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Stories of the Year
Schools and more
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Beres will not

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SCOTT GIRARD
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2016
VASD decisions, planning highlight 2016 stories
Schools are important in Verona.
So it only makes sense that more
than half of the top stories of 2016,
selected by reporters here at the Press,
involve the Verona Area School District in some way.
At the top is a story that actually
has nothing official yet to show for all
of the effort that was put in this year.
That, of course, will be remedied early in 2017, when the school board
officially puts forth a ballot measure
for a new high school.
Next is an event that affected much
beyond the school district and will
help fill the citys coffers in the years
to come as well. With the closure of
Epics tax-increment financing district, the city, school district and Dane
County all got a one-time funding
boost, and the city especially can look
forward to increased property-tax revenue on an annual basis.
This year also saw the first state
championship by the high school
girls basketball team and an exceptionally large interest in seats that
opened on the school board and Common Council both through elections
and resignations.
The list also includes a drawn-out
controversy about one of the districts
charter schools, a fast-paced controversy over a student at first being
some items that couldnt even make

our list would have made the top 10
in many years and other places. But
in Verona, theres simply too much
going on.
Its a good problem to have.
Stories of 2016
1. VASD referendum planning
2. Big budget, again
3. Girls basketball state title
4. Open seats
5. VAIS charter renewed
6. (tie) Noah Currier walks in
graduation ceremony
6. (tie) City loses employees
8. (tie) VASD transgender policy
8. (tie) VACT breaks ground
10. City OKs Matts House plan
1. High school and more
denied, then granted, the opportunity to walk in his class graduation

ceremony and a local resolution to a
hot-button national topic on gender.
The year also included a pair of
big community-driven efforts in the
groundbreaking at the new Verona
Area Community Theater building
and the restoration of the historic
Matts House.
The honorable mentions and
The district had already suggested a

spring 2017 referendum before 2016
even began.
But the work put forth this year
served a critical purpose: ensuring that
whatever the board chooses to include
in the referendum is more likely to
pass than fail.
From community focus groups in
May to a pair of public information
meetings on survey and study results,
board members and district staff spent
much of their time trying to inform and
hear from their eventual voters.
They found out some crucial information, too. Early in the year, it looked
like the district would push for a new
elementary school in response to a
space crunch at Glacier Edge Elementary School that had previously forced
some redistricting.
Instead, after hearing from consultants about their options, board members decided to plan for a new high
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board will have a new
president in 2017.
Board president Dennis
Beres who has served
on the board since 2002
announced last week he
will not run for reelection.
I have enjoyed working with the Verona Area
School District Board
of Education for over 14
years, Beres wrote in a
letter to clerk Tom Duerst.
However the time has
come for me to move on to
pursue my personal goals.
Beres has overseen plenty in his recent years as
president, including the
2015 referendums to purchase land, the push for
personalized learning and
positive behavior initiatives and the planning for
the spring 2017 referendum for a new high school.
He has stressed the
importance of the high
school plan as a key in the
districts long-term future.
His tenure as president
included criticism from
some community members
about a lack of transparency from the board, and
in the past two years has

seen community members
turn out regularly to board
meetings to offer input and
watch for
decisions.
There is
at least one
candidate
running for
his seat,
which covers the City
Beres
of Verona.
Kristina
Navarro-Haffner, a VASD
parent, has announced
her intention to run to the
Press and on a Facebook
page.
Beres term will end at
the first meeting after the
April 4 election.
It has been a pleasure
working with the staff, students, parents and community of Verona Area School
District, he wrote in his
letter. I wish the VASD
Board of Education continued success in all future
endeavors. Thank you for
such a great opportunity to
serve.
Contact Scott Girard at
[email protected]
and follow him on Twitter
@sgirard9.
City of Verona
Verona Ave. mixed-use

project up for review
Dog day care, St.
James also have
hearings
JIM FEROLIE
Verona Press editor
Plans for a two-story,

4,900-square-foot mixeduse building that would
split the gap between the
new Sherwin-Williams
store and the Kwik Trip
on East Verona Avenue
will get a public hearing at
Mondays Plan Commission.
The commission gets

a little break from the
w e i g h t i e r t o p i c s i t s
been reviewing in recent
months, as every item on
the list has been discussed
in one form or another
before. Other public hearings are for a dog day
care in Verona Technology Park, a rezone of more
than 100 acres east of that
area that was previously
annexed and a downsized
expansion plan for St.
James Lutheran Church,
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Upper Sugar River Watershed Association
Invasive snails concern watershed association

Group plans to
install signs to
educate
BILL LIVICK
The Upper Sugar River

Watershed Association is
taking steps to alert people that an invasive snail
species was recently found
in Badger Mill Creek.
The association plans to
install signs on the creek
and along the Sugar River
informing people of steps
they can take to prevent
spreading the tiny mollusk
to other bodies of water.
The New Zealand
mudsnail was discovered
last month and has no
known natural predators in
the area, but it also hasnt
done noticeable harm to
other bodies of water it has
inhabited.
Still, USRWA is concerned that the snails are
competing for the same
resources that our natives
are, said Wade Moder,
the associations executive
director.
In in early November,
mudsnails were found at
several locations in Badger
Mill Creek, a few hundred
yards upstream of the Sugar
River.
Moder said the mudsnail
is more of an unknown
that invasive plants because
it was only first discovered
in Wisconsin in 2013. The
first species identified in
the state were found in the
Black Earth Creek in western Dane County.
Experts think the snails
are transported between
lakes and rivers after they
attach to peoples fishing
gear and other water equipment.
Our plan at this point
is to monitor the situation,
because we dont have
much experience with them
in Wisconsin, Moder said.
The snails have been out
West for 30 years. They
havent made their way
here until recently, that we
know of.
The tiny snails, which
grow to just an eighth of an
inch, were first identified in
the U.S. in Idaho in 1987
and are believed to have
West, in all of the Great

Lakes and tributaries in
throughout the Midwest,
according to a Dec. 6 article in the Wisconsin State
Journal.
The Department of Natural Resources was notified about the mudsnails in
Badger Mill Creek on Nov.
1 by employees of the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage
District, who found them
in samples of invertebrates,
the State Journal reported.
It said snails can survive out of water for nearly a month on the soles of
shoes, clothing, on fishing
equipment and boats.
Along with signage,
the DNR plans to install
boot brush stations where
mudsnails have been found.
Moder said USRWA is
planning to help by developing and installing signs
asking anglers and other
water recreationalists to be
aware of the tiny snails and
Photo by Kate Newton remove them before travA warning sign about invasive mudsnails is located where
eling to other streams and
the Badger Mill Creek flows under Hwy. 69 in Verona.
lakes.
At this point, my focus
arrived in the country by then, the snails have been would be the people fishshipments of fish bound for found in lakes and streams ing on Badger Mill Creek
a hatchery in Idaho. Since in nearly every state in the and alerting them to inspect
their equipment before

moving on to a different creek, Moder said.
I almost think the Sugar
River is a lost cause at this
point. Were hoping to slow
the spread as much as we
can into other branches.
Unfortunately, Moder
said, its virtually impossible to eradicate the
mudsnails.
Its not like a plant
where you could try to pick
it and stay after it and know
where the populations are
going to be, he explained.
Another bad thing is that
theyre so small. So youre
not going to find just one;
youre only going to find
them when there are hundreds of thousands of them.
If you can draw a positive from this, he added, its that the mudsnail
is so small that if people
are getting them off their
equipment, then theyre
getting everything off their
equipment all the seeds
and anything else that gets
transferred from one river
to another.
Contact Bill Livick at bill.
[email protected].
Gas leak closes roads

in Town of Verona
Residents in the area of County Hwy. PD and
Shady Oak Lane in the Town of Verona were
asked to shelter in place Tuesday morning due
to a nearby gas leak, according to the Dane County
Sheriffs Office.
Several roads in the area were closed as an
MG&E crew worked to repair the leak in the gas
main, which was caused when a contractor working in the area dug into a high pressure gas line
around 10a.m., according to MG&E corporate
communications manager Margaret Collins. She
said eight residences were still without gas at
4p.m. Tuesday, but that crews were still working
to restore it by about 8p.m. that evening.
DCSO public information officer Elise Schaffer
told the Press the affected roads were reopened just
after noon.
Kate Newton
Photo by Scott De Laruelle
A Verona Fire Department truck blocked off access to County PD about a half-mile west of County M around noon Tuesday afternoon.
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of hours wrapping a steel
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water was turned back onto
the buildings at that point.
A school district email
to all parents indicated the
Natatorium resumed its
schedule around noon.
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City of Verona
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Inspector candidates down to 2

JIM FEROLIE
Verona Press editor
The city is close to hiring

a new building inspector
after experiencing a shortage in that department for
the past five months.
Since the July exit of Brian Flannery, who returned
to Sun Prairie after 13 years
to run a larger department,
Veronas department has
been shorthanded. Assistant building inspector Todd
Parkos officially resigned
in September, and the city
hired Joe Jameson as parttime inspector to fill the
gap. It also has contracted with Safebuilt as needed and continues to have a
contracted plumbing plan
reviewer and commercial
plans reviewer.
The Personnel committee
has met twice in December
to discuss the candidates
for the department head
position and has narrowed

the list to two finalists,
Kenneth Robers and Lucas
Dederich. A third finalist
withdrew previously.
Robers is the administrator of the building departm e n t i n L a ke G e n eva ,
which also has an administrative assistant on its staff.
Dederich is an inspector for
the state, covering a seven-county area (Portage,
Marathon, Taylor, Lincoln,
Vilas, Forest and Oneida
counties).
City administrator Jeff
Mikorski told the Press
the committee is still
interviewing and that he
expects an offer will be
extended soon. He added
that if all works out, the
Common Council will take
action on a contract Jan. 9.
Email Verona Press
editor Jim Ferolie at
[email protected].
Anonymous donor clears

student fees at Sugar Creek
Other effort raises money
through GoFundMe
SCOTT GIRARD
More than 50 Sugar Creek Elementary School families got an early holiday present during the last week of
school before winter break.
An anonymous donor who had volunteered with the schools early childhood program walked into the office
Monday, Dec. 19, and told the secretary she wanted to help families at the
school.
After talking to the school social
worker, she walked out with almost
$1,400 less to her name, but having
covered all of the unpaid registration
fees at the school $345 worth and

another $1,000 of unpaid lunch balances.
Her money made a huge impact,
Sugar Creek principal Todd Brunner
said. Some it was hundreds of dollars.
Its an individual example of a
broader effort going on district-wide
through the donor website GoFundMe,
where Verona resident Sarah Gaskell
has created a fundraiser to pay off the
overdue meal accounts of students.
That effort has raised $1,715 of a
$3,500 goal over 13 days from 34
donors.
Brunner, who worked with the social
worker and lunch coordinator to send
letters to the Sugar Creek families
whose accounts were paid off, said the
donors only request was to remain
anonymous.
She really wanted to do it for family members of this school, he said.

