of our lineup,” she said.

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program, and that would have been terrible. “Linda (Moser) and her son are doing a great job running the program, and I’m happy for their success.” The Cheesemakers started the meet out strong, going 1-2 in the medley relay. They added first in the 200 and 400 free relays as well. Sophomore MeKenzie Hammer, the reigning Division 2 state backstroke champion, led a 1-2 finish in the event with a 1:07.5. Hammer also led a 1-2 finish in the 200 IM with a 2:34.76. Freshman Morgan Erstad also led a 1-2 finish by Monroe/New Glarus in the 400 free in 4:52.55. “The swim team this year is better then ever with great sportsmanship, amazing swimmers, and a great camraderie throughout the whole team,” senior captain Erin McCune said. “I look forward to seeing

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Stoughton, ranked seventh in the Wisconsin Golf Coaches Association state poll, fell one stroke shy of sixth-ranked Madison Edgewood in a Badger South dual meet on Thursday.

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Both teams entered Thursday’s Badger South C o n f e r e n c e s h ow d ow n unbeaten, but the sixthranked Crusaders slid by the Vikings by one stroke, 161-162.

Caylie Kotlowski, Myranda Kotlowski and M a d i s o n E d g e w o o d ’s Grace Jaeger each shot a 1-over-par 37 to tie for medalist honors Thursday at Coachman’s. “I was disappointed for the girls because we played really well and got beat,” coach Stephen Stokes said. “It shows that every shot counts and at this time of the year and how one shot can be the difference between winning conference, going to sectionals, or qualifying for state.” Senior Bre Viken carded a 3-over-par 40 and senior Jenny Marshall shot a 48 for the Vikings.

Parker Invitational The Vikings had two of the top four golfers Saturday and finished fourth out of 19 teams at the Janesville Parker Invitational. Caylie Kotlowski shot a 5-over-par 76 to tie Milton’s Claudia Seeman for second place at the Riverside Golf Course. Myranda Kotlowski carded a 6-overpar 77 to tie Middleton’s Glenna Sanderson and Janesville Parker’s Sophia Dooman for fourth place. Senior Renee Anderson finished with a 90 and Marshall shot a 99 to round out

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Vikings close dual meet season with back-to-back wins JEREMY JONES ​Sports editor

The Stoughton girls tennis team closed out the Badger South Conference dual meet season with wins over Monroe and Fort Atkinson last week. In between, the Vikings faced some of the topranked teams in the area, falling to Madison Memorial, Madison West and Verona as part of the Big Eight/Badger Conference Challenge.

