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VOL. 5, WK. 13 THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 $1.00 Black Earth Village Presidency up for grabs Candidates answer questions and explain their positions by JOE BLOCK Although the three trustee seats dent Troy Esser took the reins number of years ago, Ron Nor- “Although the [village] presi- obeyed; and in case of distur- Editor are uncontested, they include upon Troge’s retirement, when ris (1989-2001) was sitting as dent is not generally considered bance, riot or other apparent one new person. The Village the village was faced with two Village President and had to a chief executive officer, necessity may appoint as many Change comes to local gov- President’s race is a bit livelier, vacant seats and a vacant Presi- resign due to a work infraction the president does have cer- special marshals as the presi- ernment, usually slowly, and with yard signs popping up for dency. His nomination by the that put him in conflict with his tain unique, statutory duties and dent deems necessary.” usually a person or two at a the two candidates facing off-- board was unanimous, as was role as Village President, then also serves as a figure-head of Below you will find the can- time. Black Earth is seating both current board members. Of the vote. Jeanne Post (2001-2006) came sorts for the village. A didates’ answers to a series of four new elected officials in this the four new board members- According to Village Admin- in and moved out of Village. village president’s statutory questions posed by the Star upcoming election. A new vil- -three trustees, and the village istrator Shellie Benish, who has Then Vern Wendt (2006-2008) duties include presiding at all News. Current Trustee Scott lage president will replace Troy president--three are incum- served since 2013: stepped in and then resigned, board meetings and signing or- Patchin did not respond in time Esser as well, the third president bents, and one is new. “The Village President his- putting Troge in that position.” dinances, bylaws, regulations, for publication. in three years. Former Village President tory is an interesting one. I The League of Wisconsin licenses, etc. In the race for trustee, Tyler Not only is Black Earth see- Pat Troge served for 11 years, want to point out that this isn’t Municipalities explains the The president also maintains Munson is running for his first ing change, but it is also seeing until 2009, and spent three years the first time with some turn- unique role of the Village Presi- peace and good order; sees time. Jared Brammerson and contested races, which is not the prior as a trustee. Current Presi- over here on that position. A dent: that ordinances are faithfully Scott Patchin are incumbents. most common in small villages.

Village President trustee foster discussions and work to- board, village employees and they are acted upon by all trust- a positive yet effective meeting (1 vacancy, two year term) How important to you is wards the common goals of the the citizens. I will hold trustees ees and citizens. I believe in al- are all key components. transparency in government? village and its people. I firmly and staff accountable to do the lowing trustees and citizens the There have been issues Name: Mitch Hodson Transparency is critical for a believe that we can reach higher same. opportunity to respectfully offer raised over the past 6 months Occupation: VP Production government body to efficiently levels of success working to- What will you do to encour- their opinions on all things per- about difficulties in get- Years of residency in the and effectively accomplish the gether collaboratively through age civil discourse and accept- taining to the Village of Black ting an item placed on the Village of Black Earth: 47 duties at hand. Transparency open dialog and inclusivity of able behavior at meetings? Earth. Encouraging open dis- agenda. The current village Previous offices held, with on the board level will be a key all parties. What will you do I will set guidelines and cussion, giving the trustees or president’s policy is if there years of tenure: 6 years late component to encouraging open to encourage it? I will ensure standards to be followed at each citizens a platform to speak, is “general agreement” from 90’s and early 2000’s Village lines of communication that will open dialog between the village meeting and will ensure that fully listening and maintaining SEE EARTH, PAGE 12 The 7.5 million dollar question for Heights by JOE BLOCK of a $27 million facilities ref- planned to revisit the audi- As the Wisconsin Heights crease by 3.5 percent annually. from 2020-21. Editor erendum in the fall, the District torium project in the spring. single campus plan has come The new and current plan The District locked in low in- has decided to go forward with With letters to the editor, public into shape over the past few carves out a place for the Dis- terest rate on their bond issues, The Wisconsin Heights the question of a $7.5 million speaking at meetings, and pre- years, the projected property trict to earn interest prior to of- at 1.64 percent. School District will be present- auditorium project. sentations at board meetings, tax load has dropped. Local ficially borrowing funds. This In all, this means the District ing residents with another refer- When the board initially de- the voice of the students was taxpayers can expect to see a involved a Bank Anticipatory has to borrow $3 million less endum next week. In the wake bated putting the $27 million clear. $50 per $100,000 of value sav- Note for $27 million, and col- that the original $27 million facilities referendum, the audi- They wanted a new audito- ings in their taxes, compared to lecting the interest from that. that was projected. torium project was still in play. rium. initial projections several years That interest then lowered the Most importantly to taxpay- After a lengthy discussion at a The board voted six to one on ago. The District also saved amount needed for borrowing. ers, the mill rate--initially pro- critical meeting, board members Monday, January 25, with Mike $4.6 million on the total cost of The Anticipatory Note will be jected to be $186 per hundred decided that with the initial $27 Wagner the lone dissenting vote borrowing as bond issues came paid off in March. thousand dollars of equalized million ask, another $7.5 mil- against the referendum question into focus. The total amount borrowed value--will drop to $145. That lion was too much. being on the ballot. The District’s original plan will drop from $27 million to drop is even more significant The support from the stu- was to borrow $27 million with $24 million. The drop is driven when taking into account the dents for an auditorium project Previous referendum an estimated interest rate of 3.2 in part by the interest from the SEE HEIGHTS, PAGE 11 was loud and clear. costing less percent. They assumed equal- Bank Anticipatory Note, as well The board has already ized value in the area would in- $1.4 million in taxes collected

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Population figures for the Wisconsin Heights School week, although experts are tell- Sauk Prairie School District dents completing their vaccine municipalities come from the District and Sauk Prairie ing people not to let their guard area had 16 new cases. The treatment. In Dane County, 21 United States Census Bureau. School District each Thursday. down as vaccinations continue death toll there is seven. percent have completed their Data is collected by the Star Wisconsin has wasted few COVID-19 vaccine doses, data show Wisconsin’s top episode of vaccine loss: A Grafton pharmacist intentionally spoiled hundreds of doses in December By Bram Sable-Smith Wisconsin’s biggest reported of Wisconsin’s list for wasted statement. it administered statewide, ac- Tennessee, which lost nearly WPR/Wisconsin Watch incident of waste, according to or spoiled doses — with many “HSHS St. Nicholas Hospi- cording to media reports. 5,000 doses in February alone, DHS: An Aurora Medical Cen- of the losses earlier in the vac- tal firmly believes this situation In Michigan, nearly 12,000 and Florida, which lost more Wisconsin vaccine provid- ter pharmacist in Grafton inten- cination rollout. Those include: was a result of human error and doses of the Moderna vaccine than 4,000 doses as of Feb. 9 ers reported 2,247 wasted or tionally spoiled more than 500 Aurora BayCare Medical Cen- not intentional,” the statement spoiled in January because of — are reporting losing less than spoiled doses of COVID-19 Moderna vaccine doses on Dec. ter in Green Bay (191 doses), said. “The hospital has taken temperature issues while en 1% of shots administered. vaccine through February, state 24 and Dec. 25. That episode Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Cen- this incident very seriously and route from a distributor. The ”You want to see some waste, Department of Health Services accounted for 22% of reported ter Covid Clinic in Milwaukee used it to improve processes state did not require providers because that means people are records show. That’s less than vaccine losses statewide. (102 doses), Aurora Medical and put additional measures in to report doses lost under their paying attention and that real 0.16% of the more than 1.4 mil- Steven R. Brandenburg, 46, Center Hartford in Washington place to ensure it will not hap- care, but available data showed world accidents happen and lion vaccine doses administered pleaded guilty in U.S. District County (52 doses). pen again.” that 1,968 doses were reported that they’re being responded statewide during that same pe- Court for the Eastern District “Since the isolated incident UW Health in Madison re- wasted through Monday, said to properly,” Moore told NPR. riod. of Wisconsin in January to two at Grafton in December and ported 98 doses spoiled or Lynn Sutfin, a Michigan De- “You just don’t want to see neg- The figures track waste only counts of attempting to tamper like many other providers who wasted at its locations through partment of Health and Human ligence.” from providers receiving doses with a consumer product with experienced early challenges February. Services spokesperson. from the state — excluding the reckless disregard for the safety extracting a sixth dose from Spokesman Tom Russell said Vaccines can only be refrig- Managing Editor Dee J. Hall Indian Health Service, Veterans of others after admitting that he Pfizer vials, we’ve significantly “issues with vials or syringes” erated for so long, and in some and Investigations Editor Jim Administration, Department of removed the doses from a re- improved our efficiency,” Ad- largely caused vaccine losses, cases arms aren’t ready once Malewitz of Wisconsin Watch Corrections and other providers frigerator. The U.S. Department vocate Aurora Health told Wis- adding that UW Health has the vials are thawed, Sutfin told contributed to this report. Bram that report data directly to the of Justice says that on Dec. 26, consin Watch in an emailed adjusted its operations to limit Wisconsin Watch. Sable-Smith is WPR’s Mike Si- federal government. 57 patients received vaccina- statement. spoilage. “In addition, reasons for the monson Memorial Investigative Wisconsin Watch obtained tions from the batch, which Advocate Aurora Health “Out of 58,000 doses re- 1,968 doses of vaccine wastage Fellow embedded in the news- the data through a public re- may have been rendered inert facilities have administered ceived, we have already admin- included the vial being dropped room of Wisconsin Watch (www. cords request. DHS did not im- or dangerous. more than 138,000 COVID-19 istered over 90 percent of them or cracked; syringe malfunc- wisconsinwatch.org), which mediately provide information Aurora Medical Center re- vaccine doses in Wisconsin, with DHS data through Febru- tion; needle breaking off in the collaborates with WPR, PBS about the reasons vaccine doses ported losing 518 doses that according to the statement, ary showing only 98 doses not vial; and reconstitution errors,” Wisconsin, other news media were wasted. week, along with four addi- which added: “We’ve also im- making it into patient arms,” she said. and the University of Wiscon- Providers at 167 sites re- tional doses two weeks later plemented a program to review Russell wrote in an email. Iowa has seen just .04% of sin-Madison School of Journal- ported losing at least one dose — its only losses through Feb- unused doses daily and ensure Directly comparing Wiscon- vaccine doses become unusable ism and Mass Communication. through February, with a me- ruary, according to DHS. safeguards to minimize waste.” sin’s record on vaccine waste to through mid-March, an Iowa All works created, published, dian loss of five doses per site. According to his plea agree- Providers elsewhere also re- other states is difficult, because Department of Public Health posted or disseminated by Wis- Ajay Sethi, a public health ment, Brandenburg ascribed to ported lost doses, including 140 most do not uniformly track the spokesperson told Iowa Public consin Watch do not necessarily and infectious disease epide- various “conspiracy theories” at HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital data or publish it in real-time. Radio. reflect the views or opinions of miology researcher at the Uni- and was skeptical of “vaccines in Sheboygan. That happened Minnesota officials reported Some vaccine spoilage is ex- UW-Madison or any of its affili- versity of Wisconsin-Madison, in general and the Moderna vac- overnight on Feb. 8 when some- just 320 total ruined doses ear- pected, Dr. Kelly Moore, deputy ates. called those figures impressive. cine specifically.” He has not one unintentionally left 28 vials lier this month out of roughly director of the Immunization “We’re talking two months of yet been sentenced. of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vac- 1.7 million administered at the Action Coalition, told NPR this vaccinating,” he said. “Five as a Other Advocate Aurora cine outside of a refrigerator, a time, while Illinois reported 526 month. Even states reporting median, that’s like nothing.” Health facilities sit near the top spokesperson said in an emailed lost doses out of the 1.9 million larger waste tallies — such as Wisconsin Heights Optimist Club announces winners of essay contest The Wisconsin Heights Op- ance of teacher Kathy Haig, person I am today. I would like “Reaching Your Dreams by the start we have been brought new friends all over the world timist Club is pleased to an- participated in the contest by to thank the Wisconsin Heights Choosing Optimism” up with the expectation of per- through technology; we see nounce the winners of their writing 700-800 word essays. Optimist Club for giving me an- In a world where students like forming our absolute best in each other trying out new hob- annual essay contest. Emma The competition involves stu- other opportunity to further my me are under constant pressure, everything we do. When we are bies and pursuing new inter- Schaefer was awarded first dents from all over the world education, both in high school it can be hard to be optimistic. being driven solely by the fear ests. When we step back from place in this year’s contest. For where Optimists International and in college. Many of us are constantly on of failure, it is nearly impossible our routine and really look, we her efforts she received a $100 clubs service the youth of their the go and cannot easily change to see optimism in the constant see joy. We see happiness and gift card from The People Com- communities. The Wisconsin Second place was awarded it because it is the only way routine, especially since many enthusiasm and prosperity and munity Bank in Mazomanie Heights Optimists would like to Keera Payne. A brief bio is we’ve been taught to go through 1of us only do it because we success. We see everyone work- and her essay was sent on to the to thank the students who took below. life. We were brought up with feel like we have to. Students ing together as best as they can regional Southern Wisconsin part in this experience as well counselors encouraging us as today stay mindlessly busy so to make themselves and others District Optimists Clubs con- as Ms. Haig for her support My name is Keera Payne and early as fourth grade to think that they don’t stop and think happy, and we see them doing test. Second place was awarded and both the Peoples Commu- I am a sophomore at Wisconsin about what we want to do after about what happens if they fall their best to enjoy it along the to Keera Payne and third place nity Bank - Mazomanie and the Heights. My favorite class is high school. We were brought behind. But what if we flipped way. So, what happens when to Alex Orth , also Heights stu- Cross Plains State Bank - Spanish and some of my ex- up with regular state-mandated that on its head? What if we we choose optimism? All of dents. Keera received a $50 tracurriculars are FFA, Green tests that turned education into did stop and think about what that other stuff falls away. All gift card from The Cross Plains Emma Schaefer was awarded Team, Connections Team, and a competition between states, we are doing this all for? If we the pressure, all the stress, all State Bank in Black Earth, and first place. A brief bio is below. student council. I plan on at- school districts, teachers and step back for a moment and ask the competition, all the fear--it Alex received a $25 gift from tending a four year college with students. We were brought up ourselves optimistically, “Why just falls away. And we start to the Wisconsin Heights Opti- Next year I will be attending an undecided major. being told that the way to look am I doing this? What’s my find joy in the journey. Opti- mists. The theme of the essay UW Madison and plan to pur- impressive on college applica- goal?” We might have different mism helps us to see what we contest was, “Reaching Your sue a double major in Nursing Alex Orth, third place. A tions is to have your extracur- answers, but they all focus on 2are truly doing all of this “life” Dreams By Choosing Opti- and Spanish. I can’t wait to be a brief bio is below. ricular list as chock-full as the same thing: Joy. Joy is what stuff for, and it helps us to reach mism.” A number of Wisconsin Badger, but I definitely will miss possible, so we joined a hundred we do it all for. When we step our dreams and fulfill our full Heights students, with guid- high school. I’ll miss the teach- My name is Alex Orth. I am different sports and activities to back and look at the hustle and potential. A dream isn’t worth ers the most; it’s because of a senior at Wisconsin Heights try to look good for admissions bustle of our day-to-day lives anything if it doesn’t make you them that I can’t choose a favor- High School. During my time at offices. We get good grades, be- through the lens of optimism, happy. Optimism helps us to ite class in high school... Each Heights I have participated in cause what happens if we fall we see joy all around. We see see what does make us happy, class I took I loved. I honestly NHS, FBLA, Band, Academic behind? We fail. We keep our teachers happily trying as hard and it allows us to pursue the Hwy. 14, Black Earth can’t even rank them; even the Bowl, Student Council, and days full of school, extracurric- as they can to give us the edu- things that bring us that hap- 608-767-3447 ones I claimed to hate, I look various other activities. I also ulars, jobs and homework, be- cation we deserve in times of piness. It allows us to change back fondly on for some rea- received an Optimist Student cause what happens if we don’t strife. We see counselors try- our ambitions as needed to fit 10% OFF ANY son or another. I participated of the Quarter Award in eighth do it all? We might not get into ing to help us find a career that who we are, because we learn SINGLE PAIR in (too) many extracurriculars grade. As difficult as a choice our dream school. We fail. We we love as much as they love new things about ourselves as EXP 4-30-21 during high school: Girls Soc- this is, I would have to say that push ourselves to constantly be theirs. We see coaches sharing we go through life. It allows us cer, Spanish Club, National U.S. History was my favorite better than everyone else around their enthusiasm for a sport that to continuously mold our goals Honor Society, Student Coun- class. I was directly admitted us, because what happens if we they are passionate about with to things that will bring us joy, cil, Forensics, Social Justice into the school of business UW aren’t first? We’re last. We fail. the next generation of players. because being optimistic means Group, Green Team, Drama Madison, where I plan to get a We keep ourselves mindlessly We see each other, our fellow not being afraid of change. Club, Choir and Band. I am BBA in Information Systems. I busy, because what happens students, graciously helping Being optimistic means not also secretary for NHS and stu- would like to thank the Optimist if we stop and actually think one another in more ways than being afraid of failure. Being Redeemable at dent council, and have been the Club for their recognition and about what we are doing this all one. We see each other tutoring optimistic means being able to both locations PR for the Drama Club for two gracious award. for? That’s the hard part about those who ask for help; we see see the joy in everything. And, Mon-Fri 9-7 years in a row. I am very grate- being a student today: the heavy each other giving tips and tricks most importantly, being op- Sat 9-5 • Sun 10-5 ful for all of these opportunities, Emma Schaefer’s Essay burden of what could possibly that we have learned along the timistic means being able to because they have shaped the happen if we fail, because from way; we see each other making reach your dreams. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 STAR NEWS PAGE 3

