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McGeever to run for mayor Former alder served 15 years on council BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group

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World War II veteran David Cuff talks about his experiences during the war at his home in Stoughton last week.

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As America gets ready to celebrate Veterans Day on Saturday, Nov. 11, one group of veterans slowly fading away is the generation that fought and won World War II. Most surviving veterans are in their 90s, but for soldiers and airmen like Stoughton’s David Cuff, the years haven’t dimmed the memories and experiences they had as young men and women, serving their country in the largest, deadliest war the world has ever seen.

Cuff was born in Rio, just north of Dane County. Growing up in the

Veterans Day events Page 5 rural area, he had experience flying Piper Cub aircraft, and he earned his pilot’s license before he graduated from high school in 1941. The next year, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army Air Force to get into pilot’s training.

He got training all right, but not in a fighter plane or even a bomber.

He would be one of the first airmen

to join the country’s fledgling glider program.

“They needed glider pilots, so I got the bum’s rush,” Cuff told the Hub last week. “They didn’t tell you anything, you just got on a train and went.”

The early gliders were basically copies of a German version and would hold up to 13 people or a combination of people and vehicles – or as they would find out in Africa – even animals. He said flying a glider was quite an experience.

“They were towed behind planes with nylon rope, so the airplane would be doing about 60 knots when

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Separate initiatives sparked anti-violence policies BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group

Stoughton’s anti-bullying ordinance and its no-hit zone policy were the result of separate citizen-led efforts that the Common Council embraced last year.

The city’s adoption of the no-hit zone followed a

similar measure by Dane County, while the anti-bullying policy came from an issue in the local schools.

Amy Brown, a Stoughton resident who leads the Dane County District Attorney’s Victim Witness Unit, brought the no-hit zone idea to the city’s attention after it was adopted in the DA’s office in

2014.

The original no-hit zone started in children’s hospitals in 2005. After learning about the movement, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne made his office the first “government-based” no-hit zone in the country, Brown said.

Ozanne then began “talking about this with

police chiefs all over the county,” including Stoughton police chief Greg Leck, she recalled.

In February 2016, Leck and Mayor Donna Olson met with the district attorney and Brown to learn more about no-hit zones. “ We h ave a t e a m o f trainers in our office, and

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City resident Bob McGeever stopped in the Hub office last week to say he’s decided to run for Stoughton mayor in n ex t y e a r ’s election.

Mayor Donna Olson announced in July she would not seek a third McGeever term next April. The only other declared mayoral candidate is council president Tim Swadley.

McGeever, 64, is retired and served 15 years as an alderman representing District 3, from 1984-99. He and his wife of 41 years raised two sons and have

lived in Stoughton since 1977.

McGeever told the Hub he decided to run because he sees the city going through an important transition with budgetary challenges and confusion over the direction of the riverfront redevelopment project.

“Whoever gets the job is going to inherit some budgetary short straws with the public safety departments,” he said. “That’s going to be a big challenge to fix.”

M c G e ev e r s a i d w i t h Olson retiring, “I think we need to get some new faces in the mix.”

In 15 years on the Common Council, McGeever served on almost every committee and governmental body in Stoughton, including Planning Commission as an alder and later as a civilian.

“I’m pretty well crosstrained for this and

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SHS grad wins award as she navigates big-city acting career SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group

Claire Ganshert has always been “pretty competitive.”

But on Oct. 3, as the Stoughton High School graduate sat in the audience at the New York Theater Festival’s Summerfest awards and heard her name among the nominees for best actress, she found herself “asking to not be obsessed with the results, be OK with however it turned out.”

Minutes later, she recalled, “While I was doing that little meditation, I heard my name.”

“I just looked up and was like, ‘Oh, OK,’” she said

with a laugh. “It turns out the results came.”

That was one of the better moment’s of Ganshert’s time trying to make it as an actress in New York City over the past six years.

“Every little step here in New York now has been blowing me away,” she said.

“I’m a girl from Stoughton, Wisconsin. I grew up not knowing if this was possible, ever.”

She’s appeared in television shows, movies and on stage over those years, and after graduating from an acting conservatory a year ago is proud of how her

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SVP presents ‘Our Town’

Members of the church choir gossip in the moonlight.

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Professor Willard, Karen Wydeven, explains the history of the small town.

Stoughton Village Players will continue their production of “Our Town” this weekend.

Written by Madison native Thornton Wilder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows small-town lives and their interconnected relationships. An overseeing narrator, called the stage manager and played by Tony Hill, helps tell the story.

The play is directed by David Lawver. It will run at the SVP theater, 255 E. Main St., at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9-11.

Tickets are $13 and available for purchase at McGlynn’s Pharmacy or at StoughtonVillagePlayers.org.

A ‘musical petting zoo’

Sienna Marten, a Sandhill student, plays the violin.

At Kegonsa, Katie McCann plays the saxophone.

Andy Perkins, a Fox Prairie student, plays the trombone.

Lisa Shimon, a music teacher at Sandhill Elementary School, said that encouraging students to participate in band and orchestra has been a difficult task.

She and the other music teachers in the district hope a partnership with WardBrodt Music Store in Madison will change that.

Called a “musical petting zoo,” all students in grades 3-5 at Sandhill, Kegonsa and Fox Prairie are able to play and learn about different types of musical instruments. The instruments rotate; this week, Kegonsa had woodwinds, Fox Prairie had brass and Sandhill had strings. The program ends Nov. 13.

“They love it, they get so excited, especially instruments they haven’t seen so far,” Shimon said. “They sit down and make a sound on the cello and their little eyes glow up and they’re so excited.”

The music store provides the instruments at no cost to the school, which allows the school to bypass the usual cost and budgetary restrictions.

A schedule change at River Bluff Middle School, when it transitioned from a nine-period class day to seven, made it harder for students to select a performing ensemble class to fit in their schedule, especially if they had not already learned about an instrument.

But now, students are introduced to instrument classes and can develop an interest before they reach middle school.

“Kids that have no opportunity to learn an instrument or go see a band perform,

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Both Fox Prairie students, Aeron Davie listens to Devin Killerlain play a tuba.

this wasn’t on their radar,” she said.

“They’re now thinking about joining band or orchestra, so it’s exciting to see these kids learn and explore.”

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Kropf to resign as city clerk BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group

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The new public works development is planned to include a 58,295 square-foot facility, 14,000 square-foot cold storage facility and 2,570 square-foot salt shed.

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Public works facility

Plans for a new public works facility will go before the Planning Commission for review Monday, Nov. 13.

The city has been actively planning the 75,000-squarefoot facility on county Hwy. A for several months.

The commission will also hold a public hearing on a proposed rezoning to build apartment buildings on the former Marathon gas station site, which the city sold to a developer in August.

The meeting is set to begin at 6 p.m. Nov. 13, in the Council Chambers on the second floor of the Public Safety Building, 321 S.

The site plan approval for the public works facility would allow the project’s architect, Janesville-based Angus-Young Associates, to take another step in planning a building expected to cost $8.6 million to $9.1 million and replace an aging structure on South Fourth Street.

Plans show a new 58,295-square-foot facility, a 14,000-square-foot cold storage facility and 2,570 square-foot salt shed with covered storage on the 13.5-acre property at 2439 County Hwy. A the city purchased in 2013.

The facility, which will

accommodate 106 pieces of equipment indoors, would be secured with a chain link fence planned to surround the property.

Even with 127,289 square feet to be paved, 69 percent of the property would remain greenspace.

If approved by the commission, the site plan will not need to go to Common Council, but as owner of the project, alders will review the overall design and approve bids.

The former Marathon station closed in 2005, and the city bought it in 2010 and sold it to Nelson in August. The Redevelopment Authority’s sale contract stipulates construction must be complete by the end of 2018.

A tentative site plan describes two four-unit buildings for a total of eight residential units. All units are planned to be one bedroom with a den, and it is estimated that 12 people will occupy the property.

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Business to Planned DevelContact Amber Levenhaopment would allow developer Todd Nelson to build gen at amber.levenhagen@ wcinet.com. three apartment buildings.

Ganshert: Stoughton native played role of ‘Annie’ at age 11 Continued from page 1 acting has progressed. The recognition for her role as Vera in “Among the Furies,” which itself finished tied for the “Best Play or Musical” award, increased her confidence.

“Every single one of these moments or achievements or steps forward or signing contracts, it’s always like, ‘Oh, OK, I’m still on the right path,’” she said.

She hopes that her own success can lead others with a passion for the craft to take the same chance that she did.

“Don’t hesitate to pursue this,” Ganshert said. “If you are still thinking this when you’re 40 and 50 and wondering, ‘What would’ve happened if I actually did what I loved and what I actually felt that I couldn’t live my life without?’ I would never wish regret on anyone when it comes to something that we’re supposed to be doing for our lives.”

Finding the passion A few years after her introduction to theater at the age of 5, Ganshert truly fell in love with the craft at age 11 in a Sandhill Elementary School show of “Annie” in which she had the lead role.

“When ‘Annie’ started, I was like, ‘I’m home,’” she recalled. “The theater became my home at that point.”

