Thursday, January 11, 2018 • Vol. 53, No. 34 • Verona, WI • Hometown USA • ConnectVerona.com • $1
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New VAHS
Council approves road funds
Carolyn Cantrell, director of Musical Pathways Foundation, presented a demo music and movement class for children ages 0-4 and their parents Tuesday morning, Jan. 9, at the library. The children and their parents sang, played and moved together.
Staff to work out deal for ‘up to $5 million’
Inside
JIM FEROLIE Verona Press editor
See more photos from the Tuesday morning Kindermusik session
After waiting it out in the lobby for more than 80 minutes, the remaining representatives of the Verona Area School District who had come to Verona City Center finally got the good news: the city was willing to come to a compromise on an access road to the new high school. While city attorney Brian Kleinmayer rattled off the explanation of what alders had agreed upon in closed s e s s i o n – t h e r e wa s n o
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Inside • Board gets ‘tour’ of new building • School board sent letter on funding Page 10 formal vote – three school board members typed messages on their phones. Alders agreed to pay “up to $5 million” in return for a “clean” Sugar Creek Elementary School site through a s t a n d a r d d eve l o p e r ’s
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Spring election
Oakley Busch, 2, dances with her mother Demi at the library.
Photo by Helu Wang
Verona Area School District
Exploration Academy proposes 3-year charter agreement Would become program at VAHS after approval SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group
The Exploration Academy could soon reach its “destiny.” That’s how EA governance council president Paul Driftmier put it Monday night to the school board, where he and a group of school staff
and students introduced a three-year charter agreement that would begin next school year. “Charters exist to be incubators, to be laboratories of educational innovation,” Driftmier said. “The destiny of charters is to take what works in that laboratory and use those ideas to better the experience of all the students in the district, and all the students in the state.” That’s why the proposal is for just three years, fewer than the four
or five that are more customary. At the end of the agreement, the school would fold into the high school as a “program,” which would allow for “permeability” between the two, Driftmier said. “We believe and we have faith that the Exploration Academy paradigm will be able to function and exist without the impermeable wall of Exploration Academy being around
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3 candidates, 2 board seats Jahnke, Ruder wanted to offer ‘choice’ for voters in school board race
Inside New faces for County Board Page 3
SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group
2 contested races
While two of the three for alder candidates for Verona Area school board are technicalPage 7 ly newcomers, they’re all familiar faces to anyone following district news in the two at-large positions on the board up for election recent years. C a r o l y n J a h n ke , J i m in April. Ruder and incumbent Tom Turn to VASD/Page 7 Duerst are all running for
The Verona Press We’ve Only Just Begun - Carpenters Remembered
Saturday, February 17, 2018 7:30 pm Verona Area High School PAC
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This show re-creates the original sound of the Carpenters who are one of the most successful recording acts of all time. Led by Michelle Berting Brett and accompanied by her 4-piece Nashville band.
300 Richard St.
Verona Area Performing Arts Series
Tickets available at: www.vapas.org, State Bank of Cross Plains-Verona, Capitol Bank-Verona or 848-2787