‘Where am I going to be in a year?’: Wisconsinites share how they Paul Mathis chronicles life with are coping and adapting one year symptoms that won’t go away into the COVID-19 pandemic The Rib Mountain resident is a ‘long-hauler,’ a person who had a mild case of COVID-19, appeared to recover, but the effects of the disease linger Residents reflect on a life-changing year and what the future holds

By Rob Mentzer He has updated his follow- unusual ways, working its way By Bridgit Bowden nect back to the fact that we WPR ers on his condition ever since. into the lungs and blood. Scien- WPR as nurses are there to care for Amy Moreland of Madison It’s become a kind of ritual. tists are still discovering how Coburn Dukehart whole people — and not just first lost her job as a bartender In October, Paul Mathis got He tracks his symptoms. He the novel virus attacks its hosts. Wisconsin Watch assemblages of parts that aren’t and events coordinator on COVID-19. He lost his senses vents his frustration with short- Some long-haulers experience Bram Sable-Smith working right at the time,” March 17, 2020. of taste and smell, and he slept sighted political leaders. He brain fog — difficulty focusing Wisconsin Watch/WPR Clark said. “It feels like a million years a lot. But overall, his case was entreats his followers to wear and holding thoughts. Others “We had seen friends or away, and it also feels just like mild. He and his wife, who was masks. have sleep problems, bleeding More than one year ago, Wis- family or co-workers who had yesterday,” she said. also sick, hunkered down in For WPR and Wisconsin gums or gastrointestinal issues. consin Gov. Tony Evers directed gotten ill. We could picture Looking back, she said she their Rib Mountain, Wisconsin Watch’s Outbreak Wisconsin Mathis has been spared most the state Department of Health ourselves there. And it felt — never expected the pandemic to home. His 17-year-old daughter project, he read many of his of those symptoms. His short- Services to order the tempo- a lot of the time — a lot more last so long. Moreland remained stayed in their older daughter’s posts to a reporter. ness of breath and tachycardia rary closure of K-12 schools human.” unemployed for much of the apartment for a week, and she “My senses of taste and — the tendency for his heart across the state. It was the first past year, and she struggled for avoided the virus. smell are still jacked,” Mathis rate to race suddenly and with- sign of the social upheaval to ‘Most of us were just sur- months to access jobless ben- Mathis’ fatigue, fever and wrote on Nov. 15. “I have this out warning — are the most come: business closures, virtual viving’ efits. congestion eased within a weird, clinical clean scent that troubling. Even a short walk schooling, massive unemploy- Eventually, she completely couple of weeks. But he didn’t is slightly sweet and metallic.” leaves Mathis winded, forcing ment and more than 6,500 state When Jessica Barrera revis- changed her life’s trajectory by really get better. He has “long (The scent isn’t traditionally un- him to dramatically scale back residents dead from the novel its her thoughts from the pan- returning to school. She’s pur- haul” COVID-19, meaning that pleasant, he said in an interview, on physical activity. coronavirus. demic’s earliest days, she can’t suing a degree in social work some of his symptoms have per- “but I’ve come to resent it.”) On Day 36, Mathis wrote Although Wisconsin first de- help but recall her anxiety. How at Madison College, aiming to sisted for months. On Nov. 22, he noted that he that his long-haul conditions tected COVID-19, the disease could she forget? eventually become an addiction Symptoms will linger for finally tasted some raw red on- were “getting old really fast.” caused by the virus, in February People stopped traveling counsellor. 10% to 33% of COVID-19 ions on a burger. By early Janu- By early March, on Day 141, of 2020, mid-March marked the when the coronavirus pandemic “I’m really excited for the patients, epidemiologists esti- ary, he thought some taste was he was celebrating his parents’ pandemic’s beginning for most hit, costing the 41-year-old sin- future, but I do feel a sense of mate. For Mathis, that means returning, but he still couldn’t vaccinations and regretting that Wisconsinites. WPR and Wis- gle mother her job at an airport sadness for the things that I’ve shortness of breath, a sudden, smell garlic being sauteed. his breathlessness prevented consin Watch have followed a shuttle service in Eau Claire. lost,” she said. racing heart rate and a weaker “Still get horribly out of him from participating in his group of Wisconsinites through She spent months waiting for Moreland envisions looking sense of smell. The causes and breath doing little to nothing,” choral group, which was plan- this life-changing time. unemployment benefits while back on the pandemic when long-term consequences of he wrote on Jan. 4. “Coming to ning a 2021 season. One year in, they reflected the Wisconsin Department of she’s older, “telling our grand- long-haul COVID-19 remain a the realization that this may be He tries to focus on the posi- on how the pandemic reshaped Workforce Development de- kids about the quarantine and medical mystery. What is clear: the new normal.” tives, he said, but he can’t help their lives, and how they envi- nied the assistance to part-time all this, and it being something The months of suffering in this “This hits me,” Mathis said but wonder: “Is this going to be sion the future. workers like her who also re- that we got through.” limbo can prove frustrating and after reading a selection of the the way it is? Did it take days, ceive federal disability aid. “There is hope,” Moreland demoralizing. posts. “A lot of the stuff I talked weeks, months, years off of ‘Oh shit. It’s here.’ “There was so much that was said, even after a hellish year. “Even though I’d heard the about on Day 1, Day 8, Day 15, whatever lifespan I had? Who out of my control,” Barrera said. You can truly be excited phrase ‘long-hauler,’ ” Mathis I’m still experiencing. ... You knows? I think that’s the big- Mariah Clark spent the year “It makes me feel tired, almost, about everything that’s coming said, “a part of me assumed it just wonder: Is this a permanent gest question mark and anxiety on the front lines of the pan- to hear myself.” and grieve the things that have was for people who had had (the thing?” around it, for people who are demic as an emergency depart- She added: “A year ago, most passed.” disease) pretty heavily — the He has connected with other still experiencing symptoms. ment nurse at UW Health in of us were just surviving day- ones who required hospitaliza- long-haulers, participating in Where am I going to be in a Madison. to-day: emotionally, mentally, ‘This process really made tion.” online discussions in which year?” She spent the earliest days physically, financially, just to me stronger’ New research suggests that folks share symptoms and feel- of 2020 reading about the virus get through to the next day.” the opposite is true in many ings. Knowing that his COVID- Wisconsin Watch (wisconsin- in news reports and journal ar- But things are looking up For Adija Greer-Smith, cases. In a study of more than 19 journey has proved smoother watch.org) collaborates with ticles. But the pandemic became for Barrera. She’s found new, owner of Confectionately Yours WPR, PBS Wisconsin, other 1,400 patients in California, than others’ leaves him with real in February when her hos- meaningful work helping adults bakery in Milwaukee, 2020 news media and the University nearly one-third started out with mixed emotions. pital treated Wisconsin’s first with special needs find jobs. wasn’t all doom and gloom. no symptoms at all. “I don’t claim to have any of Wisconsin-Madison School patient infected with COVID- And her 11-year-old son Niko Like many businesses, the Mathis, 49, began chroni- kind of extreme case whatso- of Journalism and Mass Com- 19. has returned to school in-person bakery shuttered for several cling his curious experience on ever,” he said. “And I really munication. All works created, “I’ll never forget that first two days a week. That was after months in the spring and sum- social media on Oct. 18. That’s feel for people who have had it published, posted or dissemi- COVID patient,” Clark said. finishing the previous school mer. But Greer-Smith saw huge when he shared that his sense of much, much worse. I’ve known nated by Wisconsin Watch do “When that first case rolled into year and beginning the new one success after re-opening in July. smell vanished and that he had people who have had it much, not necessarily reflect the views the department I remember hav- virtually. Barrera now wishes That included forging business taken a COVID-19 test. Two much, worse. I’ve known peo- or opinions of UW-Madison or ing that sensation of, ‘Oh shit. she could reassure her March deals with the Green Bay Pack- days later, he confirmed his in- ple who have passed from this.” any of its affiliates. It’s here.’ And wondering how 2020 self. ers and Milwaukee Bucks. fection with a one-word post: The coronavirus, which it was going to change every- “I would let her know that “It opened so many doors “Shit.” causes COVID-19, behaves in thing.” you get used to wearing a mask of opportunity,” Greer-Smith Clark’s ensuing year offered — it’s not so weird after the first said, acknowledging that 2020 “strange dualities.” The slow little while. And to just keep proved “catastrophic” in other Tips for getting an ID to vote days waiting for the storm gave your faith that things will get ways. She rode an “emotional way to the trauma of watching better,” she said. roller coaster,” with both of Most Wisconsin voters al- card. If all documentation is voter eligibility, poll locations, friends and patients succumb to her kids learning virtually from ready have some form of ID not readily available, the ID voter registration information the deadly virus. 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Bearded dragons, chicks, and virtual reality at Sauk Prairie School District

Top left, this High School class pet, Lucy the Bearded Dragon, will be enjoying Spring Break away from Ms. J’s classroom. Top right, Tower Rock: Grade 5 students in Natalie Nelson’s class enjoyed time with the baby chicks. Bottom: Heather Sternitzky’s grade 8 science students learned about geologic formations in the United States using virtual and augmented reality. On the left, two students “see” an augmented reality earth. On the right, what a student really looks like. PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 STAR NEWS PAGE 5 WISCONSIN HEIGHTS SCHOOLS Leprechauns are hard to catch Ms. Crede’s students were setting traps to catch a leprechaun! The students came up with some brilliant and clever ideas for their traps, but unfortunately, the leprechauns were too tricky and still managed to get away! A few leprechauns even made a mess around the house, wrote funny notes, and left chocolates and candy behind to eat. PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED

