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Highway Trailer debate
A history with history Restorations show city’s pride in its landmarks
Highway Trailer series March: A look at the conflict This month: Stoughton’s history with historic buildings May: The history of the blacksmith shop and Highway Trailer complex June: Future possibilities for the blacksmith shop
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From left: Stoughton High School LINK Crew members Jacob Turner, Stacy Benoy, Samantha Beach, Maddie Kooima and Hannah Wirag share a laugh as they talk about how they help staff teach PBIS lessons at the school.
Seeking consistency
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No matter how old you are, it never hurts to have some good examples to look up to. In the Stoughton Area School District, good deeds are celebrated and promoted as early as kindergarten as part of the Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) initiative. At Stoughton High School, good
role models are just as important, and the characteristics we are looking for” staff make a point to highlight positive get a letter home to parents to thank behaviors as examples for the rest of the students. “We want to reinforce those behaviors so kids know that they’re doing a great job and other kids know what it looks like,” assistant principal Brad January: Series overview Ashmore told the Hub last week. February: Elementary schools For example, students who receive March: River Bluff Middle School positive referrals and “who are exuding This month: Stoughton High School
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Cable show details Nosal murder JIM FEROLIE
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The February 2016 murder of a Stoughton woman is now the subject of a national cable television show. The Investigation Discovery channel series “The Killer Beside Me,” focused on workplace violence, premiered Saturday with an episode about the murder of Caroline Nosal at the Metro Market in Madison. Her killer, Chris O’Kroley, was sentenced to life in prison eight months later
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and killed himself in his prison cell the following May, investigators reported, on the anniversary of Nosal’s birthday. The show, which is available streaming online on
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InvestigationDiscovery. com, features interviews from Nosal’s parents, Jim and Jane, and a friend who worked at the store with both of them and said she was “close” with both of them. Jim Nosal told NBC 15 last week he was uncertain when the British production company that filmed the show called him, but he later
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Spring election 2018
8 campaigns spent $9,000 McGeever, Swadley raised similar amounts for April election JIM FEROLIE
found out they were “legitimate.” The show portrays O’Kroley as a “secluded” introvert and Caroline Nosal as a “bubbly, friendly,” welcoming co-worker who helped bring him “out of his shell.” But after an encounter got more intimate than she intended, she backed away because she “never had romantic interest” in him, her friends says in the show. Their relationship continued to deteriorate, the show
near the railroad corridor. The original passenger and freight depots are located across from each other along the tracks, with the building on the north side of Main Street now serving both as the Stoughton Chamber of Commerce and a repository for the Stoughton Historical Society. That and the building across from it are both designated as
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Mayoral candidates Tim Swadley and Bob McGeever raised almost identical amounts of money for their campaigns leading up to the week before the April 3 spring election, but Swadley spent about 50 percent more. All told, the eight contested campaigns for mayor and alder spent about $9,000 and raised about $14,000. Two alders had raised more than they spent by the March 26 filing deadline, though
any campaign activity – fundraising or spending – between then and April 3 would not be included on the available reports. McGeever’s campaign spent just over the threshold that required him to fi l e c a m p a i g n fi n a n c e paperwork with the city clerk’s office, $2,023, and more than one-third of the $4,531 he raised – $1,386 – came from his own pocket. Swadley raised a similar amount, $4,660, and spent $3,145. Only two of the campaigns spent more than about $500, though that figure does not include the campaign of Nicole Wiessinger, the only one of the six alder candidates to mark her finance report
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SCOTT DE LARUELLE
When the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad rerouted its track through town in 1853 on land that city founder Luke Stoughton had donated for the right of way and a train depot, it set the stage for Stoughton to incorporate as a village in 1868 and a city in 1882. The railroad was key to the city’s growing economy from the 1880s to the early 1920s. Its presence made Stoughton a center for agriculture – transporting products and people to and from the city. The railroad’s importance can still be seen, represented in the three remaining tobacco warehouses on East Main Street