Brunner said the woman was surprised at the number of children in
need at the school, but her donation left
many in the office emotional.
The people in the office were in
tears, he said. I couldnt believe it. It
was just absolutely fantastic.
The timing of the holidays only
increased the impact, Brunner said,
when many families are already
pressed for money.
All these families now are gonna
get this letter from me saying, Hey,
this one overdue fee or account in
your childs name, that accounts been
paid, he said.
[email protected] and follow
him on Twitter @sgirard9.
District to survey on late starts

SCOTT GIRARD
d eve l o p m e n t t i m e f o r s c h o o l s t h a n t h o s e i n
teachers throughout the grades six through 12.
year, but a survey last year
The Verona Area School about the school calendar
[email protected]
District plans to send indicated there were difand follow him on Twitter
another survey to parents ferent preferences from
teachers in the elementary
@sgirard9.
shortly into the new year.
This time, it will ask parents about potential changes to late start Mondays.
VASD director of human
resources Jason Olson told
the school board Dec. 19
that while most of the calendar was set including
start and end dates and
spring break they should
wait to approve it until the
survey results are known.
If the board were to
eliminate or adjust late
starts, it could create more
days off during the year,
Questions?
so Olson recommended
Comments?
against having to pass the
calendar twice.
Story Ideas?
Board member Russell
King said he was already
Let us know
getting heat from parents
who want to know what how were doing.
the calendar is, but others
advised him to share the
draft calendar and explain
the dates that are expected Your opinion is something we always want to hear.
to remain the same.
Call 845-9559 or at connectverona.com
The goal of any change
to late starts would be
to add professional
Plan: Public hearing set for Monday

earned approval.
The East Verona Avenue
project is, like the Sherwin-Williams store, on an
odd-shaped parcel that creates some challenges. As
a result, the parking situation will be similar to when
Edelweiss Cheese refurbished an old house on West
Verona Avenue through a
long driveway and behind
the building.
The bottom of the
30-foot-tall, modern-looking structure is planned
for 2,400 square feet of
retail and office use. The
top would be a pair of
1,200-square-foot, two-bedroom apartments. The
design includes a two-story
glass window, and much of
its facade is metal or brick.
The submission to the
city projects construction
will begin in April and the
building opening by the end
of the year.
The dog day care, named
Tailwaggers, was the subject of extensive discussion

last year, when the commission disagreed over whether
the location across the street
from Wisconsin Brewing
Company was appropriate
or whether an industrial
park was appropriate at all.
It eventually led to a change
in the citys zoning rules
that could eventually lead
to other dog day care facilities.
Tailwaggers is planned
to be a 7,400-square-foot
building that would be
staffed from 5:45a.m. to
9:30p.m. daily, with dogs
inside by 9.
The St. James project
would demolish the existing
preschool building and add
about 9,000 square feet on
the first floor and basement
level of the church, partly
for expansion of the preschool.
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Public hearing
for mixed-use
4,900-square-foot
building at 410-416
E. Verona Ave.
Public hearing for
revised expansion
plans for St. James
Lutheran Church,
427 S. Main St.
Public hearing for
rezoning lands east
of Verona Technology Park
Public hearing for
plans for proposed
dog daycare center
in Verona Technology Park
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Financially Speaking
Individual investments dont

necessarily follow an index
was recently meeting with a

client to review his accounts and
I found myself at a bit of a loss.
We were talking about how
much his investments have grown
and how the investment markets
have done in general. He kept
asking why specific holdings had
gained more or less than the
market. My answers didnt seem
to make sense to him, so I finally
asked him what he meant by the
market. He looked at me a little
strangely and
replied, The
stock market,
you know, the
Dow.
Ah. Now I
get it.
With a degree
in finance, my
CFP designaArndt
tion and more
than 20 years
of experience in the financial
industry, I guess I may have started
to forget how people without my
background might perceive what
they see in the news. Taking a step
back, I can easily see how someone
might assume that when a reporter
says something like, Stocks were
down marginally today or a headline reads, Stocks gain 1 percent
as S&P 500 Index hits new high
that the stocks they own would
have followed suit. Unfortunately,
its not that simple.
The stock market is actually
comprised of dozens of stock
exchanges, some with physical
locations and some essentially electronic, all around the world. Literally thousands of individual stocks
(you can find my article explaining
what a stock is on my website if
youd like a refresher) are bought
and sold on those exchanges every
day.
Investors buy shares of stocks
that they think are attractive, and
sell those that they no longer want
to own. Those decisions are made
based on a variety of factors, some
related to general things like the
economy and others related to
company specific expectations,
like plans to build a new plant or
expand into another country.
Because there are a multitude
of reasons to buy or sell a given

stock, their prices dont all move in
tandem. To try and give investors
a general idea of how stocks were
doing, Charles H. Dow, a finance
journalist, developed the first
stock index, called the Dow Jones
Industrial Average (Dow), in 1896.
It was a simple calculation that
tracked the average price of the 12
biggest stocks in the United States
at the time. Since then, the Dow
has expanded slightly, but still only
follows the prices of 30 stocks.
Over the years, many more stock
indexes have been developed,
focusing on either very limited
types of stocks or trying to give
a broader picture by following a
range of them.
Besides the Dow, the most commonly referenced index is the S&P
500 Index. While certainly more
broad than the Dow, the S&P 500
Index only tracks large companies
based in the U.S. It doesnt include
stocks of smaller companies, like
Duluth Holdings or Exact Sciences, and it doesnt include stocks
of companies based outside of the
U.S., like Sony and Nestle.
In addition to not following all
types of stocks, the S&P 500 Index
uses a market cap weighting calculation, which means that the largest
companies in the index have more
of an impact on how it moves than
the others.
For example, Rob Isbitts at
Marketwatch wrote an excellent article in May of this year
explaining how at that time, 10
percent of the S&P 500 Index
was comprised of just three
stocks. To get to 20 percent of the
index, he explained, you just had
to add seven more stocks.
In fact, while there are several
thousand stocks trading in the
U.S., and thousands more across
the globe, half of the performance of the S&P 500 Index can
be attributed to just 50 stocks
according to Isbitts.
Unfortunately, what often happens is that people see a headline
saying that the Dow or S&P 500
are up, and dont understand
why their international or small
company stocks are not. And
company size and location arent
the only things that differentiate

them sometimes certain sectors,
like big technology stocks, can
make an index go up, even though
more than half of the stocks in the
stock market actually decline in
value (2015 anyone?).
The important thing to remember is that indexes are intended to
give the general sense of direction for the type of stocks that
they track by using some type of
method to calculate and follow an
average. That doesnt mean that
every individual stock within the
index, or across the stock market
as a whole, will move in the same
way. And certainly you shouldnt
expect all stock investments to
have the exact same performance
as any one index, no matter how
broad.
Does that mean that stock
indexes arent useful or that you
shouldnt pay attention to them?
Of course not. Stock indexes
were designed to give a general
idea of how the average price
of the stocks they are follow are
moving. There is certainly a value
to that, its just important to take
information with a grain of salt
and understand that the stocks
you own may, or may not, even
be part of a given stock index.
Know what you own, and dont
get too caught up in how the prices move over the short term if you
feel like they are good long-term
holdings.
Trisha Arndt, CFP , is President of Wealth Strategies of Wisconsin Ltd, 901 Kimball Lane,
Suite 1400, Verona, WI 53593, 608848-2400. Securities and Advisory
Services offered through Commonwealth Financial Network, member
FINRA/SIPC, a Registered Investment Adviser.
All indices are unmanaged and investors
cannot invest directly into an index. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees
of future performance and involve certain
risks and uncertainties which are difficult to
predict. Past performance is not indicative
of future results. Diversification does not
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Verona area man sentenced to year in prison

Press correspondent
A precious metals broker who

underreported his income for six years
by $1.18 million was sentenced Dec.
15 in federal court to a year and a day in
prison, fined $5,000 and ordered to repay
$254,559 to the IRS.
David Stott, 51, whose address is
listed as Verona, but just north of the
Verona Area School District, owned
the Colorado Gold brokers, receiving
payments from clients for whom he
bought gold and silver.
While he was a successful
businessman earning a six-figure annual
income he reported only a fraction of it
to the IRS, an investigation found.
To keep the IRS in the dark about
his income, Stott structured cash bank
deposits below the $10,000 threshold
that triggers the currency transaction
reports banks are required to file.
A $100,000 cash payment Stott
received in 2011 was broken into 14
deposits each less than $10,000, during
a 30-day period, according to court
documents.
However, the IRS learned of Stotts
transactions and an investigation
uncovered his efforts to avoid paying his
proper tax liability, said assistant U.S.
attorney Daniel Graber.
An IRS raid on at his residence in
July 2013 recovered two sets of books;
one he used to prepare his income taxes
and another that accurately reflected his
income, said Graber.
The government also seized precious
metals from Stotts safe valued at
$83,000, but they were subsequently
returned by court order.
From 2007 to 2012, Stott did not
report income of $1.18 million, resulting
in a tax loss to the IRS $394,559 during
a six-year span.
This is significant cheating, Graber

wrote the court in preparation of
sentencing.
Instead of needing the extra income
for any specific extraordinary expenses,
the investigation found Stott spent the
money on an Acura and a BMW, private
school tuition, pension contributions,
stock brokerage accounts, vacations and
real estate.
After his financial records were
seized, the IRS learned that his personal
expenditures exceeded the amount of his
reported income.
Stotts father brought him into the
brokerage, a low-risk business in which
he earned commissions from client
transactions.
Stott also was a certified financial
planner and had taken income tax
planning courses which included tax
compliance for business entities.
Stott knew the jig was up after the IRS
raid and he no longer prepared his own
tax returns, but instead hired someone.
His income increased by $90,000 from
2012 to 2013.
The government did not indict Stott
until earlier this year but Stott continued
to spend lavishly instead of preparing to
go to prison, Graber wrote.
He bought a home for $625,000, sold
his Dregers Way home for $378,000 and
earned $75,000 on the sale. He sold a
lot on Saracen Rd. for $227,000 netting
$56,000 in equity.
Stott pleaded guilty in October to tax
evasion and agreed to pay $394,550 in
back taxes by sentencing.
However, he breached that promise
claiming he was cash poor and paid just
$140,000 on Thursday.
Stott was hardly cash poor, Graber
wrote, stating that Stott had $905,975
in liquid assets in the past three years
including the real estate he held and
income from the brokerage business his
father and sister ran.