She realized during that show that “the arts are there for a reason.”

“They’re there for people to access and experience so they can have some sort of catharsis or living through something,” Ganshert said.

“For the artist, it’s … I needed some place to put this energy and this life that I wanted to live.

“Before Annie, I didn’t

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She would later enjoy roles in Stoughton such as Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” and Emily Webb in “Our Town,” finding theater to be her favorite extracurricular activity by far.

“I think I had tried every single thing from horseback riding to karate to oboe, and I would quit everything once it got hard,” she said. “Acting was the only thing that I found in my childhood that I didn’t even notice when I was in the process, or when I was on stage or when I was practicing. Everything I was in love with.”

It also helped keep her on track throughout high school, when she was unsure of what field she might want to enter someday.

“I got into the party scene in high school and in college … I just kind of stopped thinking about (my career),” she recalled. “Acting was the thing that kept me out of trouble.”

Making a career Acting was also what got her into college at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where she auditioned for a theater talent waiver and was accepted.

“From that point on, I really felt like I was put on a path,” she said.

Soon after, Ganshert began looking at programs on the

east and west coasts to “actually make this career work,” understanding it would not be easy.

One of the most important steps for her was a “domestic exchange” semester at New York University, which allowed her to become acquainted with the city, take classes within a large market and participate in a production internship.

“It really became clear that I was going to come back out here,” she said of the semester.

Six years ago, that’s exactly what she did, and eventually found a two-year training conservatory that brought her “up to a standard of acting which I didn’t know and I wasn’t ready for.”

Receiving recognition Ganshert remembered first reading about the role of Vera in “Among the Furies” after submitting for the show.

It sounds “definitely on niche” for her, she recalled, as she brings a “volatile presence” to her performances.

“I have a specific character,” she said. “It can be illuminated in many different characters, but there’s a specific kind of human that I’m drawn to within characters and within roles, and this one was definitely on point.”

The group she had auditioned for did not agree at first, though, offering her the opportunity to come back

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Board approves EAAS contract Following a closed session, the Stoughton School Board voted 8-0 Monday night to approve a raise for the Educational Assistants Association of Stoughton (EAAS) for the 2017-18 school year.

The contract calls for a 1.26 percent increase to their base wages, retroactive to July 1, and an additional supplemental increase of 1.54 percent, also retroactive to July 1 for 2016-2017 bargaining unit members employed as

of Oct. 24. This excludes all educational assistants who are new to the district this school year.

The board and the Stoughton Education Association (SEA) are continuing to work on a contract for teaching staff for the current 2017-18 school year.

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Claire Ganshert, a Stoughton High School graduate, holds her award for Best Actress from the New York Theater Festival for her role in “Among the Furies.”

and audition for the other female role in the show. Ganshert knew that was not the right choice.

“I was so certain about this role that I had no problem saying that to the playwright and the director,” she said. “It was exactly right.”

T h a t c o n fi d e n c e wa s rewarded when she was recognized last month, and she’s glad she was able to go into the award ceremony less nervous than she normally would have been for such an occasion.

“It was actually kind of nice to have it be somewhat anti-climactic, because it made me realize I’m not doing this because I want an award or I’m not doing this because I want to be famous,” she said. “I’m actually doing it for the sake of doing it, and it took me awhile to get there.”

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T h e c i t y w i l l b eg i n looking for a new clerk following Lana Kropf ’s announcement this week that she’s leaving Stoughton Nov. 17 to take a similar position in Lake Geneva.

Kropf was the city’s fifth clerk in four years when she began working here on Sept. 22, 2014. She told the Hub Friday that Kropf her new job will work out “better for my family,” which includes a daughter who will turn 2 in January.

“There are less night commitments,” Kropf said of the new job. “There aren’t as many committees that I would oversee.”

She said “it wasn’t an easy decision” to leave her

post in Stoughton.

“It’s been a great experience, and I’m looking forward to the next chapter but sad to leave, as well,” Kropf said. “I’m going to miss the people I work with and everything about the city.”

The city has had trouble keeping people in the city clerk position. Since former clerk Luann Alme resigned in late 2010, the city had a string of relatively short-time clerks: Kelly Michaels (January to September 2011), Nick Probst (February 2012 to January 2013), Pili Hougan (January to May 2014). Kropf will have served for more than three years (September 2014 to November 2017).

The Personnel Committee has scheduled a discussion about the upcoming vacancy at its next meeting, Monday, Nov. 6.

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Legislative Opinion

We must all work to honor veterans Veterans Day is this Saturday, providing us an opportunity to express our gratitude and to honor the men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces, defending the American way of life.

I believe honoring veterans should mean more than just saying “thank you” on a couple of holidays each year. We must honor vetHebl erans by working to provide them and their families with the programs and assistance necessary to ensure success in the transition to civilian life. We have too many veterans who do not have access to support services, leaving them unemployed or even homeless. This is an unacceptable situation for people who selflessly put their lives on the line for their country.

I n t h e l eg i s l a t u r e , I h ave authored a bill that would increase the number of veterans who would qualify for additional retirement credits under the Wisconsin Retirement System. In

the Assembly Committee on College and Universities, on which I sit, we just approved a different bill that would ensure that National Guard members will be reimbursed the full cost of tuition under the Wisconsin National Guard Tuition Grant program.

I will continue to work with veteran’s organizations, constituents and my legislative colleagues to ensure we have the psychological, emotional and financial resources available so our men and women returning from combat have the ability to find the assistance and support they deserve.

I encourage everyone to take an active approach and to find opportunities to volunteer for organizations serving veterans. Please visit volunteermatch.com to find various ways you can help. Finding a more active way to express our gratitude is something for which we should all strive.

Rep. Gary Hebl represents the 46th Assembly District, which includes the cities of Sun Prairie and Stoughton, the village of Cottage Grove, and the townships of Cottage Grove, Dunkirk, Pleasant Springs, and Sun Prairie. Email Rep.Hebl@legis.wi.gov.

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We farmers all want to become old so-and-sos I grew up across the road from the old Hanson place, not quite a mile west of the old Stryhn farm, on a farm that once belonged to someone else.

My grandparents bought someone else’s farm, right next door.

The American dream dictates that we all desire to own a little piece of land, and I’m a dreamer, too.

I used to think only legendary farmers were proper landowners because that is how people talked when I was a kid: “Go just past old Wollin-Dunn ‘so-and-so’s’ farm and head East.” It never mattered who lived there currently, because the barns were often branded with the original farmer’s name.

I came to know all the dead farmers by listening to the farrier, the large-animal veterinarians and the A.I. cattle breeders. The township map was dotted with death and silos.

If you took over someone else’s farm, you might have to wait your whole life before anyone would call it yours, no matter when you paid it off. But that is what we all had – the rest of our lives, and it never occurred to me that we wouldn’t all be forever earning our farm names by way of this happy tradition.

Things changed in the 1970s and ‘80s, as the farm fields became increasingly pockmarked by the new home construction of strangers.

A cornfield, here, smothered by a long asphalt driveway. A

hayfield, there, crushed beneath a 7,000-square-foot house. Oats that used to shine in the moonlight were replaced by dull, black lawns of rolled sod that no cow would ever eat.

I despised them all.

I would ride my pony through building sites on weekends when no crews were working and circle the foundations until he pooped. Take that, you new so-and-so. It wasn’t a welcoming sort of gesture.

To find an affordable old farm to call my own, I left Dane County. Six years later, when I packed my moving van, the locals in the bars spread the word that “the old Ludwig place” was for sale again.

When I bought the old Donnel place in New Mexico, I didn’t stay long enough to become an old so-and-so there, either.

Eventually I returned to Rutland with horses, not ponies.

I found myself welcomed at a table of neighbors whom I knew of only by way of my mother’s phone calls to me over the past decade or so. In that dining room full of brightly smiling not-legendary-farmers, Mom translated for me as they introduced themselves and explained where they lived.

My face burned with embarrassment for the recollection of my old scorn. These were nice people.

I bought that old Stryhn farm.

You might know it as the old Olsen farm. Or the old Humberg farm.

But more likely you don’t know this farm at all. Families and renters came and went so often, people stopped bothering

to call this little place anything at all. Who could keep track?

Now is my chance. I want to outlast the memories of everyone. I want to give this farm of mine a name again.

But there is a small tangle in the web of my dream-catcher – my mother. She has been on her farm for 50 years now, and my singular identity is ensnared in hers. In much the same vernacular used to identify the farms of the town, I am not even me, but rather “so-and-so’s daughter.”

And while my grandfather has been dead almost 30 years, an introduction to me might still be clarified by the added descriptor, “so-and-so’s granddaughter.” I heard it just the other day.

Only time will tell what will become of my farm, and I’ll be gone by then. But I love this area so much that I bought some other land, too.

There is that cemetery, just down the road from the George farm, before you get to Donny Nelson’s old place. I used to stop my pony there on summer afternoons and pump a pail of water from the well for him. And try hard to keep him from pooping on anybody.

