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Blacksmith shop will come down Company has Dec. 31 demolition deadline AMBER LEVENHAGEN Unified Newspaper Group

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Janet Aaberg, left, discusses her home garden with Julie Monroe, center, of Columbus and Janette Randall of Pleasant Springs during Olbrich Botanical Gardens’ Home Garden Tour in Stoughton on Saturday, July 13.

A garden excursion Friday, July 12, and Saturday, July 13. All funds raised from the event will go towards supporting the operations of Olbrich Botanical Gardens.

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It took three decades before Steve Fortney could even bear to look at them; the pain was too much.

Part poet, writer and journalist, the 82-year-old Stoughton resident has covered a lot of ground in a prolific career of prose and poetry, but until last year, he had never confronted a subject that still cut too deep: His brother’s

death in Vietnam in 1968.

In the novel “Empire’s Children: Vietnam, The Home Front,” released last November, h e q u o t e s Fortney family letters to and from Kendall Thomas Fortney before he was killed at the age of 26

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Marathon site stalls Deed restriction prohibits residential development AMBER LEVENHAGEN

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original terms of the agreement, which includes a provision for razing the blacksmith shop along with the rest of the complex.

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Getting personal SCOTT DE LARUELLE

1910: Blacksmith shop built.

1997: Stoughton Trailers abandons building.

2012: City purchases Highway Trailer complex.

2017: RDA votes to demolish buildings; Common Council places, later lifts demolition moratorium.

2018: Council authorizes demolitions of Highway Trailer building, except blacksmith shop.

October 2018: Wind storm knocks part of blacksmith shop down

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When the City of Stought o n ’s R e d e v e l o p m e n t Authority bought a halfacre parcel on West Main Street in 2010, something important was missed.

Now known as the Marathon Site, it was for many years the home of a gas station, and a restrictive covenant on the title deed prevents most types of non-gas station developments.

That restriction was disc ove r e d b y M c Fa r l a n d State Bank this spring, and now, after eight years and attempts to develop the

property, plans to build two four-unit apartment buildings on the site are once again stalled.

A restrictive covenant limits what can be built on a property and how it can be used in the future. In this case, Speedway, the company that owns Marathon and operated the site from 2000-2005, ruled out a variety of uses, including residential.

The RDA agreed Wednesday, July 10, to try to get that restriction removed through the courts.

It also agreed to authorize its attorney to pursue monetary damages against Dane County Title, the entity that was responsible for finding such restrictions. That process, including time for

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Elaborate domestic gardens nestled behind homes in Scenic Heights and downtown Stoughton opened for visitors as part of Olbrich Botanical Gardens’ Home Garden Tour on

The blacksmith shop is on its way to being demolished.

After months of litigation, the city’s Redevelopment Authority has reached a settlement with Earth Construction, the company it had hired last year to demolish most of the Highway Trailer complex, which sits on a key area of the city’s riverfront redevelopment area. Its contract required it to leave the blacksmith shop untouched for its historical value, but a storm last October tore up part of a wall, leaving the building unstable.

RDA chair Roger Springman explained that the RDA agreed to abide by the

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Kaitlyn Bardouche, 4, of Stoughton, works on a parfleche under the guidance of Deanna Sell.

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Brookelyn Hill, 7, pastes colorful shapes unto a crumpled piece of brown paper to create an abstract collage during the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s Art Cart program at Nordic Ridge Park on Saturday, July 13.

Budding artists From left, Emma, 4, and Evan Dorman, 6, work on their parfleches.

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art brought its Art Cart program to Nordic Ridge Park on Saturday, July 13.

Madison School and Community Recreation lead the outdoor art class, where children created abstract collages and decorative containers called parfleches.

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Janet Aaberg’s home garden was the first stop along Olbrich Botanical Gardens’ Home Garden Tour in Stoughton on Saturday, July 13.

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Woman was being taken to Stoughton Hospital from Janesville in ambulance SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group

A Madison paramedic faces felony sexual assault charges after allegedly touching a patient’s breasts while she was being transported to Stoughton Hospital in an ambulance.

According to a criminal complaint filed July 15 in Dane County Circuit Court, 36-year-old Timothy Ovadal faces up to 40 years and/or $100,000 in fines for the felony second degree sexual assault charge. He also faces

a misdemeanor fourth degree sexual assault charge related to the May 8 incident.

The victim told officers the paramedic exposed himself to her during the transport in a Ryan Brothers ambulance and touched her right breast with his mouth and tongue, according to the complaint.

A nurse at Stoughton Hospital reported the victim “continued to get more emotional” during intake questions and told her about the assault, the complaint states.

The victim called the incident “humiliating,” according to the complaint, and advised that she was “too shocked and scared” to yell to the driver about what was happening.

“I can’t believe something like this

was happening to me in the back of an ambulance,” she told police.

Ovadal allegedly whispered in her ear while exposing himself to her, including that he would “have to relieve himself when he gets back to the station,” the complaint states.

He also told her he would “call her” when she was out of the hospital.

Ovadal denied exposing himself or touching the victim’s breasts, but DNA results indicated his saliva was present on her right breast.

Ovadal is scheduled for a status conference on Aug. 19, according to online court records.

Contact Scott Girard at ungreporter@wcinet.com and follow him on Twitter @sgirard9.

Stoughton Area School District

State aid for district drops by $1.6 million Evers’ vetoes ease the pain, but it’s still a 12% decrease SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group

While Gov. Tony Evers’ state 2019-20 budget vetoes generally spelled good news for Wisconsin’s public schools, they didn’t provide a cure-all for Stoughton.

Despite adding a bit more than $200 a year for all students in the next two years and an overall increase of around $65

million more than the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee had approved, the Stoughton Area School District will receive less money than it did the previous year.

According to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s July 1 estimates of general school aid, the district will receive $1.6 million less in state aid this school year, a decrease of 12.26 percent. General school aids are the largest form of state support for public schools in the Wisconsin, figured largely by student enrollment.

That’s not great news

for districts like Stoughton that are losing students and therefore funding.

S u p e r i n t e n d e n t Ti m Onsager said the state numbers will “put more burden on the (local) taxpayers.”

“While it’s great positive news for the state, the local impact isn’t as positive as we would like,” he said.

In a legislative update, board member Kathleen Hoppe said the Democratic governor’s vetoes – 78 of them – were positive in that they increased per pupil categorical aid payments above the level the Republican-controlled Legislature had proposed.

Republicans in the Legislature have discussed attempting to limit the veto power of the governor to change future state budgets, but she said it would take a lot to do that.

“Changing the law will require a constitutional amendment, to be adopted by the State Senate and Assembly in identical form in two consecutive legislative sessions before it goes to the voters for approval,” Hoppe said.

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Stoughton’s mural receives Dane County honorary thank you plaque DCSO warns MACKENZIE KRUMME Unified Newspaper Group

Driving over the Main Street bridge, just north of Page Street, passengers can see the Stoughton mural overlooking the Yahara River. In 1997, using soft colors, running water and the Norwegian Dancers, artist Mel Butor painted Luke and Elza Stoughton looking forward to the future, and their children looking back on the achievements of the past, representing 150 years of Stoughton’s history.

In addition to Butor and the four orchestrators of the mural, the entire community of Stoughton participated. In September, the city will add an honorary thank-you plaque to the Stoughton bridge.

“Stoughton has a lot of pride in itself,” said Richard Lazzaro, former project director for the mural. “It is important for people to understand that this community is supportive.”

The dark-plated marker will tentatively thank: Jean Reek, who proposed the idea; Lazzaro, Richard Albright, assistant director; Alan Zelm,

associate director; Lois Pieper, historical researcher; Butor and the Stoughton community.

More than 20 years ago, Reek, the founder of the Stoughton Norweigian Dancers, proposed the idea for the mural. One year later, Stoughton raised $58,000 to create a piece of art that would depict the “history, culture and traditions ... that collectively made us a unique community,” according to the mural description.