Stoughton 6, Monroe 1 The Vikings were victorious at six of seven flights Thursday to help Stoughton earn its first Badger South Conference win of the season. Senior Kayla Rippe cruised atop the lineup, beating Emma Towne 6-0, 6-1. Senior Madison Schafer and junior Savanna Strutzel won 6-2, 6-2 at Nos. 2 and 3 singles. Sophomore Paige Bellefeuille survived a three-set scare against Kerstin Miller 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 at No. 4 singles. Junior Katie Zacharias and sophomore Annika Goetz won 6-2, 6-2 at No. 2 doubles and juniors Taylor Nisius and Morgan Schellin added a 6-0, 6-2 win at No. 3 doubles. Senior Lydia Brekken Photo by Jeremy Jones and junior Karlie Halverson lost the Vikings’ only Taylor Nisius puts a volley away at the net Thursday in a 6-1 win over Monroe. Nisius and Morgan Schellin won their No. 3 doubles match 6-0, 6-2. match 7-6 (5), 6-0 at No. 1 lineup with a 6-1, 6-2 vic- said. Stoughton won just one and 2 doubles. Nisius and doubles. tory over Verona’s Sydmatch at the four singles Schellin added a 6-1, 6-0 Sun Prairie 5, win at No. 3 doubles. flights. Madison Memorial 6, ney Breitbach and Kasie Rippe beat Klaire TrielKeyes. Stoughton 2 Stoughton travels to Stoughton 5, Stoughton 1 “The singles and doubles off 6-1, 6-4 at the top of Stoughton won its top Nielsen Tennis Stadium Fort Atkinson 2 the No. 1 singles lineup. Brekken and Halverson players have been being two singles matches Satura little more aggressive Schaefer added a 6-2, 6-0 in Madison at 9  a.m. opened the Big Eight Badday, losing 5-2 against Sun The Vikings had Senior Friday for the Badger Night on Monday all three win over Olivia Grance at ger Challenge on Friday when they have the oppor- Prairie. 2 singles. with the Vikings’ lone vic- tunity,” coach Amy Kahl Conference tournament. seniors (Rippe, Schaefer No. Rippe cruised 6-1, 6-3 Strutzel and Bellefeuille tory in a 6-1 loss against said. “It was great to see over Reena Katta at No. 1 Play continues at 9 a.m. and Brekken) got wins. each fell in close matches. f i f t h - r a n k e d M a d i s o n our No. 1 doubles rebound singles and Schafer added “Tonight was a great Strutzel lost 6-2, 2-6, 6-0 Saturday. after their loss to Monroe. Memorial. a hard-fought 6-4, 6-3 win way to finish the dual sea- and Bellefeuille fell 7-6 Brekken and Halverson To come back together and over Kanitta Fakthong at son,” Kahl said. (4), 6-0. beat Anna Hubbard and beat Verona and Madison No. 2 singles. Stoughton swept all “I think the girls are Memorial was huge for Catherine Wu 7-5, 1-6, S c h e l l i n a n d N i s i u s former Stoughton coach three doubles flights and starting to trust the stratthem.” 10-4 at No. 1 doubles. Z a c h a r i a s a n d G o e t z were unable to close out Ryan Reischel and the picked up wins at the top egies that we have been No. 3 doubles match Madison West Regents on two singles flights Monday working on in practice and Verona 5, Stoughton 2 added a 7-5, 6-3 win at No. their against Jordan White and to win Stoughton’s second then reinforcing during The Vikings picked up 2 doubles over Samantha Emma Dorn, falling 6-2, Saturday. Stoughton’s Schellin and straight Badger South dual our matches,” Kahl said. wins at No. 1 and 2 dou- Breitbach and Angie Sut- 6-7 (5), 10-6. Nisius fell 3-6, 6-2, 10-7 at meet. “I believe that they had bles Friday but struggled ter. Stoughton lost just one been playing, not to lose, No. 3 doubles and Goetz “Our No. 2 doubles had Madison West 7, at the other five flights, and Zacharias lost 7-6 (2), d o u b l e s g a m e i n t h r e e instead of taking control of a great win against Verowinning seven games in a 6-4. Brekken and Halver- flights in the 5-2 win. their matches and playing na, and have really start- Stoughton 0 5-2 loss. Brekken and Halverson ing communicating better The Vikings lost a pair son also fell short, losing and Zacharias and Goetz to win.” Brekken and Halverson during their matches,” Kahl 6-2, 6-3 at No. 1 doubles. of close matches against rolied 6-0, 6-0 at Nos. 1 cruised atop the doubles

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Stoughton running again Saturday JEREMY JONES

The Stoughton girls cross country team returns to action this weekend after 11 days off between competitions. The Vikings travel south to the Midwest Invitational at at 9 a.m. Saturday at Blackhawk Golf Course in Janesville. The meet features twotime defending state champion Sun Prairie, ranked first in Division 1 by the Wisconsin Cross Country Coaches Assocation, fifthr a n k e d M a d i s o n We s t , sixth-ranked Middleton,

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Vikings return to action in Janesville JEREMY JONES ​Sports editor

Eleven days since its last competition, the Stoughton boys cross country team returns to action Saturday at the 81st Midwest Invitational. The 5K race takes place at Blackhawk Golf Crouse in Janesville and features several of the state’s topranked teams. Defending state champion and nationally ranked Middleton headlines the field. The Cardinals are ranked atop the Wisconsin Cross Country Coaches Assocation’s Division 1

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The Stoughton 15U baseball team won its 2018 Summer League championship by defeating the top-seeded Jefferson, 5-2 and second-seeded Palmyra, 9-8, on the road. Stoughton was the fouth seed. Above: Team members (front, from left) are: Connor Wheeler, Bryce Vitense, Brady Estervig and Tristan Anderson; (back) coach Brady Wanninger, Happy Charleston, Rowin Shore, Hunter Karlan, coach Alec Tomczyk, Connor Blaney, Ryan Curry, Jared McGuire, Eagan Olson and coach Brock Wanninger; (not pictured) Nolan Carpenter.

Stoughton travels to Blackhawk Golf Course at 9 a.m. Saturday for the 81st Midwest Invitational. state poll. Also included are fourth-ranked Arrowhead, fifth-ranked Madison West, ninth-ranked Oconomowoc, 12th-rankd Madison La Follette, 14th-ranked Sun Prairie, 19th-Kenosha Indian Trail and 20th-ranked Neenah.