Graber asked District Judge James
Peterson to impose a prison sentence
saying Stotts crime involved a lot of
money during a six-year span.
Graber declined to make further
comments in court Thursday, and Stott,
who submitted a confidential written
statement, only said he was sorry for the
harm he has done to his and his familys
reputations.
I would do anything I could to take
back what Ive done, Stott told Peterson.
Stotts attorney, Stephen Pingree,
sought a probation-only sentence
claiming his client has virtually been on
probation the past three years, leading
a law-abiding life and waiting for the
indictment to be issued.
Hes not likely to commit an offense
again, Pingree said.
Stott faced a sentence of up to
two years under the advisory federal
guidelines. Stotts conduct warranted
some prison time because his crime
was unnecessary and driven by greed,
Peterson said.
He is well to do and would have still
been well to do had he paid his taxes,
Peterson said.
However, Peterson went below the
guideline range because Stott was the
primary caregiver for his ailing wife.
Peterson added that is not ordinarily
grounds for leniency but he factored in
her serious, but unspecified condition in
lowering the sentence.
Peterson gave Stott until Feb. 25,
2017, to report to prison.
Stott will serve one year of supervised
release after his sentence.
Graber told Peterson that the IRS
would probably add $300,000 to
$400,000 in penalties and interest to the
approximately $250,000 Stott owed in
unpaid taxes.
POLICE REPORTS
All reports taken from the log book at the Verona Police Department.
Sept. 6
2:09 p.m. A man was transported to the hospital by Fitchrona
EMS with neck and back pain after being involved in a traffic
collision on the off-ramp from westbound U.S. Hwy. 18/151 to
County Hwy. PB. A woman reported she was slowing for the red
traffic light when her brakes allegedly gave out, and she struck
the drivers door area of the mans vehicle as it was making a left
turn. Both vehicles were towed from the area.
Sept. 10
2:54 a.m. A 29-year-old Verona man was stopped for lack
of registration near East Verona Avenue and Hometown Circle
while en route to the hospital with his wife, who was in labor.
The man was given a verbal warning for the registration and
was released so he could get his wife to the hospital.
Sept. 11
8:59 a.m. Officers received a report of a possible intoxicated
driver who had hit two separate guard rails and then abruptly
went off the road into the marsh before throwing something
from his car along County Hwy. PB near Military Ridge Drive.
The driver told police he had swerved to miss a dog or small
animal and had thrown out a cigarette pack, which he later discovered was actually his cell phone. Field sobriety tests were
conducted and no arrest was made.
Sept. 17
4:35 p.m. A passerby reported seeing an elderly woman who
seemed confused walking down the middle of the street near
Cross Country and North Nine Mound roads. Police located the
woman, who was standing partially in the travel lane of Cross
Country Lane and was disoriented. She was returned to her residence and her daughter was contacted.
9:52 p.m. A 53-year-old Madison woman was arrested for
her third-offense OWI and possession of cocaine after being
pulled over for speeding near East Verona Avenue and Lincoln
Street. A search of her vehicle found marijuana, drug paraphernalia and the suspected cocaine, and she submitted to a chemical breath test. She was booked into jail and put on a 12-hour
hold for the OWI.
9:53 p.m. A 21-year-old Blue Mounds woman was arrested
for her first-offense OWI and cited for driving with a suspended license, no insurance and no license plate lamps, as well as
possessing drug paraphernalia, during a traffic stop at North
Main Street and Cross Country Road. She was suspected of being under the influence of a controlled substance, but refused a
blood test and was released to a responsible party. Her passenger, meanwhile, was found to be intoxicated and in violation of
his probation, and was booked into the Public Safety Building
on a probation hold.
Sept. 18
8:56 p.m. Officers cited a man and one juvenile in possession of drug paraphernalia, marijuana and tobacco products
after they found them hiding in a field just off a trail near an
abandoned property in the 1000 block of Thousand Oaks Trail.
The officers had found a car parked at the end of a cul-de-sac,
and warned both individuals for trespassing on the property in
addition to the citations for possession of controlled substances
and paraphernalia.
Sept. 19
9:32 a.m. A woman reported shed be knocked down by a
car driven by her next door neighbor while walking in a parking lot in the 100 block of Prairie Heights Drive. Neither saw the
other when the driver backed up, and the woman injured her
right ankle, right ring finger and left hip. The driver was aware of
the incident when contacted by VPD.
Sept. 22
8:32 a.m. An officer spoke with a juvenile who claimed to
have been beaten up on the school bus after football practice at
Badger Ridge Middle School. Fitchburg police had initially been
looking into the incident before it was determined to have occurred in Verona.
Sept. 23
8:14 p.m. A juvenile male attempted to resist arrest before
being taken into custody at a Verona Area High School football
game after an officer determined probable cause to arrest him
based on the strong odor of marijuana. A search of the individuals backpack found marijuana, paraphernalia, prescription
medication and a large amount of cash. The individual was
transported to the Juvenile Reception Center in Madison.
Sept. 25
12:27 a.m. A 60-year-old Verona man was cited for his
first-offense OWI after being pulled over for driving without
headlamps or tall lamps near East Verona Avenue and Enterprise Drive. A breath sample was given at a reported value of
.17 BAC, and he was also cited for possession of a controlled
substance and operating without required lamps lit.
Library to host
WWI exhibit
The library will host
an exhibit next month
in recognition of the
centennial anniversary
of the United States
entry into World War I, in
addition to a discussion on
the conflict with Madison
College history professor
Jonathan Pollack.
Wo r l d Wa r I a n d
America composed of
documents, images and
interpretive texts from the
Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History
will be on display from
Tuesday, Jan. 3 through
Monday, Jan. 23. The
exhibition, part of a twoyear national initiative of
The Library of America
and other veterans
organizations, will also
feature a trunk of artifacts
f r o m t h e Wi s c o n s i n
Veterans Museum. The
project is also supported by
the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
There will also be an
opportunity to learn about
the personal impact of
World War I during a
reading and discussion
with Pollack and other
community members who
will read aloud selected
If You Go
What: World War I and
America exhibit
When: Tuesday, Jan. 3
through Monday, Jan.
23
Where: Verona Public
Library, 500 Silent St.
Info: 845-7180
excerpts from World
War I and America: Told
by the Americans Who
Lived It from 7-8:30p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 19. Selected
readings are available at
the service desk or online
at veronapubliclibrary.org.
Pollack will return to the
library for a film screening
and discussion of the 1930
WWI film All Quiet on
the Western Front from
5:30-8:30p.m. Thursday,
Jan. 26, and there will
be a light meal offered
before the screening from
5-5:30p.m.
For information, call
845-7180.
Kate Newton
Academic
Achievements
Academic Achievements
run as space is available,
and this list of honorees and
graduates is not complete.
Due to the increased number
of submissions after spring
and fall graduation times,
there is often a backlog in
the following months.
Note: If you have a nonVerona address, but your
child attended school in
the Verona Area School
District, please email
[email protected] for
consideration.
Awa Jawo, B.S., accounting

Fitchburg
Leslie Owen, B.S., human
services
Summer 2016
graduates
UW-La Crosse
Verona
Aaron Lee Bischoff, B.S.,
exercise and sport science;
Ethan Martin Clark, B.S.,
archaeological studies
UW-Whitewater
Verona
Madeline Peplinski, B.B.A.,
Spring 2016 honors
supply chain and operaUW-Parkside
tions management; Phyllis
Verona
Nzegwu, associate of arts;
Shane Richlen, UW-Parkside Carolyn Larsen, B.A., journalTheatre Scholarship
ism; George Uihlein, B.B.A.,
economics, summa cum
Fall 2016 honors
laude; Samuel Cali B.A., psyBelmont University
chology; Markie Hornung,
Verona
B.S.E., elementary educaRachel Benicek, deans list
tion, cum laude
Fitchburg
Carthage College
Elizabeth Wildes, M.B.A.,
Verona
business administration;
Molly Kempfer, deans list; Alex Watzke, B.A., accountZoe Shaw, deans list
ing, summa cum laude; Ruth
Fitchburg
Greiber, M.S., counseling
Marina Awes, deans list
Spring 2016
graduates
Upper Iowa University
Verona
Fall 2016 graduates
Upper Iowa University

Verona
Tailor
Hartman,
B.S.,
accounting
Sept. 28
3:50 p.m. School staff notified police of an active fight on a
school bus at Verona Area High School. Upon responding, officers restrained one student and all three involved were escorted
off the bus.
Sept. 30
9:26 p.m. Officers observed a fight in progress at Verona
Area High School and cited two individuals involved with disorderly conduct on school property.
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The Verona Press
December 29, 2016
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Coming up
Churches
Dog licenses
All Saints Lutheran Church

2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 276-7729
allsaints-madison.org
Pastor Rich Johnson
Sunday: 8:30 & 10:45 a.m.
Thursday, December 29
2:30-4 p.m., Family Game Day

(all ages), library, 845-7180
4-5:30 p.m., Teen Gaming (ages
11-18), library, 845-7180
Thursday, January 5
8:30-9:30 a.m., Tours for incoming K-5 students, New Century

School, 401 W. Verona Ave., 3459529
10:30-11 a.m., Child DevelopFriday, December 30
ment Storytime: Winter (all ages),
12:30-1:30 p.m., Al Anderson
library, 845-7180
Jazz Band performance (lunch at 4 p.m., Anime Club (grades
11:45 a.m.; reservations required), 6-12), library, 845-7180
senior center, 845-7471
6-7 p.m., Evening Caregiver
2 p.m., Friday Movie: My Man
Support Group (repeats first and
Godfrey (90 min.), senior center, third Thursdays; refreshments
845-7471
5:30-6 p.m.), senior center, 8457471
Monday, January 2
All city facilities, senior center
Friday, January 6
closed
9 a.m., Chat and Chew: Dying
with Dignity and Choice, senior
Tuesday, January 3
center, 845-7471
World War I and America
10-11:30 a.m., The Young and
exhibit begins (through Jan. 23),
the Restless (ages 0-5), library,
library, 845-7180
845-7180
Wednesday, January 4
1 p.m., Movie Matinee: Petes
11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., Birthday Dragon (PG; 103 min.), senior
and anniversary party (reservacenter, 845-7471
tions required), senior center,
7 p.m., Madison Songwriter
845-7471
Showcase ($5), Tuvalu
Saturday, January 7
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Prairie

Kitchen free community meal,
BPNN, bpnn.org
6:30 p.m., The Buzzards, Tuvalu
Monday, January 9
10:30 a.m., Healthy Eating

program with Alasa Wiest senior
center, 845-7471
Tuesday, January 10
9:30 a.m., Hometown Helpers

group meeting, senior center,
845-7471
12:30 p.m., Card Making with
Katie ($10; RSVP by Jan. 9),
senior center, 845-7471
12:30 p.m., Literature Lovers