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know this about me. fact, fear of them played a vital Nothing will. Life requires easiest to see. Saying, “People I once read part of a book role in galvanizing a rough col- death, just as death requires life. are often mean to each other” about Genghis Khan. It was lection of city states into what But with all the horror, there requires absolutely no intellect eiGer fascinating, in part because we would become the largest na- is also the matter of everyday or insight (or effort). G know so much about him, his tion on Earth. Some Russians life. People – the conquerors What we sometimes fail to culture, and his impact on ev- referred to their Mongol con- and the conquered alike – live recognize, is that all of the peo- Counter erything from free trade to food querors as “Tatars.” Matthew their lives. They love their ple who came before us, and BY MATT GEIGER and music. Legend has it that the Paris, a 13th Century writer, spouses and their children, all who come after, will spend first of his ancestors was a gray said the invaders “poured out eating and sleeping and tell- most of their time engaged in The Hu fiddle), Tsuur (Mongolian flute) wolf. Science has it that about like devils from Tartarus so that ing stories around the fire or the smaller aspects of living a and Tumur Khuur (Jew’s harp). eight percent of the male popu- they are rightly called Tartars.” the iPad, in their yurts and in life. Even those old warriors Sometime around 1162 AD, It sounds very much like the lation in part of Asia – about 16 “Tartarus” is the classical Greek their drywall starter homes. We of the steppes, even the Golden a child named Temuchin was melody of a thousand horses’ million people - descends from word for Hell, and the ancient are all the children of millions Horde, spent most of the time born near Lake Baikal in what hooves thundering across the the great Khan himself. That is tribal name “Tatar” referred to of people, and all of them ate riding to and from their battles, is now Mongolia. When he cold, windy steppes on their absolutely incredible. By the the nomads who swept across and drank and wondered what joking and eating and wash- was 14, he stalked his older way to cut off your head, or en- way, how related to each other much of Asia and Europe in would happen next. All of them ing up and mending clothes half-brother brother and killed slave you, or hopefully just kill we are is a delightful rabbit hole those days. According to Plato, shared dinner together as the and being around those in their him with an arrow, for which a few members of your tribe down which to go. A Yale statis- Tartarus was a pit of despair darkness came down around small circle. They played with he was, I love the way one text then leave you alone, as long as tician named Dr. Joseph Chang where the dead went to receive them. their children. They stubbed puts it, “scolded” by his mother. you pay your taxes in perpetu- wrote a paper postulating that divine punishment for their That is why, in addition to their toes. They bit their tongues Times were different, I suspect. ity. And yet somehow, the terror all Europeans share a common deeds. In life, punishment was singing ancient warrior songs and then couldn’t stop messing Later in life, he would go by is full of great beauty, because ancestor who lived just 600 often doled out by mounted ar- about slaughtering their foes with it. a different name. It has many being human is complicated. years ago. We don’t know that chers on horseback. and trampling their enemies, It all ends for everyone, as spellings. They are Chinggis, The only bad thing about the theoretical person’s name, or The history of human be- members of The Hu also re- noted before. Genghis Khan, Chingis, Jenghiz, Jinghis and band is the name, which means what they did with their life. ings is the history of tribes con- corded a YouTube series about perhaps the greatest warrior Genghis. Genghis Khan. “Human,” but which is a homo- But we know a lot about Geng- quering each other, then being cooking. It’s called “Hu’s in who ever lived, who mastered We were just listening to a phone with “The Who.” We play his Khan. conquered themselves. The the Kitchen.” They grill mutton the art of equine warfare and song about him, nearly 1,000 most of our music verbally, by One of my favorite things weapons may change (sticks, and fry breads and joke around, seemed invincible, died by sim- years later, because my six-year- telling our allegedly intelligent about the ancient Mongolian bronze axes, steel swords, wearing t-shirts and flip-flops ply falling off his horse while old daughter and I constantly “smart” speaker in the living empire is the language. Geng- bows, muskets, machine guns, rather than the leather armor hunting, according to the “Se- listen to a Mongolian heavy room what we want to hear, and his Khan’s grandson estab- drones, social media), but the they don for their concerts and cret History of the Mongols.” metal band, called The Hu. she can’t get it through her head lished what was known as “The cycle will play out again and ancient imagery-laden music And so, it will end for you and They play heavily-amplified that I don’t have any interest Golden Horde,” which con- again, until we are all in Tar- videos. me, one way or another. traditional instruments and sing in a cheesy rock opera about a quered and ruled over a good tarus or wherever we end up. It’s easy to focus on only In the meantime, it’s nice to ancient Mongolian war chants “deaf, dumb and blind kid” who portion of Russia. Those words People are animals, and ani- the terror and loss of human turn up the music, listen to the to the surging tempest of metal “sure plays a mean pinball.” roll off the tongue so well that mals, even incredibly intelligent history. It is, after all, 200,000 pounding war drums, and go on beats. It is legitimately some of I’m here for the 1,000-year old just saying them makes you feel and adaptable ones, are forever years filled with people who with our lives, aware of doom, the most beautiful music I have war cries, not the synthesizer- like you are in a grand adven- usurping and being usurped. As all ended up dead. Our current but fully engaged in the small ever heard, full of throat sing- accompanied aural garbage. ture. Russians, not exactly a are plants. Did you know that debates about culture and his- daily tasks that will always ing, Morin Khuur (horsehead Obviously. The speaker should timid group of tribes themselves sharks have lived on this planet tory always focus only on the make up the majority of our back them, were absolutely ter- for longer than trees have? But bloodshed, because it is the lives. Star News rified of their Mongol rulers. In they won’t be here forever. gaudy part of the past, and the Letters to the Editor policy We welcome letters to the editor and want to publish your thoughts and opinions. We are happy to publish your letters about politics, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR and your endorsements of political candidates. We would like them to arrive via email if at all possible. Send your letters to [email protected] Getting Together the virus. Luckily the teachers and have to stay six feet away, on the road to getting back to All letters must include the author’s name, address and phone have gotten the vaccine which I bet you would have looked normal. number. 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ingredients to brew up a huge author intertwines the feeling of pot of trouble. a crime thriller with fight scenes THE BOOK NOOK I liked several aspects of this between combatants with su- OBITUARIES book, such as the in-depth look per-hero powers. She aptly BOOK REVIEWS BY DONNA VOUGHT at the characters and satisfac- describes the magic underly- tory descriptions of their mo- ing everything without getting Dale Lee), 4 grandchildren, Hayden Battle of the Clans jade has magical properties that tivations. Duality of nature is bogged down in archaic trivia. Lundgren Marker, Emerson Marker, Olive can either confer superhuman featured in several ways, such The fighting is described with Lundgren, and Piper Lee; his “Jade City” by Fonda Lee powers or kill you, depending as hating an enemy yet admir- enough detail to put you there mother, Lois Lundgren, and combines the author’s experi- on various factors. It’s both ing their talents. Characters but not so graphic as to put you siblings, David Lundgren and ence as a corporate strategist a status symbol and a power- understand the importance of off. Merilee Leitzke, and a host of and black-belt martial artist ful yet deadly substance which self-sacrifice for the greater The emphasis on familial cousins, nephews and nieces. with her interest in comic books can drive people to thievery or good or that they can be true to duty and honor adds to the East A private service for Dale and action movies. The result worse. themselves while serving oth- Asian element. The tension and will be held Apr. 3, 2021 at is an eclectic yet well-organized No Peak’s legendary leader ers. love between family members Hooverson Funeral Home, 251 mix of action and world build- has turned the reins over to his There’s also substantial depth never feels contrived and we’re Water St., Sauk City. Interment ing anchored by strong family grandson, Lan. While Lan has to the culture and history of the given the history behind their will follow at the Sauk Prairie relationships. gained some respect and trust, land and its inhabitants. The multi-faceted relationships, Cemetery. Kekon is a fictional land he doesn’t have the fearful loy- author creates a somewhat com- making it easier to understand Online condolences may whose capital city is controlled alty his tyrannical grandfather plex world, yet her careful ex- them. be made at hooversonfuneral- by two rival groups – the Moun- commanded. Lan’s brother homes.com planations have the right timing As I neared the end of the On March 17, 2021, Dale tain and No Peak clans. Clan Hilo is tailor-made for the role and length to keep readers up to book, I realized the unresolved Lundgren, loving husband and leaders oversee their own dis- of enforcer, but his impetuous speed. The narration is revealed nature was setting me up for an- father of three passed away at John Earl tricts, constantly seeking to and volatile nature means Lan from four alternating points of other installment. Sure enough, the age of 64 after a long strug- expand their territorial domain spends more time on damage Hughes view. Hilo and Lan give us “Jade War” was published in gle with ALS. Dale was born while trying to prevent their control than he’d like. detailed views into the clan, as 2019 and I felt the dynamics to Howard & Lois Lundgren in enemies from doing the same. Another problem is their well as the how and why behind between the characters was suf- Wisconsin and grew up on his They rely heavily on two people younger sister Shae, who is their decisions. The other two ficient reason to add it to my family’s dairy farm. Dale re- - one who keeps the business returning home from college. give us an outsider’s perspec- reading list. ceived his Bachelor of Science wheels rolling smoothly via Their hopes that she’d help run tive via Shae and Anden – a Fonda Lee aimed her first two in Construction Management bribes and threats and the other the business from the safety of young cousin. novels at young adults and both from University of Wiscon- who acts as an enforcer. the family estate are dashed Although the narration comes were nominated for awards. sin - Stout. Shortly after, he If you’re thinking this sounds when she shuns the protection from different voices, each per- Published in 2017, “Jade City” travelled as far as Papua New like the Mob, you’re right. The and advantages of her family’s spective is carefully thought-out is Lee’s first book intended for Guinea for job experience and similarity to organized crime elevated status. Worse, she and adds a new layer. Equally adults. It won a World Fantasy eventually settled in Marina seem intentional and several refuses to wear the jade which satisfying is the consistently award and was a finalist for the del Rey, CA. He became father parallels to The Godfather can would help her perceive danger smooth storyline with no un- 2018 Nebula Award for Best to three girls soon after; Brit- be found in this intricate yet more easily. She does agree to derdeveloped voices, which can Novel. It’s an excellent choice tany in 1985, Brooke in 1987, John Earl Hughes, age 70 of well-laid out story of intrigue help Lan with a special mission, be hard to accomplish in a story for fans of crime thrillers, mar- and Brianna in 1988. In 1987, Prairie Du Sac, WI, passed away and power struggles. discovering irregularities that with multiple narrators. The tial arts, superheroes or those he began his entrepreneurial on Sunday March 21, 2021. He Clans share control of the confirm his worst fears. complexity of each character seeking intelligent action or journey and started Lundgren was born in Virginia on July 3, country’s major natural re- Add to the mix a thief’s string enhances the plot and helps us world-building novels. Management in his garage, and 1950 to parents William and source – jade, which in this of bad decisions and changes to understand Kekon’s world and in 1989, moved to Valencia. He Ethel (Kopplin) Hughes. case is much more than just international demands for jade people. met Margaret in late 1994, who He enjoyed working on small an ornamental stone. Kekon’s and you have all the necessary Another plus is how well the joined him at Lundgren Man- engines, many people would agement, and they were mar- consider it his lifetime passion. ried in 1995. Over the years, He loved to hunt and fish in his NOOK LM has grown to provide con- free time, and he loved watch- FROM PAGE 6 struction management services ing all sports, especially foot- to schools and other entities in ball. He adored his cats, and small-town life. smart and capable person who limitations of her beauty and This marks my 100th Book Santa Clarita and throughout spending time with family and Each of the three sections doesn’t want to be categorized. skillfully depicts the range of Nook entry and I’d like to dedi- Southern California. Dale was friends. features a road trip with ties to Watson does an admirable male intrusion from merely an- cate it to you and other readers well-known and respected in John is survived by his danger and unpleasant random job of showing the female noying to downright menacing out there. It’s a joy and a privi- the construction management children, Jessica Domin- encounters. Each portrays Edie perspective in a way that feels and dangerous. lege to share my love of books, industry. Professionally, he has guez, Amanda (James Callan) at an important juncture in her authentic. He wisely avoids Those seeking a multi-gen- and I’d like to thank everyone always had time for anyone Hughes, Jason (Shawna) Gray; life battling forces beyond her painting Edie as a saint as she erational, tension-filled book who has given me feedback. who needed it from him. When grandchildren, Hayden and Ma- control as she tries to listen to occasionally uses her looks to will be happy with this choice. It always brightens my day to he spoke, we listened. dalynn; siblings, Bill (Carol) her heart. Her true desire is to her advantage and makes poor Larry Watson has a lean, poetic learning someone enjoyed this Dale enjoyed spending time Hughes, Tom (Sharon) Hughes, be accepted for who she is on choices. He captures her strug- style, genuine characters and a column or a recommendation. with his family and is remem- Bob (Nan) Hughes, Carol the inside, which is a strong, gles with both the power and gift for a good story. Thank you and happy reading! bered by all for his integrity, Dietz, Chuck Hughes, and kindness, calm demeanor and Paul Hughes; as well as several his passion for the outdoors. He nieces, nephews and cousins. loved fishing, whether it was John was preceded in death on a lake in Canada with his by his parents; son-in-law, Rob- Now you can brother, nephews and cousins, ert Nall; and brother-in-law, Bill or on his boat in the Channel Dietz. fi nd us on Islands, making lifelong memo- Memorials can be made to Facebook and ries with his family. Dale loved the family. hunting for deer in Wisconsin A memorial service will took Instagram! and for elk in Colorado. Every- place on Friday March 26, 2021 one who knew Dale knew of at 2:00 p.m at Redlin Funeral his unwavering support for the Home. Visitation took place Green Bay Packers and the Wis- from 1:00-2:00 p.m on Friday consin Badgers. at the funeral home. www.facebook.com/ Dale has been preceded in WiscStarNews death by his father, Howard, and his sister, Shirlee. He’s survived by his wife, Margaret Lundgren, daughters Brittany Marker (Jon Marker), Brooke Wisc_Star_News Lundgren, Brianna Lee (Kyle