“All the business and individual donations were from Stoughton,” Lazzaro said.

The structure for the mural was donated by a local business and organizers applied for a $7,000 grant from the Dane County Cultural Fairs Commission. Special paint was imported from Germany in order for the colors not to fade.

The goal is for the thankyou plaque to be secured to the bridge before the Art Walk in September.

For more history on the Stoughton Historical Mural, visit the Stoughton Public Library.

residents of deputy impersonators The Dane County Sheriff’s Office will never call you to ask you to pay a fine, and it won’t ask you to pay it using prepaid money cards.

That’s what DCSO stated in a news release earlier this month, sent out after a Madison woman got a call saying she had missed jury duty and there was a warrant out for her arrest.

The woman lost $700 to scammers impersonating a DCSO officer.

In the release, DSCO said this scam has become “very elaborate” and has been “plaguing our area for years.” Virtually untraceable because scammers are using technology that masks their real telephone number with one from the DCSO, the impersonators have been known to use the names of deputies within the department and sound knowledgeable to the average citizen.

The woman realized she was scammed after looking at the card’s conditions, and filed a report with the Madison Police Department.

Any time a caller asks for payment via a prepaid money card, that should be a red flag, the release said, because taxes or fines cannot be paid with money cards.

“Please help us put these impersonators out of business by spreading the word about this scam to everyone you know,” the release states. “The only way to completely stop this from happening is to educate the public on their tactics, so that no one else falls victim to their money making scheme.”

Email reporter Kimberly Wethal at kimberly. wethal@wcinet.com and follow her on Twitter @ kimberly_wethal.​

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KPW request: $3 million Amount is less than half of original AMBER LEVENHAGEN Unified Newspaper Group

Kettle Park West developers returned to the city last week to request more tax increment financing (TIF) funding.

Forward Development Group has requested $3 million for on-site infrastructure, to be paid in a “pay-as-you-go” plan.

According to its application, that amount is $4.4 million less than the company had previously discussed with city officials, resulting from changes both on the site and off.

TIF is a financial tool used by municipalities to incentivize economic development by pooling increased taxes on that development among the overlying taxing jurisdictions. A pay-as-you-go bond pays that obligation only if and when its development produces those tax payments. By doing so, it eliminates the city’s risk of a default by the developer.

The Finance committee was the first stop in FDG’s request for more funding.

The presentation on Tuesday, July 10, lasted the full hour of the committee meeting, leaving no time for committee conversation, finance director Jamin Friedl told the Hub. He said the committee plans to discuss the application in more

detail during its next meeting, scheduled for July 23.

KPW Phase II includes 195 new housing units, continued development of the commercial center, a public park and conservancy areas. Plans for that portion of the development were approved last month, and the request for TIF funding was submitted June 21.

The second phase of development includes new stormwater facilities, a water main and sanitary sewer extension. The city has also required the construction of highway and intersection upgrades at Roby Road and Hwy. 51, and extending Oak Opening Drive to Hwy. 138.

The TIF application states the cost for these improvements is estimated at nearly $13 million.

“Without the availability of TIF to recover a portion ($3.0M) of these infrastructure costs, KPW LLC will be unable to develop the second phase,” the application states.

According to the application, redesigning the site plan allowed it to sell more on a larger area, reducing its need for on-site funding by $2.4 million. Allowing the Roby Road intersection with U.S. Hwy. 51 to wait for the state Department of Transportation to fund an upgrade and charging future improvements to the TIF district in the future reduced the costs the developer identified by $2 million, the application states.

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A real-life hero is taking a break after a job well done I like to write about people I consider heroes.

I want to listen to their story and do justice to the life they’ve lived and how they were formed along the way.

Heroes to me are people who inspire and motivate me to be a better person and be an example of how to leave the world a better place than I found it. Dr. Edward Kramper is one of those people.

He has been a physician for 43 years and is retiring Aug. 1 to be a fulltime farmer and grandpa in McFarland.

Kemper has worked in Zarth numerous clinics in the area, including Stoughton as a float doctor and most recently as regular staff member at UW Health Cottage Grove Clinic. He has worked as a medical director for the department of corrections, as a managed care consultant around the country, director and interim CEO for Physicians Plus Insurance Co. and as hospice director for several years.

Dr. Kramper obviously enjoys being a physician and enjoys people; they energize and inspire him. He enjoys calling patients personally and listening to their stories about their illnesses and their lives. He likes to know as much about them as he can so he can make the best decisions about their care.

I have never seen him get angry, lose patience or get frustrated.

He always seems to have a quiet, calm, intelligent, steadfast persona that travels with him even through the busiest days of multitasking and demands. He is extremely dedicated and is often

in the clinic around 5:30 a.m. working on paperwork. He sees patients from 8-5 p.m. and is often calling patients until 10 p.m.

I asked him if he has ever been frustrated with a patient, and he did admit that there was an interaction with a lady once that prompted him to excuse himself from the exam room to take a walk outside for some fresh air before returning to finish her office visit. She would escalate during their office visits and become confused and more manic with too much attention. A quiet walk and some silence was good for both of them.

Dr. Kramper is an incredible storyteller, and if you ever meet him on the street and he offers you a story, it will be well worth your time.

He told me he learned perseverance while doing medical mission work for two months in the Dominican Republic.

He had a woman visit him who was nine months pregnant carrying her 1 year old child who was only 6 pounds. She said her baby couldn’t eat well and asked him to help her baby.

When the baby ate it would throw up. Due to extreme poverty and poor resources in the area, the doctors saw many people who were beyond help and would soon die. He assumed this 1 year old baby was near death, since it was still the weight of a newborn. He told the woman he couldn’t help her, that treating the baby might also cause it to die.

She had walked 18 kilometers to get to the clinic, and she came back the next day and asked, “Would you help my baby?”

Again he turned her away and said “I can’t help you.” But he knew she would be back the next day.

He discussed her case with the

other doctors, and it was decided that the baby needed to go to the state hospital for further evaluation and would need a horse taxi to get there.

The doctors were not allowed to give the patients money, so they took up a collection for a horse taxi and gave it to the village priest to give it to this woman if she came back again requesting help for her baby. The woman did return in the morning, asking Dr. Kramper to help her baby, and he said, “I can’t help you but maybe the parish priest can.”

As instructed, the priest gave her the money, and the state hospital put a scope down the baby’s throat. That’s when the doctors there discovered the baby had a web of skin blocking it from swallowing except for a small hole that allowed a small amount of milk to pass through. They were able to remove the web of skin and the baby was able to eat normally.

Just as the mother would not give up on her baby, Dr Kramper told me, he learned never to give up on his patients.

I asked him how he would like people to remember him as he moves into retirement, and his response was as a caring, loving, knowledgeable person, a good listener who is not afraid to approach the big or uncomfortable issues.

If you see him around town, say hi. He would love to hear how you are doing, and he will always wish you the best. If you want a real treat, ask him for a story.

Brenda Zarth RN works with Dr. Kramper at the UW Health Cottage Grove Clinic. If you would like to send Dr Kramper a card or letter you can address it to: Dr Kramper, UW Health Cottage Grove Clinic, 4590 Co Hwy N, Cottage Grove, WI 53527.

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City Band concert finale July 25 Last performance of the year will take place at Skaalen

If You Go What: Stoughton City Band Concert Finale When: 6:45 p.m. Thursday, July 25 Where: The Skaalen Home 400 N. Morris St. Info: stoughtoncityband. org

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The Stoughton City Band will perform its last show of the seven week summer season Thursday, July 25, at the Skaalen Home.

The outdoor concert, which starts at 6:45 p.m., is free and open to the public at 400 N. Morris St. Wi t h d i r e c t i o n f r o m director Beth Gardner, the 30 member band plays familiar tunes such as “We are the Champions,” “Wooly Bully” and its signature piece, “The Little Country Band.” “ I ’ve h e a r d a l o t o f new songs this season,” Lily Weitner, an audience

and play music and perform for our community,” according to the Stoughton City Band website, and includes Stoughton teachPhoto by Mackenzie Krumme ers, school board members and other residents.