Yes, I bought a plot there, right next to Mom’s, in the new section that was land my grandfather donated so long ago.

It’s a piece of land of my own, surrounded by all the old so-andso’s. Now it is a sure thing that I’ll be one of them, too... some day.

Kelsey Wollin-Dunn is a town of Rutland resident. She can be reached at rockdelfarmetc@ yahoo.com.

Corrections The Nov. 2 edition of the Hub incorrectly listed the time of the Gille fundraiser event. It will be held from 7-10 p.m.

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Gift fair to benefit youth ministry

Veterans Day luncheon is Friday Vets will also visit area elementary schools Nov. 10

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While Nov. 11 is the traditional observance of Veterans Day, there are some events scheduled earlier in the week.

Local veterans will participate in several events in the area, beginning Thursday, Nov. 9, when a group of veterans will be at River Bluff Middle School at 7:15 a.m. to welcome students. On Friday, Nov. 10, a group of around 20 veterans from the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Sons of American Legion will be at Stoughton High School, greeting students as they arrive for classes. Later that morning, another group will participate a program at Skaalen Nursing and Rehab Center.

At 11 a.m., around 20 veterans will conduct the annual program at Fox Prairie Elementary School, including 95-yearold World War II combat veteran, Chink Osland, who fought in many battles in Europe, notably the Battle of the Bulge.

Students and staff will hear that Veterans Day originated in 1919, just after WWI — originally known as Armistice Day, it was intended to be a reminder of the horrors of war.

That morning, veterans will visit three area elementary schools — Fox Prairie, Kegonsa and Sandhill — to meet with students. A group of veterans will travel to Azura Nursing Home for a program at 11:15 a.m. Later, the Stoughton Area Senior Center will host its annual Veteran’s Day Luncheon from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.

What: Veterans Day luncheon When: 11:45 a.m. Friday, Nov. 10 Where: Stoughton Area Senior Center, 248 W. Main St. Info: 873-8585

Fox Prairie Elementary School students will provide music for the event. Lunch is complimentary for veterans; advanced sign-up for the lunch is necessary.

There will also be events happening on Veteran’s Day. Baywash Stoughton Car Wash will once again offer free automatic car washes to veterans from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11.

Weather permitting, the Stoughton Veterans Memorial Park, on the corner of County Hwy. B and Country Club Road, will have veterans and park committee members on hand to answer questions and help people find pavers from 10 a.m. from 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11. The park was dedicated last month after several years of fundraising more than $1 million.

Capping off the Veterans Day observance, the Sons of the American Legion will hold a steak feed at American Legion Post 59, 803 N. Page St., from 5-9 p.m.

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the vendors and the joy they bring to each other,” she said. “Raising the funds is great, but seeing their interaction and how well they work together is something I look forward to every year.”

For more information about the gift fair, call 8737633.

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11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at Livsreise, 277 W. Main St. With faith imagery and What: Religion and Norembroidered scenes from wegian-American Quilts the Bible and Bible verses When: 1-2 p.m. Saturday, in Norwegian, some quilts Nov. 11 were used to express dediWhere: Livsreise, 277 W. cation to faith and heritage.

Main St. Women learned to make quilts, practice English and Info: 873-7567 connect with the community, according to the Livsreise event description.

Gilbertson was the textile and early 20th centuries.

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Laurann Gilbertson, who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and a Master of Science in Textiles and Clothing, will explore the relationship between quilt making and Norwegian-American women during her presentation at Livsreise.

Quiltmaking is closely related to religious identities of those women, and Gilbertson will provide examples from the late 19th

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Holiday Art and Craft Sale Date: Saturday, November 11, 2017 Sale Hours: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Location: Badger Ridge Middle School 740 N. Main St., Verona

SHS student featured in Nov. 13 broadcast A Stoughton High School student will be featured in a Wisconsin Public Television broadcast Nov. 13 for her musical theater prowess.

Bergen Gardner will be among students from more than 25 schools on the “Overture’s High School Musical Theater Awards” broadcast, which features top performances from an awards ceremony held in June.

The broadcast will begin at 8 p.m., and can be streamed online at wpt.org.

“Overture’s High School Musical Theater Awards showcase the incredible musical talent coming out of Wisconsin’s high schools,” WPT producer Deb Piper said in a news release. “The students and the schools raise the bar of excellence every year.”

Gardner was recognized for her performance as Ursula in the SHS production of “Disney’s The Little Mermaid.”

- Scott Girard

in Decorah, Iowa, for 19 years and is now the chief curator there.

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Stoughton Conservation Club’s

SIGHT-IN DAYS!!

November 4th & 5th & November 11th-16th 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Range Closed Friday, November 17th: No Exceptions.

25, 50 & 100 yard ranges with covered benches. Benches, targets & help are furnished. $8.00 Per Gun For information call (608) 225-8453 www.stoughtoncc.org

Holiday GIFT FAIR

Saturday, November 11, 9:00 am-2:00 pm Sunday, November 12, 9:00 am-1:00 pm St. Ann’s Gym 324 N. Harrison St., Stoughton, WI

Start your holiday shopping now!

Donuts • Lefse • Doll Clothes • LulaRoe • Youth Books Holiday Decorations • African Baskets • Tupperware Knit/Crocheted/Embroidered/Sewn Items • Wildtree Watkins • Lilla Rose • Usborne Books • Pet Items Jar Mixes/Gift Baskets • Stella & Dot • Avon • Jewelry Baby Items • Pampered Chef • Norwex • Piphany Scentsy • Origami Owl • Lawn/Garden Items Discovery Toys • Wine Bottle Lights • Gold Canyon Honey Related Products • Ribbon Flower Accessories

Contact Amber Levenhagen at amber.levenhagen@ wcinet.com.

The Pacific Northwest is Coming to Oregon!

Boy Scout Troop 50’s 23rd Annual

Grilled Salmon Dinner Rome Corners Intermediate School 1111 South Perry Parkway, Oregon

Sunday, November 12th - 7:30-Noon Cambridge High School Commons

Neil Denton Memorial

ALL YOU CAN EAT Pancakes • Scrambled Eggs Sausage • Potatoes Coffee • Milk • Juice

Adults: $7 in advance, $8 at the door Children: Ages 6-12 $4 in advance and at the door 5 & Under FREE Advance Tickets: Cambridge Piggly Wiggly, Cambridge Badger Bank, United Community Bank, Cambridge Napa; Bank of Deerfield & Gavilon Grains Proceeds to be used on FFA Chapter Activities.

22nd Annual

Badger Ridge Middle School

Saturday, November 11, 2017 from 4:30-8 p.m.

Cambridge FFA Alumni Pancake Breakfast

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Where: St. Ann Parish, 323 N. Van Buren St. Info: 873-7633

Many NEW Artisans and Crafters Refreshments and lunch available and NO admission charge!

Norwegian quilts on display at Livsreise AMBER LEVENHAGEN

What: Holiday Gift Fair When: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 11; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12

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Now in its ninth year, the event will feature 39 vendors, split about evenly between independent contractors like Tupperware, Pampered Chef and Lilla Rose, and local vendors.

The fair will run 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, at St. Ann Parish,

they can take advantage of these trips.”

Local vendors will offer lefse and Norwegian donuts, holiday decorations and gift baskets, among other crafts, food and knitted items.

Truehl has been with the church for 10 years and said not much has changed in the almost decade since the fundraiser started. The teens help set up and take down booths and are able to interact with both vendors and attendees during the event.

“It’s a beautiful thing to see the teens interact with

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323 N. Van Buren St. Coordinator of religious education and youth program director Cathie Truehl told the Hub that the fundraiser will benefit the youth ministry program as some proceeds will go towards their activities.

“We have a number of opportunities for our teens, including summer mission trips and a group is going to the National Catholic Group Conference in Indianapolis,” she said. “The fundraiser helps them pay their way or help them earn money so

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Coming up

Community calendar

Writing series

N. Bergamont Blvd., at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, for a family movie night. Pizza and other concessions will be available for a fee. Donations for the Oregon/Brooklyn Food Pantry are encouraged. For information, call 8353082.

Want to learn more about how to create a compelling plot in a novel, screenplay or memoir? Visit the library from 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, for a writing series class that will analyze successful plots and discuss what keeps readers hooked on a story. A free cup of Senior center fundraiser coffee or hot chocolate will be providViking Brew Pub, 211 E. Main St., ed. The class is designed for adults and will host a senior center fundraiser from teens age 14 and up. No registration is 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14. required. For information, visit stolib.

Tickets are $25 and all funds will go org. towards the center’s annual fundraising requirement of $29,500. Beer and wine Yoga class tasting will be available. Tickets can be The community is invited to attend a purchased at the senior center or the free yoga class at Stoughton Hospital, door.

900 Ridge St., from 11 a.m. to noon For information, call 873-8585.

Saturday, Nov. 11. The class is in partnership with Stoughton Yoga. The class, SHS Heartstrings yoga for supple shoulders, is designed The Stoughton High School music to release deep tension in the shoulders group Heartstrings will perform at the and upper black. senior center from 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, For information, call 873-2356.

Nov. 15.

