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Left, Dane County executive Joe Parisi talks with Sunnyside Street resident Lisa Kast, whose backyard has been under several inches of water thanks to recent rainfall.
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The water in Lisa Kast’s backyard last week was “almost up to your knees.” Kast and her family, who live on the 3100 block of Sunnyside Street across
from Lake Kegonsa, experienced flooding in 2008 – a record year across the state – but even that wasn’t as bad as this year’s. “This is going to be a lot worse,” she told the Hub Thursday, June 21. Thankfully, when Kast woke up June 19 and saw the rising waters – which reached a new record a couple days later – she knew what to do. Dane County workers had dropped off thousands of pounds of sand and sandbags for area residents, and
before long, she and her neighbors were busy filling and stacking them protectively around their houses. With summer just beginning, rainfall in the Madison area is on pace with last year’s. May was just under 10 inches, near the 2008 record, and June was well above average before Tuesday’s on-and-off storms. But rain was only part of the story. Its effects have been exacerbated by
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Catfish River brings 15 acts to Rotary Park Performances are free and benefit the Opera House
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Stoughton Opera House director Bill Brehm is getting the hang of booking shows for the Catfish River Music Festival, which returns for the fifth time Friday, July 6, to Rotary Park. In the past, he scheduled 15 acts and the festivals “went great.” So he’s done it again. All shows are free and
What: Catfish River Music Festival When: 4-9 p.m. Friday, July 6; Noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 7; Noon to 9 p.m. Sunday, July 8 Where: Rotary Park, 381 E. Main St., Stoughton. Info: catfishrivermusicfest.com.
performed in the park on Main Street, next to City Hall and the fire station. The festival features three acts Friday and six on both Saturday and Sunday. It’s being put on by the Stoughton Opera House Friends Association and is a fundraiser for the Opera House.
This year’s lineup features some familiar names and also some new faces, including Scott Mulvahill, whom Brehm described as “the surprise in the bunch.” “ H e t o u r e d i n R i c ky Skaggs’ band for about five years and is one of the most amazing bass players that
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I’ve ever seen,” Brehm said. “And he has a great voice.” Mulvahill is set to play Sunday at 5:45 p.m. as half of a duo. He opened for a main show in the Opera House last season. “I was so excited by his opening set during this last season that I got him to come to the festival and I booked him for the upcoming season, too,” Brehm said. Other acts that Opera House patrons will likely recognize include Moonhouse, The Cactus Blossoms, Robbie Fulks, Charlie Parr, the Way Down
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 the Stoughton Redevelopment Authority and other city officials are trying to determine. Council president Tom Majewski and RDA chair Roger Springman are among the strongest advocates for preserving the 14,000-square-foot structure, which faces Seventh Street and has architectural features that set it apart from the rest of the complex. Ald. Greg Jenson (Dist. 3) persuaded the council last year to focus on saving the blacksmith shop instead of the entire Highway Trailer complex at 501 E. South St., but he later backed off any particular devotion to the
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City leaders have shown interest in saving one historic structure in the riverfront redevelopment area. That 108-year-old building, originally part of the Moline Plow Company’s Mandt Wagon Branch, is known as the blacksmith shop. But how it might be saved and what it would become have yet to be determined. Earlier this month, the Common Council removed a demolition moratorium it had put in place last year for structures in historic districts throughout the city. But it made an exception for the blacksmith shop, which remains protected. How long it will survive the demolition that’s taking place with the rest of the Highway Trailer complex, and already occurred with MillFab and other buildings in the 15-acre redevelopment area, is a question that members of
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Alec Widerski’s children Reid and Hazel cower behind him as they see Darth Vader approaching, while his youngest son Theodore, left, only glances up.
The Imperial March Darth Vader emerges from one of the library’s basement rooms.
The Stoughton library held a Star Wars Day on Saturday, June 23. The day featured Star Wars-themed crafts and the ability to meet Darth Vader and stormtroopers. To view or buy the photos in the slideshow, visit ungphotos.smugmug.com.
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City unveils new website Easier to navigate, locate information Looking to improve service, the City of Stoughton’s IT department has been working on the city’s website in recent months, r e l e a s i n g a “ n ew a n d improved” version on June 13, according to a city news release.
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ci.stoughton.wi.us Director of IT technology and media services John Montgomery said his department gathered feedback from both
residents and city staff for the upgrade, with a goal to “not only provide a fresh look to the website, but also to make it easier to navigate, locate information with fewer mouse clicks, and improve the overall experience.” According to the news release, some enhancements include: centralizing licensing, permits,
payments, forms and applications; all forms are now fillable and categorized by topic; improvements were made to the ‘I Want To…’ section; and the search function has been streamlined so website visitors can quickly find resources, information and news. – Scott De Laruelle
Stoughton police officers assisted in the pursuit of three stolen vehicles on Friday, June 22, that resulted in the arrest of seven suspects. T h e t h r e e ve h i c l e s , stolen from the cities of Madison and Fitchburg, were stopped after one of the vehicles, an Acura TSX occupied by three suspects, was seen speeding through the Town of Pleasant Springs. The car crashed on Hwy. N and the suspects fled on foot. Stoughton police assisted the Wisconsin State Pa t r o l a n d t h e p o l i c e departments of Cottage Grove and McFarland with setting up a search perimeter. During the search, police noticed two additional suspicious vehicles. The vehicles were confirmed to have also been stolen, and it was found there was a connection between the three suspects and the four occupants of the two cars. The original suspects
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Stoughton Area Veterans Memorial Park steering committee member Bud Erickson, right, last week presented a historical album of the memorial to Klare Girgen, Stoughton Public Library technical services supervisor.
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Stoughton Area Veterans Memorial Park steering committee member Bud Erickson last week presented a historical album of the memorial to Klare Girgen, Stoughton Public Library
technical services supervisor. The nearly 200-page album, collected and collated by former library director Pat Erickson, contains photographs, news articles, forms, speeches and more on the history of the project, from July 2014 through the dedication in October 2017. The album is on display at the
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Development needed on the east side The announcement by the McFarland State Bank to establish a bank in Kettle Park West was somewhat surprising to me when McFarland State Bank made its decision a while ago. They already had a strong presence downtown and the newer bank on Hwy. B is a gem. I immediately asked the employees what that would mean for the downtown bank. I was reassured that it would stay there because downtown businesses stop by the bank throughout the day to deposit money or get more cash. Gradually I heard rumors that, in fact, McFarland State Bank would be moving its downtown operations to KPW, leaving just a partial service bank in its wake. Recently, the rumors became an agreement with the city to transfer much of its downtown property to the city. While I’m pleased for the city to have the opportunity to expand its offices in a central downtown location, I’m distressed that we seniors have lost yet another vital service to the west side of town. With this proposed move, there will be zero banks on the east side of town. I live on the east side of Stoughton, and I enjoy being able to walk downtown for many of my needs — banking, post office, library, and businesses. Although I drive, I prefer to walk, if possible. My neighbors, however, don’t drive, so they want to be able to walk to their services, including the bank. The east side of Stoughton has a strong demographic presence
of seniors. Having spent much of my career working with and advocating for seniors, I’m unhappy with the trend to have so many businesses locate on the west side of town. Seniors with mild cognitive or anxiety concerns have issues with heavy volumes of traffic, roundabouts, and signs that may be confusing. The new intersection near Aldi’s and Dane County Auto have seen a lot of accidents and comments of concern about safety. I (as a senior) avoid that intersection when possible, and can say that I have yet to shop at KPW, mainly because of the heavy traffic and congestion. While I did have a serious conversation with some higher level McFarland State Bank employees and we came up with some possible solutions as to how they can address seniors wanting to use a full service bank (i.e. providing transportation options for seniors), it doesn’t fully address the trend away from adding businesses to the east side, where many seniors prefer to shop. Now, eastside seniors have to drive through the already busy Main Street to get to their western destination, causing more traffic than if Stoughton could provide a grocery store, bank and general store on the east side. I hope the city council and future businesses will consider this as they go forward with planning for Stoughton’s future. Ingrid Thompson City of Stoughton
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We need to heal our broken health care system M ost industrialized nations see health care as a basic human right. It’s part of citizenship. It’s viewed as unethical to withhold health care from someone in need of help. It’s paid through taxes, and most citizens are probably unaware of the cost. Unfortunately, in America, we don’t provide basic health care to a large portion of uninsured or underinsured Americans, and it hurts all of us. We wouldn’t Zarth dream of not having police or fire protection – it’s covered in our local taxes because your neighbor’s house could catch your house on fire. And we vaccinate our children to prevent the spread of disease. We should extend this obvious logic to health care, which can also prevent the spread of disease and economic disaster. Here, unlike in many industrial countries, a tragic accident can devastate a family for generations and have serious ramifications for the community they live in, as it often means losing a job, then insurance, then falling into debt. And it’s common. A USA Today story last year cited a Kaiser Family Foundation study showing more than a quarter of U.S. adults struggle to pay their medical bills. That includes those who are insured. “In fact, medical debt is the No. 1 source of personal bankruptcy filings in the U.S., and in 2014, an estimated 40 percent of Americans racked up debt resulting from a medical issue,” the report noted. We hear in the news that we have a health care crisis. We are spending more in America on health care than any other country in the world. Americans spent on average $8,000 per person in 2012, compared to $3,000 in other industrialized countries, according to
the documentary movie, “Escape Fire: The fight to rescue American Healthcare,” by Matthew Heineman. Despite our spending, the movie points out, the World Health Organization ranks us 54th in “health care fairness.” And we also have some of the worst statistics when it comes to infant mortality and quality of health. T.R. Reid’s excellent book, “The Healing of America,” compares health care in America with other industrialized countries. There are basically four health care models, it says, and we use three of them. One is like our Medicare system, in which the government receives premiums and sets maximum prices the client can be charged, provides services by independent doctors, clinics and hospitals and gives the patient has freedom of choice. Some countries operate more like our Veterans Administration health care system – it’s basically free to veterans but is all-inclusive, providing the doctors, clinics and staff. Both of these plans are socialized medicine or universal health care. You are eligible as soon as you turn 65 with Medicare, and those who were in active service receive benefits under the VA plan. Both groups have guaranteed coverage regardless of life circumstances. We also have employer-sponsored health insurance plans. The problem with these is that if you have a debilitating accident where you can’t work, you will eventually lose your employer sponsored benefit – often when you need it the most. Under this system, we have COBRA to extend health-care coverage, but it’s expensive since you’re paying both your employer share of the premium and your own – while you are out of work and have less income. Accident or disability insurance might help for a while, but it is usually less income than you had when working, and now your health expenses are greater. In America, as Reid’s book explains, emergency rooms are required by law to treat you until
you are medically stable. Their accounting department will arrange payment, but follow-up services are the responsibility of your health insurance package. So if you are diagnosed with diabetes, heart disease, or require continued care, you might not get it. And people die from lack of simple basic medical follow up. One of the largest drains on the American health care system, Reid’s book points out, is overhead and administration costs. Large insurance companies send marketing staff to businesses and corporations to create individualized health care packages. Each package has different coverage options and costs. This creates a huge accounting challenge for doctors and service providers to decipher the charges. About 20 percent of employer-sponsored health care premiums go toward administrative costs, the book claims. Medicare administrative fees, by comparison, are approximately 3-5 percent and administrative fees for health care in most other countries also falls between 3-5 percent, it says. Another difference in America is that doctors cannot tell you how much procedures will cost. In most countries, Reid’s book points out, the cost of services is written on the wall in the doctor’s office. Clients know exactly what a service will cost to better determine if they want to go through with a procedure. But each insurance plan pays a different amount for a CT scan, MRI, or diagnostic test. Reid quotes his professor, Uwe Reinhardt, a global leader in the field of Health care economics, in saying that a country’s health care system “reflects that nation’s basic moral values.” The health care debate has been long and hard in America. But it is our “moral obligation,” as Reinhardt puts it, to conclude we all deserve get health care and figure out a way to make that happen. Brenda Zarth RN BSN is a Stoughton resident.