Director Beth Gardner leads the musicians during the Other traditional StoughStoughton City Band concert Thursday, July 11. The band ton City Band performancoffers free outdoor performances throughout the summer. es throughout the year member, told the Hub at mother plays the flute in the include a Christmas Concert, Memorial Day Conlast week’s concert. band.

Weitner said she has The band is “a group of cert and at the Syttende Mai grown up going to these music-lovers of all ages Festival. c o n c e r t s b e c a u s e h e r who love to get together

Aligning Stars Theatre to perform ‘Chicago’ at Oregon PAC EMILIE HEIDEMANN Unified Newspaper Group

The Stoughton Aligning Starts Theatre will bring “the Roaring Twenties, murderous tales and classic Broadway jazz” to the Oregon High School Performing Arts Center later this month.

Performances of “Chicago” will take place at 7 p.m.

Thursday, July 25, through Saturday, July 27, at 456 N. Perry Pkwy.

Ticket prices are $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and students and will be

available at the door the day of performances.

Advanced reserved seating is available at oregonperformingartscenter.com.

An Aligning Stars Theatre news release states that high school and college-age performers primarily from Stoughton and McFarland will put on its edition of “Chicago,” a Tony Award winning musical.

“This summer marks the first time (Aligning Stars Theatre group) will branch out and perform in a venue outside of those two communities,” publicist Andrea

Novotny wrote in an email to the Hub. “Chicago” is a satirical story about Chicago’s corrupt criminal justice system and “the rivalry of two murderesses as they vie for top celebrity status.” Set during the Roaring Twenties in the city, Roxie Hart murders a lover and persuades her husband to take the fall for the crime, at least until he finds out she’s tricked him and he turns on Roxie.

“Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another ‘Merry Murderess,’ Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight

and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the ‘American Dream:’ fame, fortune and acquittal,” the release states. “Audiences will deigned at famous songs such as ‘All That Jazz’ and will recognize the distinct style of the musical made famous by original Broadway creator and choreographer, Bob Fosse.”

According to the release, the production will feature 53 cast members.

For information, email Novotny at anovotny@charter.net or call 575-7739.

Stoughton native a soloist at Opera in the Park July 20 in Madison MACKENZIE KRUMME Unified Newspaper Group

Jeni Houser is described as a soprano who communicates delicious expression in the merest tilt of her torso and the flickering of her fingertips.

Reviews of Houser the Stoughton Native and international opera singer’s performances state she is luminous in voice and visage with a commanding yet vulnerable presence.

That presence will be on display during Houser’s solo performance at Madison’s Opera In The Park, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 20, at Garner Park, 333 S. Rosa Road, Madison.

Houser said she’s never performed during Opera in the Park but these types of performances are her favorites. The “magical events”

If You Go What: Opera in the Park When 8 p.m. Saturday, July 20 Where: Garner Park, 333 S. Rosa Road Madison Info: madisonopera.org have thousands of attendees, a full orchestra and choir.

“But it feels like a picnic,” Houser said. “There is no dress code and we sing opera excerpts, musical theater pieces, solos and ensembles ... in a beautiful setting.”

Houser, who has performed in Vienna, Texas, Colorado, Kentucky, Virginia and elsewhere, said it is always a special experience to perform where she grew up. This is a particularly special performance, she said, because it is the first time her and her husband, David Blalock, will perform a duet together in Madison.

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An area of Lake Kegonsa State Park will become a stage Saturday, July 20, for a Summit Players Theater performance of “Romeo and Juliet.”

The Milwaukee based theater company performs Shakespeare’s classic at 7 p.m., Saturday, July 20.

At 5:30 p.m. the group will host an interactive workshop to help understand Shakespearian language and the way nature was intertwined in his work.

As part of its annual summer series, Summit Players Theater company travels to Wisconsin state parks and performs Shakespearian plays that are appropriate for all ages, managing director and company cofounder A.J. Magoon said.

“We don’t change the script at all, but we do reduce it in a smaller format to cut away the arcane things like historical references and flowery descriptive long language, so that you can get down to the core concepts,” Magoon said.

This year, the seven member traveling theater company is making its way through 18 state parks. The team will settle and camp at Lake Kegonsa State Park for the fifth year in a row.

“We love Lake Kegonsa,” Magoon said. “We get the same experience that some of the participants do, so we swim, have a picnic and then go back (to our) camp.”

The 45 minute pre-performance workshop is for

If You Go What: “Romeo and Juliet in the Park” plus workshop When: Workshop starts at 5:30 p.m. and play beings 7 p.m. Saturday, July 20 Where: Lake Kegonsa State Park Info: summitplayerstheater.com children and “fun adults,” titled “Playing with Shakespeare: Get Outside with Will.” The interactive workshop complements the play and helps participants better understand the writing and the play itself.

There are a few fun exercises during the workshop, Magoon said, including a Shakespeare character walk in which participants can act out archetype characters like kings, servants and fairies.

“We ask things like, ‘What does a king do?

Show me with your body how a servant would act,’” Magoon said. “We are not just sitting in a circle and talking about Shakespeare.”

At the end of the workshop participants will get a piece of Shakespearean text and become an actor for a day.

The goal of the Summit Players Theater, is to create “Shakespeare anyone can afford, attend and understand,” and allow people to view their state parks, according to a news release.

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watching a really good Netflix show.... It is a powerful visceral experience.”

In addition to the experience opera provides, Houser explained, the singers are trained to not use amplification in their performances.

The singers have no microphones and project their voices to large spaces and audiences.

“It is an athletic endeavor,” she said. “Our bodies are our instruments. (Performers) think of it as training like an athlete might.”

At Opera in the Park, there are 21 performances total.

Houser will perform “Un Dì Felice,” “Hymn to Bacchus Barcarolle,” “O Luce di Quest’anima” and “When the Children Are Asleep.”

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“I feel really great whenever i can perform for friends and family,” Houser said. “(My husband and I) will look out into the audience and feel like we are performing in front of my hometown.”

Houser, a 2001 Stoughton High School graduate, remembers working with former music teachers like Craig Mason, Lee Wagner and John Beutel. She was in the choir program all four years of high school and still comes back to Stoughton to work with students and current choir director Ryan Casey.

Although opera can have a reputation for being high brow entertainment, Houser said this multi-layered art performance — which combines drama, orchestra, singing, costumes and poetry — often surprises people.

“People who have never been to the opera, it feels like storytelling,” said Houser. “It feels like you could be

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Electronics recycling The Stoughton Area Senior Center recycles unwanted cell phones, laptops, cameras, mp3 players and video game consoles. Donations help the environment by keeping harmful chemicals out of our landfills and 90 percent of all proceeds benefit the senior center.The fundraising project is sponsored by the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and Cellular Recycler. Drop-off boxes can be found at the senior center and Hanson Electronics, 2384 Jackson St. For information, call 873-8585.

Sons of Norway Bingo

If all three workshops are taken has spoken at Livsreise before, is in succession, participants will have an author and expert in emigration material to be used in a final book- from Sogn to Fjordane Norway. making session.

For information call 873-7567 For information, contact Barry Entertainment with Carlsen at bcarlsen@wisc.edu.

Shari Sarazin

Cooking Class Learn to create fresh salads, snacks and desserts during the Healthy Salads and Desserts class at 2 p.m. Monday, July 22, at the senior center.

The recipes are meant to be no-cook meals for one to two people. They can be made ahead of time and kept in the fridge for an easy, ready-to-go meal.

A chef from Chefs for Seniors will lead the class and have a discussion afterwards on good nutrition tips and services Chefs for Seniors provide. The cost for the class is $4.

For information, call 873-8585.

