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Police officer Craig Julseth sits in a dunk tank as Hunter Lee, 7, throws a ball to drop him in the cold water during National Night Out at Nordic Ridge Park on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

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The Stoughton Police Department the K9 to attendees and squared off hosted its first National Night Out against kids in tug of war. at Nordic Ridge Park on Tuesday, Aug. 6. Police officers faced the cold – Justin Loewen waters of a dunk tank, introduced Ole

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Stoughton Opera House

2019-20 season is ‘particularly strong’ BILL LIVICK Hub correspondent

Another season of live music is about to descend on the Stoughton Opera House.

With more than 60 performances scheduled between Sept. 15 and June 26 next year, the historic venue will host performers whose talents range from folk, bluegrass and country music to rock, blues, jazz and experimental. The new season will also feature some noted comedians.

It begins with a tribute to country music historian Bill Malone, who in 1968

Ticket sales begin What: Stoughton Opera House ticket sales begin for the general public When: 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 19 Where: 381 E. Main St., Stoughton Phone: 877-4400 Email: operahouse@ci.stoughton.wi.us published the definitive book on the genre (County Music, U.S.A.) and has been hosting the popular “Back to the County” show on WORT radio in Madison since the mid-1990s.

Malone, professor emeritus of history at Tulane University, will be joined by his wife, Bobbie, to talk about highlights from a life in music and academia, and also his recent work with

documentarian Ken Burns.

Burns’ multi-part production will be aired nationally on public television, and visitors to the Opera House will have an opportunity to view the premier episode on its big screen. Some of Malone’s friends from the Madison area will also be on hand to perform and share stories.

Opera House director Bill Brehm told the

Hub the upcoming season feels “particularly strong” because he tried to be “a little more discerning” about the performers he booked.

“You can’t have everybody during any given season,” he observed. “Often, there’s a desire to say yes to everybody you know is a great act and to try to make that happen.”

“I feel like it’s always partially analytical and partly a creative process,” he added.

As in years past, Brehm said, he tried to strike a balance between returning performers and artists making their first appearance there.

Among the latter is New Orleans’ Carsie Blanton,

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Open for business Main Street stores still accessible during construction MACKENZIE KRUMME Unified Newspaper Group

When Todd Barman saw the Aug. 5 public notice that Main Street would be closing for 12 days in front of the business he and his wife run, Stoughton Sweet Shoppe, they contacted the city to find out more.

His main concern is not the ability of customers to

access the business, even though both of its access points – on Main Street and Monroe Street – will be under construction. It’s the loss of foot traffic because of barriers saying road closed.

“The challenge we face is getting the word out that (customers) can still get to our front door,” Barman told the Hub. Though an open house discussed the possibility of a closure as far back as Jan. 17, according to an email

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Unified Newspaper Group lost a rising star this past weekend.

Amber Levenhagen, our Oregon and Stoughton local government reporter, wa s fa t a l l y injured in a multivehicle car wreck Friday, Aug. 9, on Interstate 94 while return- Levenhagen ing home to Madison from Oconomowoc. She was 25.

Levenhagen joined UNG in October 2016, a few months after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She quickly became an indispensable member of our community reporting team, focusing on Stoughton, and helped establish a strong bond with the community that had been lacking.

In short, she was everywhere, and she was

well-known around town.

When her opportunity came to take on the grittier, more painstaking work of reporting on budgets, ordinance changes and arguments over alcohol policies, she didn’t just tackle it, she loved it. The messier the better.

To her colleagues, she was a newsroom leader who held herself and others to high standards, and did so with grace and good humor. She viewed it as her personal responsibility to ensure the quality of our newspapers.

She also had a strong and convincing voice in office debates about social justice issues, helping to promote equity through coverage decisions, phrasing and word choices.

One of the stories she enjoyed covering most was the ongoing Ted Bruno murder case, a yearslong process that involved sifting through court documents and attending hearings. And she was particularly proud of a series she was working on regarding a sex offender facility in the Town of Rutland and the program that put it there. She enjoyed covering anything that got people riled up or was

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Suicide awareness presentation in Cooksville

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Talk focuses on prevention, myths and realities MACKENZIE KRUMME Unified Newspaper Group

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Ole the K9 enjoys lots of attention during National Night Out at Nordic Ridge Park on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

Rhianna Starr, 10, throws a baseball towards a net as police officer Andrew Johnson looks for the reading from a radar speed sign during National Night Out at Nordic Ridge Park on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

Children face off against police in a game of tug of war during National Night Out.

Safe Communities Madison-Dane Co. encourages anyone who wants to learn about myths associated with suicide and how to talk about it, to attend the free talk at the Cooksville Community Center.

The program offered by Jean Papalia will give a presentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20 center, at the corner of Hwy 50 and Church St. The presentation is 75 minutes to conclude with a Q&A discussion.

Mary Zimmerman, former member of the Safe Communities Madison-Dane Co. and member of the Cooksville Community Center, said people need to keep talking about the subject of suicide, because it continues to be a very serious problem.

“You hear stories from celebrities down to people that you know closely. Even though there have been efforts in many years Dane County and Rock County to try and address this. The numbers are not coming down,” Zimmerman said.

Papalia will present a powerpoint from the QPR institute, which hopes to reduce suicidal behaviors and provide prevention training according to their website. QPR stands for “questions, persuade and refer.”

Questions refers to asking

If you go What: Suicide Prevention Program When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20 Where: Cooksville Community Center, Hwy 59 and Church St. Info: email Mary Zimmerman at mary.rita.zimmerman@gmail. com a person about suicide, which Zimmerman said is the most powerful thing to do with someone who you think might be in that situation. Then persuade is about providing empathy and persuading someone to get help.

And lastly refer, which is to refer someone to the appropriate resources.

The presentation will also touch on Dane County and Wisconsin stastitics on suicide.

“My hope is that people go away feeling a little more prepared to help someone who they think might be in a situation where they are considering taking their life. They also have more knowledge about suicide – what the myths are and what the reality is,” said Zimmerman.

If you or someone you know is thinking about taking their own life, call the national suicide prevention life line at 1-800-273TALK (8255).

Contact Mackenzie at mackenzie. krumme@wcinet.com.

‘Glass Storm’ Lovells share their story of the Stoughton tornado through a book

If You Go What: Book launch of “Glass Storm; The 2005 Stoughton, Wisconsin Tornado” When: 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19 Where: Stoughton Public LIbrary Info: 873-6281

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M a r y L ove l l , a g e 9 , remembers the exact words her mother said to her on Aug. 18, 2005.

“Honey, I love you; I think I’m going to die – there is a tornado coming at the house.”

And then the line went dead.

Mary’s mother Sally survived, though, and 14 years later they wrote a 117 page book of the day an F3 tornado devastated the northern part of the city.

The authors welcome the community to a book launch 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, at the Stoughton Public Library, where they will give a brief summary of the book, encourage group conversation and answer any questions.

The book describes the moments before the tornado hit, when Mary, her brother Stephen and father Steve were at the Red Cross giving blood.

Then the weeks later, when the Red Cross was at their doorstep providing food and water.

“I learned the concept of karma,” said Mary. “(My dad) showing his kids how to give back and then all of a sudden they were at my door with food and water. That was the biggest takeaway for me – the reciprocal nature of doing

good in the world.”

A passage from the book includes the intense moments when Sally sat in her basement shower gripping her dog, Madi, while the tornado ripped through their home.

“Sally heard a constant thud of objects hitting the house and crashes from upstairs. The garage doors were pounding, and she could hear them fold under the pressure from the immense winds, almost as though the metal doors were giant pop cans being crushed. Windows were exploding. The ground beneath her trembled.

The sound of a freight train whirled around above her.”, the passage read.

The title of the book “Glass Storm” comes from the glass that the family picked out of the grass, their home and their belongings for the long months after the disaster.

Months later while unpacking boxes in their new home, the family would find glass scattered in their belongings.

“The glass is something you don’t think about,” said

Sally. “The sound of glass.

We used snow shovels to move pounds of glass in to bins and bags.”

Mostly, the authors wanted to write this book to recognize the heroism and goodness of people on that day.

They remember neighbors, community members and service members helping to provide shelter, food and a shoulder to cry on.

“On that day and from that day on everyone did the right thing. It was incredible to see this community come together like that,” Sally said.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase for $15 at the book launch, with 20% of proceeds to be donated to the Friends of the Public Library. It will also be available for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles and Orange Hat Publishing’s website Aug. 18 – exactly 14 years to the date of the tornado.

Contact Mackenzie at mackenzie.krumme@ wcinet.com.

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Sex offender will be under ‘dual Jefferson pedestrian supervision’ at Rutland home bridge changes Highlights planned for 2020 City of Stoughton

Restrictions include one-year house arrest, GPS tracking JUSTIN LOEWEN Hub correspondent

Soon-to-be-placed violent sex offender Ritchie H. Dumer will not be allowed to leave his Town of Rutland home without supervision for at least a one year period and will wear a GPS monitoring device on his ankle for life, county officials said at a community notification meeting on Monday, Aug. 12.

A supervised release program will place 66 year old Dumer at 3482 Hwy. 138, where he will not even be allowed to perform lawn maintenance without a monitor watching over him, officials said.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services program will be a part of Dumer’s “dual supervision,” with the Department of Corrections also monitoring Dumer until December 2024.

Supervisors will lease the building for one-year intervals and Dumer can only live there while he is on supervised release. He can petition for discharge from supervised release and if granted, he would no longer be monitored by the Department of Health

• Ritchie Dumer, 66, has spent most of his life in jail • One year house arrest • GPS monitoring for life • Treatment costs $145k per year

Services and would be required to find a new place to live.

On average, offenders are on supervised release for 2 ½ to 3 ½ years, officials said.

About 20 people attended the meeting, with some expressing concerns for their safety. Attendees were particularly worried about being able to defend themselves and slow response times from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.

Dumer, who has spent most of his adult life in jail, was convicted in 1973 for rape and was in prison until 1982, when he was released on parole. He then was convicted again in 1985 of two counts of attempted sexual assault, with all of the survivors being women he did not know.