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The Stoughton Fair opens July 4 and coordinators have a few new events planned to help draw crowds all five days. There will be a second tractor pull this year, scheduled for Sunday, to help with historically low attendance on the last day of the fair. Fair board president Trevor Dybevik told the Hub another tractor pull company reached out and asked if the fair would be interested in adding another day, so the board seized the opportunity to give audiences another event to enjoy. “The reason for the fair isn’t the carnival or the food, it’s the attractions that get people to come to the park and see the kids’ art projects that they all worked so hard on,” he said. The Southwest Puller Truck and Tractor Pull will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 for ages 12 and up, 7 to 12 are $5 and kids under 7 are free with a paying adult. Pit passes are $20. Dybevik said while the city did not fund fireworks for the Fourth of July, the fair will have its own show Sunday night. While the location is undecided, the fair board was
waiting on city approval last week that would allow the fireworks to be launched from across the river at the Milfab property. Regardless of location, the fireworks show is set for dusk Sunday, following the tractor pull. Also new this year is a vendor fair, held inside the Mandt Center from 4-8 p.m. Friday, July 6. Dybevik said the idea came from wanting to draw more people into the Mandt Center. “We want people to come to the barn and talk to the kids and see the animals, that’s what the fair is all about,” he said.
Returning acts Several deeply loved traditions will be returning this year – some, with a twist. The beef show is open to everyone this year – it had previously been a junior show. It opens the fair at 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 4. “We noticed other shows started opening up to allow families and adults, so there will be more animals to fill the barns with,” Dybevik said. The horse pull that has been around “pretty much forever” will have a new company running the show. It’s now styled like a “boat show,” where the horses will pull a sled, making it less confusing for audiences to follow, he said. “It’s the traditional way that
If You Go What: Stoughton Fair When: 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday, July 4; 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, July 5; 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, July 6; 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 7; 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday, July 8 Where: Mandt Park, 400 Mandt Pkwy. Tickets: Wristband special $20 until July 1 Info: stoughtonfair.com horse pulls started so this is a lot easier for the crowd to follow,” Dybevik said. The horse pull will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, July 6, in the grandstands. Admission is $7 for adults and $12 for kids 12 and younger. Pre-order carnival wristbands are available for a special price until July 1. They are $20 and are good for one of the regularly scheduled wristband days: Noon to 10 p.m. Wednesday, July 4; 4-10 p.m. Thursday July 5; 4-10 p.m. Friday, July 6; Noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 7; Noon to 10 p.m. Sunday, Photo by Kimberly Wethal July 8. Hon Prak, left, of Stoughton, plays a ring-toss game with her son, Carter For a complete list of events, visit Keo, not pictured, in the carnival during last year’s fair. stoughtonfair.com.
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Between them, Stoughton Area School District director of curriculum and instruction Judy Singletary and director of human resources Becky Fjelstad have served more than 65 years with the Stoughton Area School District. They are both retiring this week, with their successors selected and preparing to start with the new 2018-19 school year, which begins July 1. Singletary was hired in January 2008, having spent the previous eight years as the Sun Prairie School District learning support coordinator, and the previous 10 as a classroom teacher in the Middleton-Cross Plains and Sun Prairie school districts. Singletary and Fjelstad declined to be interviewed for this story. District community information and resource coordinator Derek Spellman said the two are appreciated for “everything they have done for our district.” “They have always been passionate advocates for SASD, hard workers and important voices on our administrative team,” he wrote the Hub in an email. “They also have been great people with whom to share ideas. We will miss them, and we wish them well as they embark on new chapters in their lives.”
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Aloha means goodbye – on the last day of school earlier this month, the Stoughton Area School District Office staff celebrated with an end of year get-together honoring retirees Becky Fjelstad, Director of Human Resources and Judy Singletary, Director of Curriculum and Instruction. of curriculum and instruction. Hart Andrle has a Mastersof Business Administration degree from Cardinal Stritch University and holds a senior human resources professional certification. She has more than 10 years of human resources experience, with her most recent position as the deputy director of human resources for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Ahlgren holds a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been in the Madison
Metropolitan School District for the past four years. She was a PK-12 content specialist for two years and the assistant director of professional development for student services for another two years. Ahlgren has also worked across the country as an educational consultant and has been a school improvement coach and an elementary teacher. Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott.delaruelle@wcinet.com.
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Support group The grief support group will not meet in July. The group meets the third Wednesday of the month at 2 p.m. It will resume August 15.
Coffee With a Reporter Courier Hub reporter Amber Levenhagen will hold her next Coffee With a Reporter from 10-11:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 27, at the library. Coffee With a Reporter is when Hub reporters spend some time at various establishments and put up a sign asking for community members to come chat about anything pertaining to Stoughton. The next meeting will be 10-11:30 a.m. Friday, June 29, at the library, and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, July 5, at Malabar Coast Coffee and Tea, 2300 Hwy. 51. If you have suggestions for times and locations, please email amber. levenhagen@wcinet.com.
City Band concerts The Stoughton City Band concert kicked off its summer season Tuesday and has several performances scheduled over the next few weeks. The next performance will be held at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, June 21, at Nazareth Health and Rehabilitation Center, 814 Jackson St. The rain date is Thursday, June 28. Another performance will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 19, at 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: 9 a.m. Worship, 10 a.m. Fellowship
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
Arnold Larson Park Gazebo, 6002 Exchange St., McFarland, as part of the “Sundaes on Thursdays” concert series. They will perform at Skaalen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 400 N. Morris St., at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, July 26. The series will conclude with a performance at Maxwell Street Day, on the corner of Main and Forrest streets, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28. For information, stoughtonband. org.
Course View Drive. The tours are self-guided. More information, including a map of the tour locations, can be found at wisconsinhardyplantsociety.org.
Fort Littlegreen Gardens
Fort Littlegreen Gardens, 2402 Robert St., will have a customer appreciation party, open to everyone, on June 29. The appreciation party runs from 6-9 p.m. and will feature the Old Tin Can String Band, a cookout and campfire and other activities. Tie-dye day For more information about regisThe library will host a tie-dye tering for programs or the communicraft activity from 4-6 p.m. Thurs- ty party, visit fortlittlegreen.com or day, June 28. call 873-9939. Teens in grades 6 and up are invited to enjoy a slice of pizza and tie- Peaceful program dye. It’s suggested that participants Learn about peaceful coexistence wear something old because the dye with bears during a program at the will stain. senior center from 3-4 p.m. ThursFor information, call 873-6281. day, July 5. Sheryl Erickson, a volunteer with Garden tour the North American Bear Center in The Wisconsin Hardy Plant Soci- Minnesota, will lead the program. ety will feature Stoughton as one of She has been with the center for the the stops during the summer’s gar- last five years. den tour series. The group will visit Erickson will share interesting four Stoughton gardens starting at 4 facts about black bears, including p.m. Thursday, June 28. how their life cycle influences their Tour stops include Barb and Bob behavior and need-to-know informaShenk, 617 Hamilton St., Janet tion in case you encounter a black Aaberg, 1814 Hildebrandt, Lynene bear. and Dan Harmon, 3073 Shoreview Registration is requested. For Drive and Susan Liimatta, 3062 information, call 873-8585.
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
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 9:30 a.m. Worship Services Coffee Fellowship: 9 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
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
Thursday, June 28
• 4-6 p.m., Tie-dye day (teens in grades 6 and up), library, 873-6281 • 4 p.m., Garden tour, various locations, wisconsinhardyplantsociety.org • 6-7:30 p.m., Gazebo Musikk concert, Rotary Park Gazebo, 401 E. Main St., facebook.com/gazebomusikk
Friday, June 29
• 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Farmers market, 1050 W. Main St., David Woodcock, 873-9943 • 9:30 a.m., Morning storytime (ages 0-5), library, 8736281 • 10-11:30 a.m., Coffee with a reporter, library, amber. levenhagen@wcinet.com • 10:30 a.m., Morning storytime (ages 0-5), library, 873-6281 • 6-9 p.m., Fort Littlegreen Gardens party, 2402 Robert St., fortlittlegreen.com
Saturday, June 30
• 8:30 a.m. to noon, Stoughton Community Farmers Market, Forrest Street (North of Main St.), stoughtonwi.com/farmersmarket • 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Stoughton Historical Society open, 324 S. Page St., stoughtonhistoricalsociety.org
Tuesday, July 3
• 9-11 a.m., Food pantry open, Stoughton United Methodist Church, 525 Lincoln Ave., 873-3273 • 9:30 a.m., Memory cafe, library, 873-8585 • 3-8 p.m., Fair entry check-in, Mandt Park, 400 Mandt Pkwy., stoughtonfair.com
Wednesday, July 4
Library closed • 9 a.m., Stoughton Fair opens, Mandt Park, 400 Mandt Pkwy., stoughtonfair.com
Thursday, July 5
• 8:30 a.m., Stoughton Fair opens, Mandt Park, 400 Mandt Pkwy., stoughtonfair.com • 9:30-10:30 a.m., Qigong class (repeats every Thursday), senior center, 873-8585 • 1-5 p.m., Personal Essentials Pantry, 343 E. Main St., pepstoughton.org • 3-4 p.m., Dispelling Myths for Peaceful Coexistence with bears program, senior center, 873-8585 • 6-7:30 p.m., Gazebo Musikk concert, Rotary Park Gazebo, 401 E. Main St., facebook.com/gazebomusikk
Friday, July 6
• 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Farmers market, 1050 W. Main St., David Woodcock, 873-9943 • 8:30 a.m., Stoughton Fair opens, Mandt Park, 400 Mandt Pkwy., stoughtonfair.com • 1 p.m., First Friday movie: “The Post,” senior center, 873-8585
Saturday, July 7
• 8 a.m., Stoughton Fair opens, Mandt Park, 400 Mandt Pkwy., stoughtonfair.com • 8:30 a.m. to noon, Stoughton Community Farmers Market, Forrest Street (North of Main St.), stoughtonwi.com/farmersmarket • 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Stoughton Historical Society open, 324 S. Page St., stoughtonhistoricalsociety.org
Sunday, July 8
• 9 a.m., Stoughton Fair opens, Mandt Park, 400 Mandt Pkwy., stoughtonfair.com
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Service “The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” – Matthew 23:11-12 NIV Richard Foster remarks, in the book Celebration of Discipline,“As the cross is the sign of submission,so the towel is the sign of service.”He goes on to explain that when Jesus had gathered his disciples at the Last Supper,they were quarreling over who was the greatest, and by implication,who was the least among them. Jesus responded by getting down on his knees and with towel and wash basin washing their feet, afterwards directing the disciples “Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.”(John 13:14 NIV) Think of the many ways that we can serve our fellow human beings.Just being courteous,friendly and helpful in your everyday dealings with people is perhaps the easiest way to be of service. Showing hospitality to your guests is another way that is available to many of us.You don’t need to live in a castle to open your home to others; an extra bed or even a couch may be sufficient for guests to sleep on. And when people come to visit, often they only want to spend time with you and they aren’t expecting to be treated like royalty. Another simple way to be of service to others is simply to listen to them. Consider how you might be of service to the people you live and work with, as well as those in your community. – Christopher Simon
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 Low Vision Support • 1-2:30 p.m., third Thursday, senior center, 873-8585 Parkinson’s Group • 1:30-2:30 p.m., fourth Wednesday, senior center, 873-8585 Multiple Sclerosis Group • 10-11:30 a.m., second Tuesday, senior center, 873-8585
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Stoughton’s streak ends
Merchants’ 25-game winning streak snapped
Southeast Section
JEREMY JONES
Team Wins Losses Evansville 10 0 Jefferson 8 0 Stoughton 8 1 Cambridge 4 3 Albion 3 5 Fort Atkinson 2 4 Utica 2 5 McFarland 1 5 Waterloo 1 5 Clinton 1 9
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The Stoughton Merchants struggled at the plate and in the field last weekend as they saw their 25-game Sunday league winning streak snapped. Stoughton and Evansville met up in at a neutral site Friday evening for a first-place Southeast Section Home Talent League game title and Stoughton fell, 6-1. The Merchants were outhit 15-4 and committed three errors in the loss at Footville. Evansville improved to 10-0 in the section with the victory, while Stoughton fell to 8-1. “A couple of their guys are red hot. Their pitcher (Jameson) Lavery threw a very good game and also hit pretty well,” Merchants manager Dale Seffens said. “It definitely wasn’t one of our better games. We had a couple of guys pressing there a little bit.” Evansville’s Sam Urquhart led off the four-run fifth inning with a double to left field and scored the game-winning run one batter later following an error by Stoughton third baseman Dave Hanson. Alex Hauri, who hit the ball to third, later scored on a 2-2 single by Nolan Strzok to center and the rout was on. Lavery doubled to plate a third run for the Jays with two outs and Dayton Zettelmeier singled to push the lead to 5-1. Trevor Aasen singled to left field with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to cap the scoring. Stoughton had all of its regular Sunday lineup, minus TJ DiPrizio. The Merchants couldn’t come up with timely hits, however. Stoughton left two runners on base in the first and second innings, one in the third and fourth and later hit into an inning-ending double play in the fourth. Part of the Merchants’ offensive struggles could have been the loss of one of their top power hitters following the first inning.