Win prizes and enter in a 50-50 raffle during the Mandt Lodge bingo event 6 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at Sons of Norway 317 S. Page St. This event is open to the public and participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Food is Rags to Riches available after 5 p.m.

Author Rasmus Sunde will share For information, contact Becky a story of immigration at 4 p.m.

Lunde at 205-2234.

Tuesday, July 23, at the Livsreise Norweigian Heritage Center, 277 W. Printmaking workshop Main St. Vox Populi Print Collective will During “The Berdahl Family-from lead three hands-on workshops from Rags to Riches,” Sunde shares the noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at story of a poor tenant farmer family the Abel Contemporary Art Gallery, from Sogn, Norway, who made their 524 E. Main St. way to Minnesota and then South Participants will learn basic Dakota. The family became sucimage-making and printing tech- cessful farmers moving upward in niques with the guidance of an socioeconomic status. Sunde, who instructor.

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 Sunday: 9 a.m. worship, 10 a.m. coffee and fellowship

Christ the King Community Church 401 W. Main St., Stoughton • 877-0303 christthekingcc.org Sunday: 10 a.m. - Worship

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

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

Good Shepherd By The Lake Lutheran Church

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

Stoughton Kubb Invitational Stoughton will host the Kubb Invitational starting 8 a.m. Saturday, July 27, at John Nygaard Virgin Lake Park, 1901 Roby Road.

Kubb, also known as “Viking Chess,” is a Scandinavian game where players try to knock over wooden blocks with batons. It is described as a combination of horseshoe and bowling.

There is a team entrance fee of $40 and kids 12 years old and younger play free. All proceeds from the invitational will be donated to charities. Food will be available for purchase.

For information, email Todd Fossum at tfossum@eci-consulting.com

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

9209 Fulton St., Edgerton 884-8512 • fultonchurch.org Saturday: 8 a.m. prayer breakfast Sunday: 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Worship Coffee Fellowship: 9:10 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:30-10:30 a.m.

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

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

Christian Assembly Church

Watch Shari Sarazin present “Musical Summertime Travels” with her Celtic harp at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 23, at the senior center.

The harp artists will sing Celtic melodies to contemporary love ballads, along with personal twists on originals, according to the senior center’s website.

For information, call 873-8585.

1860 Hwy. 51 at Lake Kegonsa, Stoughton 873-5924 Sunday Worship: 8 and 10 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

Thursday, July 18

• 6-7:30 p.m., Gazebo Musikk, Rotary Park Gazebo, 324 S. Sixth St., facebook.com/gazebomusikk

Friday, July 19

• 8 a.m., Stoughton Hospital Blood Drive, Stoughton Hospital, 900 Ridge St, 873-2356 • 5 p.m. Relay For Life of Stoughton, Oregon and McFarland, Mandt Park, 400 Mandt Pkwy., 873-7847

Saturday, July 20

• Noon, Hands-on workshops, Abel Contemporary Art Gallery, 524 E. Main St., bcarlsen@wisc.edu • 5:30-8:30 p.m., Shakespeare in the State Parks – Romeo and Juliet, Lake Kegonsa State Park, summitplayerstheatre.com • 6 p.m., Bingo. Sons of Norway Mandt Lodge ( 317 S. Page St. 205-2234 • 8 p.m., Opera in the Park, Garner Park, Madison, 333 S. Rosa Road, madisonopera.org

Monday, July 22

• 2 p.m. Healthy Salads and Desserts No-Cook class, senior center, 873-8585

Tuesday, July 23

• 1:30 p.m., Shari Sarazin “Musical Summertime Travels,” senior center, 873-8585 • 4 p.m., “The Berdahl Family-from Rags to Riches,” Livsreise Norwegian Heritage Center, 277 W. Main St., 873-7567 • 6:30 p.m., Page Turners: Book Discussion Group, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, library, 873-6281 • 7 p.m., City of Stoughton Council meeting, Council Chambers/Public Safety Building, 321 S. Fourth St., 873-6677

Thursday, July 25

• 6:45 p.m., Stoughton City Band concert, Skaalen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 400 N. Morris St., stoughtonband.org • 7 p.m., Aligning Stars Theater presents “Chicago Musical,” Oregon Performing Arts Center, 456 N Perry Pkwy, 835-4492 • 6-7:30 p.m., Gazebo Musikk, Rotary Park Gazebo, 324 S. Sixth St., facebook.com/gazebomusikk

Stoughton Baptist Church

Corner of Williams Dr. & Cty. B, Stoughton 873-6517 Sunday: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Worship

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.; 10 a.m. - Full Worship

United Pentecostal Church of Stoughton

1501 E. Main St., Stoughton • 608-205-6444 Pastor Rich Thomas • rthomas@cgcmadison.org Sunday Worship: 10 a.m., Thursday Bible Study: 7 p.m.

Food pantries City of Stoughton Food Pantry The City of Stoughton Food Pantry, 520 S. Fourth St., is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

It will also be open from 4-6 p.m. Thursday evenings and the first Saturday of the month from 9-11 a.m.

SUMC Food Pantry The Stoughton United Methodist Church Food Pantry, 525 Lincoln Ave., is open from 9-11 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesdays. It will also be open from 5-7 p.m. Tuesdays.

Personal Essentials Pantry The Personal Essentials Pantry (PEP), 343 E. Main St., is open from 1-5 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays of each Month. The pantry will be closed on holidays and if SASD is closed due to weather.

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

Support groups Diabetic Support Group • 6 p.m., second Monday, Stoughton Hospital, 873-2356 Dementia Caregivers • 2 p.m., second Thursday, senior center, 873-8585

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Being proactive entails creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting for it to happen and then reacting to it. In this context,“proactive”is usually contrasted with “reactive,” and we are often open to the criticism that we should be more proactive.

Knowing that your car is having problems, the proactive response would be to make the repairs ahead of time rather than waiting for your car to break down on the side of the road. When thinking about the future, it is common for us to worry about events that may or may not happen, and thus we are often “pro-anxious,”when we might be proactive. Anxiety can serve a useful purpose in our lives; it has been aptly described as an alarm which warns us of danger. When we have legitimate anxieties, it is like the smoke alarm telling us that something is burning, but when we have anxiety over nothing, that is like the false alarm when nothing is on fire. When the anxieties are real, it is best to be proactive. When there is nothing we can do about the situation, the biblical advice to “not worry about tomorrow”is appropriate. When there is something we can and should do, we should follow the advice given in Proverbs, and be like the ant who stores up its food for the winter.

– 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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‘Passion project’ Midwest Best CBD Store opens in downtown Stoughton MACKENZIE KRUMME Unified Newspaper Group

The owners of downtown Stoughton’s CBD store said a lot of people in their lives are suffering.

“I get chronic migraines, our business partner had testicular cancer, my husband’s sister has breast cancer, my husband has blood c a n c e r,” s a i d M i d w e s t Best CBD co-owner Joree Ketelsen.

CBD oil, or cannabidiol oil, started as a passion project for Joree, her husband Stephen Ketelsen and their business partner Bryan Heins. Joree said there are so many illnesses that everyone is plagued with and they wanted to do something to help.

In April, they opened up Midwest Best CBD at 183 W. Main St., though they have been selling the Midwest Best brand of CBD oil online for more than a year.

The CBD oil is known for health benefits, particularly to ease severe epileptic seizures, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

CBD is derived from the hemp plant, the same plant used to make hemp textiles and hemp seeds, according to Midwest Best’s website.

Most CBD oil is derived from industrial hemp rather than the marijuana strains.

In Wisconsin, CBD oil must have less than .3 percent of THC, a main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, a negligible amount that will not have any psychoactive effects.

“At this point in my life I don’t want to get (high),” Joree said. “But I know that there are benefits to the marjuiana plant so it’s nice that we get the benefit without feeling out of control.”

Inside the store, customers can buy from a selection that includes topicals, oils, CBD coffee, edibles, capsules and flower forms.