Golf: Badger South tournament rescheduled Continued from page 10 the top four for the Vikings.

Watertown triangular The Vikings won a traingular meet against Waterown and Milton on Wednesday at the Watertown Country Club. The Vikings shot a 186, five strokes ahead of Milton (191). The Goslings shot a 201. Caylie Kotlowski shot a 41 to lead the Vikings. Viken finished woith a 45 and Myranda Kotlowski craded a 46. Marshall rounded out the top four with a 54.

Stoughton 15U members (from left) Connor Blaney, Happy Charleston and Rowan Shore accept their 15U Summer Baseball League Championship bat on behalf of the entire team at the All-Star game on Sunday, Aug. 5, at Warner Park.

Soccer: Vikings within striking distance of Oregon Badger South

In the Berlin tournament, Team Wins Losses Ties McIntosh said coaches also Oregon 2 0 0 wanted to see what the JV Purple players could do, Milton 1 0 1 so they decided to take a Stoughton 1 0 1 “reserve team” that includMonona Grove 1 1 0 ed sophomores and juniors except for one senior and Watertown 1 1 0 one freshman. The Vikings Fort Atkinson 0 1 0 went 2-1 in the 50-minute mini games. Monroe 0 1 0 McIntosh said several Madison Edgewood 0 2 0 players on the varsity just have some general soreness and fatigue, which is on a direct kick in the fifth not uncommon for midseaminute. The Vikings anasson. wered after the Blackhawks The games are not official in Stoughton’s overall Stoughton travels to tied the game 1-1 in the 36th minute. record, 6-1-3, 2-0-1 BadBaraboo at 7 p.m. FriJunior defender Jacob ger South. day. Ferguson put a goal in from “Many of these playabout 45-yards out to give the ers enjoyed the break this Vikings a 2-1 lead in the 39th weekend, while our reserve minute. team did us proud,” McInFort tied the game, 2-2, in tosh said. “We were really Stoughton 4, the 65th minute, before Johnpleased with the play of Fort Atkinson 2 son had the go-ahead goal on our players in very diffiSenior forward Jason John- an assist by Holtan to give the cult, hot and sticky circumstances. We excelled son had two goals Tuesday Vikings a 3-2 lead at 77:25. at finding better possession to propel the Vikings to a 4-2 Johsnon had his second goal at 80:24. as the tournament pro- victory over Fort Atkinson. Junior Colin Holtan scored Senior goalkeeper Nolan gressed.”

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The Badger Conference tournament at The Legends at Bergamont in Oregon was rained out Monday and has been reschuled for 10:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 24. Prep golfers played three or four holes before the

Berlin tournament H o r t o nv i l l e c l i p p e d Stoughton 1-0 on Saturday in the first game of the tournament, then the Vikings rebounded to stymie Poynette 1-0 and roll by Mayville 3-0. Sophomore goalkeeper Steven Benoy had a shutout against Mayville and had six saves against Hortonville. Sophomore goalkeeper Nicklas Balthazor had a shutout against the Pumas. “Our first game was rather ragged and rushed,” McIntosh said. “Our goalkeeping was fantastic.” Junior forward Colin Holtan scored the only goal against Poynette. “Our second game was a shambles of poor touches and decisions,” McIntosh said. Against Mayville, the Vikings got goals from sophomore forward Milot Misini-Selmani, sophomore midfielder A.J. Mittlesteadt and junior forward Derek Karlen.

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What’s next Stoughton travels to Pleasant View Golf Course in Middleton at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26 for the WIAA Division 1 regional. tournament was rescheduled by officials from the Legend of Bergamont. “It was so wet it was unplayable,” coach Stephen Stokes said. The Vikings will start the tournament over next Monday and then play in the WIAA Division 1 Middleton regional on Wednesday, Sept. 26. “We have been playing so much golf lately, it’s not a big concern,” Stokes said. “The course can host you whenever they have available.”