After serving 37 ½ years for the 1985 crimes, he was eligible for

release in 2013, but the state Department of Justice petitioned for commitment at Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center, deeming him likely to reoffend.

His placement in Rutland cannot be prevented by the town as part of a 2015 state law. But Sand Ridge takes precautions to risks for the communities where they place offenders, officials said.

Dumer’s restrictions include not being allowed to possess or consume alcohol or drugs and not being allowed to own a computer.

Officials also discussed “protective behaviors” for parents to teach their children.

A “community reintigration” team will comprise specialists from DOC and DHS and a sex offender treatment provider. Agents will also drop in at Dumer’s residence at unscheduled times during the week to ensure compliance with treatment and restrictions.

Once placed, Dumer will be required to search for a job and all earnings will go towards his cost of care, with tax dollars to fund the rest.

Attendees expressed concerns over these costs, which officials said cost around $145,000 a year.

ATTIC Correctional Services Inc. will install furnishings for the home, owned by Richard Donahue.

Coffee, Cameras and Cars Stoughton’s Coffee Break Festival Aug. 17 MACKENZIE KRUMME Unified Newspaper Group

During the hot summers of the 1800’s the Stoughton women of then-Hillside Avenue worked in the labor intensive tobacco warehouses. To maintain their high energy, these tough Norweigians invented a daily tradition of what is now known as the coffee break.

To honor this claim to fame and these women, Stoughton’s annual Coffee Break Festival will take place 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, at Mandt Park, 801 S. Fourth St.

In addition to the events that keep people coming back year after year like the Brew Off, Cup O’ Joe Car Show and arts and crafts show there will be an addition to this year’s event. Discover Wisconsin, a tourism show started in the 1980’s, will use footage from the festival for a 2020 episode on Stoughton.

Stoughton Chamber of Commerce events and visitor services manager Callie LaPoint, who drinks coffee everyday, said she started going to this festival before she got involved planning it. “(The chamber) just enjoys putting together a fun festival for the community and this focuses on the coffee break,” LaPoint said.

“Getting everyone together and finding avenues for everyone to enjoy it.”

For the coffee connoisseurs, the Brew Off is a chance to taste test favorite brews. Local brewers like Autumn Pearl, Wildwood Cafe, Cheesers, Dunkin Donuts and Stoughton Hospital, in addition to regional brewers, will have hot coffee on hand.

Participants can purchase a $6 mug and help crown the “Roaster of the Year.” There is also a $15 handcrafted mug for purchase with the festival’s logo made by local art teacher Jason Brabender.

In addition to the coffee and cameras a “Cup O Joe All Wheels Show,” will have more than 100 cars on

display. The show welcomes all makes, models, years and styles including campers, wagons, motorcycles and scooters. The vehicles will be on display starting at 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with the winners announced at 2:30 p.m.

The arts and crafts show in the grandstands, which is open to the public, plans to feature more than 30 different vendors. Purchasable crafts include everything from tupperware and homemade pastries to local honey.

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Feedback sought at Aug. 21 meeting SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group

The public can weigh in on the future of the Jefferson Street pedestrian bridge over the Yahara River next week.

City officials are working with a consultant to consider either replacement or elimination of the bridge in the next year or so. They will present the options and solicit feedback at a meeting at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 21, at the Stoughton Fire Station, 401 E. Main St. The project is likely to be discussed in the coming months as part of the 2020 city budget process.

A June city memo from consultant Strand Associates listed three options ranging in cost from $59,000 to $907,000.

T h e l e a s t ex p e n s ive would involve eliminating the bridge and cleaning up the site a few blocks south of Main Street, while the most expensive option would replace it with a single-lane vehicular bridge.

Three alternatives in the middle price range all would create a new pedestrian crossing at the spot, ranging from $460,000 to $517,500, based on the type of bridge.

According to plans in

If You Go What: Jefferson Street pedestrian bridge meeting When: 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21 Where: Stoughton Fire Station, 401 E. Main St. Info: ci.stoughton.wi.us

the memo, the vehicular bridge would include a lane for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, as well.

The three pedestrian bridge options – Connector, Capstone and Keystone – would provide different designs for the bridge but would all have the same function for pedestrians.

A draft of the city’s capital improvement plan – which identifies potential large expenses over the next five years – shows a $498,000 expense for the Jefferson Street bridge in 2020. The previous year’s plan had estimated a cost of less than $300,000 for the project in 2020.

City of Stoughton public works director Brett Hebert wrote in an email the work is expected in 2020 if the CIP project is approved.

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

Bridge options Alternative Cost Remove bridge, restore site $59,000 Replace with Connector style bridge $460,000 Replace with Capstone style bridge $475,000 Replace with Keystone style bridge $517,500 Replace with single-lane vehicular bridge $907,000

Contact Mackenzie Krumme at mackenzie. krumme@wcinet.com.

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Stoughton Courier Hub Remembering Amber Levenhagen 4 From the editor’s desk Amber was kind, funny person August 15, 2019

As one of the newest members of the UNG team, I wish I would have known Amber better; however, there were a few things about her I won’t forget.

I learned the name of her cat, Shelby, before I knew the name of her fiance, Zach. She loved Taco Bell runs, but hated bananas. She was desperately looking for a new home because of what she referred to as the “poopy ceiling” and this is the first year she’ll miss the Great Taste of the Midwest. Her style was on-point and her work ethic was like no

other.

No matter how tense Tuesday productions were, Amber would always spark funny conversations that lifted the mood.

Amber was kind – not the kissbutt kind – but the kind that seeped through even when she was being brutally honest. This is a great loss for journalism, for the UNG family and the community as a whole. #livelikeAmber – Mackenzie Krumme

Amber a role model for young journalists It’s difficult to write about a friend and colleague who so suddenly and unexpectedly passed from our lives, but it’s important.

I heard the news while on vacation last week, and checking my email, I found a message she sent just hours before her passing, just making sure I would be covering something.

I never got the chance to respond.

In a time when too many journalists are leaving the profession — for a variety of reasons — Amber was always eager to learn more and do more to help tell a better story. And she did it all with a sense of humor and a sense that what she was doing was important, whether it was

covering an important meeting or writing a funny cutline on a photo.

We lost a gifted young journalist, but my sincere hope is that Amber’s brief but bright light will help encourage more young people to step up into a profession that needs people like her more than ever. She was a positive force for change and a role model for what good reporting should be about, and she will not be forgotten among her many friends, colleagues and readers.

And I think I’ll leave that unanswered message in my email folder for a while.

– Scott De Laruelle

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Unbearable loss will have lasting effects on staff T he entire staff of Unified Newspaper Group is crushed this week.

The loss of our colleague and friend, Amber Levenhagen, was a sudden blow that has hit me like no other loss I’ve ever had.

I will never forget the wideeyed, bubbly, bushy-haired girl with a pet hedgehog who came to us three years ago, so grateful for the opportunity to escape what she found as soul-crushing work in retail. But what will haunt me forever is the memory of the still excitable, but now sharp, focused, Ferolie vibrant, tough and unquenchably curious government reporter who could not wait to dig into a complicated story.

“I love it so much!” she’d squeal when she would find a new layer in a story that would make so many other reporters groan.

When she took over her new beat in May, she moved out of the room where the other reporters put together the newspapers each week to a spot right outside my office. There, we’d often yell over to one another to start a conversation about how tax-increment financing works or to discuss a tactic for getting information from a reluctant bureaucrat or just talk about her plans for the weekend or my motherin-law’s battle with cancer.

It’s going to be difficult to leave my door open now, with her ghost sitting right there, grunting excitedly over something she heard playing back an interview or finding out some new nugget of information.

The horror of losing a 25-yearold who was just finding her

place in the industry, engaged to be married to an emerging musician and full of life and love for the people she knew is beyond my comprehension right now.

For the hours after learning she’d soon be taken off life support after a gruesome Interstate 94 crash, I could not sleep, could not think. There were only two things I could manage – to talk to her former fellow community reporters – who also couldn’t sleep – and to write about her.

But even that was almost too much to bear.

The first time I typed her name, I broke down in tears as my wife and son came to comfort me. Then, just as I got myself together, I looked up her age for our unfortunate news story and saw her seemingly indefatigable smile grinning at me and lost it again.

I’m spending the week in Arizona, so I don’t even know what will happen when I walk by her desk to go to my office next Tuesday.

But the news doesn’t stop for personal tragedy, so soon enough, we had to go through the gut-wrenching exercise of moving her stories off our upcoming lists or changing her initials to someone else’s, parceling out her various beats temporarily and putting out an ad for a new reporter.

I’ve also had to figure out how to break the news to the other members of our staff and call reporters she had worked with in the past who would want to know about her untimely, utterly unfair demise.

I suppose I should count my blessings. At least I didn’t find out about this on my birthday and then have to call two of her best friends to break the news, as assistant editor Scott Girard did.

Amber was a wonderful photographer, an emerging writer, a

gifted, intelligent reporter, and an amazing ambassador for our company. She was on track to move into management, and she was a perfect counter to my grizzled style that sometimes comes off as insensitive. Even in her worst of moods, Amber always had an infectious smile that is now simply painful to look at.

As I finished writing this early Saturday, the confirmation of what I’d been fearing for several hours before was still fresh, and it still didn’t feel real.

Our work teaches us to be professional through traumas; we have to be able to speak with grieving widows, parents, children. And we’ve had to follow some terrible stories over the years, the kind of thing that makes you walk out to your car and then break down in sadness for the person you’ve just spoken with.

But this… this is beyond our reckoning.

That mangled car I saw was one I’d seen in our parking lot so many times, one she was proud of after driving around a beater for so many years. That news story about a two-hour shutdown of the interstate on every TV and newspaper site in the area, that was our colleague. Our friend.

We all love our work here, and for some of us – probably most of us – it’s our refuge from other problems in life. We all know Amber would be angry with us – in her sweet, but firm way – if we were to make excuses.

But there’s no denying it’s going to be a bit difficult for UNG to put out a good product for a while. So please bear with us as we do our best to honor her memory.

We love you, Amber.

Jim Ferolie is the editor of Unified Newspaper Group.