Joree, a 2005 Stoughton High School graduate, said they weren’t sure how the community was going to respond to their store but the results have been positive.

“The community has been really accepting, which we appreciate,” said Joree. “They come in and realize that we are not a smoke shop, we are just here to help.”

Joree personally uses CBD to reduce her anxiety and migraines. She said she’s been taking anxiety medication since she was a preteen and after using CBD she no longer has to.

Stephen said they use the topical salve on their children when their muscles are

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Co-owners of Midwest Best CBD store, Stephen and Joree Ketelsen, opened in April aftering finding CBD oil helped with their aches, pains, migranes and anxiety.

Midwest Best CBD 183 W. Main St. 205-2830 midwestbestcbd.com Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. sore from playing sports. “ E v e r y o n e i s d i ff e rent,” Stephen said. “There are some people that this doesn’t work for, but for us it’s been great.”

Joree and Stephen have three acres of hemp they grow in Southern Wisconsin. Once the hemp is harvested they work with a Madison doctor on creating a CBD formula to have what they consider a quality product.

Because there is so little regulation on who can make CBD, Joree and Stephen wanted to create a good tasting quality product.

“There are people making (stuff) in their basement and calling it CBD,” said Stephen. “It’s like the wild west out there and it’s unfortunate because it’s a great product.”

While the legal status of selling it still has some ambiguity, former state Attorney

Business in brief Local financial adviser attends women’s conferences Stoughton Edward Jones financial adviser Jessica Knutson recently attended a pair of conferences recognizing top female advisers.

The first conference, the “Barron’s

General Brad Schmiel advised in a May 2018 memo against law enforcement taking enforcement action against products made from industrial hemp, including CBD. Gov. Tony Evers proposed making medical marijuana legal in his first budget earlier this year, but Republican legislators have come out against the proposal and control both houses of the legislature.

In the future, they hope to have educational seminars on CBD and the benefits. Soon they will offer a private seminar to service members, including police and firefighters, to help understand the difference between CBD and marijuana.

If customers have questions, the Ketelsens encourage people to come to the store. They spend anywhere from 10 minutes to more than one hour with

Midwest Best CBD store on Main Street is the former Firehouse Tattoos. The new owners painted the walls white and took advantage of the large windows at the store front to brighten up the interior. customers, talking about CBD, lifestyles, symptoms and how they believe CBD can help.

“Usually people hear about CBD from a friend or relative, and they have a lot of questions,” said Stephen.

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Spilde, Prahl to represent Vikings in AllStar Game ADAM FEINER Sports editor

Stoughton High School will be represented by a player and a coach in the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association AllStar Game on Saturday, July 20.

Cade Spilde – a 2019 SHS graduate – and head football coach Dan Prahl will be on the South Large Cade Spilde School team for the game, which will be played at 5 p.m. at Titan Stadium on the campus of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

“We expect to win,” Spilde said, “But at the same time we’re playing for a good cause. It’s about meeting new people and playing a game against the best guys in the state.”

Spilde did a little bit of everything for a Vikings team that finished 6-4 last fall. The 5-foot10, 165-pounder was a first-team Badger South

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Oregon Veterinary Clinic’s Uriah Brockner hits off the tee during the minors championship game on Sunday, July 14 at Oak Knoll Park in Stoughton. The tee was used in the minors tournament if the count reached four balls before the ball was put in play or a strikeout was recorded.

Beating the heat ADAM FEINER Sports editor

Stoughton Area Little League hosted its annual 10B and 12B baseball tournaments on Saturday, July 13 and Sunday, July 14 at Oak Knoll Park.

The 10B tournament, or minors, is for players entering grades 3 and 4.

The 12B tournament, or majors, is for players entering grades 5 and 6.

Five teams played in IndepenDENT PDR’s Aiden Klawitter (right) slides into home safely to score the go-ahead run during the majors championship game on each tournament.

O r eg o n Ve t e r i n a r y Sunday, July 14 at Oak Knoll Park in Stoughton.

Clinic scored early to beat Altenburg Investments 6-0 in the minors championship game.

IndepenDENT PDR scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to beat Home Brokerage & Realty 2-1 in the majors championship game.

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Utica rallies

by Lake Mills MARK NESBITT Assistant sports editor

Utica kept its Home Talent League playoff hopes alive after an 8-4 comeback win over Lake Mills on Sunday, July 4.

Utica (5-7) trails Evansville and Fort Atkinson (7-4) by 2.5 games for the final playoff spot.

“We are not mathematically eliminated,” Utica player-manager Christian Stokstad said. “We have to keep winning and hope the right teams lose. I’m more worried about us continuing to improve and taking care of business.”

Utica lost 9-1 in a home Night League game against Albion on Thursday, July 11. The A’s dropped to 0-5 in the Night League.

Brock Wanninger played a pivotal role in the A’s comeback win.

Wanniger went 4-for-5 with two doubles and an RBI. He also pitched three shutout innings in relief to get the win.

Oregon Veterinary Clinic’s Jaxson Nielsen pitches during the minors championship game on Sunday.

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Home Brokerage & Realty’s Givon Storkson (right) bats during the minors championship game on Sunday.

Senior Legion baseball

Vikings snap six-game slide against rival Panthers MARK NESBITT Assistant sports editor

The Stoughton Senior Legion baseball team got the green light from coach Ben Gerber and the Vikings stole eight bases en route to a 9-0 road win over Oregon on Tuesday, July 16.

Stoughton (6-10) snapped a six-game losing streak with the victory. A stretch of six games in five days tested the Stoughton team’s pitching depth over the past week.

That included four at the Fort Atkinson Tournament Friday, July 12 through Sunday, July 14.

Stoughton is gearing up for the Senior Legion Tournament in Beaver Dam. The Vikings will play Lomira/ Theresa at 3 p.m. on Friday.

“I’m glad it happened last week and not this week, now that it really matters,” Stoughton coach Ben Gerber said.

The losing streak started

with an 8-4 road loss to Beaver Dam on Wednesday, July 10. On the next day in Stoughton, the Vikings lost to Beaver Dam 9-3.

In the first game of the t o u r n a m e n t , E a s t Tr oy topped Stoughton 11-1 on Friday. The Vikings lost to Cedarburg 4-3 on Saturday. In a second game

on Saturday, Lake Geneva defeated the Vikings 5-2.

St. Mary’s Catholic rolled to a 12-0 five-inning win over Stoughton on Sunday.

Gerber said he wanted the team to take away a “battling approach” despite falling behind early in games.

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Youth swimming

Aqua Racers win five events at Waunakee ADAM FEINER Sports editor

The Stoughton Aqua Racers were one of 10 teams to compete at the Waunakee Wave Beach Ball Bash on Wednesday, July 10 at Waunakee High School.

STAR’s Ainsley Gerard won the 50-yard freestyle (30.32) and 50-yard backstroke (34.54) in the girls’ 9-10 age division. Gerard edged teammate Jenna Koel (36.46) in the backstroke.

Koel won the 50-yard butterfly in 32.71 seconds, beating out Gerard (32.92). The duo helped the Aqua Racers finish third with 110 points in the 9-10 age division. Koel also took second in the girls 10 and under 100-yard IM (1:23.98).

Cheyenne Borroughs, 11, won the 100-yard breaststroke by more than 5 seconds with a time of 1:15.99. STAR finished fourth with 75 points in the 11-12 age division.

Julian Callender, 12, won the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:13.50, helping the Aqua Racers take third with 135 points in the boys 11-12 age division. Oregon Community Swim Club edged the Aqua Racers 218-163 in the boys 9-10 age division.

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ABOVE: The Stoughton Aqua Racers’ Ainsley Gerard, 10, competes in the 50-yard butterfly at the Waunakee Wave Beach Ball Bash on Wednesday, July 10 at Waunakee High School.