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Monroe struggled to find much balance, as quarterback Alex Witt completed just 1 of 9 passes for 16 yards. S t o u g h t o n ’s d e f e n s e gave up a score on the first drive and 121 yards in the first half. “We really focused on our keys at halftime and had to play physical for the second half,” Prahl said. “We knew this was going to be a tough game, and they had their pace in the first half. In the second half, we made plays on third and fourth down to get off the field.” The Vikings travel down Hwy. 138 to face rival Oregon (3-2, 2-1) in a battle of teams in the upperhalf of the conference. “Oregon is Oregon. You can throw out the records,” Prahl said. “They are a talented team, and they are good at what they do.” If the rivalry could be amplified, this could be the time, as the game is also Oregon’s homecoming.

Badger South Team Wins Losses Mon. Grove 3 0 Stoughton 3 0 Watertown 3 0 Oregon 2 1 Milton 1 2 Edgewood 0 3 Fort Atkinson 0 3 Milton 0 3 “I can’t wait for Friday. This will be a great atmosphere, and I know they will be jacked up to play, and so will our guys,” Prahl said. Prahl joked about his d a d , l o n g - t i m e O r eg o n coach Bob Prahl wearing purple for the game. “I hope my dad has his purple on for this one, but that probably won’t be the case,” he said. “I hope our fans come out and support because this will be a great game.”

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Trail: $43,000 Yahara Trail extension opens new stretch of riverfront to the public Continued from page 1 its current terminus near the business park. At $43,000, contractor Mark Rochon’s was the lowest of three bids by about $10,000. The other two were around $54,000 and $55,000. Parks and recreation director Dan Glynn said a representative from Poblocki Paving Corporation, another firm that bid the project, told him it was the busiest the firm had been in 25 years. O r i g i n a l l y, t h e p r o j ect was estimated to cost $67,000 for an asphalt trail, but the city didn’t have any takers when bids were due March 30. The second time the project went out for bid, Glynn said, they added resurfacing a tennis court to sweeten the deal, but only received one bid for $87,000 – $20,000 more than they had budgeted – by the June 1 deadline. Ta k i n g a b r e a k f r o m clearing the trail with an excavator, Rochon said it would be easy to come in Photo by Alexander Cramer and pave the gravel trail, and that it wouldn’t require The new Yahara River Trail extension snakes its way westward toward the Stoughton Hospital trail, the newest step in a proposed 5-mile loop. undoing any of his work. The city paid $43,000 to com“Don’t have to do much plete this section of trail with to get it paved afterward, gravel due to the prohibitive just put three inches of cost of paving it with asphalt. asphalt down,” Rochon The lowest — and only — said. bid the city received was for Before the rain arrived $87,000, and leaders plan to early this week, Rochon pave a number of trails togethestimated the work would er in the future to save on cost. take him about 10 days, This bench sits in a clearing meaning a tentative comat the base of the hill behind pletion date of Sept. 24. Stoughton Hospital. In the background is the Yahara Contact Alexander CramRiver Trail extension that coner at alexander.cramer@ nects the hospital’s trail to the wcinet.com.​ Amundson Trail and ultimately north to Viking County Park. Photos by Alexander Cramer (left) and submitted

Shop: Stabilizing structure to secure it through winter could cost $200,000 Continued from page 1 chair Roger Springman offered a rendering of a possible use of such a structure, an open-air market with enclosed businesses on either end. Stabilizing the structure to last long enough for any sort of redevelopment, the engineer said, might cost as much as $200,000. Springman put the decision facing the RDA into three options: 1. Do nothing and roll the dice, hoping the building stays intact through the winter; 2. Do some smaller-scale interim building protection; or 3. Implement this plan next month. R DA m e m b e r R e g i na Hirsch said the group would need to gather more information before it could make the call. “I’m starting to think about how we really need to start bringing some potential developers in pretty quickly before we can afford to start making an over-$200,000 decision,” Hirsch said. Committee member Carl Chenoweth said he would “have to see a little more commitment from outside our circle” before he signed on to the plan. The brainstorming session next Monday, Sept. 24,

will be moderated by RDA consultant Gary Becker and include Middleton planning director Eileen Kelley, general contractor Joe Krupp and architect Ed Linville, who helped Springman put the session together. Springman has also invited architect Mark Ernst, a partner with Engberg Anderson Architects. The goal is to have conversations with outside sources who can offer fresh perspectives on the RDA’s project.