We’ll keep doing our best in Amber’s memory Amber Levenhagen’s spirit was infectious, her smile and enthusiasm spreading to everyone in our office whenever they made an appearance.

I can’t stop thinking about how much her new car brought both out a few months ago when she announced her purchase and made sure we all got to see it out in the parking lot.

Girard That same car showed up on a TV news station’s aerial video Friday as an almost unrecognizable hunk of metal after a collision with a large commercial truck took our 25-yearold friend and co-worker’s life.

This tragedy, the most sudden of my life to this point, came just as Amber was finding her home in government and enterprise reporting after a recent promotion. She was likely, someday, to be my successor in the assistant editor position – with all the tools of a team leader who cared about her coworkers no matter what she was dealing with herself.

If there’s anything we must carry with us from her life, it’s that: Be there for one another.

In the days since her death, I’ve

been reminded again and again of that spirit. In calling current and former coworkers to deliver the news and in sharing our grief, it’s been clear we’re a family here.

To lose a member of that family like this – rather than to a new job elsewhere or another exciting life development, like we normally do – was unthinkable until last week.

It will be a challenge these coming days, months, weeks and even years to try to put out a newspaper without her. Not because of the stories she would have written and photographs she would have taken, but because of her joy at creating them and being part of the team that put this newspaper out every week.

We will do our best, because it’s what she would have wanted – demanded, even.

Even through the stress of production days and the busyness of everyone’s weeks, that expectation of doing our best was always present from her. She mixed it in with a wisecrack or joke, but underlying it was her desire to put out the best product she and we all could, together, each and every week.

I had the pleasure of being her supervisor for two-and-a-half years, and as part of that, had the privilege of nominating her for a

Future Headliner award from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association in 2018. It was easy to write about why she deserved to be one of five journalists under the age of 30 recognized for that twoyear period – and it was no surprise when she was named one of the winners.

As part of that recognition, she created a video about herself and what she loved about her job.

“Being able to, at least as best I can, have my finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the community,” she explained in that video. “Most of my job is writing those features and business stories that make people feel good and are fun to read.”

She was so good at every part of that job, and watching that video again over the weekend only made me angrier at what the community and whatever world she would’ve moved to next will miss.

We’ve always tried to put out the best paper we could for you, our community. Now, we’re trying for Amber, too.

Rest in peace, Amber.

Scott Girard is the assistant editor of Unified Newspaper Group, managing the community reporting team.

Remembering Amber Levenhagen

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Upholding a promise to my best friend Dreaming big, because Amber would It’s a little after 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning.

I should be sleeping. In an hour, I should be jolting myself awake, my brain remembering that I need to be at a senior portrait session in an hour, and I have only 15 minutes to make sure I have my camera gear in order and brush my teeth.

But instead, I’m looking at video footage taken of a collision on I-94 from a helicopter earlier the day before. The car is sitting on the side of the road, smashed Wethal and caved in.

I’m looking for a few things.

The car’s a 2019 Silver Honda Fit. It’s got a license plate I would recognize anywhere. I’m looking closely to see if I can spot a small hedgehog tree ornament on the dash under the shattered windshield glass.

It’s 5 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10, and I’m looking at the crash that killed my coworker and my best friend.

It’s then I realize the woman who’s been my relentless cheerleader, my shoulder to cry on and sometimes my workout buddy – when we both had the ambition to get there – is gone.

I feel an aching in my heart that I haven’t ever felt before. I’ve gotten punched in the stomach, only to then immediately get hit in the throat.

And it hurts.

It hurts because the world lost a fantastic, passionate journalist who had just been promoted to her dream job, and was absolutely killing it. It hurts because I will never again hear her excited giggle, nor will I see her pixie cut pop up over my cubicle.

It hurts because I have to now write her out of all of my future memories I planned on having with her.

It hurts most of all because I’m

the only one left to remember what memories we do have.

I knew Amber for five years of my life, far less than I wanted. A friend I made at our college newspaper The Royal Purple and carried far beyond to Unified Newspaper Group, we shared countless memories, adventures and jokes in that half-decade of friendship.

Amber and I – Kamber, as we called ourselves – seemed like we were always on some sort of adventure. We braved a Trump rally together for the Royal Purple in 2016, crammed into the press booth like sardines, proud that we were the only UW students in the press box.

We spent three consecutive years photographing Syttende Mai together, where I introduced her to lefse and we started a tradition of eating Fosdal’s cookies while game-planning coverage.

Last year, when she wanted to don a protective bee suit for a story but was worried about how to take photos in it, I offered to take them for her and stand surrounded by 60,000 bees in a tank top and shorts.

I was so on edge that I’d get stung while photographing her having the time of her life, but I’d do it a hundred times over for Amber.

She was one of my biggest cheerleaders, giving me nothing but love and support as I built my photography business, being one of my second shooters multiple times.

She drove all the way to Whitewater to watch me present my senior capstone and was more excited over stories I was writing than me.

She was one-third of a group of young female journalists that included myself and our friend Erika. A day never went by where the three of us didn’t talk to one another (often, it was two talking and the third threatening to put the group chat on mute so they would get some work done). For more than three years, the three of us talked about everything and anything you could imagine and served as one

another’s support systems through every bump in the road.

Amber helped talk me through some of the hardest times in my life, as I struggled with almost being evicted multiple times from my college apartment due to a roommate who flaked on me, and came to visit my mom and brought her flowers when she was in the hospital.

The love was always there between us, although we made a lot of people question it. We fought like an old married couple, whether it was how we should redo our AP Style guidelines for the paper, or over trite things like Stoughton trivia (which I always won, by the way).

Anyone who watched us interact in the office knew the insults that flew between us came from love, and that we were always laughing and joking about something.

But there was one joke we shared that I never wanted to come true.

Both community reporters, our job was to edit obituaries for AP Style, and to get them laid out on the newspaper page. Sitting across from one another, whenever we’d get a photo where some poor funeral home employee had been tasked with blacking out the background of a photo of a recently deceased person, we’d show it to one another and say, “Wow, that funeral home did them dirty.”

It was one time mid-last year where we promised one another that if one of us died, the other would make sure our obituary photo was decent. No one was going to remember us with a terrible Photoshop job.

It was only meant to be a mildly uncomfortable joke. I never imagined it would be my reality.

Amber Lynn Levenhagen: It was the honor of my life just to be a part of your life. I will carry your memory forward, and do my best to live a life that you would be proud of. I love you, and always will. #livelikeAmber

Prior to this week, the last time I stopped by Unified Newspaper Group’s main office was a Tuesday afternoon this June.

It was a convenient place to rest and get a drink of water during my bike ride through Verona, but really it was an excuse to see my friends and former coworkers – some of the people I care about most in the world.

I had expected to see Amber there, but she was out sick. We tried making plans when she felt better, but our schedules never matched up.

And then last Friday, I got the news, which my former colleagues blasted on their website Monday: “UNG reporter Levenhagen dead at 25.”

The last three words are tragic alone, but combined with the first three they are unfathomable for a newspaper to publish about one of its own. My friend.

Amber and I worked together for part of her first year here on a team that has done some great work.

UNG has been among the first on the scene covering tornadoes in Verona and Oregon in 2014, an explosion in Fitchburg in 2016 and a stabbing in Stoughton in 2017.

But nothing compares to the news of Amber’s accident.

This staff had so many reasons to sit this edition out or delay printing, but they showed up and worked even harder. Because Amber would have, too.

Amber was always always there for her team, and she was always there for me. When my close friends moved away, she was there to lend an ear or offer a hug or words of encouragement, as she did for countless others. Because her love was boundless.

I admired this about Amber, just as I admired her ability to dream big and continually step outside her comfort zone, blossoming from a budding community reporter to a gritty and giddy government reporter.

The last time we spent time together, I had told her about a job opportunity that would have matched her personality, could have eased her financial worries and would have helped her find worklife balance. She thanked me but said she had just been promoted to the government reporter position at UNG, and she gushed about the stories she was already digging into.

Because in that moment, she was already doing what she loved.

We all know that how a person confronts challenges reveals their true character, and the way the UNG family has rallied together – even when separated by distance or time – has reminded me that this team is made up of some of the most compassionate and dedicated people.

Amber was one of the best.

She was the first person I thought to invite to the Brewing for Bigs event at Great Dane Pub scheduled for Aug. 13. I hoped she’d go so I could share with her the incredible need in our communities for adult mentors through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County, where I had just applied to become a Big Sister.

With her bubbly personality, an openness to try new things, and her love for every living person and animal on this planet, I knew Amber would make an incredible Big, too.

But I never told her any of that, because it was on a Tuesday at 6 p.m., and I knew Amber would surely be at the office on a production night.

And now, there are flowers at her desk instead of a laptop and an empty chair no one could ever replace.

In the days since we lost Amber, I realized she not only would have been a great Big Sister, she was actually my Big Sister.

I can’t catch up with my Big Sister tonight, but I’m with my Big Family.

Samantha Christian was a community reporter for Unified Newspaper Group from 2014-17.

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Unconscious doesn’t mean dead, I thought. She’s alive. I knew it.

Because I couldn’t lose another loved one. No, not another one.

Please God. Hours passed after I let my editor, Scott Girard, know about what had happened. He let other colleagues know, and they did some digging of their own.

When Scott called back, he was shakily trying to make out the fact that what Amber endured was serious. But serious didn’t mean critical. The optimist in me was feigning for all of my attention at that point.

It helped to envision her making sarcastic comments at her attending nurses.

And then, another phone call.

This time, it was 11:30 p.m. Scott called me again, this time his voice grave.

“Is she dead?” was the only thing I could muster.

“There’s no brain activity.”

First, I experienced a bout of shock and denial – very similarly to when my body started to shake upon hearing the news of my mother’s death. In both instances, I couldn’t form coherent sentences or words.

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My heart shattered into a million more pieces – I didn’t even know it could break more than it already had. The shards of glass became sand.

My mother and I had a complicated dynamic, but we were going to heal. She was going to get treatment for her mental illness. She was going to get better, not blow her brains out with a firearm. At 63, she still had so much life to live.

Amber was only 25.

Like a dam bursting, the tears came and kept coming. Scott’s voice faded into the background. In my already fragile state, everything that held me together was no more. Time stopped.