The program is a collaboration of Grace for Vets music students who want to create The Baywash Car Wash will partic- connections in the community through ipate in the Grace for Vets program by small group performances. offering free automatic car washes to For information, call 873-8585. veterans from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at their Stoughton location, ROHS meeting 1704 U.S. Hwy. 51 And 138. The Grace R Olde House Society (ROHS) will for Vets program honors veterans and hold its next meeting at 7 p.m. Thursservice personnel across the nation on day, Nov. 16, at Woodland Studios, 195 Veterans Day with free car washes.

E. Main St. For information, call 877-9274.

The new owner will give a tour of the newly updated studio, featuring Movie night artwork, picture framing service and Visit First Presbyterian Church, 408 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

Christ Lutheran Church

515 E. Main St., Stoughton • 834-9050 ezrachurch.com Sunday: 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

700 Hwy. B, Stoughton 873-9353 • e-mail: office@clcstoughton.org Sunday worship times: 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., 9:10 a.m. family express worship, 9:40 a.m. Sunday school.

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

Chamber singers The Stoughton Chamber Singers will perform their fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, at Christ Lutheran Church, 700 County Rd. B. John Beutel will direct the concert, “With Music of Brahms and Folksongs.” The concert will feature “Alleluia” by Tchaikovsky, “How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place” by Brahms, among others. Special choir guest is Jeffery Rowley. Tickets are $5. For information, contact Beutel at gardensong1943@gmail.com.

Faith stories St. Ann’s Parish will continue its “Our Faith Stories” series with a discussion led by Bruce Teague and Kate Schieldt at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, in St. Ann’s Church’s Healy Hall, 323 N. Van Buren St. Each month, the parish asks parishioners to share how they see God working in their lives. This month, Teague’s talk will focus on uplifting those who are battling illnesses, and Schieldt will speak on finding faith through the crosses of life.

For information, call 873-7633.

Covenant Lutheran Church

1525 N. Van Buren St., Stoughton • 873-7494 covluth@chorus.net • covluth.org Wednesday: 6:30 p.m. Worship Saturday: 5:30 p.m. Worship Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship, 10 a.m. School

2095 Hwy. W, Utica 873-7077 • 423-3033 Sunday: 10 a.m. - Worship; 6 p.m. - Worship

Norwegian antiques.

The ROHS is a group of people preserving Stoughton’s treasures, one house at a time. Attendees are asked to bring a snack to share and their beverage of choice. Newcomers are welcome.

For information, email rohstoughton@ gmail.com.

Ezra Church

First Lutheran Church

310 E. Washington, Stoughton 873-7761 • flcstoughton.com Sunday: 8:30 & 10 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.

Fulton Church

9209 Fulton St., Edgerton 884-8512 • fultonchurch.org Sunday: 8 and 10:30 a.m. Worship Services Coffee Fellowship: 9 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Varsity (High Schoolers): 12-3 p.m.

AWANA (age 2-middle school): 3-5 p.m.

United Methodist of Stoughton

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221 Kings Lynn Rd. Stoughton, WI 53589 (608) 873-8888

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1358 Hwy 51, Stoughton

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‌Saturday, November 11‌

• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Free automatic car washes for veterans, Baywash Stoughton Car Wash, 1704 U.S. Hwy. 51 And 138, 877-9274‌ • 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Memorial Park assitance (weather permitting), Veterans Memorial Park, Cty. Hwy. B and Country Club Road • 10-11 a.m., Writing Series: Plot, library, 873-6281‌ • 11 a.m. to noon, Yoga class with Stoughton Yoga, Stoughton Hospital, 900 Ridge St., 873-2356‌ • 1-2 p.m., Religion and Norwegian American Quilts presented by Laurann Gilbertson, Livsreise, 277 W. Main St., 873-7567‌ • 5-9 p.m., Veterans Day steak dinner, American Legion Post 59, 803 N. Page St., 205-9090 • 7:30 p.m., Stoughton Village Players present “Our Town,” SVP Theater, 255 E. Main St., purchase tickets at stoughtonvillageplayers.org ‌

‌Monday, November 13‌

• 6:30 p.m., American Legion Aux. 59 meeting, American Legion, 803 N. Page St., 205-9090‌ • 7 p.m., American Legion Post 59 meeting, American Legion, 803 N. Page St., 205-9090‌

‌Tuesday, November 14‌

• Home energy assistance appointments available, senior center, 267-8601‌ • 10 a.m. to noon, Tips for navigating the holidays with loved ones with dementia, Stoughton Hospital, 900 Ridge St., 873-8585‌ • 11:30 a.m., Women’s Club silent auction and luncheon ($10, registration required), Stoughton Country Club, 3165 Shadyside Dr., 835-9421‌ • 1 p.m., Coffee with the Superintendent, senior center, 873-8585‌ • 6-8 p.m., Senior center fundraiser ($25 per person), Viking Brew Pub, 211 E. Main St., 873-8585‌ • 6:30 p.m., Bi-weekly baby storytimes (ages 0-2), library, 873-6281‌ • 6:30 p.m., Sons of the American Legion Squadron 59, American Legion, 803 N. Page St., 205-9090‌

‌Wednesday, November 15‌

• 9:30 a.m., Story time (ages 0-5), library, 873-6281‌ • 3-4 p.m., Stoughton High School Heartstrings music performance, senior center, 873-8585‌

West Koshkonong Lutheran Church

• 1-5 p.m., Personal Essentials Pantry, 343 E. Main St., pepstoughton.org‌ • 7 p.m., R Olde House Society meeting, 195 E. Main St., rohstoughton@gmail.com

LakeView Church

2200 Lincoln Ave., Stoughton 873-9838 • lakevc.org Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship

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

Wait Upon the Lord “I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.” – Psalm 27:13-14 NIV

873-4590

‌Friday, November 10‌

• 9:30 a.m., Story time (ages 0-5), library, 873-6281‌ • 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Lunch Bunch meeting, Toby’s Supper Club, 3717 S. Dutch Mill Rd., Madison, 873-8585‌ • 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., Veterans Day luncheon, senior center, 873-8585‌ • 1 p.m., Coffee with the Mayor, senior center, 8738585‌ • 7:30 p.m., Stoughton Village Players present “Our Town,” SVP Theater, 255 E. Main St., purchase tickets at stoughtonvillageplayers.org ‌

525 Lincoln Avenue, Stoughton stoughtonmethodist.org Stoughtonumc@Wisconsinumc.org Sunday: 8 a.m. - Short Service; 10 a.m. - Full Worship

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.

‌Thursday, November 9‌

• 3:30-4:30 p.m., Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh Club (ages 6 and up), library, 873-6281‌ • 7:30 p.m., Stoughton Village Players present “Our Town,” SVP Theater, 255 E. Main St., purchase tickets at stoughtonvillageplayers.org ‌

In this season of advent, we are told to wait upon the Lord, and reminded that this is more than just a time of waiting expectantly for Christmas. Waiting for Christmas is a microcosm of the cosmic wait experienced by creation in waiting for the Creator to take the form of creation and become man. Waiting can be hard, especially for the young, whose time horizons make days seem like years, but as we age, waiting gets easier as time seems to go by quicker with each passing year. How long is too long can also depend on what you are experiencing.Waiting to see the dentist can seem like an eternity when you have a toothache, whereas waiting for a delicious meal can be something we savor. Waiting upon the Lord is an act of patience, humility and quietude. We must be patient, because we don’t know when or where the Lord will reveal Himself. We must be humble while waiting for the Lord because the Lord’s coming is done in His good time and not ours. And finally, we must clear a quiet space in our souls for the Lord to come. In the noisy hustle and bustle of our hectic lives, we might not hear the Lord’s quiet voice even if He were there. As we approach the celebration of the Lord’s birth, be patient, be humble, and make quiet space for the Lord to inhabit.

– Christopher Simon

‌Thursday, November 16‌

Support groups Diabetic Support Group • 6 p.m., second Monday, Stoughton Hospital, 6286500

Low Vision Support • 1-2:30 p.m., third Thursday, senior center, 8738585

Dementia Caregivers • 2 p.m., second Thursday, senior center, 873-8585

Parkinson’s Group • 1:30-2:30 p.m., fourth Wednesday, senior center, 873-8585

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

Multiple Sclerosis Group • 10-11:30 a.m., second Tuesday, senior center, 873-8585 Anorexia and Bulimia Group • 6 p.m., first Thursday, Stoughton Hospital, 6286500

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Above left, Stoughton’s David Cuff, left, and a fellow soldier await orders to ship out from Fort Bragg, N.C. in May 1943. They ended up being sent to Casablanca, the largest city in Morocco, to support Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of north Africa. Above right, Cuff during glider training at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas in January 1943. He would soon ship out to Fort Bragg, N.C. to train with Airborne troops before heading overseas.

Cuff: Flew many resupply missions into Nazi-occupied Europe while stationed north of London it hit the rope, and the rope would stretch and stretch,” he said. “Then, things come tight real quick and you go from zero miles an hour to 60 knots in a manner of seconds.”