Weighing the risk The RDA has good reason to make sure its ducks are in a row this time around. Last summer, Tanesay Inc. withdrew its proposal to be a master developer for the site because the RDA and the Common Council weren’t on the same page. And it’s an open question whether a developer would want a building that has been reduced to bare bone. Springman has had informal discussions about the situation with Ernst, and he distributed the rendering of the open-air market/cafe idea, made by Ernst’s team. But the RDA isn’t in a position yet to formally request proposals from developers, and Springman said developers might want

to wait until the process has been finalized before submitting more formal plans. “(J. Jeffers and Co.) was interested in this thing, but they want to hold off until the proposal process,” Springman said. “They’re not going to submit a proposal until we’re ready to receive one.” Ernst has been involved in the project for years. He previously worked with the RDA’s master developer, Tanesay Inc., before that deal fell through, and he and Springman led the Milwaukee-based Jeffers team on a tour of the site earlier this year. The RDA could mitigate the risk of investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a project that might not be included in the final proposal by incentivizing the building’s use by weighing proposals that include the former Blacksmith Shop more favorably in their bid-review process. Another option is to require the eventual site to create enough of a tax increment to essentially pay for this work, regardless of whether the developer keeps the steel skeleton.

bids as soon as its new tax-increment financing district (TID 8) is actuated Oct. 31, Springman said. But it could take weeks longer than that. The group still has to decide how it will evaluate proposals and the process through which it will set the project out for bid. It’s also waiting to hear whether the city receives a $500,000 grant from the state Department of Natural Resources for a proposed whitewater park that could affect the sort of commercial projects the development might attract. The city expects news by late-October. The engineer’s recommendation calls for extensive cross-bracing, removing the east and west ends of the building and taking off the roof and mortared walls, essentially making it a “steel skeleton standing in the air,” Kurtis Straus, president of Structural Integrity, Inc., told the authority. Straus said the price tag could also come down. The estimated $160,000 for the contractor work is a conservative figure, he said, though it doesn’t include approximately $30,000 for Straus’ firm to create detailed engineering plans and a furStabilizing project ther $10,000-15,000 in estiThe RDA could put the mated costs to get the project stabilizing project out for ready to be bid. It also is heavy on

demolition and disposal of material. “The bracing work itself accounts for approximately 25 percent of the cost,” Straus wrote in his report. “A significant amount of the project cost is found in selective removal recycling and disposal of roofing, roof plank and masonry walls (around 75 percent of the cost).” Straus, who has worked

as a structural engineer on Madison’s Garver Feed Mill project, estimated the project would be able to salvage about half the building’s masonry, enough at least to use as a veneer if a future developer wanted to keep the historic look. Contact Alexander Cramer at alexander.cramer@ wcinet.com.​

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Obituaries Maxine Dorothy Elizabeth Thompson

Maxine Thompson

Maxine Dorothy Elizabeth Thompson, age 93, passed away peacefully on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, at the UW Hospital in Madison. Maxine was born on

Linda Townsend Linda Townsend, age 71, passed away at home surrounded by family after a courageous five-and-a-half year battle with Leukemia on September 10, 2018. She was born in Beloit on May 30, 1947, the daughter of Jay and Elaine (Nelson) Townsend. She graduated from Beloit Memorial High School in 1965. Linda continued her education

Jacqueline J. Detwiler Jacqueline J. (Metz) Detwiler, of Brookfield, Ill., born on February 10, 1937, in Bellwood, Ill. to the late Loretta Metz and the late Bert Metz, passed away at age 81 on Aug. 30, 2018, in Stoughton. Jacqueline was the beloved wife of the late

April 20,1925, in Edgerton, to the late William and Louise (Schmeling) Maves. She was united in marriage with Irving R. Thompson on Oct. 25, 1947. Maxine was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and friend. Maxine is survived by her daughter Teresa (Dan) Pirkl of Stoughton; grandsons Derek (Ruthie) Pirkl and Geoffrey (Erika) Pirkl; and is also further survived by nieces, nephews, other relatives and many dear friends. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Irving, two sisters and seven brothers. A funeral service was held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Sept 14, 2018, at Cress Funeral Home, 206 W.

Prospect St. Visitation was held from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the service on Friday at the funeral home. Private entombment will take place at Roselawn Memorial Park. The family would like to extend a sincere thank you to Dr. Chey Collura, the nurses and staff at the UW Hospital for all the care extended to Maxine.

graduating from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1969 and earned a master’s degree of science and educational psychology in December of 1981. She was known as Miss T. at Kegonsa Elementary School where she taught for 40 years. Linda was a member of the Stoughton Historical Society. Linda is survived by her brother, James Townsend; sister, Mary MacKenzie; many beloved nieces and

nephews; and many other family and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, September 17, 2018, at Milton Lawns Memorial Park with Rev. Jerry Amstutz officiating. Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory is assisting the family. For online obituary and registry: schneiderfuneral directors.com.