The wound already so deeply embedded in my flesh was ripped open again, but this time it had widened.

My cries turned into wails. I wept at how the universe, seemingly indifferent to our feeble existence, anyway, could take a soul like Amber’s so early. I wept at how my mother, who was self-aware enough to get herself the help she deserved, took her life.

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She had been in a car accident and rendered unconscious and was hopefully recovering in my mind in the intensive care unit of an unknown hospital in Madison.

Amber was going to recover because I needed her. I needed her to help me grieve and reconcile the loss of my mother.

We had been starting to hang out more, and were fortifying our bond with deep conversations about life, gender, politics, etc. I had just gone out for a drink with her a week earlier, and she let me spill from the deepest reaches of my subconscious into her compassionate and listening ears.

That’s what made her great. I was intimidated by her intelligence and relished in her positive attitude.

There were times it seemed like she couldn’t catch a break, but she was strong. She was a fighter.

Her talent knew no bounds, and it was my hope to end up at least half the woman she was in a year. She was a rarity and a diamond in the rough.

I had worked with Amber only nine months, but time has no bearing on friendship. Ours was to be lifelong.

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he said, my mind suddenly in blur.

He spoke more, but I was fixated on that lone statement.

A memorial service, countless phone calls to grieving family members – some didn’t even know how she died – and various therapy appointments later, it’s still as surreal as the day I heard those words. I realized I’ll never be able to hug her or tell her I love her again.

I’m surprised I even got through planning the memorial service. That was its own monster.

I was bombarded by hugs and suffocated by meaningless small talk. A more introverted soul, I found myself escaping to be alone.

To think. To weep. To bask in the anger. To panic.

The next thing I knew, it was a Friday afternoon and I was staring at a marshy clearing adjacent to my three-story apartment building on my balcony. I was trying to find my mother in the brush, trying to feel her version of peace – her essence, as if she was one with nature now, like she had always wanted to be.

Then I got a Facebook message from my colleague Amber’s boyfriend, David.

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It was a sunny Saturday morning, and I was sitting down to do some light reading.

The next thing I knew, I was being informed of the first of two personal tragedies in a matter of two weeks. Overall, I experienced the loss of my mother, then a friend and colleague who was helping me cope with my feelings.

Somehow, I’m still standing.

And to say that my heart is broken is an understatement.

But you don’t really know how resilient you are until you find yourself on the other side of tragedies like these.

Heidemann Vibrations from my phone interrupted my reading session. The Caller ID said “Westfield, Wisconsin” but it was an unfamiliar number. I, in an already annoyed state because I get a slew of spam calls on a daily basis, reluctantly answered.

It was a call from a Marquette County Sheriff’s Department deputy.

“Your mother committed suicide,”

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R Olde House Society

and 50-50 raffle.

Food will be available after 5 p.m., with bingo beginning at 6. Anyone under 18 years old must have an adult family member present to play. Bingo is open to the public and is held the third Saturday of each month. Donations for the Stoughton Food Pantry are encouraged.

For information, contact Bingo chairperson Becky Lunde at 2052234.

R Olde House Society (ROHS) will be holding its next meeting 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15, at 217 N. Franklin St. Attendees will tour the home and enjoy some fellowship afterwards.

This is the first meeting of the new season.

ROHS is a friendly group of people interested in the history and preservation of older homes. Guests are asked to bring a light snack to share Bluegrass Jam and their own beverages. NewcomMadison’s own Cork n’ Boters are always welcome. tle string band performs 6-7 p.m.

For information contact rohstough- Tuesday, Aug. 20, at the Stoughton ton@gmail.com Public Library. The bluegrass band is bringing the songs of the AppaStoughton Community lachian hills to eight Dane County Foundation grant open public library locations from June The Stoughton Area Community to October. Expect guitars, banjos, Foundation is accepting grant appli- bass and other string instruments cations until midnight September with the six member band that to 15, 2019. Grants are awarded to spread the music of the southern Stoughton area organizations in the working class.

For information, 873-6281. following areas: community development, wellness, youth, historic pres- Crohn’s support group ervation, arts and senior programs.

A Crohn’s, Colitis and IBD supGrants usually range from $400 to $6000. Apply online at the following port group will take place at Stoughwebsite: stoughtonareafoundation. ton Hospital inside the hospital lobby conference room at 5:30 p.m. org Wednesday, Aug. 21, 900 Ridge St. Sons of Norway bingo Rheumatologist, Dr. Christin T h e S o n s o f N o r wa y – M a n d t Sharkey will be at the event as a Lodge, 317 S. Page St., will host guest speaker and answer any quesbingo at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17. tions attendees may have.

The support group is for people Check out the new progressive bingo 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

Livsreise hosts a presentation by Glenn Borreson, “The Norwegian Crop: Tobacco Raising in Wisconsin,” 2- 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at Livsreise Norwegian Heritage Center, 277 West Main St. Borreson, a historic researcher who has four generations of tobacco farmers in his family, will talk about the history of this cash crop used by early Norweigians to make a living.

For information, visit livsreise. org.

Seventh Day Baptist Church of Albion

616 Albion Rd., Edgerton 561-7450 • albionsdb@gmail.com forministry.com/USWISDBGCASD1 Worship Saturday 11- Sabbath School 10

Ezra Church

Stoughton Baptist Church

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

First Lutheran Church

310 E. Washington, Stoughton 873-7761 • flcstoughton.com Sunday: 8:30 and 10 a.m. Worship

Fulton Church

Good Shepherd By The Lake Lutheran Church

11927 W. Church St., Evansville 882-4408 Pastor Karla Brekke Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship and Sunday School

The Norwegian Crop

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

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Cooksville Lutheran Church

A free class on the importance of mental health titled “What if we Talk About It” will take place 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22 at the Stoughton Hospital, 900 Ridge St. Registered nurse Jennifer Viney from the Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation hopes to teach participants about mental health as a vital component to overall wellness.

For information, call 873-2356.

Covenant Lutheran Church

1844 Williams Drive, Stoughton • 873-9106 Saturday: 6 p.m. Worship Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship

825 S. Van Buren, Stoughton 877-0439 • Missionaries 957-3930 Sunday: 9 a.m. Sunday school and Primary

Talk about it

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

dealing with the aforementioned conditions. The free group provides a confidential atmosphere and attendees are likely to benefit from sharing and peer support.

The event is for adults 18 years old and above. Family members and caregivers of affected loved ones are also welcome to attend.

For information, call 873-7928.

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

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.

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

Friday, August 16

• 7: 30 p.m., Titanic- The Musical (Tickets adults $17, seniors $15, students $12), Oregon Performing Arts Center, 456 N. Perry Parkway, 835-9126

Saturday, August 17

• 9 a.m., Coffee Break Festival, Mandt Park, 801 S. 4th St., 873-7912 • 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Oregon-Brooklyn Cookout, Waterman Triangle Park, 101 Janesville St., brooklynwi.gov • 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Stoughton Historical Museum open, 324 S. Page St., stoughtonhistoricalsociety.org • 2 p.m. and 7: 30 p.m., Titanic- The Musical (Tickets adults $17, seniors $15, students $12), Oregon Performing Arts Center, 456 N. Perry Parkway, 835-9126 • 3 p.m., Stoughton Chamber Music Festival (suggested donation $15), Stoughton Opera House, 381 E. Main St. • 6 p.m., Sons of Norway Bingo, Songs of Norway-Mandt Lodge, 317 S. Page St., 205-2234

Monday, Aug. 19

• 5:30 p.m., “Glass Storm: The 2005 Stoughton Wisconsin Tornado, library, 873-6281 • 5:30-6:15 p.m., Gathering Table free community meal (first and third Mondays), senior center, 206-1178 • 7 p.m., Town of Dunkirk Board meeting, Town Hall, 654 Cty. Road N (first and third Mondays of each month) • 7 p.m., Town of Dunn Board meeting, Dunn Town Hall, 4156 Cty. Road B (third Monday of each month) • 7 p.m., Stoughton Chamber Music Festival (suggested donation $15), Stoughton Opera House, 381 E. Main St.

Tuesday, Aug. 20

• 6 p.m., Cork n’ Bottle string band, library, 873-6281 • 7 p.m., Suicide Prevention Presentation, Cooksville Community Center, mary.rita.zimmerman@gmail.com

Wednesday, Aug. 21

• 1p.m. Babysitting Class ($50), Stoughton Hospital, 900 Ridge Street, 334-4036 • 5:30 p.m., Crohn’s support group, Stoughton Hospital, 900 Ridge St., 873-7928 • 6:30 p.m. Library Board Meeting (third Wednesday of the month), Stoughton Library, 873-6281

Thursday, Aug. 22

• 5:30 p.m., Mental Health: What every Woman Should Know, Stoughton Hospital, 900 Ridge St., 8732356

Saturday, Aug. 24

• 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Stoughton Historical Museum open, 324 S. Page St., stoughtonhistoricalsociety.org • 2 p.m., “The Norwegian Crop,” Livsreise, 277 West Main St., livsreise.org

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.

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Stoughton High School has hired coaches for its volleyball, girls swimming, girls soccer and boys and girls hockey teams.

Rachael Gierhart is the Vikings’ new volleyball coach, boys soccer coach Mike McIntosh is also going to coach the girls soccer program, Kristine Schoen and Jeff Bridwell are the co-coaches of the girls swimming program, Brett Quale has been promoted to head coach of the boys hockey team, and Zoe Kurth is taking over the Icebergs girls hockey co-op.

Stoughton athletic director Mel Dow confirmed the hires Thursday, Aug. 8, in an email to the Courier Hub. Gierhart has five years of coaching experience with the club team Crossfire VBC. She has served two years as the varsity coach at Lodi and two years as the JV coach at Evansville.

Gierhart succeeds Jillian Bauer, who took the varsity head coaching job at Verona.

McIntosh has more than a decade of experience coaching soccer in Dane County. He started at SHS last year as the boys soccer coach and this year takes over the girls soccer program from Chelsea Kittleson.

Schoen is a psychologist at SHS, and Bridwell is a coach with the Stoughton Aqua Racers youth swimming club. They succeed Katie Talmadge.

