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Fights prompt security changes Security assistants, anonymous tip line among VAHS plans SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group
Ve r o n a A r e a H i g h School will have three new security staff members and an anonymous tip line for students next year, among a set of new protocols following three fights in one day earlier this month. District superintendent
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Town of Verona resident Karen Wolf holds a box full of hot meals prior to embarking on her meal delivery route through the Town of Verona on Tuesday, May 21.
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Glacier Edge, Sugar Creek will continue to house K-5 program SCOTT GIRARD
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The Two Way Immersion program apparently will not move from Glacier Edge and Sugar Creek elementary schools when attendance boundaries change in fall 2020. The school board looked at a pair of new attendance boundary options Monday that
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In her younger years, Town of Verona resident Karen Wolf saw firsthand the impact Meals on Wheels had on her grandparents. Living in a “very small” town in southeastern Minnesota, the program enabled Wolf’s paternal grandparents to continue living at home – had the
Wolf is carrying on the family tradition, now for the Belleville-based Sugar River Senior Center, and received a recognition during its Volunteer Appreciation Day for traveling the most miles while delivering meals for Town of Verona residents. She racked up 1,678 miles with her Jeep Compass in 2018 – close to 60 Meals on Wheels trips in one year.
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Board: TWI will stay put
Town of Verona volunteer recognized for Meals on Wheels work meals not been brought to them, she said, they might have lost some of their independence. “My dad was always so impressed that the town provided Meals on Wheels,” she said. “So my dad, when he and mom were still alive here in downtown Madison, they, through Bethel Lutheran Church, delivered meals because of what the program did for his mom and dad.”
Dean Gorrell announced those and other upcoming changes in a letter to parents Friday, May 17, eight days after fights brought p o l i c e t o Gorrell the high school three separate times, leaving one staff member injured and 18 students suspended. G o r r e l l a l s o
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would have shifted the program either entirely to Glacier Edge or part of it to Stoner Prairie, and board members agreed the options were not likely to get their support. That was especially true given the programmatic changes that would come along with any shift. “I’m not sure with any big TWI move that between now and the end of the summer we have enough time to really dig deep into the programmatic and … student relationship implications,” board president Noah Roberts said. “That would
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Wisconsin Brewing Company acquires Lake Louie brewing, plans to expand, add canning SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group
Verona’s Wisconsin Brewing Company will soon transition its indoor event space into a canning line. Those cans will be filled with WBC’s own brews, of course, but also the
soon-to-be-acquired Lake Louie beers and health and nutrition beverages. An expansion to add a packaging line for all of the products could be next. “I really see us journeying down the path of Wisconsin Nolen Beverage Company,” WBC president and The
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CEO Carl Nolen told the Press Monday, a day after the Lake Louie acquisition became public. “It’s a great time to be in the beer business – or I now have to say beverage business.” Nolen said WBC has been working with Arena-based Lake Louie for almost two years on the acquisition, which is set to close July 1, though he, WBC brewmaster Kirby Nelson and Lake Louie owner Tom Porter have been friends for much
longer and began “kicking around the idea” more than two years ago. “There’s deals, and then there are great deals,” Nolen said. “Great opportunities are worth pursuing and figuring out how to make it happen.” L a k e L o u i e ’s b r e w s include its “flagship brand Warp Speed Scotch Ale,” which Nolen noted was not a type of brew WBC currently has. He said will continue to be marketed and sold under
the Lake Louie brand. “It’s a perfect fit,” he said. For at least the next year, the company will brew beer at both its WBC location and the Lake Louie facility in Arena through a lease agreement with Porter. Nolen said the WBC facility is much more efficient, with an 80-barrel system. Lake Louie has 15-barrel brewing equipment. “We can do in five hours what he’s doing in a few days,” Nolen said.
WBC will bring on all of Lake Louie’s employees, and Nolen said by next year, when WBC plans a n o t h e r ex p a n s i o n , h e hopes to be at 25 employees – nearly double the current 13. That expansion will add a packaging line to increase its production capacity, Nolen said. By this September, the company expects to have added its canning space
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