Cuff spent six weeks in basic training in Texas, where he learned all he could about gliders and how to fix them before shipping out to Fort Bragg, N.C., the home of the Airborne Infantry. There, he would begin working with the men whom he would fly into battle – and join as a common infantryman when they hit the ground.

“We got to be airborne soldiers and run 20 miles a day and sleep in the mud,” Cuff said.

After a fatal glider accident prompted the grounding of the entire program for a month or so, the gliders and pilots were shipped to North Africa, where they would play a role in Operation Torch, the first combat action for U.S. troops in the European theater.

Going with the flow Landing in Casablanca, Morocco, in May 1943, Cuff and the green Americans joined up with experienced British forces.

The Brits already had been battling the Germans and Italians back and forth over Northern Africa for several years. The Americans weren’t used to the enemy or the climate.

“When we got there, we had on woolen underwear, woolen pants, woolen shirt and a field jacket, and it was about 90 degrees, which wasn’t actually too hot compared to the rest of Africa,” he said. “The first thing we

did was march up a mountain.”

Gliders were being sent there to be assembled for the impending invasion of Sicily, but Cuff soon learned he wouldn’t be heading to Italy at the controls of one. British commander Bernard Montgomery wanted the more experienced British glider pilots to go into combat, so Cuff helped out the engineers instead.

He ended up flying aircraft that were about as different as can be from the “disposable” gliders – the massive C-47 transport plane, hauling freight and helping engineer units when needed.

“They found stuff for you to do,” he said of the new mission, which changed once again after the Allies landed in France and began to steamroll their way toward Germany.

“Moving across Europe, we became medevacs,” he said. “We followed about 20 miles behind (U.S. General George) Patton and picked ’em up, and if we could, we’d haul em over to Western England.”

It was during his year in Africa and Italy that Cuff found out all about Allied ingenuity – or experimenting.

Officers consulted Army veterinarians to determine the practicality of loading burros onto the gliders for use on the hilly island as pack animals, creating a novel airborne “force.”

“One engineer asked them how the burros were going to respond to that, and they said, ‘How the hell would we know?’” Cuff remembered with a laugh. “So we hauled a few burros, but under the condition that someone was there with a shotgun in case

Mary and David Cuff at their home in Stoughton.

with “Gypsies” returning to area after spending the previous few years hiding from the Nazis, who had routinely captured them to be sent to concentration camps.

The base soon turned into a massive refugee camp, right in front of their eyes.

“Engineers came in and created a runway, then the army came in and started putting up tents, tents, tents,” he said. “We didn’t know what was going on. It just exploded. We were the reception committee.”

Soon, Cuff and his fellow flyers were converting bombers into transport planes and flying all over Europe, bringing displaced people – mostly Jews – back from concentration camps.

“They were a sorry lot, and most of them didn’t know if they had any relatives, they were just walking and walking,” he said. “I was there only six weeks, and I don’t think I could have maintained my sanity any longer.

It was horrific.”

Finally, with the war over, the more experienced service

members got to return home.

After a roundabout trip to Antwerp, Belgium, to wait for a transport home, seven days later he was pulling into Boston Harbor.

Cuff stayed active in the service, and in 1949 he joined the Air National Guard, where he served as a technician for 38 years, including more than six years of active duty. He retired as a senior master in 1983.

“They kicked me out when I was 60,” he said.

His first wife died in 1969, and he remarried after meeting his current wife, Mary.

The couple lived in Madison for about 30 years before moving to Stoughton in 2006, where they enjoy gardening, taking water aerobics classes, staying active and watching their grandchildren grow up.

“We like Stoughton,” Mary Cuff said. “It’s a great community feeling.”

you got a bad burro that start- you’re flat on the ground.”

By May 1945, it became ed to take over the glider.” obvious to “almost everyone Gliding out the war was almost done,” Once the glider program Cuff said. He had met a Britwas shut down, Cuff started ish girl who worked in an flying anti-submarine patrols airplane factory, and the two around the Mediterranean in were married May 4. The British Wellington bombers. war ended May 9.

After the wedding, Cuff After the D-Day invasions Email Unified Newspaper of June 1944, his unit was and his unit were stationed at Group reporter Scott De transferred to an old Royal an old French army base in Laruelle at scott.

Air Force base about 100 the northwest of the country. delaruelle@wcinet.com. miles north of London, called Soon, the roads were filled Cottesmore. From there, he flew many resupply missions into Nazi-occupied Europe, including the famous relief of the Bastogne, Belgium, area around Christmas of 1944.

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Dunn budget shows Pleasant Springs to slight tax increase tackle road repairs BILL LIVICK

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The Town of Dunn’s preliminary 2018 budget calls for a slight increase in the tax rate, amounting to a difference of about $10 on a $200,000 home.

The tax rate of $2.87 on $1,000 of assessed property value is what electors will see at a public hearing and annual town meeting on the budget at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, at Town Hall. It’s a 1.6 percent increase.

The town plans to increase spending on capital projects by $103,000 next year, for a total of $534,000.

That includes $390,000 for road reconstruction, $36,000 for the purchase of two acres to add to Town Hall property, and $108,000 for a new end loader.

Among department increases, the largest will go to public works, which would see an increase of $61,000 for additional seal coating and road maintenance. The 2018 budget provides $390,000 for road reconstruction for Colladay Point, Zor Court, Lake Kegonsa Road, and a portion of Halverson Road.

Health and Human Services would see a 5.4 percent increase next year,

If You Go What: Annual town meeting, budget hearing When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14 Where: Dunn Town Hall, 4156 County Road B More info: 838-1081

by 3.24 percent, or $12,238, because the town has been pursuing several new grants for smaller projects that have been helping to build revenue and offset other revenue decreases, according to business manager Cathy Hasslinger.

The grants include a Dane County PARC grant for $15,225, an RTA grant in the amount of $37,983 and a DNR grant for dredging work that funded improvements at Dunn Heritage park. A Yahara WINS grant of $20,000 was awarded for a new pilot leaf pick up program, as well.

The 2018 budget prop o s e s n ew b o r r ow i n g of $260,000. If electors approve the budget as proposed, the town’s overall indebtedness would be $1.6 million at the end of the 2018, down from previous levels of almost $3.2 million in 2009.

The town’s total levy is projected to increase by $36,750, from $1.83 million to $1.86 million.

Property tax bills will be mailed out around Dec. 15, and residents should receive them within a few days of mailing.

or $2,796, to cover a new $2,500 contribution to the Oregon Area Food Pantry.

The preliminary budget includes a 3.6 percent increase in spending on public safety – or $18,737 more than this year – mostly for emergency medical services.

Dunn receives services from the City of Stoughton and villages of McFarland and Oregon. The town will contribute 26 percent more to McFarland EMS and 39 percent more to Oregon EMS to fund new equipment purchases. Those increases are partially offset by a decrease of $40,850 from Stoughton, because equipment purchase payments were completed in 2017 and are not continuing in 2018.

Intergovernmental reve- Contact Bill Livick at bill. livick@wcinet.com nue is expected to increase

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Taxes would go up by 25 percent SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group

Spurred by the continued degrading of roads in the township, the Pleasant Springs Town Board has proposed a five-period of increased borrowing to fix the problem.

Year 1 of that plan is set to start in 2018, and it will raise town taxes.

Electors in the Town of Pleasant Springs will get a chance to have their say on the plan Tuesday night during the public hearing on the 2017 levy. The hearing is set for 5:30 p.m. at the town hall, to be immediately followed by a special town meeting, where supervisors will approve the 2018 budget.

If passed as proposed, the levy would rise by more than 25 percent, and the mill rate would rise substantially, from $1.37 to $1.74 per $1,000 of assessed property value. That means the owner of a $200,000 home would pay around $348 for the town’s share of their tax bill, $74 more than last year and $106 more than 2015.

The big change in the budget is $203,962 for debt service, where none was spent for this year. Town chair David Pfeiffer said that stems from the plan to increase borrowing for roadwork, which will be paid back the following year.

He told the Hub Monday the lack of funding for roads is a “particularly acute” problem in Pleasant Springs because the town was locked into an “extremely low” mill rate years ago.

“The town boards in place during those times were frugal farmers that basically spent money when they had to and didn’t put money aside for the future,” he said.

“There weren’t any road repairs at the time the budget froze, so we’re stuck at this really low levy, and that has been problematic, because we can barely afford to do

Levy Year Value 2015 $520,944 2016 $602,688 2017 $809,880 (proposed)

Mill rate Year Value 2015 1.21 2016 1.37 2017 1.74 (proposed)

Assessed value Year Value 2015 $430 million 2016 $438 million 2017 $469 million

the upkeep to extend the life of the roads, much less construct anything new.”

Pfeiffer said town officials asked the public works department to conduct a study of the condition of town roads, and how much it would cost to get them “back in shape.”

“It was a big number, many millions,” he said.

Long-term planning In response to the study, the town held a well-attended meeting this summer to let residents know about plans to tackle the road problem for the long haul. The town would maintain spending levels for five years to improve the roads most in need, and after five years, it would see what kind of progress was made.