Quale earned a promotion behind the Vikings’ boys hockey bench after serving as an assistant on Doug Kraft’s staff. He has also been involved in the Stoughton Youth Hockey Association.

Kurth, a physical education teacher at Monona Grove High School, will coach the Icebergs girls hockey co-op, which features players from Stoughton, Oregon, Edgerton, McFarland and Monona Grove. She takes over behind the bench for Matt Gallagher, who went 19-50 in three seasons at the helm.

Kurth will also be an assistant coach on the SHS boys and girls soccer teams. A native of Fairbanks, Alaska, she played hockey and soccer at St. Norbert College.

On the pitch, Kurth recorded 17 goals and 15 assists in 79 games.

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The Kotlowski cousins are again expected provide a one-two punch looking to keep Stoughton at the top of the Badger South Conference, which starts girls golf play next week.

Junior Caylie Kotlowski was first-team all-Badger South and first-team allstate last year, and is coming off a fourth-place finish at the WIAA Division 1 state tournament and a sectional title.

“I think she learned how to manage the course,” Stoughton coach Stephen Stokes said of Caylie. “It helped her get better. She played in a lot of tournaments over the summer and worked to get better.”

Senior Myranda Kotlowski shot an 8-over-par 80 to tie for second place at the Badger Conference tournament last year, as Stoughton edged Milton 346-349 for the tournament title.

Stokes said both Kotlowskis have strong work ethics.

He pointed to the improvements Myranda has made since she started for the Vikings three years ago.

“She has really worked to get better,” he said. “She has got better every year.”

As a result of their improvement, Stoughton leapfrogged Madison Edgewood for the Badger South championship. It was Stoughton’s first conference title since 2013.

The Vikings went 5-1 in the Badger South regular season last year and avenged a dual-meet loss to Photo by Mark Nesbitt Edgewood by one stroke.

Senior Myranda Kotlowski (left) and junior Caylie Kotlowski are the returning letterwinners back The conference title might to lead the Stoughton girls golf team. The Vikings are coming off a Badger South Conference be hard to repeat this season championship last year. because the Vikings have

Vikings schedule Friday, Aug. 16: at Brown Deer Monday, Aug. 19: Stoughton Scramble Wednesday, Aug. 21: at Wisconsin Dells Thursday, Aug. 22: vs.

Watertown Tuesday, Aug. 27: at Baraboo Wednesday, Aug. 28: at Portage Thursday, Aug. 29: at Fort Atkinson Tuesday, Sept. 5: at Monona Grove Tuesday, Sept. 10: vs.

Milton Wednesday, Sept. 11: at Blackhawk Country Club, Madison Thursday, Sept. 12: at Madison Edgewood, Yahara, Madison Saturday, Sept. 14: at Janesville Parker, Riverside Tuesday, Sept. 17: vs.

Oregon Friday, Sept. 20: at DeForest Tuesday, Sept. 24: Badger Conference Meet, at Oregon to replace three graduated seniors from last year’s team.

“Caylie and Myranda will keep us in a lot of matches,” Stokes said. “They will be solid. But we will need some of the other girls to be competitive to give us a chance. The challenge will be finding the three other players and having them make the jump to varsity golf.”

Stokes said the other three varsity spots are wide open.

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Stoughton to lean on increased numbers ADAM FEINER Sports editor

With 45 girls in the program, Stoughton girls tennis was faced with a good problem.

The Vikings had to add a third coach due to the increased numbers, much to the delight of varsity head coach Amy Kahl.

Stoughton returns 11 letterwinners from last year’s team, which finished in the middle of the pack in the Badger South Conference.

The Vikings lost just three players to graduation, but they were key pieces — the top two singles players and half of the No. 1

doubles team.

“We’ll be a little raw,” Kahl said. “We’re experienced in the fact that we have a bunch of seniors, but we don’t have a lot of varsity match experience. Of the 11 returning, five of them were shuffled between JV and varsity No. 3 doubles.”

Kahl, who is entering her second season as the varsity head coach after eight seasons as an assistant, will be faced with tough lineup choices. She could have doubles players step into Photo by Adam Feiner singles play to fill spots left by graduation, or allow The Stoughton High School girls tennis team returns 11 letterwinners from last season. They returners to stay at doubles. are (back row from left) Elizabeth Balthazor, Fiona Prechel, Karlie Halverson, Paige Bellefeuille, Katie Zacharias, Angela Hark, (from row from left) Morgan Schellin, Lexy Abing, Savanna Turn to Tennis/Page 8 Strutzel, Taylor Nisius and Annika Goetz.

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Aug. 14, and Dekker the next day at the camp.

A Sheboygan native, Dekker will be continuing his pro basketball career in Russia this upcoming season, where he will play for Lokomotiv Kuban. He played four years in the NBA for the Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers, Cleveland Cavaliers and Washington Wizards.

Happ went undrafted in the 2019 NBA Draft. He played in the NBA summer league with the Chicago Bulls, and signed a two-year contract with the Greek professional team, Olympiacos Piraeus.

Happ, 23, averaged 17.9 points, 10.3 rebounds, and 4.6 assists in his final season with the Badgers.

About 90 children ages 6 to 17 had the chance to learn tips from former Wisconsin Badger Frank Kaminsky, who now plays for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns.

Kaminsky dribbled between his legs, blocked shots and took time to shoot some jumpers at the final day of a three-day camp at the Sports Enhancement Academy in Stoughton. He hosted a question and answer session.

Players questioned him about the favorite prank he has pulled, the back-toback Final Four runs with Wisconsin in 2014 and ‘15, his favorite teammate in the NBA and his favorite Michael Jordan shoes, the Jordan 11s, which were featured in the “Space Jam” movie.

Kaminsky signed a twoyear, $10 million contract with the Suns this offseason after spending four years with the Charlotte Hornets.

Campers also had a chance Photos by Mark Nesbitt to meet two other UW basLucas Orvlie (right) looks to steal the ball from former Wisconsin Badger Frank Kaminsky at ketball stars in Ethan Happ the ProStart basketball camp on Friday, Aug. 9, at the Sports Enhancement Academy in and Sam Dekker. Children Lexi Bryan, 12, of Pardeeville works on a ball-handling drill Stoughton. met Happ on Wednesday, at the ProStart basketball camp on Friday, Aug. 9.

Continued from page 7 Three who competed on the JV team last year who will be in contention for varsity spots are senior Devan Lubeke, junior Mara Hann and sophomore Dulce Aguirre.

Edgewood returns four of its top five golfers from

a team that won the WIAA Division 2 state championship last year. Stokes said Edgewood will be the clear favorite to win the Badger South Conference.

Stokes scheduled to have his team play nine holes during the first three days of practice this week.

Stoughton opens the

season at the Brown Deer Invitational on Friday.

The Vikings then host the Stoughton Scramble on Monday, Aug. 19, at Coachman’s Golf Course.

Stokes said tryouts this week and two early tournaments will be a good test to see who fits in the mix of the top five golfers.

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Winder Fuentes crushed a two-run home run in the fifth inning on Sunday, Aug. 11, to propel Stoughton to a 2-0 road win over Jefferson in a Home Talent League playoff game.

The Merchants avenged a 3-0 loss to Jefferson in the regular-season finale.

“We were hitting the ball hard, but right at people,” Stoughton manager Dale Seffens said. “Sooner or later, I thought we would s c o r e . I t wa s h u g e b y Winder. He’s been swinging a really hot bat.”

Stoughton’s Ben Riffle pitched a complete game and scattered seven hits to get the win. He struck out

Tennis: Vikings eager to compete in conference Continued from page 7 “If I put our strength in singles, we could get four wins there pretty regularly.

If I balance things out, it could be tougher to get four wins, even though there won’t be much of a drop-off between our Nos. 2 and 3 doubles. I have to talk with the girls and be considerate of what their goals are.”

Kahl anticipates the Vikings settling back into

a familiar spot in the conference race, with Madison Edgewood, Monona Grove and Watertown set to contend for the top spot. “ I ’ m g u e s s i n g w e ’l l be middle of the road,” Kahl said. “We’ll compete against everybody because we have good, athletic girls.

That’s all I can ask for out of them.”

Stoughton started practice Tuesday, Aug. 13, and will begin its regular season

Saturday morning at the Madison La Follette Invitational. Kahl said she’s more concerned about effort early on than wins and losses.

“We get a lot of girls that don’t play other sports,” she said. “I don’t necessarily give them goals. Some have goals that don’t even concern varsity. I just ask that they give their best effort and make tennis a priority when they’re on the courts.”

three and walked three.

“Ben threw outstanding,” Seffens said. “They are a really good hitting team.”

Yonardo Herdenez went 2-for-4.

Stoughton (14-3) will h o s t E va n s v i l l e i n t h e Southeast Section championship game at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Evansville, a Final Four team last year, upset top-seeded Albion 5-2.

A win on Sunday would send the Merchants back to the HTL championship round-robin series.

“I think we have one of the toughest divisions (Southeast) in Home Talent,” Seffens said. “They (Evansville) have some

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Berdine (Birdie) LaLeike of Baraboo, Wisconsin died Monday, Aug. 5, 2019 in the Hospice House in Baraboo after a long fight against lung disease.

Born in Stoughton, Wisconsin June 6, 1929 to Birdie and Beatrice Erdahl, Berdine

heart Louis LaLeike on Aug. 17, 1950. They resided in Stevens Point where they raised two daughters.

Berdine is survived by her daughters; Denise (David) Nichols and Vickie (Richard) Albrecht; four grandsons, Ben (Piper) Lubeck, Michael (Erin) Albrecht, Matthew (Omoshalewa) Nichols and Joe Nichols (Becca Brown); two great granddaughters Tatum and Remi and one great-grandson, Henrik.

Thank you to all of the wonderful people at St. Clare Hospital, St. Clare Meadows Rehab and the Hospice House in Baraboo. You ALL were so special to Birdie and made her transition so much easier.

Frederick Velie Ingersoll and Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Frederick Velie Ingersoll

Frederick Velie Ingersoll, age 87, died on Tuesday, July 30, 2019 due to complications of heart disease and Parkinson’s.