Bud Detwiler. She was preceded in death by her son, David Ernest; and sisters, June Kristan and Mary Klopke. Jacqueline is survived by her sons, Robert Ernest and Peter Ernest; daughter, Susan Knowles; stepson, Scott Detwiler; stepdaughters, Lois Stoldorf, Linda Sweeney, and Gail Kyle;

brother, Bert Metz; grandchildren, Katherine Fields, Sarah Orth, Amanda Abplanalp, and Christina Yoakum; and great-grandchild, Seth Titter. Donations in Jacqueline’s name to of one’s choice are welcome and appreciated. The graveside service will be private.

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Legals LEGAL NOTICE Storage unit liquidation sale of Jennifer Vitense will be held on September 28th, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at 1118 East Street, Stoughton, WI. Property Description: White Bed Frame, Couch & Chair, LED TV, Toys, Desk and boxes of personal items. Seifert-Pauls Partnership, LLP Published: September 13 and 20th, 2018 WNAXLP *** NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The City of Stoughton Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, October 8, 2018 at 6:00 o’clock p.m., or as soon after as the matter may be heard, at the Public Safety Building, Second Floor, 321 S. Fourth Street, Stoughton, Wisconsin, 53589, to consider an amendment to Chapter 78 of the City of Stoughton Municipal Code of Ordinances, Dane County, Wisconsin. The proposed ordinance amendments are to repeal and recreate section 78517, Downtown Design Overlay Zoning District and to repeal section 78-913 also related to the Downtown Design Overlay Zoning District. A copy of the proposed amendment can be found at: http://stoughtoncitydocs.com/planning-commission For questions regarding this notice please contact Michael Stacey, Zoning Administrator at 608-646-0421. Michael Stacey Zoning Administrator Published: September 20 and 27, 2018 WNAXLP ***

MEETING OF: COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF STOUGHTON DATE/TIME: AUGUST 28, 2018 @ 7:00 P.M. LOCATION: COUNCIL CHAMBERS (2ND FLOOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING) 321 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN Members: Mayor Tim Swadley, Matt Bartlett, Sid Boersma, Phil Caravello, Denise Duranczyk, Regina Hirsch, Greg Jenson, Kathleen Johnson, Tom Majewski, Pat OConnor, Lisa Reeves, Timothy Riley and Nicole Wiessinger CALL TO ORDER Mayor Swadley called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. Roll Call, Communications, and Presentations: Clerk Licht called the roll and noted that there were 11 alderpersons present. Wiessinger was absent and excused. Minutes and Reports: the following minutes were entered into the record. Library Board (7/8/2018); RDA (7/11/2018); Food Pantry Committee (7/17/2018); Planning Commission (7/9/2018); Utilities Committee (7/16/2018); Public Works Committee (7/17/2018); Tree Commission (7/19/2018) Public Comment Period: None CONSENT AGENDA A. August 15, 2018 Council minutes B. R-154-2018 Resolution Authorizing and directing the proper city official(s) to issue Operator Licenses to various applicants. C. Stoughton Utilities Payments due List, Stoughton Utilities June 2018 Financial Summary, Stoughton Utilities June 2018 Statistical Report Motion by Hirsch, second by Jenson to approve the consent agenda. Motion carried 11-0. OLD BUSINESS Discussion and possible action

regarding request from STI, Inc. for tax incremental financing assistance to facilitate the construction of a new administrative building. ***The Council may consider this item in closed session, pursuant to Wis. Stat. 19.85 (1) (e ), to consider the City’s bargaining position with the possible negotiation of a TIF grant agreement.*** Motion by Duranczyk, second by Boersma to convene in closed session at 8:00 p.m. On roll call vote, motion carried 11-0. Motion by to open at 8:45 by Jenson, second by Majewski to convene in open session at 8:45 p.m. Motion carried 11-0 NEW BUSINESS R-155 -2018- Approving an extra-territorial jurisdictional (ETJ) land division (CSM) request by Gary and Nancy Dvorak for property located at 1471 US Highway 51, Town of Rutland, Dane County, Wisconsin. Motion by Bartlett, second by Jenson to approve R-155-2018. Motion carried 11-0. Discussion and possible action approving contract for Phase 2 Environmental Site Assessment for the McFarland State bank Property Motion by Duranczyk, second by Reeves to award the phase II Environmental Site Assessment for the McFarland State Bank Property to Resource Engineering Associates. Motion by Duranczyk, second by Reeves to amend to include that the money come from contingency by Duranczyk, second by Reeves. Motion carried 11-0. Original motion as amended carried 11-0. Adjournment: Motion by Jenson, second by Majewski to adjourn at 8:45 p.m. Motion carried 11-0. Published: September 20, 2018 WNAXLP