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All sales are by nity Library’s online storytime day - Thursday from 9:00 a.m. staff its location! nity Library is open for brows- donation, and tables will be re- Thursday, April 1 and Thursday, - 8:00 p.m., Friday from 9:00 ADULT CRAFT NIGHT: ing the collection, computer stocked as space allows. Pur- April 8 at 10:00am. The link to a.m. - 5:30 p.m. and Saturday SPRING CARDS NEW ADULT FICTION use and other basic services chase a 120th anniversary tote join is available at pdslibrary. from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. The Tuesday, April 13 at 6:30 LIST RELEASED by appointment. Drop-in visits bag and fill it with books for org/online-storytime. No reg- phone number is 608-643-8346. p.m. Katelyn has compiled her are accepted as space allows; free! Drop-in to browse the sale, istration is required, but please Join us for a zoom program Spring 2021 list of new books. just knock at the inside door. no appointment needed! Please email [email protected] Stay up-to-date with all of with Jamie Statz-Paynter to Place holds directly from our Appointments can be made by maintain social distancing. if you’d like to be added to the the library’s events by liking make 4 delightful greeting website at https://saukcityli- calling 608-643-8318. Lobby email list. our page on Facebook at Sauk- cards. All materials included. brary.org/news/uncategorized/ pick up and curbside service are Teen April Bags CityLibrary or by checking our Space is limited, so contact katelyns-list/ or pick up a hard also available, no appointment Registration for the Ruth Cul- Current Hours website at saukcitylibrary.org. the library at 608-643-8346 or copy from the library. required. Please maintain so- ver Community Library’s April The Ruth Culver Community [email protected] to cial distancing and wear a mask Teen Tuesday bags is open. Fill Library is open by appointment LIBRARY OPEN TO THE sign up. CURBSIDE PICK-UP while you are here, even if you out the form at pdslibrary.org or for lobby access the follow- PUBLIC We are still offering curbside are only briefly in the lobby. to select which activities you’d ing hours: Monday through The George Culver Com- BOOK CLUB pick-up. Use curbside to get like to receive. Bags will be Thursday, 9:00am to 8:00pm, munity Library is open to the Tuesday, April 13 at 1:00 your holds or ask us to select Lobby Book Sale available for pick April 5. Teen Friday, 9:00am to 4:00pm and public! However, due to the on- p.m. items for you from the library’s To celebrate National Library Tuesdays are open to grades Saturday, 9:00am-1:00pm. going pandemic some restric- April’s Pick: Unsheltered collection. Call us at 608-643- Week (April 4-10), the Friends 6-12. Optional Zoom gather- tions remain in place, including by Barbara Kingsolver 8346 to arrange a pick-up time. a 10-person limit. We will con- Check out a copy at the li- The curbside pick-up cart is lo- tinue to offer contactless curb- brary or download an ebook or cated outside the main entrance GARDENING TIPS AND ADVICE your forced branches and side pick-up. For the full details audiobook from Hoopladigital. on Dallas St. planted spring bulb containers see our website, saukcitylibrary. com. The book club reads a va- to bloom, it’s time to hop to org. riety of fiction and nonfiction. LIBRARIAN’S CHOICE THE SAUK COUNTY your April gardening tasks. If Book Club will be held over REQUEST you haven’t done a soil test in CHILD TAKE AND Zoom. Email Emily at emily@ Have a librarian pick out GARDENER a couple years, you should con- MAKE KITS saukcitylibrary.org for a link to books and movies selected spe- tact the Extension office for a kit April 7, 21 the meeting. All are welcome. cifically for you! Fill out the April Showers Bring Gar- hazel, eastern red bud, cherry, and instructions. I can’t stress Stop by the library or call us form on our website, saukcity- dening for Flowers pussy willow, and even lilacs. how important to test your soil to arrange a pick-up of a child’s BOOKS & BLANKETS library.org, to let us know what “You can cut all the flowers We have pussy willows that before adding nutrients. More Take and Make craft kit. We STORYTIME you’re interested in. A librarian but cannot keep spring from grow nearby that have already fertilizer is not always a good have kits for children ages 5-12 Mondays at 10:30 a.m. will select movies or books for coming.” started to “bloom” so they thing. As soon as the soil can and for children under 5. New April 19 - May 24 you and call to arrange a pick- Pablo Neruda won’t even need to be forced. be worked, add fertilizer per the kits are released every other We are doing Storytime out- up time. If you decided to cut some recommendations you receive week on Wednesday. Limited side! Bring a blanket for your As I write this article, I branches, choose a day with from your soil test to flower to one per child while supplies family and enjoy stories and BOOK-A-LIBRARIAN look out my window into my above freezing temps and select and vegetable gardens. Pansies last. fun under a cottonwood tree. Call 608-643-8346 for an side yard and I still see snow. 1- to 2-foot branches that won’t can be set out at this time as Storytime is designed for chil- Appt. I am longing for some spring be missed (especially if you’re well. If you use rose cones, re- ADULT TAKE AND dren 5 and under, but everyone Need help with technol- blooms! My tulips and daffodils cutting a branch or two from move them was the soil thaws. MAKE KITS is welcome. Weather permit- ogy or have in-depth research have started to peek out and are your neighbor’s shrub) using Gradually remove mounded March 31, April 14 ting, space is limited. Pandemic questions? Call the library to about 1-2 inches tall. My helle- proper pruning techniques. dirt or mulch from around them We have craft kits for adults, safety guidelines will be fol- schedule a librarian. If we don’t bores, also known as the Lenten Once you bring the branches in- just in case we get a late snow. too! Stop by or call to arrange to lowed. Contact the library for know the answer, we can help rose, are still under some snow doors, cut a cross in the bottom (I know, I said a bad word.) If pick up an adult Take and Make details and to sign up. you find it. in the side yard, but what is of the branch and place them in need be, prune any old canes kit. New kits are released every showing is very green. I expect a container or vase filled with that you didn’t get to last fall. other Wednesday. Kits are one OUTSIDE SCAVENGER to see flowers on them soon as room temperature water. Place In the vegetable garden, start they are a very early bloomer. your bouquet in bright indirect checking your soil temps and as you use it test your Easter ham. oak trees pruned, wait until next Remember to contact Ex- I don’t have any crocus for light away from drafts. Recut soon as they are 40° F and the Typically, you can plan to plant fall/winter. It’s too late now un- tension Sauk County if you some odd reason, but my sister the ends every day and change air temps is greater than 45° F, these cool-weather crops the less you have damage. You have any gardening questions. who lives in Rock Springs says the water every few days. I do you can plant your cool-weather second week in April but just in can prune your non-flowering Please send an email to haley. hers are blooming. Spring has have four planted containers in crops such as lettuce, spinach, case it’s nice and warm, you can shrubs. It’s a good time to plant [email protected] or sprung and it can’t come fast my garage that I planted last fall swiss chard, parsnip, onion be ready to go. As long as you any bare-root trees or shrubs. If call the University of Wisconsin enough for this gardener! with daffodils, tulips, and hya- sets, beets, carrots, kohlrabi, can work the soil, you can plant you do, they should be mulched Madison Division of Extension If you’re like me and are still cinths that I will bring out this radishes, and peas. I don’t cur- rhubarb and asparagus though. (no mulch volcanoes) and wa- Sauk County office at 608-355- waiting for spring blooms to week. Two have sprouted so it rently have a soil temperature I planted a transplant from my tered regularly for a couple 3250. arrive, you can bring in a few is definitely time. Between the gauge so I did a little check- daughter last year and the deer years. If you have fruit trees branches from your spring- forced branches and those pot- ing, and you can use a regular ate it! Now I have to find an- and need to fertilize them, do so This week’s article is written flowering trees and shrubs to ted plants, I should have some meat thermometer as long as it other person to donate a rhubarb once the ground is thawed but by Jeannie Manis, Sauk County force them to bloom. Some spring blooms. can go about 4 inches deep and plant to me. before the trees blossom. Once Master Gardeners Association great ones are forsythia, witch While you’re waiting for test temps 40°F and lower. Just Take the opportunity to you’re all done with those tasks, (SCMGA) President. don’t forget to wash it before stretch those muscles and rake sit back and enjoy the Easter APPLIANCE YOU’VE GOT IT. the lawn. If you didn’t get your holiday. Happy Easter! REPAIR mane.org chow, bleach, and paper towels. Over 40 Years Not able to adopt? Donations Combined PETS OF THE WEEK needed: cat litter, dog and cat Experience! Mylo is an older boy at 8 ergetic girl, looking for some- years old, looking for a quiet one to give her direction. She’s home to call his own. He was loves to please and listens well. WEBER Somebody else wants it! found all alone wandering the While she’s currently in a foster ENTERPRISES Got something special you no longer use? streets in another county. He home working on her manners, (608)522-3405 Sell it in the Classifieds. SAUK • COLUMBIA • JUNEAU It may just be the perfect item likes to sit on your lap and she will need a family that’s WWW.WEBERENTERPRISES.NET to fill somebody else’s need. watch everything going on able to stay patient and continue around him. Because he is to work with her. She would do still learning who he can trust, best in an active home with no he would do best in a quieter small pets. She would be ok Carpet Cleaning home without small children. with another dog as long as it’s STRANG REALTY He would do ok with other cats the right match. She’s spayed Green, Clean & Dry and a calm dog with the proper and up to date on vaccinations. We use the HOST Dry SuSie A. StrAng introductions. He is already Pets can be adopted from the Extraction Carpet System reAl eStAte Broker neutered and up to date on vac- Sauk County Animal Shelter, •Deep Clean & Remove Soil & Spots “Let me help open the door • Lift & Fluff Matted Carpet Pile to a successful real cinations. 618 Highway 136, Baraboo. Call Us Today estate experience!” Lela is a 9 month old, Rott- Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 608-347-1395 608-345-2750 weiler mix that was surrendered noon-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday: For details visit: hostdry.com www.strangrealty.com after her owner didn’t have noon-7p.m. Saturday: 11-4 p.m. Locally Owned & Operated Since 1995 [email protected] time for her. She’s a very en- 608-356-2520 www.saukhu- THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 STAR NEWS PAGE 9 SAUK CITY & PRAIRIE DU SAC Knights of Columbus holding brat stand Sauk Prairie FFA has award-winning website Knights of Columbus Coun- events, our parishes and local at the link below. Place your The Sauk Prairie FFA Alumni most up to date and informative. feed, chicken dinner, pork chop cil 3099 (Roxbury/Sauk City) families in need. The Knights pre-order or your delivery order was recognized at the February The Sauk Prairie FFA Alumni dinner and finished with a fish is sponsoring a Spring Brat are amazing supporters of our or just stop by Piggly Wiggly WI FFA Alumni Convention as really utilized their website fry in the fall. Please visit their Stand at Piggly Wiggly Friday parish so please support the like normal. the State Winner of the Website and facebook pages during the website at https://saukprairieffa. and Saturday April 9th and 10th Knights! https://www.knightsofcolum- Competition. Their website pandemic year by advertising com/ffa-alumni/ and watch for from, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Please New This Year: It will be a bus3099foodorder.com/ was the overall state winner as the drive up food tents offered the 2021 activities. mark your calendar to stop over “Grab and Go” brat stand, all All Knights will wear masks they found Sauk Prairie’s to be in 2020. They included brat on Friday and Saturday to buy a brats will be wrapped, Knights and gloves. brat, hot dog, and soda to sup- will also do deliveries! Credit Contact Eric Breunig (608- port the Knights of Columbus. cards will be accepted at the 963-0338) with questions. All proceeds go to local youth stand or you can pay in advance Great Sauk State Trail t-shirts for sale Adorable Alert! Help sup- include a membership with the Repurposed vintage design port the Great Sauk State Trail Friends of the Great Sauk State assembled by County T. After by purchasing any of their 36 Trail with your purchase. Visit April 5th, a few variations of unique t-shirt combinations for www.greatsaukstatetrail.org/ the shirts will be available at your little biker! Pre-orders run shop to order today! Sizes run LAF Boutique in Sauk City. through Monday, April 5th and 2T-7. River Arts featuring virtual workshop with nationally recognized artist River Arts Inc is hosting a virtual workshop with nationally recognized artist and instruc- tor Helen Klebesadel titled “Envisioning the Art Career You Actually Want to Have”. It will take place via zoom from April 16 – May 13; an in-depth class calendar is available at www. riverartsinc.org. The deadline to register is April 9. This virtual month-long workshop will focus on the participant’s art and/or life passion, talents, and desires, to create a vision for the meaningful career/business that they actually want to have. Through a series of self-reflective exercises, students will develop an initial planning process to articulate your vision for the art career that is meaningful to you. We will also imagine the first steps toward realizing that vision. Discussions and exercises on the workshop website and through optional weekly zoom discussions will help participants define what success looks like for themselves and decide how to use their personal values and goals to inform their choices. For more information and the link to register, visit www.riverartsinc.org or email Kristina at [email protected]. Pictured, Helen Klebesadel.

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Sauk Prairie nity Library Board meets the Club meet the first Monday of life but to thrive. Gatherings eating compulsively and other Please mark your calendar to third Wednesday of the month at the month, Sauk Prairie Public will be held the first Sunday compulsive food behaviors. stop over on Friday and Satur- The Village Board of Prai- 6 :30 p.m. Library, 6:30 p.m. of each month at the 6:8 build- Zoom meetings will be held day to buy a brat, hot dog, and rie du Sac meets on the second The Sauk Prairie School Sauk Prairie Sewing and ing, 821 Industry Rd Sauk City, every Tuesday from 7-8 p.m. soda to support the Knights of and fourth Tuesday of the month Board meets the 2nd and fourth Quilting Friends meets the WI. The doors will open at 3:45 Go to the following link for the Columbus. All proceeds go to at 7 p.m. in the Village Hall. Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. second Thursday of the month p.m., dinner will be served at meeting: https://us02web.zoom. local youth events, our parishes The Village Board of Sauk The George Culver Com- at the Ruth Culver Library, 1:00 4:30 p.m., and a guest speaker us/j/89757555685 and local families in need. The City meets the second and munity Library Board meets p.m. will present on a topic relevant Knights are amazing supporters fourth Tuesday of the month at 7 the second Monday of the Sauk Prairie Community to men’s wellbeing at 5:30 p.m. Lodi Valley Chapter Ice Age of our parish so please support p.m. in the Village Hall. If there month at the George Culver Club, meets the first Tuesday There is no charge for the meal Trail Alliance Trail Improve- the Knights! are five Tuesdays in month, it Community Library, 615 Philips or Wednesday of each month, or the event thanks to gener- ment Event Saturday, April 10 New This Year: It will be a meets the fifth week. Blvd, Sauk City, at 7 p.m. see saukprairiecommunityclub. ous sponsorship by friends and from 9 a.m. - noon. Meet at the “Grab and Go” brat stand, all The Town Board of Troy weebly.com/meetingsevents. neighbors in the Sauk Prairie wayside/trailhead on Hwy 113 brats will be wrapped, Knights meets the second Tuesday of The Happy Hustlers 4-H html for time, day, and location. community. Free will offerings just south of Lodi city limits. will also do deliveries! Credit the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Club meet the first Sunday of Temporarily suspended- will be accepted. For directions visit: https://goo. cards will be accepted at the Troy Town Hall. the month, Plain Library, 2 p.m. -6:8’s Community Meal, open For more information, con- gl/maps/L9eWM59CLcm stand or you can pay in advance The Town Board of Honey The Active Strivers 4-H to the public. Free of charge. tact John Ramthun, Executive Plus Code: 8F3F+MQ Lodi, at the link below. Place your Creek meets the second Tues- club meet the first Tuesday of 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of Director, 6:8 at 608 561 8468, Wisconsin . pre-order or your delivery order day of every month at 7:30 the month, 6:30 p.m., Tower the month, 5-7 p.m. Located at or Bill Reay at 608-444-9590. For more info contact Bill at or just stop by Piggly Wiggly p.m. Rock School. 821 Industry Rd. Sauk City. We are Helping Men Grow To- 843-3926 or billpatti@charter. like normal. The Town Board of Sumpter The Sauk Prairie Earth- This coincides with the Food gether. net https://www.knightsofcolum- meets the second Monday of lings 4-H Club meet the second Pantry’s Distribution on the Reformers Unanimous Ad- bus3099foodorder.com/ the month at 7:30 p.m. Monday of the month at Grace- 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the dictions Recovery Program Knights of Columbus Coun- All Knights will wear masks The Village Board of Merri- Way Church, 1375 Lincoln month. Sample food prepared (RU) meets every Friday at cil 3099 (Roxbury/Sauk City) and gloves. mac meets the second Tuesday Ave., 5:30 p.m. with produce from 6:8’s Com- 7 p.m. at Calvary Baptist is sponsoring a Spring Brat Contact Eric Breunig (608- of the month at 5 p.m. The Sauk Prairie Lions munity Garden when it is in Church in Sauk City. RU is a Stand at Piggly Wiggly Friday 963-0338) with questions. The Town Board of Prairie Club meets every third Wednes- season. faith-based, Christ-centered pro- and Saturday April 9th and du Sac meets the second Tues- day of the month at The Prairie For more information, gram to help people overcome 10th from, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. day of the month at 7 p.m. House in Prairie du Sac. see: www.makingserviceper- addictions and stubborn habits. The Town Board of Rox- All are welcome to come, sonal.org Everyone is welcome to attend. bury meets the first and third meet some new people, have a Temporarily suspended- More information can be found Monday of the month at 7:30 good time and help your com- -6:8‘s Men‘s Community is a at rusaukprairie.com p.m. munity. Social time at 6:30 p.m., monthly meeting of men from Overeaters Anonymous is The Town Board of Mer- dinner and meeting at 7 p.m. our community who are look- structured in a twelve step rimac meets the first Wednes- The Local Alzheimer & De- ing to not simply survive this program to help people stop day of the month at 7 p.m. mentia support group meets the fourth Wednesday of the Solutions To All Your Pest Problems The Sauk Prairie Police month, 3-4:30 p.m., at Maple- General Insects - Spiders, Asian Beetles, Earwigs, Box Elder Bugs Commission meets the second wood. Call Theresa Grimes, Bats Removed Humanely, Rodent Control Wednesday of the month at 6 643-3383, if you have any ques- Residential & Commercial p.m. tions. The Ruth Culver Commu- Prairie Busy Badgers 4-H 608-438-7590 PAGE 10 STAR NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 BLACK EARTH & MAZOMANIE