Book Club: The Japanese Lover
by Isabel Allende, senior center,
845-7471
4:30 p.m., Tech Time with Tim
(30-minute appointments available), senior center, 845-7471
4-5:30 p.m., Minecraft Club
(grades 1-6), library, 845-7180
Whats on VHAT-98
Thursday, December 29
7 a.m. Harp Music at
Senior Center
8 a.m.- Zumba Gold
9 a.m. Daily Exercise
10 a.m. Kat Trio at Senior
Center
2 p.m. Zumba Gold
3 p.m. Daily Exercise
4 p.m. Trippers Music at
Senior Center
5 p.m. Celtic Carols at
Senior Center
6 p.m. Salem Church
Service
7 p.m. Wayne the Wizard
at Senior Center
9 p.m. Active Shooter
Training at Senior Center
10 p.m. Park Printing at
Historical Society
Friday, December 30
7 a.m. Trippers Music at
Senior Center
3 p.m. Verona 90-91 Boys
Basketball
Senior Center
5 p.m. 2015 Wildcats
Football
8:30 p.m. Active Shooter
10 p.m. Harp Music
11 p.m. Kat Trio at Senior
Center
Saturday, December 31
8 a.m. Common Council
from Dec. 12
11 a.m. Verona 90-91

Boys Basketball
Football
4:30 p.m. Park Printing at
Historical Society
6 p.m. Common Council
from Dec. 12
Basketball
Historical Society
Center
Sunday, January 1
7 a.m. Hindu Cultural Hour
9 a.m. Resurrection Church
10 a.m. Salem Church
Service
Noon - Common Council
from Dec. 12
Basketball
4:30 p.m. Park Printing at
Historical Society
6 p.m. Common Council
from Dec. 12
Basketball
Historical Society
Center
Monday, January 2
Senior Center
Basketball
Senior Center
Football
9 p.m. Hindu Cultural Hour
10 p.m. Harp Music
Center
Tuesday, January 3
7 a.m. Harp Music
10 a.m.- Zumba Gold
Center
2 p.m.- Zumba Gold
Senior Center
Senior Center
6 p.m. Resurrection
Church
6:30 p.m. Plan Commission
Live
at Senior Center
Historical Society
Senior Center
Basketball
5 p.m. Plan Commission
from Jan. 3
7 p.m. Capital City Band
Senior Center
10 p.m. Harp Music

Center
Thursday, January 5
7 a.m. Harp Music
8 a.m.- Zumba Gold
Center
Senior Center
Senior Center
6 p.m. Salem Church
Service
at Senior Center
Historical Society
Support groups
AA Meeting, senior center, Thursdays at 1 p.m.
Caregivers Support
Group, senior center, first
and third Tuesday, 10 a.m.
Healthy Lifestyles
Group meeting, senior
center, second Thursday
from 10:30 a.m.
Parkinsons Group,
senior center, third
Friday at 10 a.m.
Fitchburg Memorial UCC

5705 Lacy Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 273-1008
memorialucc.org
Pastor Phil Haslanger
Sunday: 8:15 and 10 a.m.
Good Shephard Lutheran
Church ECLA
(608) 271-6633
Central: Raymond Road & Whitney
Way, Madison
Sunday: 8:15, 9:30 & 10:45 a.m.
West: Corner of Hwy. PD & Nine
Mound Road, Verona
Sunday: 9 & 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Damascus Road Church West
The Verona Senior Center
108 Paoli St., Verona
(608) 819-6451
[email protected],
damascusroadonline.org
Pastor Justin Burge
Sunday: 10 a.m.
Memorial Baptist Church
201 S. Main St., Verona
(608) 845-7125
MBCverona.org
Lead Pastor Jeremy Scott
Sunday: 10:15 a.m.
Redeemer Bible Fellowship
130 N. Franklin St., Verona
(608)848-1836
redeemerbiblefellowship.org
Pastor Dwight R. Wise
Sunday: 10 a.m. family worship
Resurrection Lutheran Church
WELS
6705 Wesner Rd., Verona
(608) 848-4965
rlcverona.org
Pastor Nathan Strutz and Assistant
Pastor Benjamin Phelps
Thursday: 6:30 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.
St. Christopher Catholic Parish
St. Andrew Church
301 N. Main St., Verona
St. William Church
1371 Hwy. PB, Paoli
(608) 845-6613
stchristopherverona.com
Fr. William Vernon, pastor
Saturday: 5 p.m., St. Andrew,
Verona
Sunday: 7:30 a.m., St. William,
Paoli
Sunday: 9 & 11 a.m., St. Andrew,

Verona
Daily Mass, Tuesday-Saturday: 8
a.m., St. Andrew, Verona
St. James Lutheran Church

ELCA
427 S. Main St., Verona
(608) 845-6922
stjamesverona.org
Pastors Kurt M. Billings and Peter
Narum
Office Hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 8
a.m.-noon Wednesday
Saturday Worship: 5 p.m.
Sunday Worship: 8:30, 10:45 a.m.
No service Saturday, Dec. 31
Sunday, Jan. 1 worship: 10 a.m.
Salem United Church of Christ
502 Mark Dr., Verona
(608) 845-7315
salemchurchverona.org
Rev. Dr. Mark E. Yurs, Pastor
Laura Kolden, Associate in Ministry
Sunday School: 9 a.m.
Sunday Worship: 10:15 a.m.
Fellowship Hour: 11:30 a.m.
Springdale Lutheran Church
ECLA
2752 Town Hall Rd. (off Hwy ID),
Mount Horeb
(608) 437-3493
springdalelutheran.org
Pastor Jeff Jacobs
Sunday: 8:45 a.m. with communion
Sugar River United Methodist
Church
415 W. Verona Ave., Verona
(608) 845-5855
[email protected],
sugarriverumc.org
Pastor Gary Holmes
9 & 10:30 a.m. contemporary
worship.
Sunday School available during
worship. Refreshments and fellowship are between services.
New Year Sunday Worship: 10 a.m.
West Madison Bible Church
2920 Hwy. M, Verona
(608) 845-9518
www.wmbiblechurch.org
Pastor Dan Kukasky Jr.
Sunday Worship: 9:15 a.m.
Sunday School: 10:45 a.m.
Zwingli United Church of
Christ
Hwy. 92 & G, Mount Vernon
(608) 832-6677
Pastor Brad Brookins
Sunday: 10:15 a.m.
Zwingli United Church of
Christ
Hwy. 69 & PB, Paoli
(608)845-5641
Rev. Sara Thiessen
Sunday: 9:30 a.m. family worship
Ten Tips for a Better Life in the New Year

Whether you have given up on New Years resolutions or are chomping at the bit to put your new
self-tracking device into operation, there are many simple and easy ways to improve your life in the New Year.
Here are ten tips that will make your life happier and
healthier this year:
1. Smile more, even when you dont feel like it.
2. Do something nice for someone every day.
3. Start and end your day by remembering what you
have to be thankful for.
4. Protect your healthits your most cherished asset,
and without it nothing else matters.
5. Save something for a rainy day; youll be glad you
did when you need it.
6. Learn something new each day; knowledge is power.
7. Exercise every day, even if its only a short walk.
8. Cultivate your friendships and remember that friendships dont grow in isolation.
9. Cultivate better relationships with your family.
10. Cultivate a good relationship with God; pray and
read scripture daily.
Over the coming weeks, we will examine each of these
tips in more detail, giving practical advice on how to make
them part of our everyday lives.
Christopher Simon, Metro News Service
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is Gods will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV
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2833 Raritan Rd., Fitchburg
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regular weekly or monthly schedule. parties will now be held on the first
Those interested should contact Wednesday of every month.
Verona residents can purchase their program manager Alasa Wiest at
For information or to make a reser2017 dog licenses in person from 8 845-7471.
vation, call 845-7471.
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through
Jazz performance
NCS tours
Friday at City Hall, or by mail.
A rabies vaccination certificate
Celebrate the New Year early at
New Century School, 401 W. Veromust be presented before a license the senior center with a performance na Ave., will host informational tours
will be issued. The license form by the Al Anderson Jazz Band from for incoming students grades K-5 for
is available at City Hall or can be 12:30-1:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30.
the 2017-18 school year from 8:30downloaded at veronawi.gov/DocuThe four-piece jazz group will per- 9:30 a.m. Thursdays, Jan. 5, 12, 19
mentCenter/Home/View/1425. The form Dixieland and big band favor- and 26.
license fee is $15 if the dog is spayed ites ending with Auld Lang Syne.
Those interested can drop in withor neutered/$20 if not. If purchasing Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. in the hour period and no RSVP is
a license through the mail, include a before the performance, and reser- needed. For information, email Leigh
copy of your rabies certificate and a vations are due by noon Thursday, Schmidt at Leighanneschmidt@
self-addressed stamped envelope and Dec. 29. The event is in honor of Pat gmail.com or call 345-9529.
mail to the City of Verona, Attention Rienks and family.
Chat and Chew
Dog License Applications, 111 LinFor information, call 845-7471.
coln Street, Verona, WI 53593.
Retired police officer and No One
Birthday, anniversary party
For information, call 845-6495.
Dies Alone volunteer Sharon Stewart
Join the senior center for the Jan- will lead a Chat and Chew program
Volunteer opportunity
uary birthday and anniversary party on Dying with Dignity and Choice
The senior center welcomes those beginning at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 6, at the senior
seeking a flexible schedule for vol- Jan. 4.
center. Stewart will share informaunteering to consider becoming a
Lunch will be served at 11:45 and tion on death planning, green burial
Special Events volunteer.
live entertainment provided by Jim and home funerals. Refreshments
Joining entails being on a volun- and Mary Ann Helzel will begin at will be provided.
teer list for bigger events such as 12:30 p.m. (reservations required by
For information, call 845-7471.
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Throwing down
Students at Badger Ridge Middle School and Core
Knowledge Charter School took part in a competition last
week inspired by a British television show.
Art teacher Sarah Grotsky created the BRMS/CKCS
Pottery Throw Down based on the show, The Great
Pottery Throw Down.
Students had 15 minutes to create the best pot on a
pottery wheel among the four competitors at the time.
Grotsky will hold another competition in the spring before
a final throw down in June. The winner will receive a
t-shirt.
Points were awarded for the height, centering, shape
and thin walls.
Photos by Scott Girard
Garrett Jones crafts the inside edge of his pot.
Left, a competitor
smooths out the inside
walls of his pot.
On the web
See more photos from the
Throw Down:
Right, Jacob Anderson

decided to start over
with his pot after a few
minutes in the competition.
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Happy
Holidays
from our house 2016
to yours!
Photos by Scott Girard
First-grader Jaden Hockensmith digs into his bag of money to pull out the necessary quarters to buy and item from fifth-graders Annika Rufenacht, left, and Bentley Bourne.
Ins and outs of

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Elementary school students around the Verona

Area School Districts got a
lesson in economics recently
through the annual Economics Bazaar.
Fifth-graders at each
attendance area elementary
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A Nutcracker dream
Few ballet performances end with dancers and audiences
members joining together in a sing-along of holiday tunes,
but such a scenario was exactly what attendees were met
with at the end of the Verona Youth Ballets 11th annual
performance of The Nutcracker Suite on Saturday, Dec.
10. After adding an additional performance last year, the
company again held two shows in the Verona Area High
School Performing Arts Center featuring dancers from 11
area dance companies, including sponsor Ballet U.
Co-directed by outgoing artistic director Charmaine
Ristow and her associate, Stephanie Tollefson, the production featured the classic Tchaikovsky score and choreography by Ristow, Tollefson and Judy Ferreri.
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Player of the
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Mason McCormick
From Dec. 21-28