“We filled the (town) hall, and I told them, ‘Nobody’s coming to save us – there is no money to repair the roads and they continue to deteriorate,’” he said. “‘The longer we wait, the costlier it is.’”

Pfeiffer said town officials were “apprehensive” about public reaction to the plan but were surprised at the

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“We got no pushback whatsoever,” he said. “They understand roads don’t pay for themselves. The only response was got suggesting something different was borrow more, do something faster. They walked away happy that we’re doing something.”

In keeping with its history of fiscal conservancy, the town borrowed only what it would need for the next year, with the total amount going on the tax levy.

“Let’s try to get us back into some semblance of roads that are in decent shape,” Pfieffer said “It may take 10 years, but let’s do that for five years and then review how we’re doing.”

In the future, the town will devote more attention and resources to maintaining its roads, he said.

“Once you’ve made that investment, you need to continue that maintenance so you can get as many years out of it as you can,” Pfeiffer said. “If you short-change that maintenance, you’re just costing yourself more down the road.”

Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott.delaruelle@wcinet.com.

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Immediately after the public hearing, the town board will meet to approve the 2018 budget.

While the proposed budget would slightly increase the tax levy (from $683,386 to $691,456), the mill rate would dip from $2.86 of $1,000 of assessed value to $2.84. That means the owner of a $200,000 home would pay around $568 in town taxes in 2018, down around $4 from this year.

Town chair Mark Porter said town officials have not increased the budget beyond the levy limit and

Levy Year Value 2015 $674,214 2016 $682,386 2017 $691,456 have as a result reduced the road construction budget for next year “to match our revenue.”

He wrote in an email that next year, the town will put together a “long-term view” of capital spending for residents’ possible approval later in the year.

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Stoughton Floral has been offering a “Happy Hour” every Friday (except major holidays) from 3pm -5pm. All fresh single stems are half price for cash and carry. It’s a great way to brighten your home with fresh flowers for a good value.

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Girls swimming

From Oct. 31-Nov. 8

Names: Maddie Kooima

Sofia Bormett (front) Grades: Senior and freshman Sport: Swimming Highlights: Maddie Kooima broke the Stoughton High School records in the 200 IM and 100 butterfly at sectionals.

Sofia Bormett added SHS records in the 100 and 200 freestyle.

Both girls also helped break school records in the 200 medley and 400 free relays as well.

Honorable mentions: Abbie Kooima and Amy Schlicht (girls swimming helped the 200 medley and 400 free relays make state

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Senior Maddie Kooima won the 200-yard IM in a school record 2 minutes, 13.72 seconds on Saturday to qualify for the WIAA Division 1 state swimming meet.

Records fall

Vikings qualify largest number to state JEREMY JONES ​Sports editor

Volleyball

Wirag leads four allconference selections ANTHONY IOZZO Assistant sports editor

Junior libero Hannah Wirag was named to the first-team All-Badger South Conference this season.

Wirag was joined by junior second-team setter Megan Adams and senior honorable mention outside hitters Olivia Panthofer and Tessa Berry.

Wirag finished with 428 digs and 33

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All-Badger South Conference First-team: Isabelle Schauer (setter, Watertown), McKenna Warnock (outside hitter, Monona Grove), Chloe Buescher (outside hitter, Milton), Hannah Wirag (libero, Stoughton), Briana Sharkey (setter, Edgewood), Sheridan Dettmann (libero, Watertown), Sarah Pfeifer (outside hitter, Fort Atkinson) Second-team: Amanda Feder (outside hitter, Watertown), Courtney Knutson (middle hitter, Milton), Kendra Lee (libero/outside hitter, Edgewood), Brianne Korducki (middle blocker, Watertown), Ashley Didelot (Milton, outside hitter), Lauren Burd (Watertown, middle blocker), Megan Adams (setter, Stoughton) Honorable mentions: Caitlin Link and Allie Schwenn (Edgewood), Hope Kapelke (Fort Atkinson), Tiegue Elliott and Emma Martin (Milton), Liz Beilke, Morgan Ellingson and Laurel Masters (Monona Grove), Sydney Mathiason (Monroe), Erin Flanagan and Emily Konop (Oregon), Olivia Panthofer and Tessa Berry (Stoughton)

Stoughton girls swimming has sent seven athletes to the WIAA state swimming meet in 29 years. The Vikings nearly eclipsed that mark in three hours Saturday, qualifying six more.

“Meets like this don’t happen every day,” coach Katie Talmadge said. “You soak it up and hope you can recreate it.”

Senior Maddie Kooima and freshman Sofia Bormett each broke a pair of individual school records and contributed to two more records on a pair of state qualifying relays as the host Vikings finished

If You Go What: 48th annual WIAA swimming and diving championship Where: UW-Natatorium When: Friday, Nov. 10.

Swimming at 6 p.m.

Tickets: $6, $1 for children 6 and under the meet with six school records. Stoughton finished sixth out of the 14-team sectional field Saturday with 169 points.

The Vikings broke school records in the 200-yard medley relay, 200 IM and 200 freestyle to open the meet.

“Coach just kept saying throughout the meet, that our

team was on fire,” Maddie said. “I could definitely feel that from everyone on the team.”

Kooima qualified for state in the 100 backstroke for the second year and the 200-yard IM for the first time. Bormett advances on to state in the 200 and 100 free. Kooima and Bormett also helped the Vikings’ 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays move on. Fellow freshman Amy Schlicht also swam on the relays and qualified for state as an individual in the 100 butterfly.

Edgewood dominated the meet, winning all but four of the 12 events, including a 1-2 finish in the 200 and 500 free led by senior Kelly Rodriguez. The Crusaders scored 400 points to finish well ahead of runner-up McFarland, which had 291.

DeForest rounded out the top three with 243.5 McFarland junior Alexandra Moderski won the 50 and 100 free in 23.47 and 52.06, respectively. Monroe/New Glarus freshman Mekenzie Hammer took the 100 backstroke in 57.8 and Monona Grove senior Nikki Benedict won the sectional diving title.

“I was not surprised to see records go down today, but not as many as I saw,” Talmadge said. “I don’t even have words for it.”

Kooima posted a school-record 59.36 to finish third in the 100 back – more than a two second drop from her season-best to beat Talmadge’s 17-year-old school record.

She also had a fourth-place finish in the 200 IM with a

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Football

Nelson, Schipper lead on all-conference teams JEREMY JONES ​Sports editor

Stoughton finished 8-1 for the first time during the regular season and 9-2 overall, winning the first WIAA playoff game in program history.

The Vikings’ historic season culminated last month with the release of the Badger South All-Conference football team, which included four first-team nominees.

Sophomore Jack Nelson and Monona Grove senior center Marcus Wallace shared co-offensive Lineman of the Year honors.

The 6-foot, 6-inch, 240 pound sophomore was a unanimous first-team selection at tackle. Nelson and Monona Grove guard Nathan Wilcox were the only underclassmen selected to the first team. Monona Grove junior File photo by Jeremy Jones tackle Michael Williams-Davis Sophomore offensive lineman Jack Nelson (75) was named co-Offensive Lineman of the Year in the was the only non-senior.

Badger South Conference last month. Nelson verbally committed to UW-Madison earlier this month.

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Wrestling

Hasselberger competing at UW-Whitewater Stoughton graduate Zach Hasselberger will compete for the UW-Whitewater wrestling team during the 2017-18 season, which began Tuesday with a dual meet against UW-Oshkosh.

Hasselberger, a two-time state runner-up for SHS, is a sophomore majoring in occupational safety.

The Warhawks’ wrestling team is poised to compete for a Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship and a high placement at the NCAA Division III championships.

Last season, Whitewater claimed three individual titles en route to a runner-up finish at the WIAC

championships.

The team then qualified for the NCAA championships with a fourthplace finish at the NCAA Midwest regional.

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Senior goalie Matt Read, pictured making a save against Verona, was named to the second-team all-conference squad.

Four Vikings earn second-team honors ANTHONY IOZZO Assistant sports editor

Seniors Jake Deutsch, Anders Goetz, Matt Read and Nick Nowlan helped Stoughton have one of its best seasons in a few years in 2017, and they were rewarded with second-team All-Badger South Conference selections.

Stoughton finished Photo by Jeremy Jones

10-11-1 overall and was third in the Badger South at 4-3.

Deutsch (forward) and Goetz (midfielder) were b o t h c a p t a i n s . N ow l a n (defender) led the back field. Deutsch had 11 goals and four assists, and Goetz followed with six goals and one assist.

Nowlan had a goal and an assist, and Read stopped over 80 shots in net.

Freshman Sofia Bormett finished third in the 200-yard medley relay in a school-record 1 minute, 55.99 seconds.

