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Snow days delay boundary decisions
VAHS senior Updegrove breaks records, wins 3 medals MARK NESBITT Assistant sports editor
Senior Aidan Updegrove will go down as the best long-distance swimmer in the history of the Verona Area/Mount Horeb boys swimming team’s history after winning three medals and setting two school records at the WIAA DIvision 1 state meet Saturday, Feb. 16 at the UW Natatorium. Updegrove finished fourth in the 500-yard freestyle in a school-record 4 minutes, 44.07 seconds. He broke Alex Mathson’s record from 2013. Updegrove was also part of the Wildcats’ sixthplace finish in the 200 free relay and sixth-place effort in the 400 free relay. He took ninth in the 200 free (1:44.76)) and broke his previous school record. The performances by Updegrove helped V/MH take ninth in the state meet with 95 points. Madison West repeated as the state champion (314) and Middleton was the runner-up (257).
Gorrell: ‘A lot of domino effects’ left after decision SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group
The Verona Area school board purposely left a year-and-a-half between its expected decision on new attendance boundaries and when they would go into effect. After winter weather forced the cancellation of the last two meetings of the committee making recommendations to the board, school board members are glad they did. A decision coming before the April election – as initially planned, before it was known there’d be no
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Future meetings All Attendance Area Advisory Committee meetings are open to the public and begin at 6 p.m. at the Verona Area School District central office building, 700 N. Main St. Monday, Feb. 25 Tuesday, March 12 Tuesday, March 19 c o n t e s t e d r a c e s – n ow seems unlikely, and superintendent Dean Gorrell reminded the board Monday when it decides to change
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City of Verona Photo by Mark Nesbitt
Verona senior Aidan Updegrove hugs senior Shane Rozeboom after the Verona Area/ Mount Horeb boys swim team finished sixth in the event at the WIAA Division 1 state met Saturday at the UW Natatorium.
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CKCS working on ‘permanent’ fund Madison Community Foundation will donate $30K if school raises $60K
can create a “permanent fund” to help the school. Parents Advocating Student Success, the group that has maintained the charter school’s contract with the Verona Area School District since SCOTT GIRARD it opened in 1996, is managing the drive, with funds going to an endowUnified Newspaper Group ment with the Madison Community The parent group that oversees Foundation. MCF has agreed to a Core Knowledge Charter School is “two-to-one” match – if the school hoping an ongoing fundraising drive raises $60,000 by July 2020, MCF The
Verona Press
Sayre becomes interim admin JIM FEROLIE
planning and economic development director Adam Sayre signed a contract to One week after accept- take the position for up to six months, effective immeing the resigdiately. During a special nation of its meeting the night before, administrator, the council approved the the city has contract, which features a an interim raise to $115,000, which and a tentawould amount to an additive plan for tional $15,000 over the full recruiting a six months. permanent Sayre one. Turn to Interim/Page 17 On Tuesday, Feb. 19, Verona Press editor
will add $30,000 to the endowment. PASS president Linda Hmielewski told the Press the school would receive just under 5 percent of what’s in the fund every year. That money would be available for new programming, which sometimes comes with annual fees, or to offset operational costs and avoiding materials fees for students, Hmielewski said. “The budget environment for
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