Name: Mason McCormick
Grade: Sophomore
Sport: Boys hockey
Photo by Evan Halpop
Despite knocking the ball out of a Beloit Memorial players hands, and gaining control Thursday, Verona junior Bui Clements (23), was
unable to capitalize off the stolen ball. The Wildcats lost the game 65-63 in overtime.
Boys basketball
Upcoming up short
Wildcats fall a basketball
short against Beloit
JEREMY JONES
Sports editor
Big Eight
Team
Middleton
Beloit Memorial
Sun Prairie
Madison Memorial
Janesville Craig
Madison East
Madison West
Verona
Madison La Follette
Janesville Parker
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Ve r o n a b oy s b a s ke t b a l l
fought back from a nine point
deficit at halftime only to lose
65-63 in overtime Thursday at
home against Big Eight rival
Beloit Memorial.
The Wildcats, who trailed
34-25 at halftime, outscored
the Purple Knights 30-21 in
the second half to send the
game to overtime.
Grant Kelliher led the Wildcats with 22 points and Bui
C l e m e n t s a d d e d 1 0 . M a x including two of the Wildcats 3-5 overall and 2-5 in the Big
Fink pitched in nine points four 3-pointers.
Eight Conference this year,
and Tyler McClure had eight,
The loss dropped Verona to while Beloit Memorial (6-2,
4-2) remained in a four-way

time with Sun Prairie, Madison Memorial and Janesville
Craig with the win.
Drew Freitag finished
with 20 points to pace Beloit
Memorial, which hit 11-of-15
free throws.
Position: Forward
Highlights: Scored a goal Dec. 23 in a
5-3 non-conference loss against Notre
Dame. McCormick is tied for the teamlead for the Wildcats with 18 points (13
goals, five assists).
Honorable mentions: Grant Kelliher
scored a game-high 22 points Thursday
in a 65-63 loss to Beloit Memorial. Bui
Clements added 10 points in the Big
Eight Conference game.
Onalaska 73, Verona 63

Verona played to within a
point of Onalaska in the second half of the WBY Shootout
Tuesday at Concordia University in Mequon.
Unfortunatley, for their fans
the Wildcats werent able to
overcome a nine-point deficit
at halftime, however, and lost
73-63.
Veronas Nathaniel Buss
Turn to Basketball/Page 10
Boys hockey
Trio of unanswered goals sink Wildcats

JEREMY JONES
Sports editor
Verona boys hockey capitalized on two of its five power-play chances Friday inside
Verona Ice Arena, but fell 5-3
against non-conference Notre
Dame.
The Wildcats were down two
goals in the first period, but
battled back to take a 3-2 lead
in the second with a trio of
special team goals.
Mack Keryluk scored a
power-play goal nine minutes into the first period. Jake
Keyes added a second Verona
man-advantage goal midway
through the second period and
Mason McCormick pushed the

Wildcats ahead a minute later
with a short-handed goal.
Wins Losses Ties
The visiting Tritons, howev- Team
5 0 0
er, scored the final three goals Verona
of the game to win.
Madison West
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Notre Dames Jon Fry scored
4 2 0
with 48 seconds left in the Midldeton
second period to tie the game Sun Prairie
4
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and Charlie Wied added the Janesville
3 3 0
eventual game-winner with
Beloit

3
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five minutes remaining. Logan
Braun added an insurance goal Madison Memorial
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with 3 minutes left.
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Jon Holzbach had three
assists for the Tritons.
Verona (5-5-0) struggled
with penalties all night, but plays.
two periods, for the Wildcats.
killed off the first nine of 10
Garhett Kaegi had 27 saves, Bo Buckley stopped 17 for
Notre Dame (4-3-0) power including 10 in each of the first
Big Eight
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Submitted photo
Former Verona Area High School athlete

Adam Stiner, a sophomore offensive lineman at UND, helped the Fighthing Hawks
to a sixth-straight Big Sky title.
Stiner helps UND title

Former Verona Area High School football standout Adam Stiner helped the
University of North Dakota football team
(6-2 overall, 5-0 Big Sky) win its sixthstraight conference title.
Stiner is a sophomore offensive lineman for the Fighting Hawks.
UND was stunned by Richmond in its
first Division I playoff game thanks to an
18-yard field goal by Griffin Trau as the
clock expired as the Spiders defeated the
Fighting Hawks 27-24. The loss ended a
nine-game winning streak for UND.
- Jeremy Jones
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Coming up
Verona travels to the annual Rochester Kiwanis holiday
tournament in Rochester, Minn. Dec. 28-30, where they
will face Appleton United, Rochester Lourdes and Fargo
South.
Appleton won the bracket last season to snap a threeyear winning streak by Verona.
Hockey: Wildcats set for

holiday tournament
Friday, Dec. 30. The Wildcats open the tournament
Notre Dame.
against Appleton United.
Verona travels to Roch- They will also face Rochester, Minn. for the Kiwan- ester Lourdes and Fargo
i s h o l i d a y t o u r n a m e n t North.
Wednesday, Dec. 28, to
Photo by Evan Halpop
Verona senior Nick Pederson (10) takes the ball up the court in the first half of a game against Beloit Memorial
Basketball: Verona comes up a basketball short in overtime

Van Handel had 12 and
Clements added 11.
scored a team-high 14 for
Ty l e r H u g h e s t h a d a
the Wildcats, while John game-high 23 points for
t h e H i l l t o p p e r s . J a l e n Onalaska.
Zubich (15) and Jalen
Verona hosts non-conSample (10) also posted ference Edgewood at 7:30
double-digit points for p.m. Thursday.
File photo by Jeremy Jones
Freshman defenseman Keegan Lindell and the Wildcats travel to the Rochester Kiwanis Holiday tournament this week.
Lynx set to host tourney

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Badger Conference
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Verona History
40 years ago
Larry OBrien became
the second Verona runner in
the past three years to win
the cross country Class B
state championship, following Bill Markwardt, who
had been unable to defend
his 1974 title because of a
stress fracture.
Teammate Bob Maurer
finished 11th.
Badger School students
spent a day on a Mount Vernon farm being filmed while
playing with the animals for
an educational movie for
the National Association for
Retarded Citizens.
At the time, such special
ed students were segregated into their own schools,
run by the county. But the
next year, the school district
started its own special ed
program.
Residents near the new
village well, No. 3, began
to have problems with sand
The school board

dropped two potential
school sites from its list
for the next elementary
school. It decided a spot
in Eastview would soon be
made inaccessible for many
because of plans for the
U.S. 18-151 bypass and the
Jamestown site was not big
enough, at 15 acres.
That left two sites along
Cross Country and the
eventual choice, in Fitchburg.
The school board set a
December referendum for
the new elementary school,
which passed easily.
St. James Lutheran
Church held its centennial,
with appearances by former
pastors, workshops and historical displays.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tommy
Thompson campaigned
at the Verona Truck Stop.
Verona voters would end
up giving a slight edge to
incumbent Anthony Earl,
but Thompson prevailed
statewide.
S ov i e t e d u c a t i o n a l
officials met with Verona
teachers and students as
part of a tour around the
country designed to bring
the spirit of the U.S.-Soviet
Summit to schools in both
countries.
Robert Davis was
installed as pastor at Salem
United Church of Christ.
20 years ago
Mount Vernon held a
150th anniversary celebration, including a parade,
fireworks and dedication of
the new flag pole.
The Dane County Parks
Commission purchased 111
acres of land off County
Hwy. PD for the Ice Age
Junction to continue linking
the 1,000-mile-long Ice Age
Trail to public land. The Ice
Age Trail Foundation funded about a quarter of the $2
million cost.
The boys and girls cross
country teams both qualified for the state Division 1
meet.
The boys, led by fourthplace Nic Iverson and fifthplace Wes Shaughnessy,
won the Oregon sectional,
placing three scorers in
front of the second-place
teams third man. The girls
finished second behind
Becca Vickers fourth-place
finish.
Scott Klug and Madison
Mayor Paul Soglin held a
debate in Verona for Klugs
open seat in Congress.
It was the only suburban
debate site the two held,
and was more accurately
described as a forum.
Ve r o n a A r e a M i d dle Schools Karen Watson-Newlin was chosen
as the states Art Educator
10 y
ears ago
Terrence Wall presented an alternative plan for
what he called the West End
to the Common Council,
drawing mixed responses.
He later pitched the idea,
complete with a 3D graphical flyover of the shopping
and residential center, to a
community audience at the
Senior Center and got more
favorable reviews.
The city approved a
plan with $500,000 in
tax-increment financing to
keep uninterruptible power supply repair company
JT Packard in Verona by
helping it expand to the
Verona Technology Park.
The company, which was
in the Bruce Street Industrial Park, instead was purchased by a larger firm,
Power Plus, which canceled
that plan, and then was purchased by Thomas & Betts
in 2010 and closed last year.
A month after a Wisconsin principal was killed in
a school shooting, Verona
Area High School held a
surprise lockdown drill that
left students and staff members shaken.
We cant afford to be
lax, principal Kelly Meyers explained to parents in a
letter afterward.
Farm and Fleets parent company pitched a plan
to redevelop the former
Hometown Village assisted-living facility. After
several months of local
resistance and back-andforth proposals, the big-box
discount store agreed to a
square footage limitation
and an upscale facade and
eventually opened in 2008.
A national television
series, Forensic Files,
featured the story of a triple-homicide in downtown
Verona from three years
earlier.
The episode then aired
on Court TV featured
interviews from detective
Stan Petrie, who was still
with the Verona Police
Department at the time. It
was called The Gambler.
A task force assigned to
explore options for a new
police station ranging
from a large facility with
a fire station and community center to a standalone
facility concluded City
Hall should be included in
the facility, since the existing 28-year-old old building
was all but unsalvageable.