Fred served in the U. S. Army during the Korean War and graduated from the University of Minnesota with an engineering degree. He worked as a manufacturing engineer at Whirlpool, Molded Products, Excelsior Plastics, Vision Ease, and Sub-Zero.

He served on many church boards and committees over the years, volunteered in schools, and was a past President of the Skaalen Retirement Services Board of Directors. He grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and with his wife Lorraine, raised six children in Maplewood, Afton, Excelsior, and Sartell, Minnesota, spending the later part of his life in Stoughton

He was preceded in death by his wife, Lorraine I. (Kezar) Ingersoll, parents Truman and Hazel Ingersoll, and sister Patricia Ingersoll.

He is survived by his sons, Brad (Cindy Raymond), Dan (Sherry), John (Sherri), Karl (Kathy), and Tim; daughter, Deanna Joy; 15 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; brother Truman (Carol); and many in-laws, nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held Aug. 15, 2019 from 4 -7:00 p.m. at the Celebration of Life Center, Chippewa Valley Cremation Services, 1717 Devney Dr., Altoona, Wisconsin.

Funeral services will be held on Aug. 16 at 11:00 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 3214 Golf Road, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Public burial will be Aug. 17 at 11:00 a.m. at Lutheran Cemetery South in Stoughton, Wisconsin.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Wisconsin Parkinson Association at https://www.wiparkinson. org/ or the Alzheimer’s Association at https://www.alz. org/wi.

Chippewa Valley Cremation Services—Celebration of Life Center in Altoona is serving the family. To offer online condolences please visit, chippewavalleycremation.com.

Alice (Therkildsen) Tyler daughter, Susan McGrane; Alice (Therkildsen) Tyler, age 84, of Stoughton, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, at Nazareth Health & Rehabilitation Center.

She was born on May 2, 1935, in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Niels and Dagmar Therkildsen.

Alice worked as a nurse’s aide in California for many years.

She was of the Lutheran faith and enjoyed puzzles and movies.

Alice is survived by her

grandson, Daniel McGrane; two granddaughters, Janet (Shawn) Segebarth and Kristin McGrane; and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and three brothers; Thomas, Henry and Paul Therkildsen.

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Jean and Bob lived on Lake Ripley in Cambridge, Wisconsin for thirty-eight years before retiring to Siren, Wisconsin in 2005 to be closer to family, and finally to Heartland House Assisted Living in Wautoma, Wisconsin in Jan. 2018.

Jean worked in retail for many years before taking a position at the Dwight Foster Public Library in Fort Atkinson. She loved working at the library; traveling with friend, Mary Gates; fishing in Canada; golfing and dancing with Bob and lake life with friends and neighbors on Lake Ripley.

She loved flowers, birds, animals and nature of all kinds.

She was devoted to family, especially her nephews and their families and was an important part of their lives.

Jean was preceded in death by her mother and stepfather, Beth and Curt Johnson, and by her father, Lyell Erickson.

She is survived by her husband, Robert Forsberg, her sister, Joyce (George) Benson of Fort Myers, Florida and Siren, Wisconsin; her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Mike and Karen Forsberg of Hancock, WI, and her nephews, Adam (Mollie) Benson, Ryan (Sarah) Benson and Joshua (Jenny) Benson. grandnephews and nieces, William and Henry Benson, Annabelle and Alex Benson, and Aubrey and Rowan Benson, and many, many friends.

A memorial service will be held at the Siren Covenant Church, Siren, Wisconsin Monday, Aug. 19, 2019 at 11:00 a.m., followed by a

gathering in the fellowship hall.

For her southern Wisconsin friends, an interment of cremains and short graveside service will be held at the Cooksville Cemetery, Cooksville, Wisconsin on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019 at 11:00 a.m., followed by a gathering of family and friends at the Cooksville Farmhouse Inn. The Leikness Funeral Home of Wautoma, Wisconsin is assisting the family with arrangements. wautomafuneralhome.com Leikness Funeral Home 358 S. Oxford St., P.O. Box 207 Wautoma, Wisconsin 54982 (920) 787-3746

Wisconsin- Whitewater. Soon after marriage they had their first child, Pat and seven years later they were blessed with a girl, Amy. Due to his job there were several moves along the way, but Chicago is where they would call home.

Bob was a wonderful father and husband and always put his family first. He loved to tell stories about them, perhaps sharing a bit too much at times. But that was part of his charm.

He never met a bag of popcorn, a dog or a rumrunner that he did not like! He cherished his work friends, many he talked about still. Reminiscing about sales calls gone wrong, or back room poker games at a hotel in the 70’s where you picked up your bottle of booze when you checked in were some of his favorite tales. We could listen to them for hours (and we have!).

After the loss of Ann one

year ago, Bob had a very busy year. He went on several cruises, saw his grandson graduate from high school, went on a boy’s trip to Vegas, learned to cook and use basic household appliances, spent nearly every day with his best friend Lily – she always managed to get one more puppy cookie out of him than she was allowed.

He proudly served on the board of the Boys and Girls Club, volunteered with the First Tee at LPGA, served on the Board of the Ormond Beach Lions Club and worked on his golf game. Bob spent the last two weeks in Chicago visiting family and friends, and spending time visiting his beloved Ann. He came back to Daytona Beach and told Amy how much he missed her. It is our belief that he decided it was time to go home and be with Ann. Bob is survived by his son

Pat and his wife Gail, his daughter Amy and her husband Ken. He had four grandchildren Madison, Blake, Brice and Lily all who were the light of his life. Bob has one brother Peter.

He is preceded in death by his wife Ann and his parents Robert and Beatrice and his brother Stephen (Kim).

A Celebration of Life will be held on Aug. 17 from 2:30-5:00 p.m., followed by a prayer service at Davenport Family Funeral Home at 419 E Terra Cotta Ave. (Rte. 176), Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014.

You can make a donation in his memory to The Crystal Lake Lions Club, PO Box 48 Crystal Lake, Illinois 600390048.

For information, please contact Davenport Family Funeral Home, Crystal Lake, 815-459-3411. For online condolences please visit, davenportfamily.com.

20, 1923, the son of Bennie and Clara (Alme) Larson.

Curt graduated from Stoughton High School in 1941. He entered the U.S. Army in February 1943.

Curt served his Basic Training at Camp Robert California and was sent overseas to the South Pacific without ever taking a furlough. While overseas he was at New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, Vella La Vella, New Zealand, the Philippines Curtis E. Larson (Leyon) and Japan. While in Leyon Curt was wounded and received the Purple Heart.

Curtis E. Larson, age 96, After two and a half years passed away overseas he returned to the peacefully on states via the Panama Canal Sunday, Aug. and landed in New York. After 11, 2019 at his the war Curt worked at Rainhome. He was born on April fair, Amundsons Pavilion on

Lake Kegonsa, then Jay an Ess Soda Grill, Quams electric and the U.S. Post Office.

He spent 32 years working for the post office and retired in 1984.

In 1949 Curt married Lorraine “Lolly” Lyon. He is survived by his three daughters, Kristi (Mike) Huston, Sue (Gary) Petkovsek, and Sally (Steve) Knickmeier; five grandchildren, Scott (Edna) Huston, Bryan (Stacey) Huston, Brad (Sara) Knickmeier, Kelly (Darren Dempsey) Brietzman, Michael (Amber Axtman) Petkovsek; nine great grandchildren; and brother-inlaw, Jack Lyon. Curt was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Lolly; two brothers, LaVerne and Paul; and sister,

Dolores Daacon.

Visitation will be held from 2:00-5:00 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019 at Cress Funeral Home in Stoughton.

Graveside services, with full Military honors, will follow at Riverside Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Agrace HospiceCare Inc. A special thank you to the staff of Agrace, and to Amber Axtman for her exceptional care of Curt.

Please share your memories of Curt at: www.CressFuneralService.com.

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(Zoe); special niece, Dixie (Ken) Borzick and their daughters, Carrie and Jodi; relatives; and many friends, including special friends, Terry Fountain and Mary Spies.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Ervin Huebner and Keith Baker; two daughters, Janis and Sandra; son-inlaw, Steve Gallagher; sister, Gerry Ackerman; and two brothers, Vernon and Jim. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, August 16, 2019 at Cress Funeral Home in Stoughton.

Visitation will be held from 4-7:00 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019 at Cress, and from 10:30 a.m. until the time of services Friday at Cress.

Memorials may be made to the Stoughton VFW Post 328 or to the Diabetes Foundation.

When Tomorrow Starts Without Me When tomorrow starts without me and I’m not here to see, if the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me. I wish so much you wouldn’t cry the way you did today, while thinking of the many things we didn’t get to say.

I know how much you love me, as much as I love you, and each time you think of me I know you’ll miss me too. But when tomorrow starts without me, please try to understand, that an angel came and called my name and took me by the hand.

Love, Mom Please share your memories of Phoebe at: CressFuneralService.com.

Jean Erickson Forsberg, formerly of Cambridge, Wisconsin, passed away on Aug. 4, 2019.

Jean was born Jan. 1, 1942 in Cooksville, Wisconsin. She graduated from Stoughton High School in 1960 and married Robert Forsberg in 1967.

Robert Jarvis

Robert Jarvis

Robert Jarvis, 77, of Daytona Beach passed suddenly on Sunday Aug. 4, 2019. Bob was born in February of 1942 in Stoughton, Wisconsin.

It was here that he met the love of his life Ann and they married while he was enrolled at University of

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Phoebe Baker, age 87, passed away on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019.

She was born in Sun Prairie on Aug. 23, 1931, the daughter of Roy and Sadie Beaver.

Phoebe graduated from Columbus High School.

She worked as a waitress for many years at the Casino Supper Club in Fall River.

Phoebe owned Club 60 in Columbus for three years.

After moving to Stoughton she worked at Nazareth for over 30 years.

During her retirement Phoebe enjoyed helping people in home health care.

She was an avid UW-Badger, Packer, and Viking fan.

Phoebe enjoyed attending craft shows, going to the casino, cooking and baking for family and friends, and entertaining for the holidays. Most of all she enjoyed spending time with her family, especially her children and grandchildren.