What’s next Stoughton (8-1) travels to Jefferson (8-0) for another big game at 1 p.m. Sunday. The Merchants host Verona in a Night League game at 6 p.m. Thursday at Norse Park. Photos by Joe Koshollek
Stoughton catcher Jake Wenzel tags out Evansville’s James Lavery, trying to score Friday in the fourth inning at Patriot Days in Footville. The Merchants lost the Southeast Section game 6-1. It was their first loss in 25 Sunday league games, dating back to May 28 last season. Batting in the No. 3 spot, Chris Lund was hit on the hand in the first inning. And while Lund ran and later played in the outfield, he left the game with a possible broken hand before the second inning. “I have not heard yet whether or not he broke his hand,” Seffens said on Tuesday. “It didn’t look good.” The Merchants and Jays exchanged runs in the third inning before Evansville put up four in the home half of the fifth to ice the game. Irvin Medina singled to center field on a 1-2 count, was sacrificed to second base by Tanner Klitzke and then stole third before being driven in on a Ryan Nyhagen sac fly to center. Evansville countered with a run of its own as Mike Maves was hit by a pitch to lead off the bottom of the third. Urquhart advanced
into scoring position on Hauri’s ground out to Stoughton pitcher Jeremy Dunnihoo. The Jays tied the game one batter later as Strzok hit a first-pitch single to left. Dunnihoo got the start and lasted 4 2/3 innings before giving way to Ben Riffle. Dunnihoo surrendered five runs on nine hits and one walk. He and Riffle each struck out four. Nyhagen and Klitzke each walked twice for Stoughton, which managed had four hits. Lavery went seven innings and allowed one run on four hits for Evansville. He struck out five. Austin Andrews tossed two scoreless innings of relief. Lavery and Strzok each had four hits for the Jays, while Aasen added three more for Evansville, which had 15 as a team. The game was played in Footville as part of the fifth annual Patriot Days, which raises money
for an organization called Vets Roll. This event was established for corporal Ben Neal who died in Afghanistan in 2012. He was 21. “It’s a fun thing they do,” Seffens said. “It kind of throws off your schedule, which I was kind of worried about the whole time. You get so used to playing Sundays during the day. It’s just a little different, but it was a worthy cause.” Seffens, a veteran himself, and the Merchants presented a check for $200 on behalf of the Stoughton Otis Sampson American Legion Post 59.
Night League (ppd.) The Merchants’ Thursday Night League game at Middleton was rained out and rescheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 2. Stoughton also has a make-up game 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 17 in Cross Plains.
Jeremy Dunnihoo threw 4 2/3 innings Friday before giving way to Ben Riffle. Dunnihoo surrendered five runs on nine hits and one walk. He struck out four.
Senior Legion
Senior Legion team starts summer with wins over Edgerton, Beloit ANTHONY IOZZO Assistant sports editor
The Stoughton Senior Legion team has wins over Edgerton and Beloit so far this summer, but also tough losses to Beaver Dam, Watertown and Watertown Post 17. The Vikings (2-3 overall) fell a run short in a 4-3 defeat to Watertown Post 17 on June 20 but started the season with a 7-6 win over Edgerton on June 11 and also defeated Beloit 8-2 on June 14. Stoughton’s other losses were 12-0 and 12-1 defeats to Watertown and Beaver Dam.
Stoughton 7, Edgerton 6 The Vikings held on for a one-run victory over Edgerton on June 11 after a late rally to open the summer
season. Kadin Milbauer had two hits and two RBIs to lead Stoughton, which scored three runs in the first innings, one in the fifth and three more in the sixth. Edgerton scored twice in the sixth to tie the game 4-4 and added two runs in the seventh. Hayden Schigur struck out five in five innings on the mound.
in the sixth. Beaver Dam 12, Stoughton 1 more Much of the damage was done
Stoughton scored in the top of the first on June 13 at Beaver Dam, but the Golden Beavers tied the game in the bottom of the inning and put up a seven spot in the third en route to a 12-1 win in five innings. Milbauer had two hits to lead Stoughton’s offense, and Ryan Ellingson and Ryan Curry combined for three strikeouts in four Watertown 12, Stoughton 0 innings. Dillon Livingston went the disStoughton fell 12-0 in five innings tance and struck out 11. on June 12 at Watertown. Ryan Hayden struck out nine in 3 Stoughton 8, Beloit 2 1/3 innings, and Cade Kufahl added The offense bounced back on five strikeouts in 1 2/3 innings. Both June 14 in an 8-2 win over Beloit. pitchers combined for a one-hitter. The host Vikings came back from Trevor Ott had two strikeouts to a 2-0 deficit with four runs in the lead Vikings’ pitchers. third, three in the fourth and one
after several walks. Milbauer walked three times, and Brady Estervig and Curry each walked twice. Chase Volenburg and Ellingson each had two RBIs. Kalinowski went the distance for the win. He struck out 10 and allowed two runs on five hits.
Watertown 4, Stoughton 3
What’s next Stoughton hosted Jefferson Tuesday and Watertown Wednesday. Results will be in next week’s Courier Hub. Stoughton hosts Fort Atkinson at 6 p.m. Thursday at Norse Park and hosts Watertown at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, at Norse Park.
Stoughton’s comeback against Watertown on June 20 fell a run short in a 4-3 loss. The Goslings jumped out to a 4-0 lead with two runs in the first and second innings, but Stoughton scored in the fourth, fifth and sixth five in three innings. Curry started and pitched 3 2/3 innings. to get back into the game. Ryan Novak had an RBI for the Vikings, and Kalinowski struck out
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Riverfront makes progress BILL LIVICK
Council and the RDA surfaced over whether to preserve a 110-year-old former industrial complex known as Highway Trailer. The RDA voted to demolish the complex in March 2017, but a week later the council enacted a moratorium on demolishing buildings is historic districts. The following month, it removed the Highway Trailer complex from the moratorium except for a architecturally significant structure known as the blacksmith shop. After last summer’s public visioning forum, known as a design charrette, the RDA’s master developer, Appleton-based Tanesay, withdrew its involvement, citing “indecision” by the city over what it wants for the area. Amid the political debates over saving all or part of the Highway Trailer complex, the RDA worked on ways to move the project forward with or without that complex included. The group, which turned over several members in the past year, created a marketing flyer that touts the city’s assets and the potential of the riverfront area in hopes of finding another developer for the project. It also began consulting with historic preservation
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It might not be obvious, but there has been progress in the past year around the Redevelopment Authority’s riverfront redevelopment area. The most visible action has been the demolition of several buildings, including the start of taking down most of the Highway Trailer complex along East South Street. The riverfront project is a roughly 15-acre former industrial area along the Yahara River that’s bordered to the north by East South Street, the east by Seventh Street and the west by South Fourth Street. T h e R DA h a d b e e n acquiring properties there since its inception in 2007 with plans to transform the area with new housing and possibly some retail development. Advocates say the project would enhance the city’s downtown and also mesh nicely with proposed improvements at Mandt Park, which has already seen the installation of new pickleball courts and could have a new building to complement a whitewater park that’s in the planning stages. The riverfront redevelopment stalled for a while last year when a disagreement between the Common
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East South Street opened this week after being blocked for most of the last year. The street was blocked due to structural concerns at the Highway Trailer complex.
Stoughton Focus 2018 Stoughton saw several commercial and residential developments move forward in the past year, including the start of a new senior living facility and a hotel in Kettle Park West, housing and a park at Nordic Ridge and new businesses both at KPW and downtown. The city also began building a new $8 million public works facility on the east side, made progress with its planning for a riverfront development along East South Street
– mainly in demolishing dilapidated former industrial buildings – and moved ahead in planning for a whitewater park. The public works project will be completed before year’s end, but it’s unclear when the Redevelopment Authority will have a developer to take on the riverfront redevelopment project. If, as expected, a whitewater park development is approved by the city, its construction would likely take place in 2020, said Parks and Rec director Dan Glynn.
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Ground work has begun at the site of the new public works facility.
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City begins building public works facility BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group
A new $8 million public works facility is in the early stages of construction on the city’s east side and is scheduled to be completed this year. The facility has been planned since 2013, when the city began working with a design firm and bought 13 acres on County Hwy. A near the intersection with Racetrack Road. Public works director Brett Hebert told the Hub that despite heavy rainfall this spring, the project is “right on schedule.” He said footings for the main building will be completed in a week or two and wall sections will be delivered in July. “Those will be up by the end of July, and then the
building will really start to take shape,” Hebert said. “We’re very pleased with the progress considering the wet weather,” he added. “It’s a good site for this kind of construction, mostly sand, so it’s draining well and there’s no standing water. We got kind of lucky.” Last June, the Common Council approved a $359,000 contract with the architectural and engineering firm Angus Young Associates, of Janesville, to design and plan the project. And in February, the city accepted a $7.5 million bid from Kenneth F. Sullivan Co. to build the roughly $8 million facility. It will replace a century-old building on Fourth Street that is deteriorating and is too small to meet the public works department’s needs, city officials said.