LEFT: The Stoughton Aqua Racers’ Hunter Johnson, 10, competes in the 50-yard butterfly at the Waunakee Wave Beach Ball Bash on Wednesday, July 10 at Waunakee High School.

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Slide: Milbauer, Yahn combine for four hits, three RBIs Continued from page 8 “We gave up more runs in the first inning than we have all year,” Gerber said of Sunday’s game. “We were always playing catch up.”

Stoughton 9, Oregon 0 Kadin Milbauer went 2-for-2 with three walks, three stolen bases and three runs scored to lead the Vikings past the Panthers.

“It feels great to bounce back,” Milbauer said. “We weren’t playing baseball like we know how to play baseball. It was nice to come here and get a win and prepare for the upcoming tournament.”

Milbauer ripped a double to left in the first inning off Oregon starter Bryce Holtman. Brady Estervig then singled, and Milbauer raced home on a double steal.

“I always put pressure on myself to be the best I can be,” Milbauer said.

“My main goal as the leadoff hitter is to get on base, and I know I have good hitters behind me to hit me in.”

Ethan Yahn, who went 2-for-5 with three RBIs, lined an RBI single to center to give Stoughton a 2-0 lead.

Owen Chase also had an RBI single to center. The Vikings had four stolen bases in the first.

“Our philosophy this whole summer is to play small ball, move runners over, be aggressive on the bases,” Gerber said. “We did a perfect job of doing it.”

Estervig drove in a run on a sacrifice fly in the second to give the Vikings a 4-0 lead.

Stoughton tacked on four runs in the third. The big blow came on Yahn’s two-run single. Derek Karlen also had an RBI single.

all-conference selection as a linebacker and punter and second-team all-conference as a kicker.

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Merchants power past Waterloo MARK NESBITT Assistant sports editor

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Stoughton’s Ryan Curry tossed a seven-hit shutout to lead the Vikings to a 9-0 road win over Oregon on Tuesday, July 16.

Ryan Curry pitched a complete-game shutout for the Vikings.

He scattered seven hits, struck out 10 and walked one.

“He’s always been our ace,” Gerber said. “He’s the guy who we always want the ball in his hands.”

St. Mary’s 12, Stoughton 0

Owen Lynch started and lasted 6 1/3 innings. He gave up five runs on four hits and struck out three.

Cedarburg 4, Stoughton 3 Milbauer drove in two runs on a single in the sixth, but the Vikings’ comeback bid came up short in a loss to Cedarburg on Saturday.

Cedarburg led 4-1 after four innings.

Yahn went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Ryan Curry tossed six innings and gave up four earned runs on nine hits.

He struck out five and walked one.

The Vikings were plagued by four errors.

East Troy 11, Stoughton 1

The Vikings were limited to three hits in a 12-0, five-inning loss to St. Mary’s on Sunday.

Owen Chase pitched four innings and gave up nine earned runs.

The Vikings committed two errors.

Gerber said the six games in five days tested the depth of its pitching.

Lake Geneva 5, East Troy jumped out to an early Stoughton 2 lead on Friday with a five-run first off Stoughton rallied, but Lake Geneva Stoughton pitcher Ryan Ellingson.

East Troy scored three runs in the scored two runs in the sixth to seal a 5-2 win over the Vikings on Saturday. third to extend its lead to 8-1 and Karlen, Yahn and Milbauer each rolled to the victory. The Vikings comwent 2-for-4. mitted two errors.

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seven for loss), two fumble recoveries, a forced fumble, an interception and half a sack in 2018.

He averaged 37.7 yards per punt, with 10 of 25 punts landed inside the 20-yard line. He was also

3-for-5 on field goals, and 18-for-19 on extra points.

Prahl will serve as an assistant coach for the South Large School team in his first appearance at the WFCA All-Star Game.

“You hear from other

coaches what it’s like,” Prahl said. “I’m coming in open-minded. I just want to have fun and enjoy it for the experience. This is bigger than football.

It’s really cool to see how together everyone is.”

Dave Hanson and Jake Wenzel blasted home runs, and the Stoughton Home Talent team crushed Waterloo 18-0 on the road Sunday, July 14.

Stoughton (9-3) remained in third place in the Southeast Section with four regular season games left. The Merchants trail second-place Jefferson by one game and Albion by 2.5 games.

On Thursday, July 11, the Merchants jumped out to an early lead and held on for a 5-4 win over Fort Atkinson.

Stoughton 18, Waterloo 0 Hanson blasted a three-run home run in the sixth inning and Wenzel hit a grand slam in the seventh to lead the Merchants to the rout.

Stoughton belted out 13 hits. Ervin Medina went 2-for-3. Winder Fuentes went 2-for-4 with a double, and Caleb Broege also went 2-for-4.

“We were due,” Stoughton manager Dale Seffens said. “We put it all together.

We are starting to get to the end of the year and all of the games are meaningful.”

Stoughton jumped out to an early lead with four runs in the second. The Merchants tacked on five runs in the fourth.

Ben Riffle allowed just three hits in the shutout. He struck out two and did not issue a walk. Erick Sperloen

Southeast Section Team W L GB Albion 12 1 Jefferson 10 2 1.5 Stoughton 9 3 2.5 Evansville 7 4 4 Fort Atkinson 7 4 4 Utica 5 7 6.5 McFarland 3 8 8 Cambridge 2 9 9 Waterloo 1 9 9.5 Lake Mills 1 10 10 gave up two hits in two innings of relief.

Night League Stoughton 5, Fort Atkinson 4 Hanson and Medina combined for five hits to propel the Merchants to a win over Fort Atkinson last Thursday.

Stoughton scored two runs in the first inning and three in the second. Medina went 2-for-2, while and Hanson was 2-for-3. Yonardo Herdenez and Ryan Nyhagen were 2-for-5.

Riffle started and pitched two innings. Sperloen tossed four innings in relief and gave up one earned run on five hits. He struck out four and did not issue a walk.

Herdenez struck out the one batter he faced to get the save.

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The remaining building on the Riverfront Redevelopment Area, called the blacksmith shop, partially collapsed in October.

Blacksmith: No plan to preserve bricks Continued from page 1 Springman shared during Wednesday’s meeting that Earth has until Dec. 31 to demolish the building, and it does not plan to preserve any of the bricks from the building, Springman said.

“They’re going to use machines and dump it in a pile, which means there’s going to be a lot of broken bricks,” he said. “They would not accept any other way to do it,” he added, stating that it’s going to be “quick in and out work.”

A developer the RDA is considering working with has proposed using bricks from the building in a new building that would pay homage to the 114-year-old structure, which has ties to the city’s founding trailer-building

industry. But preserving the bricks requires a more careful, hands-on method that would stack them to be reused. The bricks are soft, which means they will break even more easily, Springman said.

The RDA has until Oct. 15 to find a different company that could demolish the building and preserve the bricks, but under the settlement, it would have to abide by the $40,000 amount that Earth had agreed to, Springman explained. Because of the dollar limitation, the city would have to bid the demolition for other contractors, and it’s unlikely the turnaround would be in time to meet that deadline.

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redevelopment project – Curtis Brink – if he is interested in taking on the demolition and also preserving the bricks.

Even if the RDA were to find another contractor by Oct. 15, Earth could request demolition sooner. It would need to meet with the city to obtain a permit before the demolition could occur, and that pre-demo meeting has not yet been scheduled.

Springman said Earth had told the city it would be unable to perform the work before that time.

The legal debate started late last year after an October windstorm knocked out a portion of the building, and the two entities had been at odds over who should pay for it.

Earth Construction felt it had satisfied the requirements of its contract with the RDA, but the commission felt the company failed to maintain the building, which was contractually obligated to be protected during the demolition of the Highway Trailer complex.

The RDA had voted the year before to demolish the entire Highway Trailer complex, but a public outcry led to a compromise to leave just the one building standing, with a goal of historic restoration.

Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Amber Levenhagen at at amber. levenhagen@wcinet.com.

while serving as a medic in Saigon. He waited 30 years to read them, and felt compelled to write Kendall’s story.