That building was torn
down in early 2012.
Fire chief Marc Lindquist stepped down after
14 years in the position,
the beginning of a messy
transition to what eventually became a city department in 2015. It was two
years before the department
would choose a new chief
a part-time position, rather
than a volunteer and two
more before it hired the
full-time chief the district
had been seeking the whole
time.
Verona police shut down
Forest View Drive and TV
crews surrounded it during
an incident that turned out to
be non-native English-speaking teenagers goofing around
with a BB gun.
Ve r o n a s f o o t b a l l
team took an undefeated record into the Level 2
state playoffs, where it lost
to Chippewa Falls 17-14
on a touchdown with seven seconds left. It was the
schools first appearance in
the Division 1 playoffs.
S eve r a l bu s i n e s s e s
on 500 and 600 blocks of
West Verona Avenue were
burglarized. The largest
amount taken in any of the
incidents was $500.
Verona Community Betterment put out the call for
more help for its next Hometown Days. The group did
get some extra help for a few
years but eventually folded due to low participation
in 2011. The local chamber
now runs the festival.
Verona junior Emma
S p o o n fi n i s h e d s e c o n d
place at the Division 1 state
cross country championships, in 14 minutes, 39
seconds.
Peter Narum began
working as St. James
Lutheran Churchs new
pastor, coming from Bethel
Lutheran in Madison. He
remains at St. James.
G r a y s Ti e d H o u s e
opened the citys first brew
pub, on the southeast side.
Shareholders approved
the sale of the Bank of
Verona to State Bank of
Cross Plains.
Local police began a
tradition of handing out
neon glow bracelets 2,400
of them for Halloween.
At least one officer was
assigned to each subdivision.
Verona posted new signs
showing its population
reaching 9,846.
Comedian Martin Mull
filmed a Firestone Auto
Care training video in Verona, a project of the Gunter
Agency, which was located
here at the time.
Jim Ferolie
Montes finishes first

half with winning record
M o n t e s M o u n t i e s
werent quite at the top of
the standings for the first
half of the Sugar River
Euchre League season.
The team finished tied
for third, though, two
games behind the two
teams that tied for first:
Kleemans and Norsk Golf
Bowl.
Those two took part in a
playoff match Dec. 22 to
determine the winner of
the first half, who is guaranteed a spot in the league
final at the end of the season.
The Norsk Golf Bowl
Cowboys won the match to
secure their spot.
On Dec. 8, the final
week of regular season
play for the first half, the
Montes team beat Jones
Plumbing to get to a 5-4
record, tied with two other
teams.
This seasons first half
averages, weekly high and
low scores, skunks and
perfect scores were posted
at the Mid-Winter Tournament for players to scrutinize. Thirty players, playing at least three matches,
accumulated averages of
100 or more points during
the first half of the current
season.
Jan. 5
schedule
New Glarus @ Hooterville Express (8:00)
Kleemans @ Hooterville Shufflers (8:00)
Norsk Golf Bowl @
Shenanigans (8:00)
Eagle Heights @
Montes (7:00)
J&M Bar @ Jones
Plumbing (8:00)
First half
standings
Norsk Golf Bowl: 7-2
Kleemans: 7-2
Hooterville-Shufflers:
5-4
Montes: 5-4
Shenanigans: 5-4
Eagle Heights: 4-5
Hooterville-Express:
4-5
Jones Plumbing: 4-5
New Glarus: 4-5
J&M Bar: 0-9
Mid-Winter
Tournament
The league held its
annual Mid-Winter Tournament Thursday, Dec. 15.
Thirty-two players gathered in New Glarus for the
tournament, where Harold
Schlimgen and Jeff Judd
scored 120 points to win
first place. Derek Skogen
and Erik Massey took second place, with Jerry Judd
and Dean Disch taking
third at 108 points.
The traveling League
Championship trophy from
the 2015-16 season went
to Hooterville-Express
with each team member
also receiving an individual trophy. The team
consisted of: Opie Taylor
(Capt.) Steve Hoffmaster, Shawn Farrell, Tracy
Haag, John Scheidegger,
Dave Steinhauer, Charlie
Steinhauer, Dale Herfel,
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Perfect score trophies
for last season were given to: George Eichelkraut,
Jeff Buesser, Dean Disch
and Mike Doyle. Dean
and Mikes perfect score
occurred during the spring
tournament. Jeff Judd took
home the high average
trophy with an average of
104.333 points per match.
Second-half play begins
Jan. 5.
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The Verona Board of

Education continued discussion on the construction
and financing of the new
high school, which voters
had approved the month
before.
The board discussed with
architect Jay McLean which
way the school would face,
and disagreed on whether a
site selection specialist was
necessary for the project.
It also determined the mill
rate was expected to be a $1
increase for the following
year.
About 90 Township officials showed up to a special
meeting to vote for a Dane
County Towns Association,
with the aim of strengthening the influence of rural
representatives on the countys Zoning Board.
The vote was successful,
and rural representatives
slammed the alarming rate
at which the City of Madison was dominating county
business.
The Verona High School
field was officially named
Curtis Jones Field, after a
former school board member and Mobil gas station
owner who had died of cancer four years earlier at the
age of 30.
Jones had pushed for
the purchase of extra land
around the high school site,
which ultimately made athletic fields there possible.
The Verona Fire Department debuted its new tanker truck. Manufactured by
Melray, Inc., the vehicle
had a 1,500 gallon capacity and was equipped with
a 600-gallon per minute
American-Marsh pump.
The truck was the fifth
vehicle in Veronas fire
fighting squadron, and
helped make Veronas fire
department one of the best
in Wisconsin.
Jim Schaller won the
championship carcass for
his hog entry in the Junior
Livestock Show.
The New Meadowood
Church was founded.
The old high school athletic grounds were redeveloped to serve as ice rinks.
The Village Board voted
to move the library to 105
S. Main St. on a one-year
lease.
in their water, and several

meters were clogged. The
village began a three-day
pumping effort to fix the
problem.
The Verona High School
band won the Class B division at the La Crosse Oktoberfest competition.
Local K-2 students
watched a film about Patch
the Pony, whose motto is
Nay, Nay, from strangers
stay away.
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ears ago
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ConnectVerona.com
File photos by Anthony Iozzo (above left) and Scott Girard (above right)
Above left, Alex Luehring and Alley Johnson celebrate after the Verona Area High School girls basketball team won its first state championship in school history. Above right, supporters
of a charter renewal for Verona Area International School filled the board room Dec. 5, with students having to cluster near the board table to watch the proceedings. The board ultimately
approved a new five-year charter on a 6-1 vote.
2016: Big year for Verona schools with girls state basketball crown, renewal of VAIS
at No. 1.

school and use the resulting
movement among buildings
to create extra space at the
elementary level. While
they considered asking for
both a new high school and
elementary school building,
partly in response to some
parental concerns, community survey results indicated that would be a tougher
sell.
At their final meeting of
the year, board members
narrowed down the other
items from among a pool,
auditorium and outdoor athletic fields to also ask for
on the April ballot.
While there was no official action taken on a referendum, and no new buildings are coming yet, a story thats been on our front
page from the beginning of
the year until the end and
with plenty of coverage in
between was an easy choice
pocket $6 million and $11

Scott Girard million, respectively, in onetime funds.
2. TIF closing/big
The closure of the district
will have a greater long-term
budgets
impact on the city than the
The school districts like- school district because of
ly $200 million referendum the state aid formula, which
would be a tougher sell if the evens out funding for properdistricts finances didnt line ty-rich districts. For the city,
up just right, and one factor its an annual tax impact of
in its favor was the closure of more than $2 million, with
the 15-year-old TIF district nearly half of that going to
created to bring Epic here.
tax relief and the rest spent
That district, perhaps the catching up to the citys
most spectacularly success- resurgent growth.
ful one the state has ever
For both the city and
had, was designed to sustain school district, the extra onea $45 million campus, and time funds are leading to
we all know how that turned some interesting decisions.
out. The district itself less The city is using some to
than half the complexs cur- pay off some higher-interest
rent value will be worth debt early and could use the
close to $400 million when rest for a variety of projects,
the numbers are finally cal- including a down payment
culated early in 2017, and on a new pool, a rebuild
by holding on to it an extra of Firemans Park and/or a
year until a key infrastruc- splash pad. The district has
ture project was finished, the discussed putting some of its
city and school district will money into a capital projects
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fund that could lower the tax (59.2) and assists (32).
impact of the April 2017 ref Anthony Iozzo
erendum to build a new high
4. Interest in open
school.
Jim Ferolie seats
3. Basketball state title
The evening of March 12,

2016, is a night many Verona Area High School girls
basketball fans will remember not just for winning
their first state title but for
how they did it.
The Wildcats bore down
against a Mukwonago team
resolved to limit possessions and take them out of
their rhythm offensively,
using a second-half 3-pointer from Alex Luehring to
take the lead and holding it
for the rest of the game.
While the final seconds
ticked away, the celebration already started on the
bench as the anticipation
grew. And when the buzzer
sounded, the crowd roared
and the girls jumped in each
others arms, some falling to the floor with huge
smiles and tears rolling
down their cheeks.
It was the fourth time
in VAHS history that a
girls basketball team made
state but the first to reach
the final, and with a 25-3
record, the 2015-16 season
would have been considered one of the best of all
time even if it hadnt won.
T h e Wi l d c a t s s h a r e d
the Big Eight Conference
title with Middleton (17-1)
and rolled through regionals and sectionals with an
average score of 69-36 in
four wins. It set two state
records in the semifinals
against Appleton North
shooting percentage (77.1)
and assists (21).
Verona had several athletes recruited to play in
college.
Luehring signed with
U W- G r e e n B a y, G r a c e
Mueller is now a freshman for the Badgers, Kira
Opsal plays for Division
II Winona State (Minn.)
University and Heather
Rudnicki is playing softball at UW-Madison. Grace
Schraufnagel is a recruit for
Quincy (Ill.) University.
Verona finished the twogame state tournament with
a record (since moving
from three games to two in
2011) for field percentage
This year brought four

new faces serving the Verona area between the Common Council and the school
board.
But only one was elected. And in each case, those
appointed to fill unexpected
vacancies were by split decision.
The most unusual thing
was the number of people
interested in
filling those
spots.
Noah Robe r t s wo n a
rare contested
election for
the seat that
had been held Roberts
the previous
20 years by
Ke n B e h n ke, and the
other three
seats brought
out a total
of 16 candidates for the
application,
Stier Christensen
interview and
selection process.
On the
school board,
two seats
opened up
following the
resignations
o f J o a n n e King
Gauthier
and Derrell
Connor early
in the year.
Between the
two seats, the
remaining
board members interv i e w e d 1 1 Stewart
candidates,
ultimately choosing two in
Meredith Stier Christensen
and Russell King.
For the Common Council,
alders got five applications,
selecting Scott Stewart to
serve in the District 2 vacancy left by Dale Yurs.
School board members
voted on three applicants,
rejecting the first Lynn
Vilker and approving the
next two with no discussion.
Roberts, in his first meeting
at the time, objected to the
lack of discussion, which

drew a rebuke from board
president Dennis Beres.
The Common Councils
appointment of Stewart
came on a 4-3 vote and with
many of those voting having
not sat through the interviews of all five applicants.
The April election could
show whether the interest in serving in an elected
position was a result of the
chance to do so without
campaigning or if those
looking for a spot will try to
find one through the ballot.
Scott Girard
5. VAIS renewal
The months-long discussion about the school districts Chinese immersion
charter school raised many
significant questions about
the schools sustainability.
For six of the school
board members, though,
the schools representatives
answered them well enough
to agree to a new fiveyear charter agreement in
December.
The discussion began at
the committee level as far
back as March, when questions about its enrollment
and support for struggling
students took hold. For
months, as they rolled with a
change in the schools director and a new president of its
governing council, parents
protested the negative implications and pressed hard for
a new agreement.
When they got it on a 6-1
vote Dec. 5, parents and a
couple dozen of the schools
students cheered.
It also highlighted the students lack of opportunity to
continue Chinese education
after fifth-grade.
For the first two classes that graduated from the
school, the district is providing an online option that
some parents have said is
insufficient to advance their
education.
But with a new five-year
charter in place and an
in-progress review of the
district-wide World Languages program, parents
could soon get good news
on that front, as well.
Scott Girard
ConnectVerona.com
December 29, 2016
The Verona Press
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2016: After petition efforts, VASD student with medical issue allowed to attend graduation
6. (tie) They #LetNoahWalk