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Sullivan is constructing an 82,789 square-foot facility, which includes three buildings. The main building will have an administrative office, vehicle maintenance area, employee break area and a meeting room. The complex will include an attached cold-storage building and a 4,800-square-foot salt storage outbuilding. The project includes a rooftop solar-panel array to provide electricity, at a cost of $217,300. The three buildings at the site will cost $7.28 million to construct, and the city will spend another $1.05 million for soil improvements, site preparation and stormwater maintenance. Contact Bill Livick at bill. livick@wcinet.com
Whitewater Park advances BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group
A push to develop a whitewater park on the Ya h a r a R ive r n e a r t h e Fourth Street Dam got closer to reality over the past year. Led by parks and recreation department director Dan Glynn, the city has applied for a major grant, has begun planning meetings with a developer and made a public presentation attended by 100 people at the Opera House in May. Glynn proposed developing a whitewater park last year, between Mandt Park and the riverfront redevelopment project, using the existing dam and several new man-made pools to control the water flow. It would include a beach, a spectator area and a place to rent equipment.
Glynn and park advocates have said they believe the project would draw thousands of visitors to the city each year and generate hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in new revenue for local businesses. In January, the Common Council authorized a $23,100 planning contract with Recreation Engineering and Planning Inc., a company Glynn said is the leading whitewater park developer in the country. The Colorado-based firm estimated the cost to build a park here at $2.2 million. In April, Glynn applied for a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Knowles-Nelson Stewardship grant, which would pay half the cost of developing the park. He said the city will know by early August whether it’s awarded the funding. “If we get the DNR grant,
we’ll have two construction seasons to finish the project,” he told the Hub. “Next year would be the engineering and permitting phase, and the following year would be the construction.” In the last few months, Glynn has met with various user groups and other city departments to recruit members for a whitewater park steering committee. He said the committee will meet for the first time in July. If the city doesn’t get the DNR funding, Glynn said, it wouldn’t necessarily mean the end of the project. “It’s a big chunk of money and it would slow things down, but I still think the project could move forward,” he said. “We’d have to put together a fundraising plan.” Contact Bill Livick at bill. livick@wcinet.com
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My first few months as mayor have been very interesting and educational. Optimism was certainly the theme I heard regarding growth potential at the April 19th Chamber of Commerce Business Expo. Among the priorities since I’ve taken office was opening East South Street, making progress on redevelopment areas and addressing current and future space needs and use for city staff. East South Street had been closed in front of the Highway Trailer building complex, and it opened this week. I received help from the Redevelopment Authority (RDA) chair and vice chair, Roger Springman and Carl Chenoweth, to accelerate this process. An initial meeting was set up with our consultant, and a follow-up meeting occurred onsite with the demolition company to establish a plan to reschedule the order of the demolition of the several buildings in the area. The riverfront development is being addressed in multiple ways. A new tax-incremental district is being created to provide financial flexibility. We are also patiently waiting for decisions to be made regarding grants for both the riverfront and the whitewater park that’s being planned in
front of it. On the other side of the city, the Redevelopment Authority is in conversations with a developer for the former Marathon gas station, and these will hopefully come to fruition. Addressing current and future space needs and use for city staff has been an ongoing topic, and related to this is the donation of the iconic McFarland State Bank building to the City of Stoughton. Other development is continuing. I attended the celebration of the grand opening of the Kwik Trip conversion at Roby Road, the groundbreaking of the new McFarland State Bank at Kettle Park West and the ribbon-cutting for the splash pad at Nordic Ridge. This is the second year of the Parade of Homes at Nordic Ridge. The Pick ‘n Save gas station grand opening is set for June 29. Phase 1 of KPW continues with the construction of the Iconica Assisted Living and McFarland State Bank, opening of the Pancake Cafe, near-completion of the Dunkin’ Donuts and several other possibilities, including the Tru Hotel by Hilton and Great Clips. After securing an access road from Hwy. 138 into KPW, a new
housing proposal for Phase 2 of KPW will be up for review in the near future. Tractor Supply and Goodwill stores filled the vacant Walmart site. Several new shops opened or relocated downtown, including 51 South Restaurant (formerly Pack R Place), Viking Gold and Pawn (formerly The Quill Brush building), Autumn Pearl, Wildwood Cafe, Smokes on the Water, Lon’s Tailgaters (formerly Sonny’s Bar), Viking Leather and Stoughton Sweet Shoppe. Remodeling/additions are occurring at Conant’s Automotive, Dane County Auto, Kunes Country Auto (formally Stark Automotive), the American Legion and Reverend Jim’s. Completion of the addition to Skaalen Home is near. I have attended numerous trainings, dinners and seminars to become engaged with local, county and state representatives, as well as our trade associations. Conversations with the school district continues. Stoughton is poised to provide quality and strategic growth for our present and future needs. Thank you to everyone who have given me help and support. Tim Swadley is the mayor of the City of Stoughton.
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Splash pad opens at Nordic Ridge Park After more than a year of planning, the Nordic Ridge Park splash pad opened June 9. The pad was donated to the city by Nordic Ridge developers RHD Properties. The splash pad was part of Phase II in Nordic Ridge, a new neighborhood in the southwest part of the city. The park, located at 1300 Hoel Ave., also features a 3,880-square-foot shelter and a soccer field, to be used primarily by the Stoughton Youth Soccer Association. Regular hours for the park will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day through the summer, contingent on inclement weather. The park was approved in July 2017 by the Planning Commission, and the Common Council approved $154,000 in funding for parts of the project a month later.
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Oliver Miller, 6, is brought close to the water jets by his older sister Natalie Zientek at the splash Pad a few days after the park opened.
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While one housing development took big steps forward over the past year, another remains stuck on the ground. Nordic Ridge, located in the southwest part of the city, celebrated the completion of its splash pad late this spring, sending the development further into the next stage of construction (Phase 3), which includes roadwork. D ev e l o p e r s B o b a n d Laura Dvorak oversaw the completion of the splash pad, park and shelter throughout the last year. In the year before that, 40 single- and multi-family lots were developed, and there are plans for 170 lots in
total. All of the two-family lots have been sold at the property. Phase III will extend Hoel Avenue to County Hwy. A, which Laura Dvorak told the Hub earlier this month is supposed to make travel easier for commuters. “(It will) make it easier to get back and forth to Madison,” she said. On the city’s north side, Norse View Heights got some traction this year after a few years of stagnation. Developer A.J. Arnett returned to the Planning Commission in February to receive suggestions for how to get the project going. His preliminary plat for the subdivision was approved in September 2016 with 32 new dwelling units, but several conditions were not met, delaying the project. Planning director Rodney Scheel told the Hub in an email the timeline for one
of the remaining conditions stalling development is “unclear.” “The developer has not submitted the urban service area amendment materials necessary to meet one of the conditions of approval that were placed on the development back in 2016,” he wrote. The cost for the homes, according to the city’s website, range from $225,000 to $260,000. “This development brings high-quality affordable housing to Stoughton… which already has a waiting list for the anticipation of these future lots,” the website states. For information about the status of developments, visit ci.stoughton.wi.us. Contact Amber Levenhagen at amber.levenhagen@ wcinet.com.
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When I wrote my column for last year’s Stoughton Focus section, I justified our need to grow. I pointed to the fact that we have 6,900 jobs in Stoughton and we are the 64th-largest city in Wisconsin but we cannot stand still. If we don’t grow, we stagnate. Now, a year later, we are seeing real signs of growing. We h ave m o r e r e t a i l options, which means more people are staying in Stoughton or coming to Stoughton to shop. When shoppers come from the surrounding communities, they are likely to spend more in Stoughton, buying gas or having lunch or going to a shop they’ve never been to before. We also are seeing some homes being built, most notably on the north side of the city and in the Nordic Ridge development. New homes bring more tax base and more students to the school district. Although this growth is encouraging, we can do better. For one thing, most of the growth has been on the west
side, which is desirable for some businesses, but we’ve got a great opportunity to balance this growth by putting some emphasis on the east side, as well, which could use more retail. Also, almost all of Stoughton’s recent business growth has been in retail. And that keeps people in town for shopping. But we also need growth in the kind of family-supporting jobs people move here for. Housing is another important opportunity. It’s the carrot that was used to sell the Kettle Park West development. The housing that was supposed to follow has hit roadblocks, I know, but we still need those houses. To accomplish all this, the three pillars of our community – the city, school district and the business community – need to pull together. I am happy to hear Mayor Tim Swadley talk about working with the county for economic development guidance. I know we can acquire more land for development. But without an economic development plan in
place, we will not be able to attract businesses that will entice people to move here. The school district has been very good about telling us it needs more students. But it could show more leadership to keep the city’s shortage of housing in the forefront by attending city council meetings and impressing on the council the very real urgency we are facing. The task force that was created to get these three entities talking – the chamber, SASD and the city – didn’t go anywhere. But instead of researching ways to suggest we market the city, the three entities need to work together on economic development and planning. With the signs of growth we are experiencing and the ways people are talking about working together, I am looking forward to the coming year. With the cooperation of the city, school district and businesses, Stoughton can grow appropriately. Laura Trotter is the executive director of the Stoughton Chamber of Commerce.
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City, district focus on growth Leaders, including some newly elected, continue joint discussions SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group
For Stoughton’s Common Council and the Stoughton Area school board, the past year was one of both looking to the past and the future as the two sides sought more ways to work together. Since the spring of 2017, the two government bodies have been meeting, both as entire boards and more recently in a combined ad hoc committee, to discuss common issues, challenges and solutions. Mayor Tim Swadley, a former school board member who was part of those efforts in the past year as a council member, said the two sides have been getting along “great” as newly elected members on both sides get ready to join the ongoing discussions. Those have mainly centered around growth. “Obviously the concern is how do we attract more young families to Stoughton for students for schools?” he told the Hub last week. “What is the city’s role, the school district’s role, and what can we do in a partnership?” Swadley said the group has been talking about getting some outside help to put together a marketing plan – “something that would get outside of Stoughton and Dane County, and really even further than that, to try to introduce families that are consider relocating to consider Stoughton.” He said areas like Nordic Ridge are opening up some housing possibilities. “You have to have home opportunities for these families, and in Dane County there’s a housing shortage, so we’re going to try to work together to at least let the school district know
Teaming up Members from the Stoughton Common Council and Stoughton Area School Board met as Committees of the Whole in April 2017, then again in July 2017, where they formed the committee to serve as a liaison between the two bodies, with plans to meet quarterly. if someone contacts them … they are aware of where there might be some housing options.”
New leadership There were some “new” faces in the room June 14 at a meeting between top city and school officials, with some recent changes in leadership in both bodies. Swadley had taken over for Donna Olson as Stoughton mayor (and Common Council president Tom Majewski for Swadley), and Frank Sullivan succeeded Scott Dirks as school board president. Swadley said the session was a good way to catch newcomers up on progress and keep things moving forward. “We have an opportunity to maybe do some things that haven’t been tried in the past and we want to take advantage of that,” he said. “It’s not going to happen overnight; it’s going to be kind of a continuous process, because we all have other responsibilities a than to each other, and we’re trying to balance this within all the other things we’re doing.” Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott. delaruelle@wcinet.com.