Fortney’s latest novel, “Tempest North,” released last month, also contains a personal touch from his decades of enjoying the wonders of Wisconsin’s northwoods, where he’s spent lots of time fishing, as well as writing. The story is a “family saga” based in part on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” and looks at how environmental and corporate interests collide, both in northern Wisconsin and in Canada.

Fortney called the middle section of the book “maybe the best nature writing I’ve ever done.”

“It all comes down to a trout stream and a giant brook trout and if you can’t save that, you can’t save anything,” he said.

Empire’s Children While Fortney had written about his brother before privately, and in letters to the Hub, this was the first time he “officially” got something down in print – 50 years after his brother’s death.

“I kind of knew I was going to do that at some point,” he told the Hub last week.”(Finally) enough there was distance, and I could go look at the letters.”

Fortney calls the book, with several letters from his mother and cousin, “a bit of caution about the call to war, a bit of skepticism about the call to war, a bit of resistance about the call to war.”

“It ends with a kind of meditation on my grandchildren and great grandchildren, and a question,” he said. “It turns out to be about Vietnam and about Kendall, but much broader than that.”

A memoir with a fictional element, the story follows Kendall Fortney as he declares himself a

On the web To find Fortney’s books, search for:

“Empire’s Children: Vietnam, the home front” and “Tempest North” on Amazon.com. conscientious objector and “turned himself into a medic” before being sent to Vietnam, where he was soon killed during a mortar attack.

“Apparently he’d just successfully delivered his first child from a Vietnamese woman,” Fortney said.

“A little bit of irony there.”

Several letters home are printed verbatim, Fortney said, with a goal to try to “stick as close as I possibly could to the facts.”

“You can read letters from a man in Vietnam just before he died,” he said.

What started as more of a family history turned into a novel examining the context of decision-making of the U.S. government during the war, “in the context of a contemporary thinking about it, and the nation at war.”

And while time has healed some wounds, others remain.

Fotney said later admissions long after the war by people like former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that it was a mistake are anything but gratifying.

“The whole idea of that war to begin with as a mistake was pretty current in my thinking pretty early on, so I was not surprised

by McNamara,” he said. “(But) that just makes it worse. There were 50,000plus Americans who should not have died for that kind of thing.”

responding to the attempt to create a ruinous copper and iron mine in Ashland County on Native American reservation territory; based on the real-life Gogebic mine controversy in that county.

“They begin to see that the impact of the mine on the area would be devastating, so they turn into protestors and turn themselves from protesting into almost ecoterrorists; trying to do something to stop the madness,” Fortney said.

The second part, based on Herman Melville’s “The Enchanted Islands,” he said, deals with the same mining company, but up in Ontario, the site of a pristine, valuable trout stream. Other family members who travel north discover a mining operation that could endanger the stream, while having “a bunch of adventures with a giant brook trout.”

In the third section – the “real surprise of the book,” Fortney said – the family helps create an “ecological, spiritual almost religion liturgy,” similar to the “ancient liturgies of the church of the Middle Ages and even up until the present day.”

“These liturgies created the worldview that a lot of people agreed to, and they know their place in nature and relationship to God and the king and society and the world,” he explained.

“So they’re going to create a liturgy that rethinks those relationships in ecological terms, at the end of the Tempest North book, they have created the Fortney’s latest three-part liturgy and perform it to novel stems from a 2015 help save the planet, even book, “The Cabin: A North though it may be too late.”

Woods Memoir,” which Email Unified Newspaper takes place in Bayfield Group reporter Scott De County.

He stays in that part of Laruelle at scott.delaruelle@wcinet.com. the state, with a fictionalized account of a family

Legals LEGAL NOTICE Mini Warehouses 1118 East Street in Stoughton, WI. Storage unit #61 disposal of contents owned by Shaun C Derr. Date of disposal July 26th at 1118 East Street in Stoughton, WI. Property Description: 4 old broken gas tanks, old tool box broken & rusted, unusable suit case, personal items.

Seifert-Pauls Partnership, LLP Published: July 11 and 18, 2019 WNAXLP *** SECTION 00 11 13 ADVERTISEMENT TO BID BUSINESS PARK EXPANSION CONTRACT 3 2019 CITY OF STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN Sealed Bids for the Business Park Expansion project will be received by the City of Stoughton at Stoughton City Hall, 207 South Forrest Street, Stoughton, WI, 53589, until 1 P.M., local time, on July 31, 2019, at which time the Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

The Work includes construction of the following approximate quantities: 2,000 linear feet of sanitary sewer; 2,200 linear feet of water main; 2,700 linear feet of storm sewer; common excavation; stormwater detention basin construction; site grading; 11,000 tons of base course; 4,500 linear feet of curb and gutter; 500 square feet of concrete sidewalk and driveway apron; 2,800 tons of asphalt pavement; restoration; and related miscellaneous work.

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 #6392126 on the websites 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 Bidders 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 responsible Bidder.

Prospective Bidders are required to complete and submit a prequalification questionnaire with supporting documents to OWNER (see Instructions to Bidders). Prequalification forms will be provided with Bidding Document sets.

Completed forms are to be submitted no later than 5 P.M., local time, on July 25, 2019.

The Strand Associates, Inc.® project manager is Mark A. Fisher, 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 Holly Licht, City Clerk Dated at City of Stoughton, Wisconsin Published: July 11 and 18, 2019 WNAXLP *** NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE C.N.R. Storage holds a lien on and intends to sell the personal property owned by Tom Anderson stored in Unit #75 on August 2nd 2019 at 10:00 am at 1457 Oak Opening Dr., Stoughton, WI 53589.

A brief and general description of items stored: Scaffolding, Paint Supplies, Fishing Poles, Dresser.

Terms of the sale CASH. Items may be viewed at 9:45 am on the day of the sale. All items sold as is whereas with no warranties expressed or implied. All items must be removed from the unit the day of the sale. Sale subject to adjournment.

Published: July 18 and 25, 2019 WNAXLP *** NOTICE TOWN OF PLEASANT SPRINGS This is to notify anyone it may concern a change of agent has been applied for to have Sarah Ann Lindrin serve as agent for Road Ranger, LLC., d/b/a Road Ranger 136, located at 2762 County Highway N, Cottage Grove, WI, 53527, for a Class “A” Fermented Malt Beverage License in the Town of Pleasant Springs, Dane County, Wisconsin. /s/Maria Hougan Clerk/Treasurer Posted: July 11, 2019 Published: July 18, 2019 WNAXLP *** MEETING OF: COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF STOUGHTON DATE//TIME: TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019 @ 7:00 P.M. LOCATION: COUNCIL CHAMBERS (2ND FLOOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING) 321 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN Members: Mayor Tim Swadley, Matt Bartlett, Sid Boersma, Phil Caravello, Ozzie Doom, Ben Heili, Regina Hirsch, Greg Jenson, Jean Ligocki, Tom Majewski, Lisa Reeves, Timothy Riley, and Brett Schumacher CALL TO ORDER Roll Call, Communications, and Presentations: Mayor Swadley called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m.

Clerk Licht called the roll and noted that there were 12 alders present.

Minutes and Reports: the following minutes were entered in the record.

Planning Commission (5/6/19); RDA (5/8/19); Landmarks Commission

(5/9/19); Utilities (5/20/19); Parks & Rec (5/21/19); Whitewater Park Steering Committee (5/20/19) Public Comment Period: Denise Duranczyk, 324 Sherman St., spoke regarding the Downtown Revitalization Committee.

Roger Springman, 812 Kriedeman Dr., said that tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. there will be an RDA meeting with a potential developer at the Fire Department Training Room.

Glenn Dillard, 736 Berry St., spoke regarding O-21-2019.

Marsha and Micheael Berigan, 1509 W Milwaukee St., spoke regarding O-212019.