with fun. Give us a call at 608- to songs by The Learning will earn a free book and book Don’t forget that with your 767-4905 to have your April Groove! Just visit our YouTube bag. (Note: If you have already Black Earth Library card you LIBRARY CORNER bag set aside for no-contact channel to find your favorite started this program on paper, have access to many online re- NEWS FROM THE BLACK EARTH PUBLIC LIBRARY pick-up. tunes, and get those wiggles out feel free to continue on paper or sources such as: www.blackearthlibrary.org whenever you want. transfer to Beanstack.) OverDrive/Libby for e- Library Service Update Build Your Own Storytime 1000 Books Before Kinder- Digital Magazines on Over- books, audiobooks, and digital The library has returned to Appointments will be avail- Kirsten will be reading a garten Club on Beanstack drive & Libby magazines no-contact walk-up pickup only able most of our regular hours new picture book every Mon- Go to blackearthlibrary. Wisconsin’s Digital Library Hoopla for music, videos, e- for reserved books. When no- (BUT HOURS MAY VARY): day. Visit our YouTube chan- beanstack.org to get signed now offers digital magazines books, comics and audiobooks tified that a reserved book has Monday - Thursday: 10 a.m. nel anytime for videos of your up for our 1000 Books Before on Overdrive and Libby! Over Kanopy for streaming videos come in, patrons will need to to 7 p.m. favorite songs, rhymes and Kindergarten Club. All children 3000 titles are available. Just Ancestry.com call the library at 608-767-4905 Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. stories to enjoy at home. Go to from birth until the start of Kin- look for “Magazine” under Consumer Reports to schedule a pick-up appoint- Saturday: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. blackearthlibrary.org and click dergarten are welcome to join. “Format” when doing an ad- NoveList Plus ment. Access to the library will on our YouTube link, or search The goal is to encourage you to vanced search on the apps, or Transparent Language be allowed by appointment Monthly Activity Grab for Black Earth Public Library read 1000 books with your child click on the “Collections” tab only for browsing, using library Bags for Kids on YouTube. Don’t forget to before the start of school. Not on their website (wplc.over- Please visit our website computers/Wi-Fi, printing, We now have Monthly Activ- subscribe! only does this provide a solid drive.com or visit blackearthli- blackearthlibrary.org for links photocopying/scanning. Visit ity Grab Bags for Kids! Packed reading foundation, and en- brary.org for the link). Happy to access our online resources. blackearthlibrary.org, and find with activity sheets and other Build Your Own Twist & courage school success, but it’s reading! You may also visit us on Face- us on Facebook and Instagram fun goodies, these grab bags Shout also a lot of fun! When you’ve book and Instagram for other for more updates. will hopefully fill your month Dance and sing with Kirsten finished the program, your child Online Resources updates. Village of Mazomanie offers zero percent interest loans for home repairs

The Village of Mazomanie has a Community windows & doors, roofing, electrical upgrades, Landlords: Installment loans are available Family Size Income Limit Development Block Grant for Housing connect water & sewer lines, painting, siding, for landlords who rent to tenants that are low- to 1 54,950.00 Rehabilitation. The funds will be loaned at 0% porch repairs, repair/replace heating systems, moderate- income. The loan is a 0% interest loan. 2 62,800.00 interest to eligible households for home repairs. water heaters & plumbing systems. Contact Sue Koehn for more details. 3 72,650.00 Applications are accepted on a first come Funds are available for the following types of For more information or to obtain an 4 78,500.00 first serve basis. There is no cost to fill out an projects: application, please contact Sue Koehn at the 5 84,800.00 application and all information submitted is Homeowners: These funds will be lent to Housing Program Office at 1-800-552-6330. 6 91,100.00 strictly confidential. eligible households for home repairs. The loan is Funds are limited, so apply now! 7 97,350.00 The loans can be used to make the following a 0% interest, deferred payment loan – you do not Income guidelines are as follows: 8 103,650.00 types of repairs: Handicap accessibility, replace pay it back until you sell the house. Dane County’s Farm to Foodbank program set for another year ­by MICHELLE PHILLIPS “This partnership recognizes the program, which has dis- Mount Horeb Farmer Scott Parisi said the Farm to Food- gram. Even if we don’t have this News Publishing Co. that as we navigate the final tributed three million pounds Williams, who owns Garden to bank program was quickly generous funding, I think the phases of this difficult year of food to date. The initial pro- Be and manages a coalition of implemented, “This is one of program will continue. We’re Residents in Dane County gone by, recovery won’t come gram began with $8 million and area farmers who provide food those examples of building the excited about that,” Orge said. that have relied on pantries for as quickly for some and there $4 million more added in De- for the program said farmers airplane in flight,” he stated. Since the pandemic began, food and farmers who have are basic needs to be met for cember 2020. are grateful for the partner- “Well after the pandemic, Second Harvest has sourced been providing fresh, local pro- many families in the months Michelle Orge, President and ship. He said when the program there will still be people who food from more than two dozen duce will benefit from an exten- ahead,” Parisi said. “Few things CEO of Second Harvest Food- began there were a lot of ques- need help with food, who will Dane County farmers and pro- sion of the Farm to Foodbank done in the course of the past bank of Southern Wisconsin tions about the growing season need help with rent,” Parisi con- ducers, as well as other provid- program, which started nearly year rival the success we have said, “This funding has been and farmers had already begun tinued. ers for products that could not a year ago in response to the seen by linking Second Harvest an important part of our overall planting for the coming season. Orge said that Second Har- be sourced within the county. pandemic. The program, which with our local farmers. These strategy to bring enough nutri- He noted that farmers lost busi- vest is hoping to continue a re- “The story that was written is managed through Second dollars will not only help keep tious food to those in our com- ness from restaurants, and the lationship with farmers after the is also about this community Harvest Foodbank of Southern people fed but also ensure mar- munity who don’t always know future of farmers’ markets up in pandemic, and before the Farm coming together. It really shows Wisconsin, will add $10 million kets remain as our local growers where their next meal will come the air at that time. to Foodbank program the orga- what people in Dane County are dollars and 12 months to the bounce back from this pan- from. The economic recovery “It helped relieve the uncer- nization wanted to work more made of and what we can do,” program, County Executive Joe demic as well.” time will be long for many, and tainty we were all feeling,” he with local farms but had diffi- Parisi concluded. Parisi said at a press conference The county will use federal this extension of funding is crit- said. “Farming is challenging, culty sourcing food. Monday. pandemic aid that was recently ical as we continue to help Dane and the pandemic increased “I believe out opportunities approved by Congress to fund County residents and farmers.” those challenges.” have increased beyond this pro-

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Breunig ConstruCtion The Easter Bunny is hopping into town again ALL FLATWORK is located at 1337 Mills St., We will be following the In cooperation with: • Basements • Garages Easter Egg hunt in Black Black Earth 53515. normal parade routes for each Mazomanie & Black Earth • Floating Slabs • Sidewalks Earth village this year. Chambers of Commerce Easter Bunny Parade in 12 p.m: Mazomanie: Wisconsin Heights • Driveways & Removal • Patios Black Earth will feature an Mazomanie and Black Earth Brodhead St. - West Hudson Energizers 4H Club • Residential & Commercial Easter Egg hunt on Saturday, St. Mazomanie & Black Earth • Concrete Removal April 3, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Bunny is back! 1 p.m.: Black Earth: Fire Departments Colored & Stamped Concrete at the Lion’s Den Fitness and The Easter Bunny will be Center St. - Mills St. Mazomanie & Black Earth Martial Arts Center. There parading around Mazo and Please allow for social Police Departments. randy C. Breunig will be games, a hunt--and Black Earth on the fire trucks distancing between families 608-963-3347 lots of fun! The Lion’s Den again this year. along the route. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 STAR NEWS PAGE 11 BLACK EARTH & MAZOMANIE

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Mazomanie The Mazomanie Free Library Board meets me both”. on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 7 All proceeds go directly to Holy Cross Build- The Town Board of Vermont meets monthly, The Village of Mazomanie Board meets on p.m. at the library. The Friends of the Mazo- ing fund. typically on the second Monday of each month the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, manie Free Library meet the third Tuesday of at the Vermont Town Hall beginning at 7:00 except in December. The board meets on the first each month at 7 p.m., also at the library. Mazomanie Midland UMC blood drive on p.m. Tuesday of December. All other committees meet April 10th, at 10235 County Road KP, from 8 on demand. The Mazomanie Music Conservancy a.m. to noon. For an appointment call 1-800-RED Heights Unlimited Community Resource (MMC) holds ‘Another Friday Night in Down- CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood. Center, 1529 State St. (Hwy 14), Suite B, Black The Town Board of Mazomanie meets on the town Mazomanie’ free concerts throughout the org Earth, offers food, clothing and more to resi- second Monday of every month at 6:30 p.m. in year at 6 p.m. at the Mazomanie Community Use sponsor code Mazomanie dents in the following ZIP codes: 53503, 53515, the Town Hall, 711 West Hudson Street. Building. You can save up to 15 minutes when you do- 53517, 53528, 53560. Distribution is 4-6:30pm The Wisconsin Heights School Board meets The Wildlife Forever ATV Club holds meet- nate blood by using RapidPass! Visit redcross- every Tuesday. Contact us at 608-767-3663 or the second and fourth Mondays of each month ings the second Monday of every month un- blood.org/RapidPass for more information. email [email protected]. Interested in at 6:30 in the Step Room at the Middle School/ less indicated otherwise. The club is accepting All donations tested for COVID-19 antibodies. volunteering? Email [email protected] or High School. membership applications. Donations are always Results in 1-2 wks. [email protected]. welcome. All proceeds go to signage for roads RedCrossBlood.org/AntibodyTesting Food Pantry: The “Christians in Action and trails. Contact Diane Halverson regarding The Black Earth Historical Society meets Food Pantry” will be open Saturdays, from questions at [email protected]. Black Earth on the first Wednesday of each month at 6:30 10-11:30 a.m. in the Mazomanie Community p.m. at the Black Earth History Center, 1022 Building at 9 Brodhead. At this time, it will not The St. Barnabas/St. John the Baptist (Holy The Village Board of Black Earth meets Blue Mounds Street. The public is welcome. be open on Tuesdays. Cross Parish) estate sale starts March 25, at the first week on the month at 6:30 p.m. in In order to limit contact, food will be delivered 410 Cramer St, Mazomanie. the municipal building. Call the village office Black Earth Public Library Hours in prepacked bags and boxes via curbside pick- Thursday, March 25, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. at (608)767-4901 for specific meeting days and Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. up on Brodhead Street. When you arrive, please Friday, March 26, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. dates. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. pull your car parallel to the curb. The line will Saturday, March 27, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. begin on Brodhead and turn the corner and go There is like-new furniture, as well as decora- The Town Board of Black Earth usually down Crescent Street. You will be required to tive items, linens, kitchenware, gardening items, meets at 6:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each Mickelsons-Martin American Legion Post wear mask. tools, wicker, lamps, stereo equipment, books, month in the lower level of 1116 Mills Street, 313 meets the second Monday of each month records, fishing and camping equipment. Many Black Earth. Information about scheduled meet- at 6:00 p.m. at the Legion Hall located at 1116 Mazomanie Free Library Hours beautiful collectibles and antique furniture, as ings is available on the town website calendar. Mills Street Black Earth. Entry is through the Monday through Thursday: well as canning jars The Town Board of Berry meets the third rear door. Call Dennis J. Wood at 608-767-3665 10 a.m. to noon, 2-7 p.m. This is a fun sale full of treasures. Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m. at the Town with any questions. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Holy Cross Parish volunteers as well as cus- Hall, 9046 State Road 19, Mazomanie. Informa- Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomers are encouraged to practice social distanc- tion about scheduled meetings is available on the ing and wearing mask. “A mask protects you and town website.

Friday, March 26, Sausage Wednesday, April 7, Mush- Salad Sandwich Salad NORTHWEST DANE Veggie Egg Bake room Swiss Burger Tuesday, April 20, Saucy Friday, April 30, Fish Sand- Monday, March 29, Pot Thursday, April 8, Chicken BBQ Ribs wich SENIOR SERVICES Roast with Gravy Strips Tuesday, March 30, Rustic Friday, April 9, Tuna Cas- Wednesday, April 21, Honey To comply with current Wis- www.nwdss.org Tomato Bean Soup serole Baked Chicken consin Emergency Orders, there Monday, April 12, Roasted Thursday, April 22, Meat will continue to be no congre- Northwest Dane Senior Ser- website: www.nwdss.org Wednesday, March 31, Ham Turkey in Gravy Sauce and Spaghetti Noodles gate meals served at the center vices Mobile Meals Only & Potato Casserole Tuesday, April 13, Taco Pasta Friday, April 23, Italian Sau- and limited activities. 1837 Bourbon Road Delivery Monday through Thursday, April 1, Chicken Casserole sage on White Bun Cross Plains, WI 53528 Friday and Gravy Monday, April 26, Sweet and 608-798-6937 Friday, April 2, Lemon Dill Wednesday, April 14, Greek Sour Chicken Serving begins at 11:30 March 2021 Baked Fish Chicken Pasta Tuesday, April 27 Sausage Please call 798-6937 by 1:00 Monday, April 5, BBQ Thursday, April 15, Meat- Veggie Egg Bake pm the day before, to reserve Wednesday, March 24, Chicken Breast balls in Gravy your lunch. Chicken a la King Tuesday, April 6, Enchilada Friday, April 16, Sloppy Joe Wednesday, April 28, BBQ For a full listing of the daily Thursday, March 25, Hearty Casserole on WW Bun Pulled Pork on WW Bun menu see the newsletter on our Chicken Noodle Soup Monday, April 19, Tuna Thursday, April 29, Egg HEIGHTS FROM PAGE 1 CHURCH NOTES