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District embraces creativity to meet student’s needs I recently visited our Fab Lab to see some of the work underway in our Guitars for Girls workshop. In this summer program, girls entering grades 8-12 have an opportunity to build their own solid-body electric guitar while getting exposed to a unique learning experience in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) in our lab. It was amazing to see the skill and creativity of our students. Here at the Stoughton Area School District, we have tried to take that kind of creative spirit to heart because it helps us to meet the changing needs of our students. For example, last school year, Fox Prairie Elementary School staff showed out-of-the-box thinking when they enlisted Gus, a yellow Labrador retriever, to help support students who are reading. Our staff had found from research that dogs can help encourage students to read because they offer a nonjudgmental ear for kids to read aloud and practice their skills. Gus, as you may have heard or seen from media reports, has been a big hit with students and staff. This was an example of great initiative taken by our staff to help meet one our district’s primary goals, which is promoting student literacy. Kegonsa Elementary School has showed similar creative thinking when developing its inquiry-based learning focus over the last year. Inquiry-based
learning emphasizes more interactive learning opportunities, such as outdoor classrooms, and tapping into students’ curiosity about the world. Last year, Kegonsa reimagined its learning spaces to support that philosophy. Its hallways were repainted, new flexible tables were purchased to encourage cooperative work among students and signage was displayed to encourage students to be “Courageously Curious.” Sandhill Elementary School has started incorporating more STEAM opportunities into its classrooms, partly because research has shown students develop 21st - century learning skills by participating in STEAM activities. This last year, Sandhill started organizing monthly STEAM challenges to encourage project-based learning, help students develop problem-solving skills and promote collaboration. The school has already received some donated equipment and continues to seek other partners to expand the program beyond the monthly challenges so it can increase student engagement and science knowledge. And just recently, Sandhill was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Alliant Energy Foundation toward the creation of a new STEAM lab in the building. Every year in May, River Bluff Middle School organizes and hosts a Genius Hour science fair that showcases work by our sixth-graders. In this
activity, students research a topic of their choosing, including topics that would not be covered within the scope of the sixth-grade science curriculum, as long as it has a scientific connection. The students learn about topics that include health and nutrition, sports, genetics, natural disasters, computer coding, pet care and more, and then present what they have learned to families and classmates in the fair. Lastly, Stoughton High School has been reaching out to local businesses to learn more about how we can prepare our students for the workforce. On April 13, teams of educators from SHS used their professional day to visit more than 20 different businesses in the area in fields such as finance, health care, engineering, manufacturing, food service, architecture, hospitality, energy and engineering. Our educators learned more about what those businesses do, what kinds of skills they need from their employees and what kinds of academic or employability skills should our schools emphasize to prepare students for success in their future careers. As we look to a new school year, we are hoping to continue that spirit of creativity in our district so we can prepare our students for the emerging world in which they live. Tim Onsager is the superintendent of the Stoughton Area School District.
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Goodwill Stoughton (Part of Goodwill of South Central Wisconsin) Address: 1780 US-51, Stoughton (next to Pick ‘n Save) Home office is at 1302 Mendota St., Madison Principal owner or leader: Vicki Holschuh is the president and CEO of Goodwill SCWI. Goodwill does not have an owner. Each region operates as an independent, local 501(c)(3) Opening/arrival date: Goodwill Stoughton opened on March 16, 2018. Number of employees: Goodwill Stoughton is a local nonprofit employing approximately 25 full and part-time staff. Goodwill of South Central Wisconsin (SCWI) has 300+ employees within its 14-county region. Charity connections/plans (if any): Goodwill SCWI provides job coaches for people with barriers to employment in collaboration with more than 100 local businesses. We also provide a safe and supportive living environment in our group homes for adults with mental illness. We partner with service organizations to assist their clients in obtaining work essentials. Stoughton connection (why are you here?): Our stores are the economic driver for the mission of Goodwill. When we open a new store, we create additional capacity for local services. Stoughton is a vibrant community and we were pleased to fill an existing retail space that had been vacant for an extended period of time. Business focus (products/services/market/customers): The resale of gently-used goods is what we do, but it is not who we are. Goodwill SCWI believes everyone can work. Proceeds from the resale of donated goods fund the mission services that allow us to support employees in meaningful jobs that encourage their development and increase their independence. What’s special about your business? Goodwill’s commitment to the power of work means your shopping does good for your community. Goodwill SCWI is green – developing multiple streams for recycling and keeping 20 million pounds of waste out of local landfills in 2017. Donated goods, retail proceeds and Goodwill’s services stay in South Central Wisconsin.
Aldi Address: 1399 U.S. Hwy. 51 Opening date: November 2017 Website: aldi.us
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Smokes on the Water, 233 W. Main St., opened November 27.
First Choice Dental Address: 1300 Nygaard St Principal owner or leader: Rebecca Gray, Clinic Administrator Opening/arrival date: July 17, 2017 Number of employees: 7 employees at the Stoughton location Charity connections/plans (if any): Syttende Mai Sponsor, Bike for Boys & Girls Club Sponsors, and we plan to donate to local youth clubs, sports, etc. Stoughton connection (why are you here?): We felt the need to expand into this great community. Six out of our seven employees live within Stoughton, Oregon, McFarland and Cooksville. We have a vested interest in supporting this community. Business focus (products/services/market/customers): We provide general dental care including cleanings, exams, x-rays, emergency appointments, fillings, same day Cerec crowns, dentures and much more! We also have an orthodontist that practices with us on Thursdays.
Smokes on the Water Address: 233 W Main St Principal owner or leader: Chris Kelley Opening/arrival date: November 2017 Number of employees: 3 Stoughton connection (why are you here?): Our business model calls for small town feeling to provide more personal service and build relationships with customers Business focus (products/services/market/customers): Alternatives to cigarette smoking
Tractor Supply Co. Address: 1800 U.S. Hwy. 51 and Hwy. 138 Opening date: October 2017 Website: tractorsupply.com
Stoughton Sweet Shoppe Address: 603 W. Main St. Opening date: February 2018 Website: stoughtonsweetshoppe.com
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Construction began in May for the senior living facility at Kettle Park West.
New senior housing construction underway
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Walls come down at the Highway Trailer complex on East South Street on Friday, June 22.
Trailer: Demolition starts clearing the way Continued from page 9 experts about the possibility of saving the 108-yearold blacksmith shop, which remains under a demolition moratorium. City leaders plan to seek cost estimates for restoring the building at the same time they’re considering potential uses for the 14,000-square-foot structure. A n d R DA c o n s u l t a n t Gary Becker devised a plan to provide more time and financial flexibility, separating the riverfront area from the rest of the tax-increment financing district it was in and creating a new district for the redevelopment project. That plan, which is
expected to go to the Common Council next month, would provide 27 years to generate increment (additional tax base) while also relieving its former district, TID 5, of a $1.8 million decrement (a deficit in the tax base) caused by the reduced value of old industrial buildings. The Common Council has also been active around the riverfront project. In late February, it removed a demolition moratorium on the Highway Trailer complex, except for the blacksmith shop, that was put in place in March 2017. And it authorized up to $750,000 to take down the rest of the complex, a process that
began in May and is expected to be completed by the end of the summer. City officials asked the demolition contractor to have the tallest part of the complex, a building along East South Street, removed by early July in order to re-open the street for July 4 festivities. The street was closed a year ago following a building inspection report that questioned its structural integrity. Other structures in the riverfront area have already been demolished, the MillFab complex and the carpet warehouse. Contact Bill Livick at bill. livick@wcinet.com
100 apartments planned AMBER LEVENHAGEN Unified Newspaper Group
Construction at the site of the future Kettle Park West senior housing facility began May 1 and is expected to be completed during the summer of 2019. T h e fa c i l i t y w i l l b e approximately 130,000 square feet and will include 79 independent and assiste d l iv i n g a p a r t m e n t s , according to a news release f r o m d eve l o p e r Tu k k a Properties. There will also be a memory care wing with an additional 21 apartments. T h e fa c i l i t y w i l l b e o p e r a t e d b y Te a lwo o d Senior Living. It’s the two companies’ fourth joint
ground-up project. It was designed by Iconica, an architecture, engineering and construction company based in Madison, which is also managing the construction. Embracing Stoughton’s Scandinavian heritage and downtown is “important to us,” Rachel Pientka, vice president of Operations for Tukka Properties, said in the release. She explained that the exterior design features light colors, Norwegian-style roofs and farmhouse-style porches. The interior will include a bistro and several dining areas, activity spaces, an arts and crafts room, a library, salon, fitness and wellness spaces, as well as a movie theater. Outside areas include a patio, walking paths, raised gardening beds and a putting green. “We are striving to create a place residents find
comforting and fulfilling,” Pientka said in the release. Iconica and Tukka partnered with Henricksen, an interior design firm, to create “an inviting and comfortable environment,” taking inspiration from small Scandinavian villages to come up with the modern farmhouse design, Henricksen director Amy Bursey said in the release. “The Kettle Park project will be light and bright, influence from traditional Norwegian crafts and details inspired by the Scandinavian landscape. We design a lot of senior housing, and we are very excited about the innovative thinking by Iconica, Tukka and Tealwood,” Bursey said. “It is going to be a great community.” Contact Amber Levenhagen at amber.levenhagen@ wcinet.com.
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Crews work on East South Street as demolition continues at the Highway Trailers site on Friday, June 22.
As businesses open around Kettle Park West, a few more developments are underway. The Tru by Hilton hotel on Jackson Street construction had planned to begin this summer after a new permit was issued in January, but developers have not yet obtained a building permit from the city. The previously reported May groundbreaking never happened.
The most recent timeline provided to the Hub anticipated construction completion by March 1, 2019. McFarland State Bank held its groundbreaking ceremony April 27, with construction following shortly after. The full-service location, at the corner of US Hwy. 51 and Jackson Street, will replace the former location on South Forrest Street. The city accepted the donation of the existing building, which is expected to be used as a municipal facility. Several businesses are already open at Kettle Park
West. Pancake Cafe, a breakfast restaurant located at 2420 U.S. Hwy. 138, opened in April. It’s the third location for the company, with others in Fitchburg and Madison. Kwik Trip, the fourth in Stoughton, opened September 2017. Aldi, a discount grocery store located at 1399 U.S. Hwy. 51, opened November 2017. Dunkin’ Donuts is expected to open within the next few weeks. – Amber Levenhagen
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Trailer: Public-private partnership could be needed; marketplace a likely option and as noted, the ceiling – composed of cement panel sections that Springman estimated weigh between 120-150 pounds each – is also failing in many spots. The interior is mostly wide open, with only impediment being the steel posts.
Continued from page 1 specific building. Mayor Tim Swadley has also supported preserving the building, but he has pointed out the city’s financial constraints could make doing so difficult. He told the Hub the city doesn’t have much money to invest in the blacksmith shop and he doesn’t want to see it linger as other buildings have and hamper the RDA’s riverfront project. Saving it would require stabilizing a structure that’s been abandoned for many years and finding a developer interested in taking on such a project. And it could be costly. Those interested in saving the building have suggested a public-private partnership might be the most likely way to keep it, and its height and shape could make for a public market or office space, not like the residential uses that dominate the RDA’s riverfront plan.