Sectionals: State meet set for Friday at UW-Natatorium champions. One event, the 100 freestyle, has its 2015 champion returning to regain the title. school record 2:13.72 – nearly six Junior Alexandra Moderski of seconds faster than her best time so McFarland won the championfar this season. It was more than two ship in the 100 free and set a state seconds faster than Meghan Carmirecord two years ago and finished chael’s 2009 record. runner-up last season. She’s back “A part of me feels honored. Katie in the event this season possessing always talks about how she wants the fastest qualifying time at 52:06. people to break her records,” MadModerski also owns the Division 2 die said. “I am glad I got to have her record in the 50 free, an event she as my coach all four years, and got seeks a third straight title in with the to break her record.” fastest seed time of 23.47.

Kooima said she’d always seen Senior Kelly Rodriguez of Edgethe record but wasn’t really chasing wood is the two-time champion in it. the 200 free. She appears to be in “I didn’t know if I had it in me,” position to win her third straight she said. “Before I went up and title with the event’s fastest qualifyswam, though, I had a lot of motivaing time of 1:52.97. She also placed tion from my teammates.” fourth in the event in 2014.

She called the 200 IM record a Senior Bella Passamani of New complete shock.

Berlin Eisenhower seeks to earn her Her coach wasn’t surprised to see second straight gold medal in the the senior break the record, howev100 butterfly. Her qualifying time er. ranks second among the competi“Maddie came back strong and tors at 57.27. Junior Katie Hayes of confident this year,” Talmadge said.

Brown Deer/University School, who “From the beginning of the season was runner-up last season, possesses she knew what she was going to do, the top qualifying time in the butterand she’s delivered. Next weekend fly at 57.05. will be the icing on the cake.”

Senior Jenna Silvestri of EdgeBormett posted a school-record wood is the reigning champion in 1:55.99 for third place in the 200 the 100 breaststroke. She also owns free. It was more than five seconds the best qualifying time in the 200 faster than her seed time and four individual medley at 2:06.10 after seconds faster than Carmichael’s placing runner-up last year.

2009 benchmark. She added a third The Edgewood 200 freestyle relay school-record swim in the 100 free, attempts to win for the third straight finishing fourth in 53.65 by breaktime with the event’s fastest secing Welsch’s 2012 state record by tional performance of 1:37.46. The more than a second.

Crusaders’ 400 freestyle relay seeks “Sofia is a girl that really shows its second straight crown after setup to race,” Talmadge said. “The ting the Division 2 record last seabigger the race – the bigger she son. They enter the meet with the swims.” field’s second-best qualifying time “I’ve been going for those records of 3:35.18. New Berlin Eisenhowall season. I knew it was going to er possesses the swiftest time at happen sometime, even if it wasn’t 3:35.06. Furthermore, Edgewood this year,” Bormett said. “I felt like has the best seed time in the 200 myself again, going those times.” medley relay with a 1:46.09 after Bormett said being tapered and placing third a season ago. wearing her race suit certainly Bormett is seeded a team-best helped. Swimming against two of fifth out of 16 in the 100 free and the fastest D2 teams in the state in sixth in the 200 free. Kooima is defending state champion Madison seeded seventh in the 200 IM and Edgewood and McFarland also add- State preview eighth in the 100 back. ed some fuel to the fire.

Stoughton’s 200 medley relay is Four individual events and two Talmadge (formerly known as seeded 10th and the 400 free relay is relays feature last year’s returning Katie Liebmann) held 11 school Continued from page 10

records when she graduated in 2001. She had only the 100 butterfly record left following Saturday’s sectional meet. And even that record may not last long, as Viking freshman Amy Schlicht is shooting to possibly break that benchmark this weekend at state.

“My goal as a coach has been to help these girls clear my name off the board,” Talmadge said. “It’s been really fun to see.”

Schlicht finished fifth with close to a 1 ½ second PR in the 100 fly to earn the final state qualifier in 1:01.52. She added a 10th-place finish in the 200 IM (2:18.13) but did not qualify for state in that event.

Stoughton’s 200-yard medley relay of seniors Maddie and Abbie Kooima and Schlicht and Bormett opened the meet with a sixth-place finish in a school-record 1:53.44.

Their time was four seconds faster than their seed time and more than two seconds faster than the 20-yearold SHS mark, which also included Talmadge.

“Maddie went first and posted a 27,” Schlicht said. “I knew we were going to get after my third leg.

Abbie still had plenty of time to get it. Everyone started jumping and screaming. It was so exciting.”

Bormett, who is not usually a breaststroker, set what she thought was a ridiculously fast goal for her leg and then achieved the time of 31 seconds.

“The rest of the season, I was going 33 or 34,” she said. “It was pretty crazy to drop that much time.”

Maddie Kooima, freshmen Ava S c h i g u r, E ve l y n S c h a e f e r a n d Bormett closed out the meet with another school record, taking eighth-place finish in the 400 free relay (3:45.45) with nearly a seven second drop to also qualify for state.

“I did taper the girls to swim fast at sectionals but they have more tapering to do,” Talmadge said.

“They still have faster swims left in them.”

File photo by Anthony Iozzo

Senior Nick Nowlan, pictured battling for a header against Verona, was named to the second-team all-conference squad.

All-Badger South Conference First-team: Joey Scalissi (forward, Monona Grove), Zach Pasley (forward, Oregon), Alexander Klinkner (midfielder, Monona Grove), Colin McCombs (midfielder, Oregon), Bryan Reynosa (midfielder, Monona Grove), Logan Servin (midfielder, Milton), Ryan Keaveny (defender, Monona Grove), Connor Cruz (defender, Madison Edgewood), Colin Legler (defender, Oregon), Ross Harford (defender, Monona Grove), Henry Hill-Gorman (goalie, Monona Grove) Second-team: Madison Conduah (forward, Oregon), Jake Deutsch (forward, Stoughton), Evan Jaime (midfielder, Fort Atkinson), Anders Goetz (midfielder, Stoughton), Nick Bergmann (midfielder, Edgewood), Brandon Rothwell (midfielder, Edgewood), Clayton Haase (defender, Watertown), Nick Stacey (defender, Edgewood), Nick Nowlan (defender, Stoughton), Ashton Hansell (defender, Fort Atkinson), Matt Read (goalie, Stoughton) Honorable mentions: Jay Lehman (forward, Watertown), Alex Barradas (forward, Monroe), Isaac Becker (midfielder, Monona Grove), Ethan Bergen (midfielder, Watertown), Jake VanVeghel (midfielder, Monona Grove), Andrew Vaage (midfielder, Milton), Alfonso Lopez (defender, Milton), Johnny Coughlin (defender, Oregon), Zach Madson (defender, Edgewood), Zac Beine (defender, Watertown), Noah Rickman (goalie, Milton), Max Burlingame (goalie, Fort Atkinson)

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Senior running back Brady Schipper rushed for 1,975 yards and 25 touchdowns. He earned first-team Badger South all-conference honors.

Football: 17 Vikings earn all-conference nods Continued from page 10

Senior linebacker Gavin Miller (10) earned first-team Badger South all-conference honors.

Nelson, who verbally committed to UW-Madison earlier this month, is the son of former Badger offensive lineman Todd Nelson.

Still waiting for his Division 1 offer, Stoughton senior running back Brady Schipper was joined in the backfield by Monona Grove senior Jackson Thomsen and Oregon senior Kardelle Phillips.

The focus of Vikings’ offense all season, Schipper rushed for 1,975 of the team’s 2,591 yards and 25 of the team’s 32 rushing touchdowns. His dominance behind arguably the best line in school history helped the team average 31.3 points per game.

Monona Grove senior quarterback Alex Ogden was selected as the Offensive Player of the Year.

Stoughton senior Max Fernholz was tabbed as a second-team tight end. The 6-foot, 190-pounder caught 13

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Volleyball: Adams earns second-team selection Continued from page 10 aces. She also added 26 kills in 84 sets played.

Adams collected 533 assists, 300 digs, five solo and 12 assisted blocks, 86 kills and 39 aces in 84 sets

played.

Panthofer had 185 kills, 20 aces, five solo and 17 assisted blocks and 195 digs in 76 sets. Berry picked up 158 kills, 40 aces, five solo and 11 assisted blocks and 201 digs in 80 sets.

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Junior Hannah Wirag, pictured getting a dig in the Badger South tournament, was named to the first-team All-conference squad this season.

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balls and finished second on the team with 206 yard receiving.

Senior kicker Sam McHone joined Fernholz on the second team. McHone also earned first-team honors as a defensive back.

Senior offensive lineman Aodan Marshall, Marcus Martingilio, Matt Krcma and junior Jack True all received honorable mention nods, as did senior quarterback Jon Malueg, who threw for 1,030 yards and nine touchdowns.

Senior Tommy McClain earned unanimous first-team honors as a down lineman and was named Defensive Lineman of the Year.

McClain, Schipper and Nelson were also named to the All-region team by the Wisconsin Football Coaches Assocation selected earlier this month.

Senior linebacker Gavin Miller joined McClain as firstteam defender.

Senior down lineman Dylan Bennett, defensive end Nick Waldorf and junior punter Cade Spilde all earned second team honors. Junior Drew Pasold and seniors Payton Montgomery and Jordan DiBenedetto were all named honorable mentions on defense.

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Junior Megan Adams, pictured setting the ball in the regional semifinals, was named to the second-team all-conference squad.