Phoebe is survived by four children, Ronnie (Linda) Huebner, Dennis Huebner, Diane (Brian) Gjermo and JoAnn Gallagher; six grandchildren, Tabitha, Travis, Ryan (Courtney), Ronda, Jon and Matt; great grandson, Adalius; two brothers, Donald (Barb) and Earl

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Opera: Upcoming headliners include local and international artists for 2019-20 season Continued from page 1 who’ll take the stage with her band Friday, Sept. 27. Blanton is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter whose clever observations and humor have earned her a reputation as a “mischief-maker” in the mode of the inimitable May West.

“She seemed like somebody that our patrons would enjoy,” Brehm said. “A notable item on her hospitality rider is ‘six shirtless men with six visible abdominal muscles.’”

He’s also pleased about booking two comedians in the season’s first half, Emo Phillips (Oct. 10) and Jena Friedman (Nov. 8).

Phillips has become something of an Opera House regular, but Friedman will make her debut in November.

Brehm explained he’d heard her on public radio talking about comedy and the trappings of being a comedian.

“I was really struck by her,” he recalled.

“She did a great set on the Conan O’Brien show maybe a year ago that I just loved.”

When Brehm booked singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell for an October performance, he couldn’t have known the stage musical she developed from her 2010 album of the same name, “Hadestown,” would be a hit on Broadway and go on to win eight Tony Awards this year, including for Best Musical and Best Original Score.

“I found her music because of Greg Brown’s participation in the original

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Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi will perform two shows, Saturday, Nov. 2 and Sunday, Nov. 3.

‘Hadestown’ album,” he explained. “The awards came after we’d confirmed the show and were just kind of an exciting addition.”

The Opera House director said he’d been “trying relentlessly” to get guitarist Kaki King to come to perform her multi-media

work, “The Neck is a Bridge to the Body.”

“It’s a really interesting piece where projections are mapped onto the body of her guitar and interact with the music she’s playing,” he explained. “She was here 10 years ago doing a solo performance. A lot changes in a decade, but this is the last time her performance piece is being taken out on tour, so we got in under the wire.

“It’s kind of a rare opportunity to see the caliber of artist that she is in the Midwest,” he noted.

Other highlights in coming months include two shows by British guitarist Richard Thompson (Oct. 23-24) and two shows by Texas troubadour Steve Earle (Nov. 15-16). Both will be performing solo on acoustic guitar and vocals.

Thompson, whom Rolling Stone magazine ranked as No. 69 on its list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, apparently likes playing twice when he comes to Stoughton.

“We had two shows the last time he was here,” Brehm recalled. “He must have enjoyed the fact that he didn’t have to go anywhere between the shows. The last time he and his soundman went off and had a relaxing day before the second show.”

Brehm said he’d been trying to bring Earle to town since 2010.

“He doesn’t do as much touring as he used to, and a solo acoustic show is not as common,” he said. “I’m thinking it’s going to be a really awesome show.”

Season highlights From mid-September to mid-December, the Opera House will offer a diverse array of performers, including art-house sisters the Shook Twins (Sept. 28), musical explorer Kaki King (Oct. 12), singer-songwriter and playwright Anais Mitchell (Oct. 17), innovator Harry Manx (Oct. 18), the celebrated British guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson (Oct. 23-24), African-American traditionalist Rhiannon Giddens (Nov. 2-3) and famed nonconformist Steve Earle (Nov. 15-16).

The season’s second half begins with a performance by local favorites Steely Dane ((Feb. 8) and continues with return appearances by Wisconsin storyteller Michael Perry (Feb. 27), South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo (March 5), Cajun stars BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet (March 6), singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan (March 20), country icon Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives (March 21), fingerstyle guitarist Leo Kottke (April 16), bluesman Taj Mahal (April 23), and longtime performers Asleep at the Wheel (April 30-May1) and the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band (May 2).

Closure: Main Street business owner worried about lost foot traffic during construction Continued from page 1 from public works director Brett Hebert, no public confirmation was made until a news release and Facebook post Monday, Aug. 5. In the spring, engineering consultant Strand and the city determined the closure was unavoidable, but did not set a date for the closure at that time.

Before that August post, some of the businesses the Hub spoke with said they were unaware it was even a possibility.

Erika Servantes, co-owner of El Rio Grande restaurant, said she understands the need for the closure but she was surprised to not have known earlier. She noted that the restaurant closed for a week at the beginning of July, its first closure in 15 years.

“If we would have known we would have scheduled our

vacation when the restaurant was less accessible to our customers,” Servantes said. “It would have been a win win.”

The construction closure starts Aug. 19 and runs through Aug. 30.

The day after sending out the news release, Strand site representative Kyle White and Hebert went door to door through the six-block area that’s being closed. They walked business owners and residents through the planned construction, including how Strand will make efforts to maintain access to their businesses and the specifics of how to maintain access is being discussed this week.

“Most of the people we talked to understood the need for the closure and appreciate that we were going to do everything we could to maintain access for them and their customers,” Hebert wrote to the Hub in the email.

For any business owner that was not available, White left pamphlets with information, Hebert said.

Stoughton Tire and Auto owner Tod Goldade told the Hub he wants to be sure people still have at least one access to his business. At the corner of Main Street and South Harrison Street, keeping Harrison Street open is a must for him.

“I know the road needs to be done, the road is very, very bad,” Goldade said. “It has got to be done tactfully so it doesn’t hurt us more than it already is.”

Sandy Quam, branch manager at Home Savings Bank expressed the same sentiment.

She did not know about the closure until an employee saw the public postings but was contacted by public works afterwards. She said as long as her customers have access to their drive through, she

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While the upcoming two-week Main Street closure will present some headaches, it’s only an appetizer to next year’s more significant project.

The State Department of Transportation will be doing work on Main Street between Hoel Avenue and Page Street in 2020. Work is expected to start around June 2020 and continue into October, project manager Alex Hagen told the Hub in an email.

Work will include replacing the pavement between South Van Buren and Page streets and a base patch and overlay between Hoel Avenue and South Van Buren Street. According to the project page, traffic will be going in both directions between Hoel and Van Buren and will be detoured between Van Buren and Page streets.

Stoughton Mayor Tim Swadley told the Hub last week the city has been preparing for the project throughout the year, calling it a “major deal.”

DOT officials held a public involvement meeting for the project in October 2018, and Hagen wrote to the Hub there is not another planned.

For information and updates on the project, visit the DOT website at wisconsindot.gov.

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Viking Motors, Christ The King Church, Dandelion Outfitters and Thrivent Financial were not immediately available for comment.

Barman said for their business, which has been open since December, it would help to change the electronic sign, which is located farther west on Main Street, to state businesses are still accessible in addition to the notification of the road closure.

Herbet said the public works department is having signs made to highlight businesses are open during construction this week.

He also said the public works department is discussing how to communicate with various groups for the larger Main Street closure in 2020.

The Stoughton Chamber of Commerce is involved in that plan.

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT DANE COUNTY SUMMONS Case No. 2019CV001718 Judge Shelley Gaylord Foreclosure of Mortgage: 30404 U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as trustee for CVF III Mortgage Loan Trust II PO Box 814609 Dallas, TX 75381-4609 Plaintiff, v.

Gregg A. Hegerfeld 402 W. Prospect Avenue Stoughton, WI 53589 Defendants.

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.

Within 40 days, after August 15, 2019, (which is the first day that this Summons was published) you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Complaint. The demand must be sent or delivered to the Court, which address is: Dane County Courthouse 215 Hamilton Street, Madison, WI 53703, and to Codilis, Moody & Circelli, P.C., plaintiff’s attorneys, whose address is 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 200, Burr Ridge, IL 60527. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy of the complaint within 40 days, 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.

Dated: August 7, 2019 Codilis, Moody & Circelli, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Electronically signed by Emily Thoms WI State Bar No. 1075844 Codilis, Moody & Circelli, P.C. 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 200 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5200 pleadings@il.cslegal.com 50-19-01164 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.

Published: August 15, 22 and 29, 2019 WNAXLP *** NOTICE OF PENDING APPLICATION FOR PROPOSED BOAT RAMP John Quam, 1896 Barber Drive, Stoughton, WI 53589 has applied to the Department of Natural Resources for a permit to place a private boat ramp on the bed of Lake Kegonsa.

The project is located in the NE1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 26, Township 06 North, Range 10 East, Town of Dunn, Dane County.

The proposed project will be installing concrete panels on the bed to upgrade an existing landing.

The Department will review the proposal provided by the applicant and any information from public comments and a public informational hearing, if requested. The Department will determine whether the proposal complies with ss.

1.11 and 30.12(3m), Stats., and ch. NR 150, Wis. Adm. Code, and ensure that the required mitigation meets the standards in s. 281.36(3r), Stats. if the project impacts wetlands.

The Department has made a tentative determination that it will issue the

permit or contract for the proposed activity.

If you would like to know more about this project or would like to see the application and plans, please visit the Department’s permit tracking website at https:// permits.dnr.wi.gov/water/SitePages/Permit%20Search.aspx and search for WPIP-SC-2019-13-X06-17T09-25-56.

Reasonable accommodation, including the provision of informational material in an alternative format, will be provided for qualified individuals with disabilities upon request.

Any person may submit comments and/or request a public informational hearing by emailing travis.schroeder@ wi.gov or writing to Travis Schroeder, 3911 Fish Hatchery Rd., Fitchburg, WI 53711 by U.S. mail. If you are submitting general comments on the proposal, they must be emailed or postmarked within 30 days after the date this notice is published on the Department’s website. If you are requesting a public informational hearing, the request must be emailed or postmarked within 20 days after the date this notice is published on the Department’s website. A request for hearing must include the docket number or applicant name and specify the issues that the party desires to be addressed at the informational hearing.

If no hearing is requested, the Department may issue its decision without a hearing. If a public informational hearing is held, comments must be postmarked no later than 10 days following the date on which the hearing is completed.

The final decision may be appealed as indicated in the decision document.

Docket Number IP-SC-2019-13-01947 Published: August 15, 2019 WNAXLP ***

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Help Wanted Verona Hyatt Place is now hiring full & part time housekeeper. Must be able to work weekends and holidays.