Variety of possible uses
Why save it? The chair of Stoughton’s Landmarks Commission, Peggy Veregin, is an ardent advocate of preserving the city’s history through its “most iconic buildings,” like City Hall with its clock tower and Opera House. Springman said he couldn’t agree more, and added that finding a developer to renovate blacksmith shop would be an important contribution to preserving the city’s industrial history. “We’ve saved things of its cultural history – the Opera House and the 1892 building – but this is our last chance to save something of the industrial era,” he told the Hub. “I don’t want to give up on it until we’ve done our best to see if we can find a way to hand that building off to the private sector for further use that’s valuable to the city.” Swadley said he also values Stoughton’s history, but not at an unlimited price. He said the council should set a number on what it’s willing to invest in the blacksmith shop, and if the estimate to save the building is higher than that number, the RDA should
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An aerial view taken in 2017 for a report on the Highway Trailer building complex shows the front of the building known as the blacksmith shop. move forward and focus on the larger riverfront area. RDA member Carl Chenoweth said the Swadley’s logic is sound. “What we need to do is … find out what that cost is,” he said. “We’ll all probably suffer from sticker shock when we see it. But in the end, I think we need to know that number. In the short term, we’re committed to trying to figure out what it would cost us and do what we can with the resources we have and do our best to salvage that structure.”
Public/private investment Several people involved in the effort said preserving the building will require an investment of both public and private funds. The public funds would likely come in the form of tax-increment financing to improve infrastructure in the redevelopment area. The city is in the process of creating a new TIF district specifically
for the riverfront area. Private money from a developer or other investor would be the probable means to renovate the building. Without a private funding source, RDA members and others with knowledge of the development said, it’s unlikely the building will avoid the bulldozer. Chenoweth compared the blacksmith shop to an old car. “We have to make a decision to take it down or leave it standing, and if we can’t afford to put any money into it, then it’s like an old car and we have to scrap it,” he said. “I think that might be where we’re heading, but I don’t think people ought to jump the gun.” A civil engineer with a background in rehabbing old buildings, Chenoweth said the RDA’s mission in the next two months will be to develop a work plan for how the building could be saved, establish a cost estimate and determine what the city can afford.
He described it as “an assessment operation” that probably won’t lead to a decision “until close to the end of the year.” “For my part, I intend to stay the course until we find the answers,” he said. “They might not be the answers we’re looking for, but we have to go through the process intending to save the building.”
Still unstable Springman told the Hub the city should focus on stabilizing and preserving the building structure, not the restoration. That would be the responsibility of a private developer, he said. Springman told the Hub he took a development team on a tour of the site a few weeks ago, and the group was interested in the site and saw potential in the blacksmith shop. “We took them in there to take a peek at it,” he said. “It’s in fragile condition and nobody wanted to get
their head too far in there.” Chenoweth told members a story during an RDA meeting a last month about entering the blacksmith shop and having a cement roof panel on the other side of the room come crashing down. His story got everyone’s undivided attention. “I didn’t mean to scare anybody,” he said with a laugh. “I’ve been in a lot of buildings like that and was trying to express the urgency that we needed to address those problems. “I knew enough to wear my hard hat and knew there were some areas in there that we didn’t want to get under,” he added. Chenoweth described the tall, one-story building structure as being similar to “a pavilion.” It features a building-long cupula with vents designed to release fumes during its days as a blacksmith shop. The building skeleton is made up of steel rods, and steel posts run from floor to ceiling. The masonry walls are beginning to fail in places,
Because of its distinct interior design and footprint, the building is not as suitable for a future housing development as it is for a commercial space or venue for public gatherings. Potential uses for the building include a public market (possibly an openair market), an exercise facility, office space or an event space similar to The Lageret on East Main Street. “There’s all kinds of possibilities and a lot of people with a lot of ideas,” Chenoweth said. Mark Ernst, the architect who led last summer’s design charrette with the RDA’s chosen master developer, Mark Geall, acknowledged the blacksmith shop is “in pretty rough shape” but also feels it’s an important building to preserve because of its connection to Stoughton’s past. Ernst also thinks if renovated, the building could serve lots of purposes. He’s working with historic buildings in Milwaukee and Mequon and said Stoughton’s project has great potential. “We’re doing a market in a very similar building in Mequon right now,” he said. “It’s going to have about 12 vendors, and I could definitely see that for the blacksmith shop.” Ernst noted, however, that at the design charrette last June for the overall development, people involved showed “some resistance” to a commercial use for the building. “There’s concern about not creating more retail that could compete against the downtown, but maybe something could be there that’s unique to the area,” he said. Contact Bill Livick at bill. livick@wcinet.com
East South Street opens City leaders set a goal of reopening East South Street by the Fourth of July weekend, and they beat that mark by several days. The city closed the street July 20, 2017, because of the safety hazard posed by falling parts of the Highway Trailer building. Less than a week later, the city funded additional fencing and barricades to keep people and automobiles away. After most of the Highway Trailer complex was reduced to rubble, the street was opened 9 a.m. Monday.
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a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on Nov. 19, 1958, in Madison, the daughter of Robert Toban and Mollie (Ripp) Wagner. Ruth graduated from Stoughton High School. She recently celebrated 20 years working as a testing engineer for American Family Insurance. Ruth’s greatest joy was her granddaughter, Kyra. She was the light of her life Ruth Toban and anyone who knew Ruth, knew that. She also loved her Ruth M. Toban, age 59, of special dog, Sassy, who only Deerfield, passed away on ate human food. She enjoyed Tuesday, June 19, 2018, after
making blankets, scarves, and other gifts for her friends. Ruth was very loyal and often gave up her time to help out, no matter what the circumstances. Someone once explained Ruth as a Godly woman with a great attitude. Ruth is survived by her father, Mike (Dee) Wagner; son, Adrian Toban; granddaughter, Kyra Campfield; daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Newbold; sisters, Lynn (Kent) Rawhouser and Terri Harmon; brothers, Mitch (Patty) Wagner and Shane (Jen) Wagner; and many
nieces, nephews, extended family and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents. A “Come as you are” Celebration of Life will be held at High Point Church, 7702 Old Sauk Rd., Madison, at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 30, 2018, with Mickey Best presiding. Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh.com.
Jane Russell
30, 1951, in Tulsa, OK, the daughter of Roy and Wanda (Keilb) Russell. The last position Jane held was community outreach for the Salvation Army. Jane was outgoing and befriended everyone. She was an avid cat lover and had a special place in her heart for them. She was currently writing a book and enjoyed many artistic mediums including painting and ceramics. Jane was a fan of music, especially from the 60s era, with Hall & Oats being one of her favorite groups to listen to. She helped out many community youth, taking them under her wing to show them life’s great joys and experiences; Jane was a kid at heart
and played video games. Shopping at the farmers markets and spending time outdoors with nature was a past time favorite as well as gardening and thunderstorms. She was well-known for her Christmas and Halloween decorations. Jane’s favorite things to do involved time with family, especially her grandchildren and playing cards on game night. Jane is survived by four children, Jeffery (Dawn) Russell, Cassandra Bragg, Logan Bragg and Morgan Bragg; four grandchildren, Nephele Lager, Sullivan Lager, Dione McKinley and Justin Thor; four great-grandchildren, Amya and Ayden McKinley and Marvin and Myles Thor;
three sisters, Barb (Robert) Crews, Nancy Rischowsky and Linda Zirpoli; three brothers, Brad (Kim) Russell, Dan (Dorothy) Russell and Richie Russell; and sister-inlaw, Cathyrn Russell. She was preceded in death by her parents, Roy and Wanda Russell. A Celebration of Life, in Jane’s memory, will be held at a later date. Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh. com.
Hannah (Olson) Jacobson. Shirley was raised in Rockdale where she attended Rockdale grade school, and graduated from Cambridge High School. She married Bernard “Butch” Arnold on July 30, 1945 and they were married 70 years. Together they raised five children. Shirley was a very kind and extremely generous person who cared deeply for others, and also had a love for all animals. She enjoyed various jobs throughout her years, those including Melsners Candy Company in Cambridge, Caren’s in Verona, Uniroyal in Stoughton and Edgerton Retirement Homes, but the role she enjoyed the most was being a wife and a wonderful mother.
Those who knew her well loved her quick wit and sense of humor as she loved to make people laugh. Shirley enjoyed yard work and planting flowers. She also enjoyed canning and did so for many years. Her greatest love of all was country music which she so loved listening and dancing to. She also enjoyed getting up and singing herself with various bands and also liked to sing karaoke and did so still at the age of 91. Shirley was truly one of a kind and will be deeply missed by all who knew her and by the many lives she touched. Shirley is survived by four children, Bruce (Jill) Arnold of Edgerton, Bonnie Arn of Okeechobee, FL, Debi Lehman of Edgerton, and Shane Arnold of Edgerton; 10 grandchildren; and many great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Butch; daughter, Sharon Olsen; granddaughter, Heidi Ellings o n ; b r o t h e r, M a y n a r d
Jacobson; and sisters, Muriel Jacobson and Lorraine McIntyre. Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 30, 2018, at Cress Funeral Home in Stoughton. Friends and relatives are invited to a luncheon, immediately following, at the Stoughton VFW. Friends may greet the family from noon until the time of service Saturday. Burial will take place in St. Ann Cemetery. A special thank you to Edgerton ER, UW Med Flight and the UW Hospital. If there is country music in heaven we know she’s up there dancing. You have earned your wings mom, fly with the angels. Please share your memories of Shirley at CressFuneralService.com.
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Jane Russell, age 66, of Stoughton, went home with the Lord on Thursday, June 21, 2018, at Stoughton Hospital. She was born on Dec.
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Flood: Parisi: ‘Our climate has changed ... we see 100-year floods every couple of years.’ Continued from page 1 built-up vegetation and sediments that impeded drainage. T h a t ’s p u t f l o o d i n g “above the 100-year (flooding) level,” Dane County Land and Water Resources department assistant director John Reimer wrote in an email to the Hub. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Lake Kegonsa’s previous record level was 845.73 feet above sea level, set just over a decade ago, on June 16, 2008. On June 21-22, it was at 845.76 feet. And that’s meant the c o u n t y h a s b e e n bu s y removing sediment and vegetation to improve water flow, city workers have been keeping a close eye on the Fourth Street dam and residents around the lake have been doing their best to keep the waters out of their homes. Kast said so far, water has damaged her sheds and landscaping, but the house has been protected. Still, the floodwaters will leave Photo by Kimberly Wethal an impact – after the water Lisa Kast’s backyard on the 3100 block of Sunnyside Street has a number of inches of standing water in it as a result of the recedes, Kast said it’ll 100-year flood levels seen at Lake Kegonsa. leave at least four inches of “muck” and mud throughout her yard. “We’ve got a lot of landscaping and a lot of cleaning up to do,” she said. “It definitely changes (our Dane County Land summer) a lot.”