This story happened so quickly in the middle of June that the
controversy itself didnt make our
printed newspaper until it was
already resolved.
Noah Currier was a student at
the districts charter high school,
Exploration Academy. He was a
couple credits away from meeting
the math requirements to graduate
and walk in graduation.
The senior had a good reason,
though: He was diagnosed in seventh grade with hypogammaglobulinemia, an immune disorder that
left him missing weeks of school
at a time.
He thought a plan agreed to with
his EA adviser to finish the credits a couple weeks into summer
would suffice, so he did not realize
he would be unable to walk in the
schools graduation ceremony, as
the districts rule stated.
His mother found out two weeks
before the event, during a phone
call with the schools director, and
was furious.
Curriers friends and classmates
launched a petition effort, gathering hundreds of signatures online
and in person and generating a
#LetNoahWalk hashtag on Facebook and Twitter.
left the citys Personnel committee busier than ever. They include
the resignation of administrator
Bill Burns after six years for a
job with Middleton and the retirements of longtime public works
director Ron Rieder (33 years),
engineer Bob Gundlach (30-plus
years) and assessor Bob Courter
(34 years).
It also included the exit of clerk
Kami Scofield in September for
the same position in Appleton
and both members of the building
inspection team, Brian Flannery
and Todd Parkos, over the summer. The last was just a week ago,
the retirement of finance director
Cindy Engelke after 17 years in
Verona.
As a result, fire chief Joe Giver
is now third in line among department heads for tenure with the
city, at just under six years. A litFile photo by Scott Girard tle over a year ago, he was ninth.
Noah Currier, left, and his mother, Christina Currier-Sager react after Verona Area School Board president DenThe administrator vacancy was
nis Beres tells them, along with lawyer Chad Kemp (partially pictured at left), that Currier could walk at gradua- particularly disruptive; the Comtion after a two-hour closed session meeting the day before the ceremony in June.
mon Council was unsatisfied with
its first group of candidates and
did a second round of interviews
The school board called for a for the ceremony gave a rounding 6. (tie) City turnover
before bringing in Jeff Mikorski,
closed session, two-hour meeting ovation for Currier when his name
who started Aug. 29, five months
Verona has gone through peri- after Burns left.
one day before the ceremony. After was announced, and afterward, he
Currier made his case, they held a threw his cap into the air with his ods of turnovers before, but never
brief discussion and announced he friends, something he said he had quite like the past 15 months.
Jim Ferolie
Beginning in September 2015,
could walk the next day, drawing always dreamed of doing.
it has sustained a series of exits
tears from he and his mother.
Scott Girard that have shaken things up and
The crowd on Epics campus
Honorable mentions
Scott Girard
Scott Girard
File photo by Scott Girard
iPads for all
Sugar Creek Elementary School teacher Haley Brisky, right,

One of the results of our helps Gavin Cribben find an app on his iPad this fall. Cribben
No. 2 story on this list comes and all other VASD students received iPads this year under a
new program in the district
in as an honorable mention.
The district used $2.5 million of an expected $11 milThe site council changes
lion from the Epic TIF close- site budgets and determined
will be further explored in
out to lease an iPad for every school initiatives.
Administrators hope not 2017.
student and certified staff
having to worry about the
member in the district.
Scott Girard
It was the culmination of former will allow the groups
years of moving toward a of staff and parents to instead
one-to-one setup, but leaves focus on the latter. They are
plenty of professional devel- now called Continuous Herkert leaps to
opment for teachers and School Improvement Teams Wildcats first high
work toward how to best use and will set out specific goals jump title
the devices in the classroom for the school to reach each
year.
Jack Herkert cleared six
in the years ahead.
Scott Girard
GE redistricting
Site council power

To the chagrin of the fam- reduced
ilies of many soon-to-be

kindergartners, the school
board decided in January to
redistrict a few neighborhoods to alleviate a space
crunch at Glacier Edge Elementary School.
The discussion actually
File photo by Jeremy Jones
Junior Jack Herkert cleared 6 foot, 8 inches at the WIAA

Division 1 state track and field meet to win his first state
title. He was the first Wildcats state high jump champion.
About two decades after

the Verona Area School District moved to site-based
government, its reeling in
the reins on decision-making.
The school board decided
earlier this year to alter the
power of site councils, which
for the last 20 years have set
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to at least tie the state
record of 7 feet this spring.
Herkert earned national
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University of Wisconsin-La
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Herkert became the first
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2011 and the schools first
boys high jump champion.
He will be the first Verona
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defend his title since Luke
Sullivan in 1994.
The junior continually
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on work that started this year.
Progress included construction on the new Town
Hall building, the beginning
of a comprehensive plan
rewrite and, perhaps most
significantly, a boundary deal
with the City of Verona.
The latter allows the town
to have more certainty in
where it can allow development, which will help grow
its tax base in the future. The
agreement outlined specific
areas in which the town and
city would and would not
develop.
The comprehensive plan
process will help outline
what type of development is
appropriate for those areas
for the town, and has to be
updated as the 2006 plan
phases out. The process has
included a few public outreach sessions to get residents opinions on development near their homes.
The new Town Hall building is also nearing completion. On land purchased in
late 2014, the towns employees will soon move into the
state-of-the-art building
constructed with the help of
Epics architects. The town
used money from the sale of
excess land to Epic and the
expected sale of the current
Town Hall building to fund
the project.
began back in 2015, with the

board eventually deciding to
move families in the Scenic
Ridge and Cathedral Point
neighborhoods who did not
have a child currently at
GE into the Country View
attendance boundaries. They
also moved the Quarry Vista
neighborhood into the Stoner Prairie attendance area.
Many parents in those
neighborhoods were upset
that they would no longer
attend GE, with some saying that was a factor in their
decision to buy a house in
that neighborhood. But the
decision drew applause from
many in the crowd at the
January meeting, as they
were relieved no current students would be moved out
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8. (tie) Transgender
policy
The Verona Area School
District put its stamp on a
controversial nationwide discussion when it approved a
policy regarding transgender
students this year.
The approval came after
nearly a year of committee
work, legal review and discussion to develop and refine
the policy, which will likely
go into place sometime in
early 2017.
The most significant part
of the policy will allow students to use the bathroom
and locker room of the gender they identify as.
Other provisions include
a gender support plan that
helps to outline what staff
can do to help the student,

an addition to the districts
anti-bullying policy specifically mentioning gender and
rules for identifying students
in official records.
The decision process came
as districts and states nationwide had to follow competing signs from the Obama
administration and states
that filed a lawsuit against
the federal government. As a
lawyer told the school board
and gathered community
members at a June meeting,
there was no clear way to
deal with the issue.
My best advice is all pretty vague, and it all has question marks by it, Christine
Hamiel said with a laugh.
Were still kind of in a state
of flux because things could
change.
Scott Girard
Legals
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
CIRCUIT COURT,
DANE COUNTY, NOTICE TO
CREDITORS (INFORMAL
ADMINISTRATION) IN THE
MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
HILDEGARD FLECHTNER,
DECEASED
Case No. 16PR778

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
1. An application for Informal Administration was filed.
2. The decedent, with date of birth
August 10, 1921 and date of death October 27, 2016, was domiciled in Dane
County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 309 S. Jefferson Street,
Verona, WI 53593X.
3. All interested persons waived notice.
4. The deadline for filing a claim
against the decedents estate is March
17, 2017.
5. A claim may be filed at the Dane
County Courthouse, 215 S. Hamilton
Street, Madison, Wisconsin, Room 1000.
Lisa Chandler
Probate Registrar
December 8, 2016
Kurt Flechtner
309 S. Jefferson Street
Verona, WI 53593
(608) 845-7607
Published: December 15, 22 and 29, 2016
WNAXLP
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PUBLIC HEARING AND

ACTION ON PROPOSED
TOWN ORDINANCE
RELATED TO ZONING AND
LAND USE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the

2ndday of February, 2017 at6:30 p.m.,
at the Town of Verona Town Hall, 7669
County Highway PD, Verona, WI 53593

there will be a public hearing on the following proposed ordinance:
An Ordinance Amending and Readopting the Comprehensive Plan
The Towns Comprehensive Plan
needs to be amended to address changes which will result from the Towns potential withdrawal from Dane County zoning. The Ordinance is available athttp://
www.town.verona.wi.us/government/
public-notices/. The Towns Comprehensive Plan is available athttp://www.
town.verona.wi.us/land-use/comprehensive-plan-document/. The documents are
available for inspection at the Town Hall,
during the following hours:8 a.m. to 2:00
p.m.
If you have questions about the
proposed ordinance, you may contact
Amanda Arnold, Planner/Administrator
at 845-7187 [email protected].
wi.us. There will be a short presentation
explaining these ordinances. The Town
Board will hear from all interested residents of the Town. The Town Board may
act on the ordinance following the public
hearing.
Notice is also given that a possible
quorum of the Plan Commission and/or
Public Works, Ordinance, Natural and
Recreational Areas, and Financial Sustainability Committees and could occur
at this meeting for the purposes of information gathering only.
If anyone having a qualifying disability as defined by the American with
Disabilities Act needs an interpreter,
materials in alternate formats, or other
accommodations to access these meetings, please contact the Town of Verona
Clerk @ 608-845-7187 orjwright@town.
verona.wi.us. Please do so at least 48
hours prior to the meeting so that proper
arrangements can be made.
Published: December 29, 2016
WNAXLP
8. (tie) VACT dream

breaks ground
Like with any major project, the road toward building Verona Area Community Theaters new rehearsal
and performance facility
has had its fair share of
speed bumps.
With participating growing steadily in its youth
shows and summer camps
for years, VACT quickly
outgrew its 5,000-squarefoot building on Bruce
Street and launched its Follow the Dream fundraising
campaign for the new facility in late 2014. Completion of the 14,625-squarefoot, two-story building on
Lincoln Street was pushed
back from late January to
mid-spring 2017 after contract and construction-related delays, but the projects initial price tag of $2.6
million was slashed to $1.7
million after adjustments
were made to the buildings
design.
Thats made the final
stages of fundraising far
less daunting for the organization, and its raised more
than $1.5 million of its $1.7
million goal from a combination of the $360,000 sale
of its current building to the
city; $50,000 and $100,000
matching grants from the
Madison Community Foundation and an anonymous
donor, respectively; and
hundreds of community
donations from both individuals and area businesses.
The building, made of
prefabricated steel, will
feature a glass facade and
150-seat theater, lobby,
workshops, rehearsal space
and dance and music studios on its 11,658-squarefoot lower level. There will
also be meeting and event
spaces that will be open for
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The city more formally recognized the Matts House as a historic monument in April, and
helped arrange for a local restoration specialist to buy it and fix it.
community use, set-building and costume workshop
areas and primarily storage
space on the upper floor.
VA C T c o n t i n u e s t o
update the public on the
building campaign via its
website, where it posted
Dec. 6, The building has a
floor!
Kate Newton
10. Matts House saved

A downtown building
was officially saved from
destruction this year.
The important work
actually had been done
in the fall of 2015, after a
plucky group of history lovers pushed city leaders to
postpone razing the Matts
House. But it wasnt until
April when the city more
formally recognized the
building as a historic monument and arranged for a
local restoration specialist
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to buy it and fix it.