Pay starting at $12.50 per hour based on experience. Immediate interviews available on property.

Looking for Class A CDL ton truck driver. Must have good driving record and references. Experience necessary. Insurance incentive after 90 days. Send resume to dearthlivestock@yahoo.com Paid weekly. Call 608-558-8165.

PT Office Assistant M-F First Lutheran Church, Stoughton MS-Office Proficient 30 hrs-wk 608873-7761.

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Antiques BUYING US Gold & Silver Coins and Collectibles. Call 608-988-6406 Rick Miles Coin.

Garage Sales STOUGHTON. 817 Arendal Court, 815 and 816, 8a-5p. 55" TV, name brand clothes, American Girl dolls, collectibles, bike, jewelry, ballet bar, holiday, college bedding, and household items.

OREGON. 4735 Eisenhower Street.

816-817, 8a-5p. Wide-variety of items, including sewing machine, hand tools, stoneware, jugscrocks, vases, beer bottles, camping lanternequip., fishing poles, vinyl, record turntables, Schwinn bicycle, furniture, toys, lots more!

STEEL FABRICATOR looking for FT Welder, Forklift Driver, and Maintenance positions. Experience in manufacturing preferred. $16-$20 per hour depending on experience. PT Truck Driver. Apply to Bradley Iron Works, INC, 2345 Kerper Blvd, Dubuque, IA 52001.

STOUGHTON. 2264 CTY AB. Friday 8am-4pm, Saturday 8am-Noon. New American Girl items, womens Schwinn 10-speed, womens and girls clothing and shoes and household items.

Services

WE BUY Junk Cars and Trucks.

We sell used parts.

Monday thru Friday 8am-5:30pm.

Newville Auto Salvage 279 Hwy 59 Edgerton 608-884-3114

OFFICE CLEANING in StoughtonOregon Mon-Fri 5pm. Visit our website: www.capitalcityclean.com or call our office 608-831-8850.

CHERYL’S HOUSEKEEPING Stoughton and Oregon. 608-3229554.

HOUSECLEANING SERVICES. Natural and effective cleaning solutions. Meticulous, reputable and reliable. www.detailedhousecleaningservice.com. Call Detailed Cleaning 608-361-8999 HOUSECLEANING SERVICES. Willing to clean small home in Madison and Stoughton area. 608298-7477.

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Rentals BROOKLYN. 3806 Union-Dane Road.

4-bedroom house, 1.5-bath, all applicances furnished, large 2-stall garage.

Rural setting. Stoughton schools. $1500month plus utilities. 608-3385408.

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A&B ENTERPRISES Light Construction Remodeling No job too small 608-835-7791.

ART’S LAWNCARE: Mowing, trimming, weed control, fertilizing. Rough mowing available. 608-235-4389.

LAWN MOWING Residential & Commercial.

Fully Insured.

608-873-7038 or 608-669-0025

Pets ENGLISH BULLDOG puppy, white and black female, AKC registered, shots and dewormed. Wis. Lic. 466394, $1,000 obo. 608-943-6202.

LAB-GERMAN SHORTHAIR puppies - shots, dewclaws removed, tails docked. 6 males 3 females. Hunting family. Textcall 608-732-0688 or 608485-0662. $300.

MINI-GOLDENDOODLES, SHIPOOS,Teddy Bears, 2-Westies, 2-Whoodles, 3-Cavachons, 2-Cockapoos, 5-Poochons, Cavapoos & 3 Wheaton Terriers soon! $695 to $1,495 or more WWW. SPRINGGREENPUPS.COM Lic #474872 Brenda 608-574-7931 RED HEELER puppies, shots, de-wormed. $300. 608-348-3810.

CLASSIFIEDS, 873-6671 or 835-6677. It pays to read the fine print.

STOUGHTON. For rent 2-bedroom, 1-bath duplex, garage in center, $925/ month. No pets. 608-346-1263.

ROSEWOOD APARTMENTS for Seniors 55+. 1 & 2 bedroom units available starting at $810 per month.

Includes heat, water and sewer.

Professionally managed. Located at 300 Silverado Drive, Stoughton, WI 53589. 608-877-9388

Storage Spaces For Rent ALL SEASONS SELF STORAGE 10x10 10x15 10x20 10x25 10x30 Security Lights-24/7 access OREGON/BROOKLYN CALL 608-444-2900 DEER POINT STORAGE Convenient location behind Stoughton Lumber.

Clean-Dry Units 24-HOUR LIGHTED ACCESS 5x10 thru 12x25 608-335-3337

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Office Space For Rent OFFICE SPACES FOR RENT In Oregon facing 15th hole on golf course Free Wi-Fi, Parking and Security System Conference rooms available Kitchenette-Breakroom Autumn Woods Prof. Centre Marty 608-835-3628 VERONA. 3,400 sq. ft. warehouse loading dock, 1 office. & 600 SQ. FT Warehouse. 608-576-0192.

Real Estate New Factory Built Homes, 3 BR, 2 BA put on your foundation. $59,980 HORKHEIMER HOMES Hazelton, IA. 800-632-5985.

Farm FOR SALE: 1,000 gallon DeLaval bulk tank and plate cooler, also a vacuum pump 7.5hp, 10 years old, really good condition. $5,000 obo.

Also a 3 inch milk line and jar for a double 5 parlor. 608-778-6026.

FRITZ BARN PAINTING Rusty roofs, metal buildings, grain bins. Freeestimate. 608-221-3510

FRENCHTOWN SELF-STORAGE Only 6 miles South of Verona on Hwy PB. Variety of sizes available now.

10x10=$65-month 10x15=$75-month 10x20=$85-month 10x25=$95-month 12x30=$120-month Call 608-424-6530 or 1-888-878-4244

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Sloan Implement at our Mt. Horeb location is currently looking for a Lawn and Garden Service Technician 1 to perform basic diagnostics, service repairs and maintenance work on customer and/or dealer-owned turf equipment.

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Sloan Implement is currently looking for a full-time Truck Driver at our Mt. Horeb, WI location to transport equipment to/from customers and/or between dealer facilities.

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Sloan Implement in Mt. Horeb is looking for an experienced Ag Sales Representative to sell new and used Ag and Turf equipment.

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Four Winds Manor and Four Winds Lodge Seeking dedicated individuals to join our team!

CNAs - FT/PT ⋅ PM and NOC shift RN - FT/PT ⋅ Day shift LPN - FT ⋅ PM shift RN PM Nurse Supervisor - FT M.A.A. - FT ⋅ PM Shift Contact Jessica Koerwitz, Director of Nursing 608-845-6465 or jkoerwitz@fourwindsmanor.com ------------------------------------------------------------------Housekeeper - Full-Time Contact Brent Marshall 608-845-6465 or bmarshall@fourwindsmanor.com ------------------------------------------------------------------Resident Assistant - FT Day/PM combination of shifts Contact Lisa Aders at 608-845-6465 or laders@fourwindsmanor.com or Jim Raab jraab@fourwindsmanor.com We offer competitive wages, shift and weekend differential. Health, dental, disability and life insurance. Retirement, vacation, sick and holiday pay.

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STOUGHTON HOSPITAL Blood Drive. Friday, August 16. 8 am-1 pm in the Bryant Center Stoughton Hospital. $10 gift cards for all presenting donors. Walk-ins welcome or call Sharee at 800-747-5401 x4128 for an appointment. Photo I.D. required.

FOR SALE: Beagle puppies, tri-colored, AKC registered, vet checked.

My dogs are typically fast starters and quick learners, great hunters and companions, and field champions in the pedigree. $400-$450 each. 608437-8957.

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Amber works on a story during a “coffee date” in the summer of 2017. Doing coffee dates was one of her favorite ways to work.

Amber Levenhagen, left, holds a recorder and watches excitedly as a Stoughton beekeeper pulls bees out of their wooden beehive.

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multifaceted, such as Stoughton’s ongoing riverfront redevelopment planning.

She was devastated when the Kittleson house – a story she had been covering for months – was scheduled for demolition at a time when she had a prior engagement.

When she got the opportunity to put on beekeeper gear last summer for a story, she jumped at it without a second thought. She was the kind of reporter who found satisfaction in being involved with every aspect of a story.

She also loved writing feature stories about our communities and lamented at having to pass them along to other reporters in recent months so she could continue to hone her skills covering governments.

She was also one of the most supportive people on UNG’s staff. She was always willing to lend an ear to help her coworkers through their difficult times, and was a relentless cheerleader as they worked with tough sources and impossible stories.

She also fervently supported them outside of work, going to their photography exhibitions, college capstone presentations and other activities they were involved in.

She started early as a journalist, penning a blog on environmental issues as a teenager that garnered more attention than she’d anticipated. After that, she went on to study journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, writing and taking photos for its student newspaper, The Royal Purple.

There, she expanded her photography skills from art photography to that of photojournalism, learning on the fly as she was thrown into sports games, political rallies and even a flour fight event. She was also the first-ever student photographer hire for the university’s marketing department, paving the way for other students to hone their craft.

Levenhagen was named

Amber Levenhagen holds her Future Headliners plaque in March 2018. She won the award from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. a Future Headliner by the Wi s c o n s i n N e w s p a p e r Association in 2018, one of five reporters under the age of 30 across the state chosen as an emerging leader in the industry.

“Being able to walk down the street and ask people some of their favorite parts about the community and then seeing how that translates into the story,” she said of her job in a video she made as part of the recognition. “I believe in journalism as a tool for getting the community engaged in what is happening outside of their own back door.”

She also won three second place awards: Two for her photography work at Syttende Mai in partnership with reporter Kimberly Wethal and another as a “Rookie Reporter of the

Year.”

In a blog post from her senior year of college, she wrote that after she graduated, she hoped to continue with a career in photojournalism to further her interests in environmental and social justice.

“Dream big, right?” she wrote.

State Patrol Sgt. Matt Noah told Unified Newspaper Group Levenhagen struck a truck in front of her at high speed as traffic slowed for a crash and that the investigation was still open Monday morning.

Levenhagen donated her organs, which will help up to 75 people.

A memorial service is not yet set, but this story will be updated online once details have been announced.