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Local effects Bob Jensen, who started boating and fishing on Lake Kegonsa 62 years ago and built a home on the lake 40 years ago, said he’s never seen the water so high. “Our pier’s end is normally two to two-and-ahalf feet above the water, and it rose and went over (it),” he told the Hub in an email. Normally, he said they put on waders to remove the boat dock – this year, his grandsons had to don life jackets and swim out to remove it. Jensen said he still has a pontoon boat on a lift he’s hoping to safely extricate. “We can’t get off the lift right now without raising the canopy top, (so we’re) hoping the water will recede enough in the next week to prevent that,” he said. “If it rises enough to make contact with the canopy top metal framing, the boat’s buoyancy can raise the whole lift off the bottom, and it’s then free to float around. “If this is a new ‘normal’ we may have to expect in the future, we will sure have to make some serious adjustments.” Some places were hit less hard, such as the Stoughton Country Club, which PGA professional and manager Steve Hlavacek said was closed only June 19 due to the wet conditions but otherwise has been open as usual. “We’ve had a lot of rain, but our golf course drains quite well,” he told the Hub last week. “It’s very wet, but we’re still open for play.” Hlavacek, who has been at the club for around 40 years, said historically, the recent rains and flooding
and Water Resources department assistant director John Reimer said the “inflow” coming south toward Kegonsa has been “reduced significantly” since the 2008 flooding; from around 600 cubic feet per second out of Lake Mendota’s Tenney Park locks to around 140 today. Despite that, Kegonsa filled up faster than it could drain last week, prompting the city to keep a close watch on its dam, and the county to dig out 21 dump trucks’ worth of vegetation from the waterway to improve the flow.
is “right up with a lot of them.” “Everything is really saturated right now, so anything we get just adds to that saturation,” he said. “It needs to dry out.”
County efforts Dane County has been working with municipalities, particularly the townships of Pleasant Springs and Dunn, to help with the effects of flooding on residents near Lake Kegonsa, providing 8,400 sandbags to residents affected by flooding near all three lakes. To help the waters move through the Stoughton area, for more than a week, county workers have been cutting plants in the Yahara River, south of the La Follette (Lake Kegonsa) dam, something Reimer said “has never been done.” The county also received an emergency permit from the state Department of
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Residents were busy pumping out floodwaters at Kegonsa Cove last week. Natural Resources to start removing railroad gravel and rocks at the railroad bridge Monday to increase water flow. To help protect property from the rising waters, the county instituted a “ s l ow, n o - wa ke ” o r d e r June 19 for lakes Monona, Waubesa and Kegonsa, and pier owners were urged to either secure, raise or remove their piers to prevent them from floating away and “creating navigational hazard(s).” On Thursday, June 21, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and emergency officials toured flood damage in the towns of Dunn and Pleasant Spring, holding a news conference at the Pleasant Spring Town Hall Thursday afternoon. Parisi said seeing “100-year” flood levels in the county’s bodies of water every few years isn’t a coincidence. “Our climate isn’t just changing, our climate has
changed – we’re dealing with the impacts of climate change now,” he said. “We see record rain, we see 100-year floods every couple of years.” After the press conference, Parisi and Dane County emergency management director Charles Tubbs toured neighborhoods just north of Lake Kegonsa to look at the effects of flooding on residents. Parisi said to prevent flooding events from continuing to happen, climate change needs to be recognized by the state and federal governments as a real threat and politics around the issue need to stop. The county has added climate change effects into its five-year emergency management plan for the first time, Parisi said, but he said the county needs “partnership” from state and federal governments. “The state and federal government continues
to put their head in the sand when it comes to climate change and refuse to acknowledge it as a real problem,” he said. “Well, all you have to do is look around if you want to see that climate change is a real problem.”
Dam busy Stoughton public works director Brett Hebert said operation of the city’s Ya h a r a R ive r d a m , o ff Fourth Street downtown, has been keeping staff “incredibly busy lately.” “We try to flow as much water as possible through the dam to relieve flooding conditions upstream,” he wrote the Hub in an email Friday morning. The city uses a U.S. Geological Survey monitoring station on the Forton Street bridge to gauge the water flow and depth of the Yahara River, with a goal to “keep our depth at the lower end of our DNR
County gets climate change grant The Dane County Office of Energy and Climate Change received a $29,500 grant from the Carolyn Foundation in Minneapolis to address climate change. Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said in a June 20 news release the grant will allow the county to “fulfill a contract with world-class modelers to model various policies, programs and projects,” to be included in a county “Climate Action” plan. He said the modeling will be a “critical piece of work that will help make Dane County a national leader in the effort to protect our children’s future by reducing the adverse impacts of climate change.” “This week, we have had communities flooded and more storm events than ever before. We can’t sit back and do nothing; we must address climate change head-on,” Parisi said. “With evidence of climate change all around us, Dane County is making a strong commitment to deep analysis of the most effective mitigation available.” County Board Supervisor Patrick Miles said the modeling will “help ensure that our efforts are effective in mitigating our impact on the environment and are cost-effective for taxpayers.” The Dane County Office of Energy and Climate Change, created in 2016, “leads public and private efforts across the community to implement climate change strategies county government has embraced in recent years,” according to the news release. The office has convened a Council on Climate Change, consisting of 37 organizations, to help Dane County develop a Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. permit (841 feet above sea level) to help relieve flooding upstream.” The city also works with operators at the Dunkirk dam to “try to minimize flooding downstream of the Stoughton Dam.” Despite the cooperation, the conditions create “challenges and frustrations for all stakeholders,” Hebert said. “We have had an incredibly wet spring and early summer (and) we are doing all we can to flow as much water through our dam as possible and Dane County is doing all it can to increase flows upstream of Stoughton,” he said. “The bottom line is, we need time to dry out.” Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott.delaruelle@wcinet.com.
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Legals SECTION 00 11 13 ADVERTISEMENT TO BID BRIDGE REHABILITATION CONTRACT 3-2018 CITY OF STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN Sealed Bids for the Bridge Rehabilitation project will be received by the City of Stoughton at Stoughton City Hall, 381 East Main Street, Stoughton, WI, 53589, until 11 A.M., local time, on July 6, 2018, at which time the Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. The Work includes rehabilitation of four existing bridges including concrete surface repairs, crack sealing, steel railing repairs, caulk joint repairs, and concrete sidewalk replacement. Complete digital Project Bidding Documents are available at www.strand. com or at www.questcdn.com. Download the digital Bidding Documents for $30 by inputting Quest project number 5826988 on the website’s Project Search page. Please contact QuestCDN.com at (952) 233 1632 or info@questcdn.com for assistance with free membership registration, downloading, and working with this digital project information. Bidding Documents may be reviewed and paper copies may be obtained from the Issuing Office which is Strand Associates, Inc.®, 910 West Wingra Drive, Madison, WI 53715. A nonrefundable fee of $100 will be required (shipping and handling fees included). Overnight mailing of Bidding Documents will not be provided. All Bidders submitting a sealed Bid shall obtain the Bidding Documents from QuestCDN.com or from Strand Associates, Inc.® Bidders who submit a Bid must be a Plan Holder of record at the Issuing Office. Bids from Bidders who are not on the Plan Holders List may be returned as not being responsive. Plan Holders are requested to provide an e mail address if they wish to receive addenda and other information electronically. Plan Holders are requested to designate whether they are a prime contractor, subcontractor, or supplier if they want this information posted on the project Plan Holders List. The Bid must be accompanied by Bid security made payable to OWNER in an amount of 10% of the Bidder’s maximum Bid price. The City of Stoughton reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, to waive any technicality, and to accept any Bid which it deems advantageous. All Bids shall remain subject to acceptance for 85 days after the time set for receiving Bids. Contract award shall be made based on the lowest responsive and responsi-
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ble Bidder. The Strand Associates, Inc.® project manager is Keith R. Behrend, P.E. and can be contacted at Strand Associates, Inc.®, 910 West Wingra Drive, Madison, WI 53715, (608) 251 4843 regarding the project. Published by the authority of the City of Stoughton, Wisconsin Brett Hebert, Director of Public Works Dated at City of Stoughton, Wisconsin Published: June 21 and 28, 2018 WNAXLP *** BOARD OF EDUCATION STOUGHTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT REGULAR MEETING JUNE 4, 2018 1. Regular Board Meeting Opening A. Call Meeting to Order -A regular meeting of the Board of Education of the Stoughton Area School District was called to order Monday, June 4, 2018, at 7:00 pm in the Administrative and Educational Services Center Board Room by President Francis Sullivan. B. Roll Call- Present: Allison Sorg, Joe Freye, Steve Jackson, Francis Sullivan, Yolibeth FitzGibbon, Tim Bubon, Jon Coughlin, Jill Patterson, Kathleen Hoppe. C. Public Comment - 1) Jackie Harris, 2752 Aspen Rd, Stoughton, Compensation comments; Dean Baldukas, 725 Valley View Dr, Stoughton, Graduation comments; Cathy Zimmerman, 414 Roby Road, Graduation comments; Beth Putney, 1327 Felland St, Stoughton, Graduation comments; Lisa Pugh, 1303 Sundt Lane, Stoughton, Graduation comments; Greg Jensen, 724 Berry St, Stoughton, Graduation comments; Jennifer Zimmerman, Belleville, Graduation comments; I. Genter (student), Stoughton, Graduation comments; Q. Link (student), Stoughton, Graduation comments; A. Baldukas (student), 725 Valley View Dr, Stoughton, Graduation comments; Melissa Robinson, 1124 Stoughton Ave, Stoughton, policies and procedures agenda item. D. Legislative Update - None. 2. District Administrator Report - Dr. Onsager offered a sincere apology to the families and the community for the omission of student names (those continuing on in the high school transition program) from the graduation program and assured that this mistake would not happen again; programs will be reprinted and sent to all families of the graduating class of 2018 and procedures will be changed going forward; June 7th is the last day of class; June 8th is the last working day for teachers; June 11th starts the Lunches for Vikings program
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and June 18th starts the first session of Summer Excel. 3. Consent Agenda -A motion was made by FitzGibbon, seconded by Jackson and carried unanimously to approve the May 21, 2018 Regular Board meeting minutes; approval of the May 17 - June 19, 2018 check register as presented; We would like to say thank you to the following individuals and groups and move approval of their donations to the District - $5,000.00 from the Alliant Energy Foundation Inc. for Sandhill STEAM/ Smart Lab; $3,105.00 from the Stoughton Viking Wrestling Club for Fargo wrestling tournament hotel and travel costs and expenses related to Badger State wrestling tournament; $2,191.00 from the Stoughton Youth Running Club for Cross country invitational t-shirts; $300.00 from Brook Johnson for supplies to support students at the High School; $73.00 from Kegonsa Working for Kids for Kegonsa 4th Grade field trip to Old World Wisconsin; $54.00 from the Stoughton Youth Running Club for athletic tape for High School Track team; $20.00 from Noah Acker for the FFA banquet and related cash donation budget adjustments for $10,743.00; approval of permanent professional educator contracts for Isabel Hemley, Amy Connors, and Robert O’Brien for the 2018-2019 school year; and approve the resignations of Darlene Schnook, Kris Rosholt, and James Young at the end of the 2017-2018 school year. 4. Discussion A. Committee Reports - Policy Committee: Bubon reported that the June 4 Policy Committee meeting was canceled; President Sullivan suggested review of special needs policies and Bubon agreed that all special education policies should be reviewed by the Policy Committee. Finance Committee - Sorg reported that the next Committee meeting would be July 18. ERC - Freye reported that the next ERC meeting would be June 11. Facilities Committee - Jackson reported that the Facilities Committee would meet possibly in September following the completion of the Facilities Study & to learn more about future classrooms. Ad Hoc Committee with School, City & Chamber President Sullivan appointed Hoppe and Patterson to the committee. B. OPEB Report - Linda Mont, CSRM, RHU, of Key Benefits Concepts LLC, presented the OPEB (Other Post-Employment Benefits) Report which is a required study completed every two year. C. 48 Acres - Judy Singletary presented a brief history and update of the 48 Acres. A proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Quail Forever for property management & the reintro-