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Alexander Cramer has joined the staff of Unified Newspaper Group.

Raised in western Massachusetts, Cramer came to Madison in 2006 to study at the University o f Wi s c o n Cramer sin. After getting a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, he moved around the country and world, working as everything from a

horse-tour guide to a ski tuner, with the occasional writing gig thrown in.

After moving back to Madison in 2016, Cramer covered the school board beat for the Middleton Times-Tribune and was a frequent contributor to Madison community radio station WORT’s “6 O’Clock Local News.”

Cramer’s beat will be the Village of Oregon and its surrounding communities. He will work with fellow community reporters Amber Levenhagen and

Helu Wang in their coverage of Stoughton and Verona, respectively. All three will provide reporting from Fitchburg.

Cramer can be reached at alexander.cramer@wcinet. com, Levenhagen at amber. levenhagen@wcinet.com and Wang at helu.wang@ wcinet.com. Community news for any of UNG’s coverage areas can be sent to assistant editor Scott Girard at communityreporter@ wcinet.com.

Bully: Ordinance came after student withdrew Continued from page 1 we went through a PowerPoint (slide show) and told them what we were doing,” Brown explained. “They were really supportive and interested.”

Olson and Leck invited her to speak at a Public Safety committee meeting in the summer of 2016, and last August Brown explained the initiative to the Common Council, which unanimously adopted the proposal.

“When we first met with Amy Brown, it was like a no brainer – absolutely we want to do this,” Olson recalled.

Ozanne, is impressed that the city has embraced the

program. “ I t ’s a m a z i n g t h a t Stoughton adopted it not just for the school district or the hospital, but for the whole community and is moving it forward as sort of a public health initiative,” Ozanne told the Hub. “It’s incredible.”

The anti-bullying ordinance came two months later, in October, after a local woman said her daughter had been bullied repeatedly by other students and withdrew her from the Stoughton Area School District.

Her complaints joined with a Change.org petition to the school district and council for an anti-bullying ordinance that got 407 signers.

The woman, Tonya Vike, asked that the city adopt an ordinance to protect her child and others against bullies and suggested the ordinance include a fine.

She said she reported each incident of bullying “since day one” to guidance counselors, teachers, the River Bluff Middle School principal, the school resource officer and superintendent Tim Onsager. Yet, she said, the bullying continued until she withdrew her daughter from the district in spring 2016. The council adopted the ordinance on a 10-2 vote, with Hirsch and Majewski dissenting.

Contact Bill Livick at bill. livick@wcinet.com

Obituary Richard Voedisch

Richard Voedisch

Richard K Voedisch, 82, of Stoughton left us unexpectedly to continue his journey Friday, Oct. 27, 2017.

He was born in Deadwood, South Dakota, Feb. 8, 1935, the son of Morris K Voedisch and Marjorie Gavey Voedisch.

In his youth he learned to

play piano and was able to play anything by ear and composed music. He grew up in Rockford, Ill. where he joined a ski-jumping club, traveling with the club to compete, including the ski jump previously located in Stoughton.

He graduated from Indiana Tech with a Chemical Engineering degree and joined the US Air Force. He later worked in water quality for industry. After retirement, he engaged his love of painting and writing and painted many pieces as well as beautifying homes with his murals and finishes. He also was a writer and author with four published works.

He was a wonderful father and devoted grandfather.

He is survived by his daughters Forrest Voe disch, Conn., Erika (Craig Newton) Vaden of Va., Allison (Kevin) Sorg of

Stoughton, his son Chris (Carrie) Voedisch of North Carolina, two granddaughters, Annaliese Vaden and Hudson Voedisch, and five grandsons, Matthew Sorg, Rohan Sorg, Sage Espinosa, Zane Espinosa, and Henry Voedisch and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Morris and Marjorie, his brothers Bob and Jack, his sister Pat, and sons Gregory, Matthew, and Mark.

Receptions were held for his friends, family, and neighbors at his residence and his daughter, Allison’s home. The family plans a private memorial service in the future.

McGeever: Has degrees in electronics, business Continued from page 1 well-qualified,” he said.

“Given with what’s been g o i n g o n w i t h bu d g e t meetings and other things, I think the city really needs a numbers geek to deal with the budget.”

McGeever holds degrees in electronics and business from Madison College.

He retired more than two years ago from Thermo

Fisher Scientific in Madison, where he worked in design engineering and manufacturing engineering, among other things.

He told the Hub he ran unopposed five times for Common Council, and think it’s “important that people have a choice when the mayor comes up for election, especially for the initial one.”

M c G e ev e r s a i d h e ’s

The Stoughton Police Department logged 2,308 incidents in August. Cases of interest for the month were: one Robbery, four intoxicated driver arrests, eight drug incidents, three batteries, two burglaries, 24 thefts, seven frauds, nine domestic disturbances, 36 disturbances, 45 disorderly conducts, 19 traffic crashes, 118 EMS assists, fifteen alarms, 25 juvenile incidents, 62 911 calls, two runaways, seven warrant arrests, five threats, 25 animal complaints, and officers responded to 46 suspicious activity calls. Officers also logged

108 assist cases, 32 criminal charges, 55 ordinance violations and 87 traffic arrests from 79 traffic stops.‌ The following were among those identified as significant cases:‌ ‌Aug. 2‌ Officers arrested a 29-yearold man for felony bail jumping and a traffic violation following a traffic stop.‌ Officers arrested a 33-yearold man on an outstanding warrant following a check person request.‌

STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT, DANE COUNTY, NOTICE SETTING TIME TO HEAR APPLICATION AND DEADLINE FOR FILING CLAIMS (INFORMAL ADMINISTRATION) IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLARD D. HANSON Case No. 17PR699 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for Informal Administration was filed.

2. The decedent, with date of birth February 1, 1927 and date of death August 25, 2017, was domiciled in Dane County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 3068 CTH A, Stoughton, WI 53589.

3. The application will be heard at the Dane County Courthouse, Madison, Wisconsin, Room 1005, before the presiding Probate Registrar, on November 30, 2017 at 8:00a.m.

You do not need to appear unless you object. The application may be granted if there is no objection.

4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is February 2, 2018.

5. A claim may be filed at the Dane County Courthouse, Madison, Wisconsin, Room 1005.

6. This publication is notice to any persons whose names or addresses are unknown.

If you require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to participate in the court process, please call 608266-4311 at least 10 working days prior to the scheduled court date. Please note that the court does not provide transportation.

Danell Behrens Deputy Probate Registrar October 13, 2017 Michael D. Rumpf PO Box 1 Cambridge, WI 53523 (608) 423-3254 Bar Number: 1015663 Published: October 26, November 2 and 9, 2017 WNAXLP ***

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT DANE COUNTY Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 7000 Vista Dr. MAC N8235-040 West Des Moines, IA 50266, Plaintiff vs.

Jeffrey M. Wanderski Aka Jeffrey Matthew Wanderski 1440 Sundt Ln Stoughton, WI 53589, Defendant.

PUBLICATION SUMMONS Case No.: 2017CV001866 Honorable Josann M. Reynolds AMOUNT CLAIMED IS OVER $10,000.00 Case Code: 30301 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To each person named above as a Defendant: You are hereby notified that the Plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you. The complaint, which is also served on you, states the nature and basis of the legal action. Within 40 days after 10/26/2017 you must respond with a written answer, as that term is used in Chapter 802 of the Wisconsin Statutes, to the complaint.

The court may reject or disregard an answer that does not follow the requirements of the statutes. The answer must be sent or delivered to:

‌Aug. 3‌ Officers arrested a 19-yearold man for armed robbery following an investigation into an incident that occurred at the skate park and money was taken. The alleged perpetrator had reportedly threatened the victim with a knife. ‌ ‌Aug. 8‌ Officers arrested a 31-yearold man on an outstanding warrant following a traffic stop.‌ Officers arrested a 21-yearold woman for battery following a disturbance at a residence.

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If you do not provide a proper answer within 40 days from the date stated above, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the complaint. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

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“It’s really satisfying when you take a situation that’s confusing and difficult, and get it done,” he said. “I’ve always been a projects person.”

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Starting pay for before 8 AM $10.50/hr., hours after 8 AM starting pay $10.00/hr. Must be 18 years of age or older to apply for AM hours.

Lifeguards working day and evening hours must be 16 years of age. Online applications accepted under Support Staff at http://wecan. education.wisc.edu/#/ EEO/AA

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443 Manufacturing & Industrial PC/NAMETAG HAS Digital Printer & Machine Operator openings! Excellent compensation and comprehensive benefit package To learn more go to www. pcnametag.com for more job details Send resume to jobs@pcnametag.com

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The Verona Police Department is accepting applications for a Permanent Part-Time Police Records Clerk. The hours may include weekday, weekend, day, and evening hours; however, the typical shift is from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The starting salary range is $16.69 per hour for a candidate with no police records clerk experience, up to $20.74 per hour for a candidate with 9+ years of police records clerk experience.

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Support your favorite teams all season long with this guide to Stoughton High School’s big match-ups!

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