Continued from page 1 Hub last week. “I’ve always been energized to find that, (and) I feel so fortunate to have found this profession and to have found this opportunity.” Ahlgren grew up with a brother with a “very s i g n i fi c a n t ” a u t i s m - r e lated disability and said his “journey of learning always inspires me to be thinking about the learners who need us most; to be thinking about education from the lens of all of our students – those of varying abilities and capacities.” “In public education, we have this awesome opportunity to serve them all,” she said. In her new role in Stoughton, Ahlgren is responsible for helping choose programming throughout the district, for students of all ages and abilities. She also works closely with classroom teachers to make sure they have the professional development opportunities they desire. When the position in Stoughton opened this year with the retirement of long-time director of curriculum Judy Singletary, it helped that Ahlgren was already familiar with the district and the area. “Stoughton has a really historic reputation for being a leaders in inclusive education,,” she said. “I’ve attended some professiona l d eve l o p m e n t ( t h e r e ) over the years … just as an interested community member, (but) I was really energized by that and I always sort of had my eye on Stoughton.” After four years in Madison, she started in Stoughton in July and has since been getting to know district educators, administrators, parents – and finally this month – students. “It’s so joyous and wonderful to walk the hallways and see and hear children and get to see and hear adults interacting with kids; they just come alive during this time,” she said. “I love working from the vantage point of student disabilities and special education, and really was honored to have the opportunity to make an impact

that way.”

Education for all For Ahlgren, helping all learners is something important to her mission in education, and has guided her journey to Stoughton. After earning her teaching degree at the University of Dayton (Ohio), she moved back to Illinois to teach first grade in Naperville. It was there she started exploring the administrative side of education and took her first leadership position as a student services professional there. “I was very curious about leadership but mostly interested in how I could learn to be the best teacher I could be for a very long time,” she said. “I knew I had more to learn, particularly about how to serve very diverse populations.” To accomplish that, Ahlgren taught kindergarten in Chicago for a few years before seeking even more knowledge about “how to serve students really well,” b y e a r n i n g a m a s t e r ’s degree in special education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Special education became a landing place for me to learn more about how to serve really complex students and how to use a universally designed process for lesson planning and for school planning,” she said. Ahlgren later went on to earn a doctorate at UW-Madison, and in the process, she met and married her husband and started a family – all while attending school. During this time, she served as a consultant on “universal design and curriculum differentiation” throughout the country and was among a cadre of school improvement consultants who worked with the Wisconsin Idea Leadership Academy. She also worked part-time for five years as a school improvement support specialist in Racine before being hired as a content specialist in special education and later an assistant director of development for special education at the Madison Metropolitan School District. “(It was) supporting

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students who had disabilities and or students who benefit from students services – which is really everyone – working with professional development,” she said. “Thinking about how to support our schools as they design processes to support all students.”

‘Learning and listening’ Ahlgren said she’s been doing a lot of collaborative work with educators for the past three months – getting to know them and planning for the new school year. “All summer long, people were engaging in professional learning, wanting to connect with me, to explore possibilities for their students,” she said. It’s very rare – we are a special place.” Ahlgren said she sees her primary responsibility as curriculum director as being a “co-leader and thought partner” with educators with a goal of delivering “high quality, coherent K-12 curriculum.” She said a large part of that is supporting professional development for staff, and working with them to find the best possible programming. “When I look at my calendar, it’s generally filled with meetings with teachers and leaders about how we can work together to bring the best in our students out,” she said. “Often, that means making really good decision on their behalf on curriculum and instruction.” During her first year, Ahlgren said she’s planning on doing a lot of “learning and listening” to staff, finding what their needs are, and supporting them. “(It’s) how to create the conditions for them to be able to meet the needs of their students,” she said “And working with our schools on making decisions about instructional strategies to target very specific areas of need as demonstrated by our data – so very data-based decision-making.” Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott. delaruelle@wcinet.com.

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