GraceWay Church District’s projection several Perceptions emphasized that that, as the survey indicated, 65 13th Street, Prairie du Sac, years ago of $203 per hundred this remains the same as when support for voters who were 608-643-6064 Web: thousand dollars of equalized the survey was taken, and prior not affiliated with the school- gracewaysaukprairie.org value. to the fall referendum. The tax -no students, no employees--is 9:00 a.m. Sun. Worship Service threshold shows how much of a critical. Curtiss Street Bible Fellowship Polling data tax increase taxpayers are will- Non-denominational Church ing to pay for. 10416 Curtiss Street, Now you can fi nd us on Mazomanie School Perceptions, the com- School perceptions also noted Facebook and Instagram! Office phone# 608-795-2400 pany that performed the Dis- Sunday worship service trict’s fall survey, provided data 9:30am or view online at to show public feeling on a new Your CSBF.org auditorium. The takeaway was Midland United that those who supported a new SEARCH www.facebook.com/ Wisc_Star_News Methodist Church auditorium now came out to 10235 Hwy KP, Mazomanie WiscStarNews WI 53560; (608-767-3358) less than 50 percent of survey is over! www.MidlandMethodist.org takers. A 50 percent threshold Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. in needed to at least indicate a Really, my dear, when it comes to finding a job, Black Earth Gospel Hall majority of votes will approve 1316 Center Street, Black Earth the referendum. School Percep- there is no substitute SUNDAY: 9:30 Lord’s Supper tions noted that if those favor- for the classifieds. It’s 11:00 Sun. School, Ministry mtg ing a two to five year project 11:45 Gospel • WED:7:30 pm, elementary! Try it today! Prayer/Bible study date were added to those want- ing one now, the percentage of Quality Building Since 1987 Vermont Lutheran Church- those in support rose to about ELCA Custom Design, New Homes and Remodeling, 9886 Vermont Church Road 60 percent. Black Earth, WI 53515 Another point of empha- langenfeld-photo.com Custom Log Homes, Additions, Decks www.vermontlutheran.org sis was the “tax threshold” of Dan Kippley • 608-643-4639 608-767-3312 (office) community members. School 608.233.9938 Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. www.kippleycustomcarpentry.com Sunday School 9:30 a.m. PAGE 12 STAR NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 EARTH FROM PAGE 1 board members, an item is role of local government? businesses of Black Earth. I issues and decisions with de- you do--specifically--to foster It is our duty to make sure our placed on the agenda. Will The roll of local government would work with economic de- scriptive agendas, timely posted communication with the Vil- offices and departments are op- this be the policy you will en- is to act as a team and an exten- velopment and the board openly minutes/audio, surveys, referen- lage Board and other entities, erating with this mindset and courage (even if not running sion of the people that live in to try to get this done. As I have dums, and by using media out- including the public? that we are working toward de- for President)? If not, what our community. The trustees stated previously, it takes a team lets and the new village website. As president, I will continue cisions that are responsible for will your policy be? Explain and village president should to get things done and I am en- I have been ridiculed, chastised, to assist and support a safe our community and our budget. why. work together for the common couraged and excited about the and threatened for my insis- space to convey and receive How do you feel about the As incoming President, I will good of the village and not have opportunities that lie ahead. tence on transparency, and this timely and comprehensive in- Wisconsin Heights School Dis- review current policies (stop, hidden agendas. This is very im- What is your stance on the intimidation has not stopped me formation through community trict’s plan for a single cam- start & continue) with new and portant, as the president is one Village’s current debt load, from keeping the people, other surveys, referendums, staff, pus? current trustees to seek areas of vote and needs to build a posi- and under what circum- boards, committees, and depart- agendas, media outlets, and our The plan of a combined improvement as well as build tive relationship with the trust- stances and for what projects ments informed without delay new website. Trustees, admin- campus is predicted to save the upon the strong foundation we ees to effectively work towards should the Village take on and without bias. istration, and departments must district over $200,000 per year. currently have. goals and in the best interest of more debt? What will you do to encour- communicate informative and In addition, an adapted campus Communication with the the village. Through open com- The existing debt load is age civil discourse and accept- transparent presentations dur- with competitive, modern facili- Village Board has been raised munication with the new and managed, but would like to see able behavior at meetings? ing meetings. Incomplete or ties and services will go a long as an issue over the past six current village trustees, I be- it lower. I support projects that One of the premier duties as evolving presentations will be way to encouraging families to months. The Library Board lieve we will accomplish great invest in infrastructure and proj- village president is to maintain postponed. Departments will choose our community to live felt it necessary to create a things. ects to improve the community. order. I take this very seriously be informed of relevant agenda in and educate their children in. separate communications How do you feel about the It is important to explore the because I have been unfairly topics ahead of time. I will not Open enrollment and voucher subcommittee due to this. Sev- Wisconsin Heights School Dis- multiple opportunities such as denied such protections. Meet- run our village as an autocracy, systems can allow district fami- eral Library Board members trict’s plan for a single cam- grants and other funding oppor- ings must be a safe space for but as a board of trustees by in- lies to be broad in their choice have felt it necessary to speak pus? tunities that can help with our officials and the public to fos- sisting that the entire board is of school. I am in favor of the during public comment in I believe it is important to infrastructure such as electrical, ter communication for action. informed equally and legally of combined campus as a way for order to effectively communi- bring the student together at a water and sewer. Debt is not Anyone who cannot contain issues affecting the village. We our school district to make wise cate with the board. What will young age as it makes us stron- the only way to fund project. I themselves to appropriate be- will answer to the people. financial investment in our pub- you do--specifically--to foster ger as a joint community. The would also look at funding from havior and mannerisms that en- How important is the Black lic education services, and that communication with the Vil- taxpayers and citizens of this managed growth to help im- courage rather than demean will Earth Public Library to the that investment will build our lage Board and other entities, great community have decided prove the village, school district be cautioned and then asked to Village? Explain. communities and exceed the including the public? this was the best direction mov- and community. remove themselves from the proposed enrollment growth Communication is key at ing forward. It is my respon- Please add anything else meeting. We do not have to Libraries are described as rate of 7-10% per year. any level and will be strongly sibility to now look for ways you’d like to say here: agree. It doesn’t matter who the cornerstone of democracy What do you think should encouraged. There was a com- to support this venture and This community is very im- your buddies are. We must be because libraries promote and be done with Black Earth El- munication breakdown between maintain the great educational portant to me and as village accountable for our behaviors defend literacy, equity, involve- ementary? a board member and the library experience for the youth in our president I would be a member that affect others and conserve ment, inclusivity, community, The school district owns the board in the past six months that communities. The future is in of a team not a lone individual our energy for things that pro- transparency, and freedom of campus and the decision of how has increased tension between our youth and I look forward to and would work for the best mote our village. speech for all people. All are to proceed is theirs to make. the library and the village. I the opportunities that lie ahead interest of all citizens. It is an There have been issues welcome to this safe space and That being said, I would like hope to restore and strengthen for this district. honor to run for this position raised over the past 6 months many in our community and sur- to see the site appear on the tax our lines of communication What do you think should and I look forward to serving about difficulties in get- rounding communities feel this roll with a multi-use develop- that we have had previously be done with Black Earth El- Black Earth. ting an item placed on the support through the thought- ment plan that incorporates a and build upon the many posi- ementary? agenda. The current village ful programming and outreach business incubator for small tive experiences that we have This is a complex question. Name: Mary A. Scott president’s policy is if there developed by an amazing staff and fledgling businesses with had in the past. I will look into If it would take $10 million Occupation: In-home Child is “general agreement” from of professionals. The library is a community rec facility and our lines of communication and dollars to potentially fix up a Care; Collateral Antiques and board members, an item is statutorily protected to remain community area with services take the necessary steps to en- school and was not worth fixing Kitsch Resale- Independent placed on the agenda. Will separate from the influence of that benefit our diverse -com sure effective communication for the district, then it would be Purveyor; Business Consul- this be the policy you will en- government officials, so it can munity. methods are in place moving hard for Black Earth village to tant- Independent Contractor; courage (even if not running remain a safe space of neutral- How will you encourage de- forward. take on another $10 million to The Town of Cross Plains Plan for President)? If not, what ity for its patrons. I honor this velopment in the Village? How important is the Black make it into community cen- Commission- Secretary; St. will your policy be? Explain unique quality as checks and I am a proponent of a busi- Earth Public Library to the ter or office. We need to work Francis Xavier Parish- Hospi- why. balances for good governance, ness plan like ecotourism Village? Explain. with the economic develop- tality The president’s duty is to ap- as well. because of the financial as- The Library is very important ment committee, chamber of Years of residency in the prove agendas for publication, Will you pledge to keep sistance that is available from and should be place that every- commerce and the Wisconsin Village of Black Earth: 8 not interfere with transparency Library funding at the same government funding and small one can come together. There Heights School District to ex- years. by arbitrarily muting issues that level? Will you pledge to financial commitment from the are many opportunities that our plore all options including talk Previous offices held, with affect our village. A “general increase funding to the Li- village. Matching County funds library has to offer and the li- to developers to make a deci- years of tenure: 1 year of the agreement” is okay because brary? Why or why not? for investments from the village brary is a vital part in maintain- sion that fit taxpayer’s needs following: Elected Village of it conveys the importance of The budgetary needs of the up to $1 million dollars would ing and continuing growth. It and is in the best interest of the Black Earth Board Trustee; the full board, but some topics library are determined by the stretch any village investment should be a rally point for the village. Black Earth Library Board unfold between meetings and library director. This is an area farther and provide a catalyst community and a safe place for How will you encourage de- Trustee and subcommittees some people are consistently for which a library director is for small business development all. velopment in the Village? .member; Gateway to the Drift- under-represented for a voice. professionally qualified. If the geared toward tourists, but also Will you pledge to keep The recent growth in both less Board of Directors- Village As president, I will find a way library should need additional enjoyable to locals. A regional Library funding at the same of our current subdivisions has of Black Earth Representative; to include issues presented that budgetary consideration, I trust marketing plan would combine level? Will you pledge to been great to watch. Black Village of Black Earth Eco- matter to our village, not find it would be warranted, frugally branding efforts and invest- increase funding to the Li- Earth has a ton to offer and we nomic Development Committee a reason not to. I have experi- devised, and fully transparent, ments between partners and brary? Why or why not? need to look for ways to en- Member; Fire District Commit- enced threats and intimidation as always. Our library is a vital stakeholders for an environ- The library has a board to courage people to come and lay tee- Village of Black Earth Rep- requesting agenda items. That service for the people of our mentally low impact concept answer that question. As a vil- down their roots here. We need resentative; Village of Black is legally and ethically uncon- community and the surrounding that preserves our rural integ- lage we need to fund places in to look at adding an additional Earth Emergency Management scionable. The people, not just communities. rity and will help to encourage our community where we can development with single family, Committee Member the popular, must be able to What do you think is the people to live, work, play and come together and make us multi-family & senior housing. How important to you is weigh in on agendas. role of local government? spend their money here. stronger. If the library board ap- I also believe that we need to transparency in government? Communication with the The role of our local gov- What is your stance on the proached myself and the village look into and pursue a potential What will you do to encour- Village Board has been raised ernment by definition is to be Village’s current debt load, board with a thorough and de- small business park. I would age it? as an issue over the past six responsible for the day-to- day and under what circum- tailed plan and a need funding, also use the recently completed Transparency in govern- months. The Library Board function and delivery of ser- stances and for what projects I would support it and encour- economic development survey ment is paramount to democ- felt it necessary to create a vices and infrastructure like should the Village take on age a review with the rest of the to looks for ways to revitalize racy. “Eyes” on our activities separate communications sewer, roads, power, parks, the more debt? trustees. Myself and the village the downtown and encourage motivate village officials to act subcommittee due to this. Sev- library, housing, police, and the Our community has 717 tax trustees would also look at the small business growth. We had honorably and encourage us to eral Library Board members like. As representatives of our roll payees. That is not a lot impact it would have on the a great response with the survey, behave according to legal and have felt it necessary to speak village, we have a responsibil- of people who are expected to taxpayers, as the village funds and I look forward to encour- ethical expectations with this during public comment in ity to be congenial, informative, cover financial needs for infra- a majority of the library budget. aging and maintain economic input from the people. I insist order to effectively communi- encouraging of community ac- What do you think is the growth for current and future we fully inform the public of cate with the board. What will tivism, and welcoming of input. SEE EARTH, PAGE 13 4 Yard Minimum FREE DELIVERY to Sauk Prairie Area $32 Natural(Double Shredded) per yard Thank You Red Thank you to many dear friends who OIL CHANGE DUE? remembered me with cards, flowers and We Service $34 phone calls on my 90th birthday. 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I also believe years of tenure: Village of Village Board has been raised for the new substation. Both of about difficulties in get- is critical that a library serve all there would be a possibility for Black Earth Trustee – 6 months as an issue over the past six these investments in our infra- ting an item placed on the in the community. The library the Village Administrators to How important to you is months. The Library Board structure will have long range agenda. The current village serves as one of the most impor- move into a portion of the build- transparency in government? felt it necessary to create a benefits for expanding our com- president’s policy is if there tant public institutions for open ing, allowing for future expan- What will you do to encour- separate communications munity. In the now, I don’t think is “general agreement” from community involvement. sion of the library in its current age it? subcommittee due to this. Sev- that the village should take on board members, an item is Will you pledge to keep space, pending funding. Alter- Transparency in all acts of eral Library Board members any more significant debt, but placed on the agenda. Will Library funding at the same natively, another dream would life is important to me. If we have felt it necessary to speak any significant investment in this be the policy you will en- level? Will you pledge to be to attract an operation like are not transparent about our during public comment in question should be voted on by courage (even if not running increase funding to the Li- the Red Cross into the space, actions and motives than how order to effectively communi- the people before decisions are for President)? If not, what brary? Why or why not? bringing jobs to the Village. can we expect to build trust and cate with the board. What will made by the board. will your policy be? Explain Being the spouse of a librar- How will you encourage de- unity throughout our commu- you do--specifically--to foster Please add anything else why. ian, I believe the librarian posi- velopment in the Village? nity? I have assisted the village communication with the Vil- you’d like to say here: I do not see any issue in tion in general is undervalued In order to continue devel- staff with technical solutions lage Board and other entities, Our village cannot afford an- Chapter 90-13 of the village or- by our society. Looking at the opment in the village, I would while uploading board meeting including the public? other expense like the $850,000 dinances that causes concern for salary posted on our current continue to encourage my minutes. I have also encouraged I will continue to encourage that will be levied on our prop- bringing forth matters to be in- Library Director position dis- neighbors to support your local and supported the creation of a open and collaborative discus- erty taxes for the Community cluded on a village board meet- plays that. The educational businesses as much as possible. YouTube channel to allow resi- sions between the boards. I Park project. In order for the ing agenda. For ease of looking requirements for professional The best way to attract new dents to attend and review the would encourage the public to village to recoup the ballfield this ordinance up, one can go to positions cause the applicant business is to show prospective board meetings. Governmental attend meetings in-person or that sits almost entirely on our new village website, Select lost personal revenue as well as new business owners that exist- transparency is the responsibil- virtually and/or watch the meet- school district property, the “Government” > “Ordinances” tuition costs, and the theory is ing businesses can be successful ity of all citizens. I will continue ings on YouTube. I would also village will have to consider > “Village of Black Earth Or- that higher salaries will justify here. to encourage all of our residents discourage closed sessions and another investment in infra- dinances”, and search “meeting that investment. If the budget What is your stance on the to attend the village meetings, any “bar room talk” that may structure that will add to the agenda” in the search bar. If the allows, funding for the library Village’s current debt load, and to participate in our local inflame the situation outside of bottom line of the Community president omits an agenda item should be increased in order to and under what circum- government. designated meetings. Park expense. To see the evolu- request, the board can still force ensure we can both retain quali- stances and for what projects What will you do to encour- How important is the Black tion of the financial investment the discussion by calling a spe- fied staff and that such future should the Village take on age civil discourse and accept- Earth Public Library to the without a referendum, please cial meeting, if the board deter- staff can implement the neces- more debt? able behavior at meetings? Village? Explain. see the Village Board and Parks mines it to be of importance to sary programs to provide supe- Unfortunately, I received If I have learned anything in I believe all libraries are and Rec Committee minutes be- the public. rior service the public. this questionnaire on Saturday life it is that I cannot tell anyone important to the communities ginning March of 2019. Communication with the What do you think is the morning, with a deadline on how to act or behave. However, they serve as forces for unity Village Board has been raised role of local government? Monday at noon. Due to work, I can lead by example by being and equality. The Black Earth Village trustee as an issue over the past six The role of local government I am unable to speak informed an active listener and engaging Library is no different. It is a Three vacancies, two year months. The Library Board is to prepare and enforce ordi- as to the current debt load of with the community with hu- cultural center where multiple terms felt it necessary to create a nances that ensure harmony in the Village. However, when mility and professionalism. As generations can come together separate communications the community, serving all in considering debt, it is important a Trustee our responsibility is to to share a common interest. Name: Tyler Munson subcommittee due to this. Sev- the community, not just a small to consider many financial vari- the village as a whole. Our work The library builds relationships Occupation: Environmental eral Library Board members group or individual. If the ma- ables, such as interest, payment is not about me, or my ego. It through community activities, & Well Specialist have felt it necessary to speak jority of the public determines terms, risk and expected reve- is about creating an atmosphere and provides a refuge of quiet Years of residency in the during public comment in they want (or do not want) a nues. In general, it makes sense of camaraderie that will allow for members of the community. Village of Black Earth: 5 order to effectively communi- specific ordinance, that wish to take on debt to fix a required for everyone to work towards Our library is often the first edu- Previous offices held, with cate with the board. What will should be heard, and the board issue, when the alternative to creating the best future for our cational resource for the young years of tenure: Secretary - you do--specifically--to foster should legally do what it can to not taking on the debt would be village that we can. children who grow up in this Wisc. Heights Youth Baseball communication with the Vil- make that happen. Realizing more costly in the long run. There have been issues community. It is a safe place (2 years), President – Wisc. lage Board and other entities, however, that most (not all) Please add anything else raised over the past 6 months for teens to gather, and a place Heights Youth Baseball (0.25 including the public? ordinances already in place, in you’d like to say here: about difficulties in get- where anyone can have access years – current), President – Standing reports given by general, serve the best interest Having worked in the envi- ting an item placed on the to technology that they might Wisc. Heights Youth Tennis (1 committees and partner groups of the community. ronmental industry, I have been agenda. The current village not have at home. year). should properly summarize the How do you feel about the a part of many developments president’s policy is if there Will you pledge to keep How important to you is needed communication between Wisconsin Heights School in Madison and Dane County. is “general agreement” from Library funding at the same transparency in government? their entity and the Village District’s plan for a single I see lots of opportunity to re- board members, an item is level? Will you pledge to What will you do to en- Board, and vice versa. Repre- campus? vitalize several properties in placed on the agenda. Will increase funding to the Li- courage it? Transparency is sentatives who are appointed to I personally would have liked Black Earth, but I only see that this be the policy you will en- brary? Why or why not? fundamental to democracy in serve as such liaison between to have been able to keep the happening if everyone in the courage (even if not running No comment. America. I encourage the public entities have a sole purpose to elementary schools in the ex- community puts aside their dif- for President)? If not, what What do you think is the to attend meetings, and if they ensure they communicate the isting configuration. However, ferences and supports everyone. will your policy be? Explain role of local government? need help finding out when the decisions and positions of their after reviewing all the data The Village has done an excel- why. The role of local government next meeting is, I would encour- entities, in a clear and concise presented, it was obvious that lent job coming out of some In the past 6 months, I have is to help provide a better future age people to ask. manner, ensuring that they do moving to a single campus was dark economic predicaments, not seen an item of discussion so residents want to stay long What will you do to encour- not allow personal opinion to the best overall solution for the and we have really started to that was brought forward dur- term and invest in the commu- age civil discourse and accept- obscure such communication. communities. turn the corner, as evidenced by ing a village meeting refused nity. Local government should able behavior at meetings? As a possible representative What do you think should gaining a Kwik Trip, Macker to be put on a future agenda. do everything it can to be frugal I will obey the rules set forth of the Village Board, even if be done with Black Earth El- Backer and Dry Fly Sales, while However, there has been some and innovative to avoid rais- that require such civil discourse, I personally disagree with the ementary? seemingly maintaining healthy question around clarity. I would ing taxes while also maintain- and avoid discussing personal board’s or committee’s stance, Black Earth Elementary still business at Black Earth Lanes, encourage the incoming Vil- ing the infrastructure necessary individual feelings, rather than I would not allow my disagree- belongs to the school district, The Shoe Box, and The Shack. lage President to be candid and for a healthy population. Local actionable ideas based on facts ment to obscure the team’s deci- so anything the village board forthright about any agenda SEE EARTH, PAGE 14 and data. I will consider the sion or position. considers for it would be highly Name: Jared Brammerson viewpoint of any board member How important is the Black speculative. But if wishes are Occupation: IT Systems De- WEEKLY so long as their facts show that Earth Public Library to the granted, I would love to see veloper