It then took until October to execute the sale, for
$1, contingent on the building not being demolished
and that the buyer, Troy
Rost, cant resell it within
10 years without additional compensation. The deal
also includes an addendum
that schedules work to be
done within 18 months.
Though what the final
product inside and on the
grounds will be remains
a mystery, the deal helps
ensure the building more
than 150 years old and
located at the ultra-prominent corner of Main Street
and Verona Avenue will
become a positive piece of
Veronas attempt at improving downtown, rather than
further degrading into an
eyesore.
The city had purchased
the building in March 2015
because it needed right-ofway for a future intersection
expansion. But after preliminary estimates concluded

a full rehabilitation would
cost more than $1 million,
alders suggested it should
be destroyed.
In response, Jesse Charles
joined with members of
the Verona Area Historical
Society (of which hes now
president) and a descendant
of the original owner to
fight for preservation. They
began collecting donations
including one for $50,000
but eventually endorsed
Rosts plan, which is to
bring a business there and
open the top floor for either
apartment or office use.
Rost told the Press last
week the interior has been
gutted and he has been
bringing in engineers and
architects and plans this
winter and he plans to start
a Facebook page to update
people on its progress.
Jim Ferolie
434 Health Care, Human

Services & Child Care
449 Driver, Shipping

& Warehousing
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TRUCK DRIVER/MERCHANDISER:
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M-F with few Saturdays's during holiday
weeks. No CDL required. Call or email
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[email protected]
December 29, 2016

705 Rentals
ROAST YOUR Own Coffee Beans!

Find out how easy and economical
outdoor home roasting can
be. Contact Sue 608-834-9645
9:00am- 6:00pm. Leave message
A&B ENTERPRISES
Light Construction Remodeling
No job too small
608-835-7791
GREENWOOD APARTMENTS
Apartments for Seniors 55+, currently
has 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $775 per month, includes
heat, water, and sewer.
608-835-6717 Located at:
139 Wolf St., Oregon, WI 53575
646 Fireplaces,
Furnaces/Wood, Fuel
HALLINAN-PAINTING
WALLPAPERING
**Great-Winter-Rates**
35 + Years Professional
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Free-Estimates
References/Insured
Arthur Hallinan
608-455-3377
DRY OAK and Cherry Firewood For Sale.

Contact Dave at 608-445-6423 or Pete
608-712-3223
FIREWOOD STORED INSIDE
dry oak, cherry, maple
free delivery to Stoughton area $110.00
Face, $300 cord
608-873-3199 OR 608-445-8591, leave
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RECOVER PAINTING Offers carpentry,

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Free estimates, fully insured, over 20
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SEASONED SPLIT OAK,

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608-609-1181
664 Lawn & Garden
TOMAS PAINTING
Professional, Interior,
Exterior, Repairs.
Free Estimates. Insured.
608-873-6160
3 YR OLD CUB CADET W/50 INCH

MOWER DECK. Comes with additional
attachments of snow blade, MTD 2 stage
snow blower, tire chains, new belt, scraper blade, shoes(new last season). $1385
Call Pat at 608-835-5816
554 Landscaping, Lawn,

Tree & Garden Work
SNOWBLOWER 5HP, 22" MTD two

stage snow-blower for sale. New drive
belt and cable, new auger belt and cable,.
Starts easy, runs and throws snow great!
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602 Antiques & Collectibles

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Location: 239 Whitney St
Columbus, WI 53925
920-623-1992
www.columbusantiquemall.com
672 Pets
WEIMARANER PUPPIES for sale. Parents on site 608-558-3138
680 Seasonal Articles

3 YR OLD CUB CADET W/50 INCH
MOWER DECK. Comes with additional
attachments of snow blade, MTD 2 stage
snow blower, tire chains, new belt, scraper blade, shoes(new last season). $1385
Call Pat at 608-835-5816
642 Crafts & Hobbies
FOR SALE
1 SET OF MEN'S AND 1 SET OF
WOMEN'S GOLF CLUBS. EACH
COMES WITH GOLF BAG, PULL
CART AND HEAD COVERS. $100
PER SET
Men's full set (for tall right handed
player)
Women's full set (left handed player)
Contact: 608-845-1552
720 Apartments
ROSEWOOD APARTMENTS for Seniors
55+. 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $775 per month. Includes
heat, water and sewer. Professionally
managed. Located at
300 Silverado Drive, Stoughton, WI
53589 608-877-9388
750 Storage Spaces For Rent

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10X10 10X15 10X20 10X30
Security Lights-24/7 access
BRAND NEW
OREGON/BROOKLYN
Credit Cards Accepted
CALL (608)444-2900
C.N.R. STORAGE
Located behind
Stoughton Garden Center
Convenient Dry Secure
Lighted with access 24/7
Bank Cards Accepted
Off North Hwy 51 on
Oak Opening Dr. behind
Stoughton Garden Center
Call: 608-509-8904
NORTH PARK STORAGE

10x10 through 10x40, plus
14x40 with 14' door for
RV & Boats.
Come & go as you please.
608-873-5088
696 Wanted To Buy
CLASSIFIEDS, 873-6671 or 835-6677. It

pays to read the fine print.
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
DANE COUNTYS MARKETPLAE. The

Verona Press Classifieds. Call 873-6671
or 835-6677.
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Large 2-BR apts available now.
Pets welcome. Many feature new wood
laminate flooring.
$775-$825/mo. 608-831-4035.
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DEER POINT STORAGE

Convenient location behind
Stoughton Lumber.
Clean-Dry Units
24 HOUR LIGHTED ACCESS
5x10 thru 12x25
608-335-3337
688 Sporting Goods

& Recreational
WOODWORKING TOOLS FOR

SALE:
Craftsman Router and Router table w/
vacuum and Router blades $250.
10" table saw. Cast Iron table
Craftsman brand w/vacuum and extra
blades in wall mountable storage
container. $250.
Delta 10" compound adjustable table
miter saw w/electric quick brake
(#36220 Type III) $155.
Craftsman Soldering Gun (w/case)
$10
Power Fast Brad (Nail) Gun-1" $30.
S-K Socket Set 1/4 SAE. 3/8" both
Sae & Metric (speed wrench, breaker
bar & ratchet included) $25 (in case)
Bench grinder on cast iron stand $70
Dowel set-up kit $35
Call John 608-845-1552
OREGON 2-Bedroom in quiet, well-kept

building. Convenient location. Includes all
appliances, A/C, blinds, private parking,
laundry, storage. $200 security deposit.
Cats OK. $690/month. 608-219-6677
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FRENCHTOWN
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Variety of sizes available now.
10x10=$60/month
10x15=$70/month
10x20=$80/month
10x25=$90/month
12x30=$115/month
Call 608-424-6530 or
1-888-878-4244
OREGON SELF-STORAGE
10x10 through 10x25
month to month lease
Call Karen Everson at
608-835-7031 or
Veronica Matt at 608-291-0316
RASCHEIN PROPERTY
STORAGE
6x10 thru 10x25
Market Street/Burr Oak Street
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Call 608-520-0240
UNION ROAD STORAGE
10x10 - 10x15
10x20 - 12x30
24 / 7 Access
Security Lights & Cameras
Credit Cards Accepted
608-835-0082
1128 Union Road
Oregon, WI
Located on the corner of
Union Road & Lincoln Road
801 Office Space For Rent

OFFICE SPACES FOR RENT
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on golfcourse
Free Wi-Fi, Parking and
Security System
Conference rooms available
Kitchenette-Breakroom
Autumn Woods Prof. Centre
Marty 608-835-3628
VERONA
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-Conveniently located at corner of
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-Join the other businessesGray's Tied House, McRoberts
Chiropractic, True Veterinary, Wealth
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Insurance, MEP Engineers, Adore
Salon, Citgo, Caffee' Depot. Tommaso
Office Bldg. tenants
-Single office in shared Suite
-3 office Suite
-5 office Suite, reception/waiting room,
conference room, private shower
-Individual office possibilities
Call Tom at 575-9700 to discuss terms
and possible rent concessions
Metro Real Estate
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15
970 Horses
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TOWN TREASURER TOWN OF SPRINGDALE
The Verona Senior Center is seeking an

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(608) 848 6628

Stories of the Year

Schools and more

Verona Area School District

Beres will not

Unified Newspaper Group

some items that couldnt even make

1. High school and more

denied, then granted, the opportunity to walk in his class graduation

The district had already suggested a

2016 Private Practice of the Year

The Verona Area school

in the past two years has

Verona Ave. mixed-use

Plans for a two-story,

The commission gets

Stretch out, relax, enjoy the indoor heated pool

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December 29, 2016

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Upper Sugar River Watershed Association

Invasive snails concern watershed association

The Upper Sugar River

West, in all of the Great

their equipment before

Gas leak closes roads

Photo by Scott De Laruelle

KICK off the New Year

Water main breaks

Call today to start the

For only $99!

Find updates and links right away.

www.kaverona.com [email protected] 535 Half Mile Road

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December 29, 2016

The Verona Press

Verona Area School District

Inspector candidates down to 2

The city is close to hiring

position and has narrowed

Anonymous donor clears

fees at the school $345 worth and

She really wanted to do it for family members of this school, he said.

Verona Area School District

District to survey on late starts

Plan: Public hearing set for Monday

Tailwaggers, was the subject of extensive discussion

Schedule Your Appointment Now!

Dr. Steve Beyler

115 ENTERPRISE DRIVE, VERONA 845-8860

Continued from page 1

Rendering courtesy Shulfer Architects

December 29, 2016

The Verona Press

Letters to the editor policy

printed. Letters that recount personal experiences, good or bad,

If you have news youd like to

Thursday, December 29, 2016 Vol. 52, No. 32