Catherine Napier, 100 Ashberry Lane, spoke regarding O-21-2019 and encouraged the council to vote in favor of the ordinance.

CONSENT AGENDA A. June 11, 2019 Council Minutes B. R-92-2019- Resolution Authorizing and directing the proper City official (s) to issue Operator Licenses C. Stoughton Utilities Payments Due List Report; Stoughton Utilities April 2019 Financial Summary; Stoughton Utilities April 2019 Statistical Report; Utilities Director’s Report: The First 100 Days D. R-93-2019- Confirming the Mayor’s Citizen Appointment of Cheryl Schumacher to the Arts Council, pursuant to 2-127 of the Stoughton Municipal Code E. R-101-2019- Confirming the Mayor’s Citizen Appointments of Bob Barnett and Steve Fortney to the Hall of Fame Committee, pursuant to 2-127 of the Stoughton Municipal Code Motion by Boersma, second by Jenson to approve the consent agenda.

Motion carried 11-0 with Schumacher abstaining.

OLD BUSINESS O-20-2019- Amending the zoning classification of certain lands located west of US Highway 51 and north of State Highway 138 in the City of Stoughton from RH—Rural Holding to SR5—Single Family Residential, and I—Institutional Motion by Caravello, second by Bartlett to approve O-20-2019.

NEW BUSINESS Discussion and possible action regarding a contract with Slipstream for services related to OEI Municipal Energy project

Motion by Hirsch, second by Heili to appoint Cory Neely as the contractor to represent the City of Stoughton in the Contract. Motion carried 12-0.

R-94-2019- Authorizing and directing the proper City official(s) to approve the Stoughton Utilities 2018 Wastewater treatment facility and sanitary sewer collection system Compliance Maintenance Annual Report (CMAR) Motion by Hirsch, second by Riley approve R-94-2019. Motion carried 12-0.

R-95-2019- Resolution by the Common Council of the City of Stoughton conditionally approving the Preliminary Plat for Stoughton Hospital Motion by Caravello, second by Riley to approve R-95-2019. Motion carried 12-0.

R-96-2019- Resolution by the Common Council of the City of Stoughton conditionally approving the Final Plat of Kettle Park West-North Addition Motion by Caravello, second by Riley to approve R-96-2019. Motion carried 12-0.

R-97-2019- Resolution by the Common Council of the City of Stoughton Conditionally Approving a Certified Survey Map Associated with Kettle Park West Motion by Caravello, second by Riley to approve R-97-2019. Motion carried 12-0.

R-98-2019-Resolution to Accept the Proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment Documents and Set a Public Hearing Date Motion by Caravello, second by Riley to approve R-98-2019. Motion carried 12-0.

O- 21-2019- Amending Zoning Code Section 78-718 (3) (i) of the Stoughton Municipal Code Caravello read O-21-2019 for the first reading.

Motion by Boersma, second by Reeves to send O-21-2019 to a joint meeting of the Utilities and Public Work Committees. Motion carried 12-0.

R-99-2019- Approving a financial agreement between the State of Wisconsin and the City of Stoughton for costs for road improvements to US Highway 51 from Page St. to Hoel Avenue, currently scheduled to be constructed in 2020 Motion by Schumacher, second by Riley to approve R-99-2019. Motion carried 12-0.

Discussion and possible action regarding engaging Ehlers and Associates as the City of Stoughton’s municipal advisor and authorizing the Director of Finance to sign the agreement Motion by Jenson, second by Schumacher to authorize the Finance Director to sign the agreement with Ehlers and Associates. Motion carried 12-0.

Discussion and possible action regarding revised CIP Budget Schedule Motion by Jenson, second by Heili to approve yhe revised schedule. Motion carried 12-0.

R-100-2019- Authorizing and directing the proper City officials (s) to adopt a social media policy Motion by Ligocki, second by Heili to approve R-100-2019. Motion carried 12-0.

Adjournment Motion by Boersma, second by Jenson to adjourn at 9:18 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted, Holly Licht, City Clerk Published: July 18, 2019 WNAXLP *** INVITATION TO COMMENT ON A PROPOSED COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY US Cellular Corp. proposes to collocate additional telecommunications antennas upon the rooftop penthouse of the Stoughton Hospital building located at 900 Ridge Street in Stoughton, Wisconsin (approx. coords: 42-55-14.6N, 8912-40.5W). Interested persons are invited to identify historic sites already listed in, or that may be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in the vicinity of the proposed facility and to identify potential effects the facility may cause to these sites. Questions or comments may be submitted to the following contact: Jake Rieb, Edge Consulting Engineers, 624 Water Street, Prairie du Sac, WI 53578; Phone: 608.644.1449; Email: jrieb@edgeconsult.com. This notice is provided in accordance with the regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, 47 C.F.R. Part 1, Appendices B and C. (#21672) Published: July 18, 2019 WNAXLP ***

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Plans for the site of the former Marathon gas station, located at 314 W. Main St., could be stalled due to deed restrictions on the property that were found this spring.

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Marathon: Apartment project planned for years could be dropped if restrictions not lifted

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Wednesday meeting Nelson had met with Springman and mayor Tim Swadley and reported that Nelson was still interested in the development, but the restriction would need to be removed.

Damages the RDA could seek include attorney fees, the purchase price of the property, the price of the adjacent, now combined, property that was purchased in 2012 and lost tax increment. Commissioners and staff are still trying to figure out what else the RDA might be entitled to, though the key loss might be simply be time.

An attorney for Dane C o u n t y Ti t l e h a d n o t responded for comment as of Tuesday afternoon.

Since purchasing the property, the RDA has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in environmental remediation to prepare the site for apartments.

That included removing the underground gas tanks and the surrounding structure, as well as the demolition of an adjacent foreclosed home that was purchased and demolished in 2013.

It also paid $169,000 for the property.

“If we had known that it was going to prohibit us from developing it, we wouldn’t have paid as much for it or ever bought it because we had ideas that it was going to be redeveloped,” alder and committee member Regina Hirsch said during the Wednesday night meeting. “We’re the Redevelopment Authority; we weren’t going to make it into a park.”

Development attempts The city has been trying to redevelop the property – which now combines two lots – for nearly a decade.

A month after purchasing the 314 W. Main Street site, the RDA had the gas station demolished. Cleanup of the site was supported by a $30,000 EPA grant.

In an effort to maximize its potential, the RDA later purchased a lot that had been foreclosed on in 2012 at 217 S. Prairie St., on the northwest corner of the site.

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Getting the limitations removed could be complicated.

The RDA needs to notify Speedway of its intent to remove the restriction, and Speedway has several weeks to respond. It would then move to Dane County Circuit Court, likely in September, where a judge would decide whether to remove the restriction.

Speedway would have 45 days to appeal if the judge rules in the RDA’s favor.

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removed the gas tanks and added protections that could eliminate the potential for hazardous fumes, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources gave the city the OK to build apartment buildings on the site.

The covenant is there to protect Speedway from potential legal action if someone claims to have been harmed by the environmental impact, even years after Speedway no longer owns the site.

Covenants can be enforced by the original owner, as well as any neighboring owner, even if that landowner was not the person who originally imposed the covenant. Covenants apply to the property itself, not any specific owner, so the limitations are legally binding for anybody who buys the property.

Restrictive covenants date back to 18 and 19th century England, when property owners sometimes used covenants to prevent a factory from operating in order to protect area farmers.

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department was more interested in extending the character of downtown further west than it was in building homes.

After investing more than $300,000 into the property, the RDA agreed to sell it to Nelson for $72,000 in 2017. He agreed to create $800,000 in taxable value by the end of 2019, but after five extensions of the closing date, that number has since increased to $900,000.

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That could put the apartment project that has been in the works for years in jeopardy of being abandoned.

Developer Todd Nelson had agreed to be responsible for creating $900,000 in taxable value by the end of this year, which now appears impossible.

RDA chair Roger Springman said during the

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