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Heights KO’s mighty Oakfield

Barsness, Our points oftentimes come in bunches, and after we made our Adler enjoy run, I knew the game was not huge nights over by a long shot. Our de- fense was fun to watch and you ­by ROB REISCHEL could see their growth as the Sports Editor game progressed. “I’d like to give each of the starting defensive lineman a They had waited nearly 17 game ball if I could. They had months for this moment. to play the entire game both When it finally arrived, Wis- ways. We could spell a player consin Heights’ football team here or there, but the starters was filled with passion, fury had to be out there during each and hunger. series. Matt Russell also played And mighty Oakfield paid especially well as an inside the price. linebacker. He seemed like he In its alternate-fall season was everywhere.” opener on March 26, the Van- It was a remarkable win for guards stunned the Oaks, 28- Steiner and his Vanguards, who 22. had waited nearly a year-and-a- “This was one of the most half to play. special games in my career,” “It was surreal to be honest,” Heights coach Trevor Steiner Steiner said. “Like you were said. “We have been running living in a dream almost.” up a steep hill since the very beginning, and to beat a good WISCONSIN HEIGHTS 28, football team like that took a lot OAKFIELD 22 of courage by the players. I am Oakfield ….…….. 6 8 0 8 — 22 very proud of them.” Heights …...... 14 14 0 0 — 28 With good reason. Wisconsin Heights’ Garrett Kerl (top) takes off on a run, while Jaeger Schoenemann (above) makes a tackle during the Van- Oak: Bass 10 run (kick failed), Heights quarterback Derek guards’ win over Oakfield last Friday. 4:06 Adler had a sensational night, PHOTOS COURTESY OF AARON JACOBUS WH: Barsness 65 pass from completing 19-of-33 passes for Adler (Dimpfl kick), 3:12 370 yards and two touchdowns. WH: Kerl 36 run (Dimpfl kick), “Playing quarterback in our athleticism, speed, and tough- with 4:06 left in the first quar- Late in the first quarter, Gar- in the right slot and ran an out 0:23 Oak: Sabel 3 run (Fox run), 8:46 offense requires a lot of mental ness so far. ter on a 10-yard touchdown run rett Kerl ripped off a 36-yard route. Barsness made a terrific WH: Kerl 2 run (Dimpfl kick), calculations, and toughness,” “He is just an incredible per- from Grant Bass. It took the touchdown run to give the Van- catch and escaped an initial 7:32. Steiner said. “I think Derek son and I can’t tell you what Vikings less than one minute to guards a 14-6 lead. wave of Oakfield defenders. WH: Barsness 86 pass from stepped up and really took it means to have him aboard. answer, though. On the play, Kerl lined up By the time Barsness reached Adler (Dimpfly kick), 5:39 charge. I think all of the players The best part about DeShawn Heights had the ball at the to the left of Adler and took the 35, it was a footrace be- Oak: Bass 5 run (Bass run), 8:11. and coaches felt confidence in though is that he plays for his Oakfield 35, and Barsness lined an option pitch. The play was tween him and two Oakfield him and believed he was going teammates.” up in the right slot and ran a blocked beautifully and Kerl defenders. It wasn’t close, as TEAM STATISTICS to find a way to make plays And after building a 28-14 quick out pattern. Barsness raced to the endzone virtually Barsness beat them both to First downs — Oak 13, WH every time.” halftime lead, the Vanguards’ caught Adler’s pass at the 40, untouched. the endzone for a memorable 13. Rushing (Att.-Yds.) — Oak Wideout DeShawn Barness, defense played large in the sec- then broke tackles at the 45 and Oakfield evened things up, touchdown catch and a 28-14 47-176, WH 20-91. Passing yards — Oak 126, WH 381. Passing competing in his first-ever high ond half when their offense was midfield. 14-14, early in the second quar- Heights lead. (Comp.-Att.-Int.) — Oak 13-33-1, school football game, caught stifled. Barsness cut to the middle ter. But the rest of the half be- It stayed that way until early WH 21-36-0. Penalties-yards — nine passes for 245 yards and Oakfield has been a force in of the field, and a third Oak- longed to the Vanguards. in the fourth quarter when Oak- Oak 3-25, WH 5-40. Fumbles-lost two long touchdowns. 8-man football for years now. field defender had a chance to First, Kerl had a 2-yard field narrowed the gap to 28- — Oak 2-1, WH 1-1. “Being the athlete that De- The Oaks have averaged 8.0 bring him down at the Oaks’ touchdown run with 7:32 left 22. Down the stretch, though, Shawn is, I have done my best wins per season since 2015 and 35. But Barsness busted loose, in the half to give Heights a Heights’ defense came up big INDIVIDUAL LEADERS to encourage him to be a part of began the year ranked No. 1 by then beat two more Oakfield 21-14 lead. Then on the Van- and the Vanguards notched one Rushing (Att.-Yds) — Oak: Bass our program since I was hired wissports.net. defenders to the endzone for a guards’ next possession, Adler of their biggest wins in years. 22-98; WH: Kerl 15-107. Passing a couple of years ago,” Steiner But the third-ranked Van- remarkable 65-yard touchdown and Barsness hooked up for an “The defense won the game (Att.-Comp.-Int.-Yds): — Oak: said. “Since practice started guards showed that they will be reception. 86-yard touchdown. for us,” Steiner said. “As the Bass 12-30-1 118; WH: Adler 19- 33-0-361. Receiving (Att.-Yds) three weeks ago, he has dis- a load this spring themselves. Trevor Dimpfl’s extra point On first down from the offensive play caller, I can’t — Oak: Bul 7-69; WH: Barsness played an incredible amount of Oakfield grabbed a 6-0 lead gave Heights a 7-6 lead. Heights 14, Barsness lined up tell you how special that is. 8-236. PAGE 16 STAR NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 Heights ranked No. 3 in preseason poll Editor’s Note: The follow- some time at quarterback as ing story first ran at wissports. well. net. The offense should cer- There will be no playoffs tainly be a strength, but the for the alternate spring foot- defense must play better after ball teams, which means there giving up some big numbers are no divisional placements. to the better teams on the But this is a preseason rank- schedule. ing of teams playing 8-man “While graduating two- football. thirds of the starting offen- sive line we will be looking 1. Oakfield for players to step up to fol- low up on a season that saw The Oaks went 7-4 in the Lathan Parman us make the second level of and Wisconsin 2019 season and received a playoffs,” head coach Corey Heights’ football number two seed in the play- Rickert said. team began the offs before bowing out in year ranked No. 3 Level 2. 2. Gibraltar in the Wissports. Oakfield could be a team net eight-man poll. primed for a bigger jump this The Vikings qualified for year, though. the playoffs in 2019 and even pulled off an upset, going A very talented skill group PHOTO COURTESY is back, including quarter- on the road to beat second- OF AARON back Grant Bass, who threw seeded Suring before falling JACOBUS for 1,837 yards and 23 touch- to Newman Catholic. downs. Also back is 1000- A strong offensive group yard rusher Javaun Mielke helped pave the way, and a plus Mason Tapp, who saw couple of the main playmak- ers are coming back. Leading the way is Alex Jollie Tree Laughlin, who led the team in rushing (914 yards, 14 TD) Service and receiving (1,131 yards, 12 TD) last season and is one Tree Removal of the top players in all of Tree Trimming 8-Player football, receiving attention from a number of Storm Damage Division 2 college programs. 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GIRLS VARSITY SOFTBALL May 27 4:15 p.m. at Reedsburg April 27 5 p.m. at Mount Horeb June 4 9 a.m. vs. Multiple Schools at Baraboo High School April 29 5 p.m. vs. Waunakee at Sauk Prairie High School All home games are played at Sauk Prairie High School Tennis Courts HS May 3 5 p.m. at Fall River May 4 5 p.m. at Beaver Dam May 7 5 p.m. at DeForest BOYS JV TENNIS May 10 5 p.m. at Wisconsin Dells May 7 4:15 p.m. vs. Waunakee at Sauk Prairie High School May 11 5 p.m. at Reedsburg May 11 4:15 p.m. vs. Beaver Dam at Sauk Prairie High School May 13 5 p.m. at River Valley May 13 4:15 p.m. at Portage High School May 14 5 p.m. at Baraboo May 15 11 a.m. at Waunakee High School May 17 5 p.m. vs. McFarland at Westwynde Park May 20 4:15 p.m. at DeForest High School May 18 5 p.m. vs. Mount Horeb at Sauk Prairie High School May 25 4:15 p.m. vs. Baraboo at Sauk Prairie High School May 20 5 p.m. at Waunakee May 27 4:15 p.m. at Reedsburg May 22 11 a.m. at Portage May 28 4:15 p.m. vs. Middleton at Sauk Prairie High School May 24 5 p.m. at Wisconsin Heights May 25 5 p.m. vs. Beaver Dam at Sauk Prairie High School May 27 5 p.m. vs. DeForest at Sauk Prairie High School May 28 5 p.m. at Lodi VARSITY TRACK & FIELD June 1 5 p.m. vs. Reedsburg at Sauk Prairie High School April 30 4 p.m. at Baraboo High School (Hockey Rink) June 3 5 p.m. at Baraboo (Pierce Park Field) May 4 4 p.m. Multiple Schools at Portage High School All home games are played at Sauk Prairie High School May 7 4 p.m. at Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School May 21 4:30 p.m. vs. Multiple Schools at Sauk Prairie High School May 25 4 p.m. vs. Portage at Sauk Prairie High School GIRLS JV SOFTBALL June 1 4 p.m. Multiple Schools at Baraboo High School April 27 5 p.m. at Mount Horeb June 8 3:30 p.m. Multiple Schools at DeForest High School April 29 5 p.m. vs. Waunakee at Westwynde Park All home games are played at Sauk Prairie High School track May 4 5 p.m. at Beaver Dam May 7 5 p.m. at DeForest May 10 5 p.m. at Wisconsin Dells May 11 5 p.m. at Reedsburg JV TRACK & FIELD May 13 5 p.m. at River Valley April 22 4:15 p.m. vs. Multiple Schools at Waunakee May 14 5 p.m. at Baraboo May 4 4 p.m. Multiple Schools at Portage High School May 18 5 p.m. vs. Mount Horeb at Westwynde Park May 10 4 p.m. vs. Multiple Schools at Baraboo May 20 5 p.m. at Waunakee May 18 4 p.m. vs. Multiple Schools at Reedsburg May 22 11 a.m. at Portage May 25 4 p.m. vs. Portage at Sauk Prairie High School June 1 4 p.m. Multiple
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May 22 7 p.m. at DeForest High School BOYS JV LACROSSE May 27 7 p.m. at Madison Memorial (Mansfield Stadium) April 19 5 p.m. vs. Watertown June 1 7 p.m. vs. Portage/Poynette at April 22 5 p.m. at Verona Sauk Prairie High School May 1 5 p.m. vs. Middleton June 3 7 p.m. at Waunakee High School May 4 5 p.m. vs. Janesville Craig June 5 1 p.m. vs. Platteville at Sauk Prairie High School May 7 5 p.m. vs. Eastside Lancers All home games are played at Sauk Prairie High School Stadium Field May 10 5 p.m. at Edgewood High School May 13 5 p.m. vs. Oregon May 14 5 p.m. at Sun Prairie East May 17 5 p.m. at Waunakee High School GIRLS JV SOCCER May 20 5 p.m. vs. Stoughton at Sauk Prairie High School May 4 5 p.m. at Oregon High School May 25 5 p.m. at DeForest High School May 7 5 p.m. at Mount Horeb High School May 10 5 p.m. vs. Sun Prairie at Sauk Prairie High School May 14 5 p.m. vs. Reedsburg at Sauk Prairie High School May 15 Noon vs. Watertown at Sauk Prairie High School GIRLS VARSITY SOCCER May 18 5 p.m. vs. Baraboo at Sauk Prairie High School May 1 11 a.m. at Madison East Breese Stevens Field May 21 5 p.m. at Beaver Dam (Prairie View Elementary) May 4 7 p.m. at Oregon High School May 22 9 a.m. at Lodi High School May 7 7 p.m. at Mount Horeb High School May 25 5 p.m. at DeForest High School May 10 7 p.m. vs. Sun Prairie at Sauk Prairie High School May 27 5 p.m. at Madison Memorial (Mansfield Stadium) May 14 7 p.m. vs. Reedsburg at Sauk Prairie High School June 1 5 p.m. vs. Portage/Poynette at May 15 2 p.m. vs. Watertown at Sauk Prairie High School Sauk Prairie High School May 18 7 p.m. vs. Baraboo at Sauk Prairie High School June 3 5 p.m. at Waunakee High School May 21 5 p.m. at Beaver Dam (Prairie View Elementary) June 5 11 a.m. vs. Platteville at Sauk Prairie High School May 22 10:30 a.m. at Lodi High School

