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District plans to add 4-5 routes with new attendance boundaries KIMBERLY WETHAL Unified Newspaper Group
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Verona Area High School junior Kyle Kohlstedt, a member of the German Club, helps Caroline Killoran, 5, with “fishing” at his club’s booth during the VAHS Kids Carnival on Saturday, Feb. 15.
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VAHS Student Council: MACH ONEHealth, ALS/MSA Association, Reach a Child and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Children got to More photos from the pick which charity their $5 admisKids Carnival sion fee went to. To view or buy the photos in the Page 13 slideshow, visit smugmug.com. Email reporter Kimberly Wethal at kimberly.wethal@wcinet.com and painting and fishing for prizes. follow her on Twitter @kimberThe proceeds from the event benefit four charities chosen by the ly_wethal.
Start and end times for the 2020-21 school year are expected to stay the same – but the Verona Area School District will need to add four or five bus routes to accomplish it. That’s mainly because a state-mandated study of hazards along walking routes found some students living close to school should not be required to walk. Those are mostly near Country View, Glacier Edge
and Sugar Creek elementary schools. The study was a result of the attendance boundary changes that will go into effect starting in fall 2020 with the opening of a new high school and a resulting shuffle of several other schools. At the school board’s Monday, Feb. 17, meeting, it gave the district’s busing contractor, Badger Bus, the green light to create additional routes. The number of bus routes will be finalized later in the spring. “Timing is the whole issue, to keep a student on the bus for 45 minutes or less,” Badger Bus terminal operations manager Karen Maher said.
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hildren played and hung out with Verona Area High School students during the annual Kids Carnival on Saturday, Feb. 15. A couple dozen student organizations filled the gymnasium and Commons of the high school, setting up activities for children such as operating robots, playing soccer, face
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Bos Meadery Blues Bash to feature Verona musician, band ‘Leo Albertoni and the Convictions’ to perform Feb. 22 EMILIE HEIDEMANN Unified Newspaper Group
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Leo Albertoni, 2019 Verona Area High School graduate, is the lead vocalist, keyboardist and songwriter of Leo Albertoni and the Convictions.
When Leo Albertoni was a child, he realized he could play melodies by ear on his grandmother’s piano. To this day, Albertoni, a 2019 Verona Area High School graduate, says he can’t read sheet music; rather, he puts a sound and lyrics to his emotions
through improvisation and spontaneity. To show those talents off, his retro R&B soul project “Leo What: Bos Meadery Blues Albertoni and the Convictions” Bash is performing its debut show – When: 7:30-11 p.m. Saturday, the Bos Meadery Blues Bash Feb. 22 – in collaboration with MadiWhere: Bos Meadery, 849 E. son’s The Mannish Boys from Washington St., Madison 7:30 -11 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22. Info: facebook.com/events/ The Bash is taking place at bos-meadery-blues-bash 849 E. Washington St., in Madison. Tickets for the event are start at Madison-area clubs at $10. U p o n g r a d u a t i n g f r o m the age of 16. He said one of those includVAHS, Albertoni became a working musician, getting his ed the Madison-based Knuckle
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Down Saloon, where Albertoni – keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter – found fellow bandmates Todd Phipps, organ player; Pete Olig, bass player; Alex Quinnel, drummer; and Jesse Steinberg, guitar player. He said he would go to the saloon every Thursday for open blues jams. His aforementioned bandmates took notice of him after he would get on stage and perform with them. The band officially came together in May 2019. The Facebook event page
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