duction of quail was provided for Board consideration. D. Academic Standards - Judy Singletary presented the annual academic standards report to the board. The academic standards will brought to the next board meeting for approval. E. Staffing Recommendations - Dr. Onsager explained the need for adding a 1.0 FTE Kindergarten Teacher at Fox Prairie for 2018-19 school year; Keli Melcher explained the need for adding a 1.0 Learning Strategist at River Bluff and the reduction of two 1.0 FTE Educational Assistants at River Bluff for the 2018-19 school year. These staffing recommendations will be brought to the board for approval at the next Board meeting. President Sullivan called for a five minute break and the meeting resumed at 9:00 pm. 5. Discussion/Action A. Compensation Committee Recommendation - A motion was made by Jackson, seconded by Hoppe, and carried unanimously to approve the new educator compensation plan as presented. Information will be shared with educators about the plan during the 2018-2019 school year, with the 2019-2020 school year being the first year that salaries will be determined using the new plan. B. Employee Handbook - A motion was made by Bubon, seconded by Sorg and carried unanimously to prove the revisions as presented to the 2017 Personnel Policy Handbook effective July 1, 2018. C. Cameras - A motion was made by Patterson, seconded by Freye, and carried unanimously to approve Electric One to add internal cameras in all school buildings in an amount not to exceed $303,350 during the 2018-19 school year contingent upon receiving $100,000 in safety grant funds from the State of Wisconsin. D. Policy 725 Start Technical College Now - A motion was made by Bubon, seconded by FitzGibbon, and carried unanimously to approve the new policy as presented to Policy 725 Start Technical College Now. E. Policy 822 Part-Time Open Enrollment - A motion was made by Jackson, seconded by Bubon, and carried unanimously to approve the new policy as presented for Policy 822 Part-Time Open Enrollment. F. Policy 604 Non-Retaliation - A motion was made by Bubon, seconded by Hoppe, and carried unanimously to approve the revisions as presented for Policy 604 Non-Retaliation. G. Policy 705 Extracurricular Groups & Activities - A motion was made by Sorg,
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secutive days before the election. The elector must also be registered in order to receive an absentee ballot. Proof of identification must be provided before an absentee ballot may be issued. You must make a request for an absentee ballot in writing. Contact your municipal clerk and request that an application for an absentee ballot be sent to you for the primary or election or both. You may also submit a written request in the form of a letter. Your written request must list your voting address within the municipality where you wish to vote, the address where the absentee ballot should be sent, if different, and your signature. You may make application for an absentee ballot by mail, email or in person. Making application to receive an absentee ballot by mail The deadline for making application to receive an absentee ballot by mail is: 5 pm on the fifth day before the election, Thursday, August 9, 2018. Note: Special absentee voting application provisions apply to electors who are indefinitely confined to home or a care facility, in the military, hospitalized, or serving as a sequestered juror. If this applies to you, contact the municipal clerk regarding deadlines for requesting and submitting an absentee ballot. Voting an absentee ballot in person You may also request and vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office or other specified location during the days and hours specified for casting an absentee ballot in person. Melanie Huchthausen, Town of Dunkirk 654 County Highway N, Stoughton WI 53589 In Person Absentee Voting Hours: Mondays: 2-5 p.m. Thursdays: 3-5 p.m. and by appointment only for dates and times other than those specified. Please call (608) 873-9177 to make an appointment. The first day to vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office is: Monday, July 23, 2018 from 2-5 p.m. The last day to vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office: Friday, August 10, 2018 The municipal clerk will deliver voted ballots returned on or before Election Day to the proper polling place or counting location before the polls close on Tuesday, August 14, 2018. Any ballots received after the polls close will not be counted. Published: June 28, 2018 WNAXLP ***
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Sloan Implement in Mt. Horeb is currently looking for a Lawn and Garden Delivery Driver/Clean-Up Person. The qualified candidate must have a valid driver’s license with a good driving record, can lift at least 50 lbs. and use various tools to complete tasks. To apply or view additional job duties, requirements and to see our full-time benefits package, please go online to www.sloans.com.
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The Town of Pleasant Springs has an immediate opening and is accepting applications for the position of Superintendent of Public Works. Applicant must have a high school diploma or equivalent and experience in a supervisory level position in a related field. Applicant must have a valid Driver’s License along with a CDL. This is a full-time position with health insurance, retirement, life insurance and disability insurance. Benefits are through the Department of Employee Trust Funds. Essential duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: supervision, administrative and professional work in planning, budgeting, organization and directing the operations of the town and employees within the department. Position requires the Superintendent to be able to work along with the employees as assigned to complete the day to day operations of the department. This is a working position with expectations of administrative office work along with operations in the field as required. The applicant requires the knowledge of administrative project planning, development, implementation, and tracking of budgets, documentation of maintenance requirements, operations and safety procedures to effectively manage and operate the Public Works Department. This position requires an employee that is self-motivated with good communication skills, ability to work outdoors in all weather conditions, use a high degree of independent judgement with the ability to make appropriate decisions regarding priorities of the department and its operations. This position is on call 24 hours/day for snow removal and emergency responses. The position requires attendance at daytime and / or evening meetings as necessary to support departmental activities. Must be able to lift 25 to 50 pounds as necessary and maintain a valid Driver License and CDL. The hourly wage for this position is $27.00 to $30.00 dependent upon qualifications, knowledge and experience, with an opportunity available for merit pay. The application and position description are available on the Town’s website at www.townofpleasantsprings. org, or at the Town Hall located at 2354 County Rd. N, Stoughton, WI 53589. Office hours are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. or you may call the clerk’s office at (608) 873-3063 with questions you may have concerning obtaining an application for employment. THIS POSITION IS OPEN UNTIL FILLED adno=578673-01
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Part-Time Staff Opening Job location: 277 West Main Street, Stoughton, WI 53589. Technical skills and knowledge needed: Basic competency for using Microsoft Office (Word and Excel) is necessary. Staff is primarily responsible for the hospitality and assistance given to all guests and visitors. Norwegian ancestry or an interest in Norwegian culture is strongly preferred. Work days and hours: The normal work week is Tuesday through Saturday. Staff will be on-site between 9am-5pm. Part-time staff may work a minimum of 20 hours per week and not to exceed 32 hours per week. Hours may be variable. Evening schedules are not planned but may require availability during special events. Overtime will be paid if asked to work outside of normal scheduled hours. Vacation and sick leave are included and pro-rated, based on hours worked. Please note that there are no medical or retirement benefits associated with the position. For further information or to request an application, please contact: June Bunting- The Edwin and Janet Bryant Foundation 3039 Shadyside Dr. P.O. Box 600, Stoughton, WI 53589 Phone: 608.873.4378 Email: june@edwinandjanetbryantfoundation.org
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Sloan Implement at our Mt. Horeb location is currently looking for a Lawn and Garden Service Technician 1 to perform basic diagnostics, service repairs and maintenance work on customer and/or dealer-owned turf equipment. The qualified candidate must be able to pass a drug screen, possess a valid drivers license and have an excellent driving history as well as have the ability to perform basic repairs and required maintenance using special tools and equipment. For additional job duties, requirements, and to see our full-time benefit package, please go online to sloans.com. If you are interested and qualified for the position, please apply online at www.sloans.com.
Job objective: To support the mission of the Norwegian Heritage Center in Stoughton. The person filling this position will be employed by The Edwin E. & Janet L. Bryant Foundation, Inc. which operates the Norwegian Heritage Center. Daily supervision is given by the Manager of the Norwegian Heritage Center.
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Catfish: Three days of free music kick off Friday afternoon to benefit the Opera House Continued from page 1 Wanderers and the iowans – also known as former events coordinator Christina Dollhausen and her cousin, Katie Fassbinder-Getz. The iowans will perform at 1:15 p.m. Sunday. They play a bluegrass-folk fusion of Dollhausen’s original songs and sing close harmonies, with Fassbinder-Getz on banjo and Dollhausen on rhythm guitar.
Begins Friday The festival gets underway at 4 p.m. Friday, with a rootsy set from Boo Bradley. The duo – Boo Mullarky and Bradley Selz – bills themselves as a “twoman Hokum junk and jive orchestra” that strives to bring the music of 20th century jug bands back to life. They’re followed by a folk jamband called Cosmic Strings, led by husband and wife Emma and Spencer Houghton on guitar and vocals. F r i d a y ’s c l o s i n g a c t ,
The Way Down Wanderers perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 8. Moonhouse, is coming with “folkadelic Americana.” It’s a band so good that Brehm said he’s seen them “hundreds” of times. The group is known for a residency at the Up North
Bar in Madison, but big changes are on the way. “There’s been an evolution and a couple of the key members are moving out of the state a couple of weeks after the festival, so
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this will be one of their last gigs in their current incarnation,” he said. “It’s one of the most eclectic mixes of music that you’re going to get, and it’s strangely infectious.”
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Bassist and vocalist Scott Mulvahill will bring his band to the Catfish River Music Festival at 5:45 p.m. Sunday, July 8. Saturday’s music begins at noon with the return of Stoughton native Madeline Fendrick and her partner, Brian Peck, who “strive to be contemporary musical
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equivalents to naturalists like Thoreau and Wendell Berry,” according to the festival’s promo material. The duo is followed by two Madison-based acts: Birds! Birds! Birds! and No Name String Band. Next, at 4:15 p.m., is the Milwaukee-based duo Nickel & Rose, who play an eclectic mix of acoustic music. The Minneapolis band The Cactus Blossoms return to Stoughton at 5:45 p.m. Saturday, fronted by brothers Jack Torrey and Page Burkum. Their music reflects the roots of country with earnest songs and harmonizing that recalls The Louvin Brothers or The Everly Brothers. The Chicago-based alt-country star Robbie Fulks and his band will close out Saturday’s music. The singer-songwriter is coming off a stellar year which saw the release of his album “Upland Stories” and two Grammy nominations (for folk album and American roots song, “Alabama at Night”). Perennial kids’ favorite Dave Landau gets things rolling Sunday at noon. Brehm said to expect “a little kid dance party in front of the Gazebo” when Landau takes the stage. The kids can stick around to hear the iowans, followed by folk singer-songwriter Kendra Swenson at 2:45 p.m. An Opera House and Catfish Fest favorite, Charlie Parr, returns at 4:15 p.m. with his brand of hard-driving Americana and old timey music. The Duluth resident – a master of the resonator guitar – has released 13 albums and performs 250 shows a year throughout the country. He’ll precede Mulvahill and his band, and the festival closer will be the Wa y D ow n Wa n d e r e r s , who return to Stoughton at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. The Chicago-based quintet is “incredibly high-energy and plays really positive music,” Brehm said. “The same with Scott Mulvahill – it’s really catchy and stuff that you can’t help but enjoy.” Contact Bill Livick at bill. livick@wcinet.com