NOTICE OF SPRING ELECTION AND After Voting the Ballot After an official paper ballot is marked, it shall be folded so the SAMPLE BALLOTS PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE inside marks do not show, but so the printed endorsements and APRIL 6, 2021 inspectors’ initials on the outside do show. The voter shall leave REGULAR BOARD Johnson, Block & Co. for the booth, deposit the ballot in the ballot box, or deliver the ballot MEETING accounting services. Motion OFFICE OF THE CLERK to an inspector for deposit, and shall leave the polling place carried unanimously. promptly. February 9, 2021 2. Lifeguard interviews. TO THE VOTERS OF THE TOWN OF VERMONT After an official optical scan ballot is marked, it shall be insert- Motion by Scott Mickelson, sec- ed in the security sleeve, so the marks do not show. After casting Present: Kyle Keller ond by Natalie Beil to allow Notice is hereby given of a spring election to be held in the town his or her vote, the voter shall leave the booth, insert the ballot in (deputy), Mark Geisler (public Peter Huebner and Cathy Yasic of Vermont on April 6, 2021 at which the officers named below the voting device and discard the sleeve, or deliver the ballot to an works director), Sue Dietzen to interview lifeguards and shall be chosen. The names of the candidates for each office to inspector for deposit. If a central count system is used, the voter (clerk/treasurer), Peter Huebner make final recommendations to be voted for, whose nominations have been certified to or filed in shall insert the ballot in the ballot box and discard the sleeve or (administrator). the board. Motion carried unan- this office, are given under the title of the office, each in its proper deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit. The voter shall leave 1. Call meeting to order. The imously. column, together with the questions submitted to a vote, for a ref- the polling place promptly. meeting was called to order at 3. Select projects for possi- erendum, if any, in the sample ballot below. After an official touch screen ballot is cast, the voter shall leave 6:00 p.m. by Village President ble CDBG DR (Disaster the polling place promptly. Gary Harrop. Recovery) grant applications. Information to Voters A voter may select an individual to assist in casting his or her 2. Proof of Posting. The Motion by Troy Ruland, second vote if the voter declares to the presiding official that he or she is meeting was properly posted on by Natalie Beil to do the model- Upon entering the polling place, a voter shall state his or her unable to read, has difficulty reading, writing or understanding February 5, 2021. ing and approach the state to name and address, show an acceptable form of photo identifica- English or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot. 3. Roll call. Present: Gary allow funds for a large diversion tion and sign the poll book before being permitted to vote. If a The selected individual rendering assistance may not be the Harrop, Natalie Beil, Jeff to channel the water through voter does not have acceptable photo identification the voter may voter’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or Dyreson, Jim Marx, Scott the floodway in a high water obtain a free photo ID for voting from the Division of Motor agent of a labor organization which represents the voter. Mickelson, Troy Ruland, Ray event so it gets through the vil- Vehicles. If a voter is not registered to vote, a voter may register The following is a sample of the official ballot: Schlamp. lage faster by the creek to vote at the polling place serving his or her residence, if the voter 4. Additions or Corrections / between Hudson & Curtiss St., presents proof of residence in a form specified by law. Where bal- Kathryn Zelle, Clerk Approval of Agenda. Motion by State & Bridge St., by Deb lots are distributed to voters, the initials of two inspectors must Natalie Beil, second by Jim Lucey’s property or build a appear on the ballot. Upon being permitted to vote, the voter shall Marx to approve the agenda as channel per the map, possibly retire alone to a voting booth and cast his or her ballot except that presented. Motion carried with an adjoining trail. Motion a voter who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the unanimously. carried unanimously. voter’s minor child or minor ward. An election official may inform 5. Approve minutes from the 20. Committees. 1. the voter of the proper manner for casting a vote, but the official last regular board meeting. Personnel. a. Approval of post- may not in any manner advise or indicate a particular voting Motion by Jeff Dyreson, second ing of clerk/treasurer position. choice. by Scott Mickelson to approve Motion by Jeff Dyreson, second the minutes from the January by Jim Marx to approve the Where Paper Ballots are Used 26, 2021 board meeting as pre- posting of the clerk/treasurer The voter shall make a mark (X) in the square next to the name sented. Motion carried unani- position. Motion carried unani- of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or mously. mously. she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not 6. Appearances & Significant 2. Approve of job description appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of the per- Correspondence. There were for clerk/treasurer position. son of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote. no appearances. Motion by Natalie Beil, second On referendum questions, the voter shall make a mark (X) in the 8. Village Administrator’s by Scott Mickelson to approve square next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall Report. The report was written. the job description for the make a mark (X) in the square next to “no” if opposed to the ques- 9. Deputy in Charge Report. clerk/treasurer position. Motion tion. The report was written. carried unanimously. When using a tactile ballot marking device (Vote-PAD) to mark 15. Violations of Property 3. Parks & Recreation. The a paper ballot, the voter shall obtain from the inspectors, the Ordinance. 4 letters were sent committee is planning on open- assistive device and any audio or dexterity aids if required. The out for snow. 1 ticket was ing the pool in 2021. It is bud- voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the name of issued. geted to open in 2021 and the the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or 17. Old Business. 1. community would like it to be she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not Resolution approving the open this year. There will be a appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of a person boundary agreement with the meeting in March to see if any of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote and fill Town of Mazomanie. Motion by changes in the mask mandate. in the oval or connect the arrow next to the write-in line. On refer- Jim Marx, second by Jeff 5. Finance. a. Payment of endum questions, the voter shall fill in the oval or connect the Dyreson to approve the resolu- the bills. Motion by Jim Marx, arrow next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall fill tion to approve the boundary second by Jeff Dyreson to in the oval or connect the arrow next to “no” if opposed to the agreement with the Town of approve payment of the bills as question. Mazomanie. Motion carried presented. Motion carried unanimously. unanimously. Spoiled Ballot 18. New Business. 1. 22. Adjournment. Motion by If the voter spoils a paper or optical scan ballot, he or she shall Renewal of contract with Natalie Beil, second by Scott return it to an election official who shall issue another ballot in its Johnson, Block & Co. for Mickelson to adjourn. Motion place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one accounting/audit services. The carried unanimously. voter. If the ballot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is contract was for accounting defective in any other way, the voter shall return it to the election services only. Motion by Troy Sue Dietzen, CMC/CMT official, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place. Ruland, second by Scott Clerk/Treasurer The voter may spoil a touch screen ballot at the voting station Mickelson to approve the Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP before the ballot is cast. renewal of the contract with Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 STAR NEWS PAGE 19 SAUK PRAIRIE SPRING SPORTS SCHEDULES

VARSITY BASEBALL JV BASEBALL April 27 5 p.m. Home vs. Portage April 27 5 p.m. Home vs. Portage April 29 5 p.m. at Portage April 29 5 p.m. at Portage April 30 5 p.m. Home vs. River Valley April 30 5 p.m. Home vs. River Valley May 4 5 p.m. Home vs. Waunakee May 4 5 p.m. Home vs. Waunakee May 7 5 p.m. at Waunakee May 7 5 p.m. at Waunakee May 8 10:30 a.m. Home vs. Lodi May 8 10:30 a.m. Home vs. Lodi May 11 5 p.m. Home vs. Baraboo May 11 5 p.m. Home vs. Baraboo May 14 5 p.m. at Baraboo May 14 5 p.m. at Baraboo May 15 10 a.m. Home vs. Multiple Schools May 15 10 a.m. Home vs. Multiple Schools May 18 5 p.m. Home vs. Mount Horeb May 18 5 p.m. Home vs. Mount Horeb May 20 5 p.m. at Mount Horeb May 20 5 p.m. at Mount Horeb May 22 11 a.m. Home vs. Beaver Dam May 22 11 a.m. Home vs. Beaver Dam May 25 5 p.m. Home vs. DeForest May 25 5 p.m. Home vs. DeForest May 27 5 p.m. at DeForest May 27 5 p.m. at DeForest June 1 5 p.m. Home vs. Reedsburg June 1 5 p.m. Home vs. Reedsburg June 3 5 p.m. at Reedsburg June 3 5 p.m. at Reedsburg June 5 11 a.m. Home vs. Platteville June 5 11 a.m. Home vs. Platteville All home games are played at Sauk City All home games are played at Grand Avenue Elementary School

NOTICE OF SPRING ELECTION AND SAMPLE BALLOTS After Voting the Ballot APRIL 6, 2021 After an official paper ballot is marked, it shall be folded so the inside marks do not show, but so the printed endorsements and inspectors’ initials on the outside do show. The voter shall leave the booth, deposit the ballot in the ballot box, or deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit, and shall OFFICE OF THE TOWN OF MAZOMANIE CLERK leave the polling place promptly. TO THE VOTERS OF THE TOWN OF MAZOMANIE: After an official optical scan ballot is marked, it shall be inserted in the security sleeve, so the marks do not show. After casting his or her vote, the voter shall leave the booth, insert the ballot in NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of a spring election to be held in Town of Mazomanie, on April 6th, the voting device and discard the sleeve, or deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit. If a central 2021, at which the officers named below shall be chosen. The names of the candidates for each office count system is used, the voter shall insert the ballot in the ballot box and discard the sleeve or deliv- to be voted for, whose nominations have been certified to or filed in this office, are given under the title er the ballot to an inspector for deposit. The voter shall leave the polling place promptly. of the office, each in its proper column, together with the questions submitted to a vote, for a referen- After an official touch screen ballot is cast, the voter shall leave the polling place promptly. dum, if any, in the sample ballot below. A voter may select an individual to assist in casting his or her vote if the voter declares to the pre- siding official that he or she is unable to read, has difficulty reading, writing or understanding English Information to Voters or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot. The selected individual rendering assistance Upon entering the polling place, a voter shall state his or her name and address, show an accept- may not be the voter’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or agent of a labor organ- able form of photo identification and sign the poll book before being permitted to vote. If a voter does ization which represents the voter. not have acceptable photo identification the voter may obtain a free photo ID for voting from the The following is a sample of the official ballot: Division of Motor Vehicles. If a voter is not registered to vote, a voter may register to vote at the polling Courtney Beuthin, Clerk place serving his or her residence, if the voter presents proof of residence in a form specified by law. Where ballots are distributed to voters, the initials of two inspectors must appear on the ballot. Upon being permitted to vote, the voter shall retire alone to a voting booth and cast his or her ballot except that a voter who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the voter’s minor child or minor ward. An election official may inform the voter of the proper manner for casting a vote, but the official may not in any manner advise or indicate a particular voting choice.

Where Paper Ballots are Used The voter shall make a mark (X) in the square next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provid- ed for a write-in vote. On referendum questions, the voter shall make a mark (X) in the square next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall make a mark (X) in the square next to “no” if opposed to the question. When using a tactile ballot marking device (Vote-PAD) to mark a paper ballot, the voter shall obtain from the inspectors, the assistive device and any audio or dexterity aids if required. The voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of a person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote and fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the write-in line. On referendum ques- tions, the voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “no” if opposed to the question.

Where Optical Scan Voting is Used The voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote and fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the write-in line. On refer- endum questions, the voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “yes” if in favor of the ques- tion, or the voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “no” if opposed to the question. When using an electronic ballot marking device (“Automark,” “ExpressVote,” Clear Access or “ImageCast Evolution-ICE”) to mark an optical scan ballot, the voter shall touch the screen at the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall type in the name of the per- son of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote. On referendum questions, the voter shall touch the screen at “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall touch the screen at “no” if opposed to the question.

Where Touch Screen Voting is Used The voter shall touch the screen at the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall type in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote. On referendum questions, the voter shall touch the screen at “yes” if in favor of the question,r o the voter shall touch the screen at “no” if opposed to the question.

The vote should not be cast in any other manner. Not more than five minutes’ time shall be allowed inside a voting booth. Sample ballots or other materials to assist the voter in casting his or her vote may be taken into the booth and copied. The sample ballot shall not be shown to anyone so as to reveal how the ballot is marked.

Spoiled Ballot If the voter spoils a paper or optical scan ballot, he or she shall return it to an election official who shall issue another ballot in its place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one voter. If the ballot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is defective in any other way, the voter shall return it to the election official, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place. The voter may spoil a touch screen ballot at the voting station before the ballot is cast.

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April 30 3 p.m. at DeForest Lake Windsor Golf Club May 1 9 a.m. at House On The Rock Golf Course JV 2 BASEBALL May 7 10 a.m. at Portage Country Club April 30 5 p.m. at Waunakee High School May 11 3:30 p.m. at Old Hickory Golf Club May 3 5 p.m. vs. Waunakee May 12 3 p.m. at Lake Wisconsin Country Club May 18 5 p.m. at Portage (Bartels Middle School) May 14 3 p.m. at Lake Wisconsin Country Club May 22 10 a.m./Noon at Deforest (DH) May 18 3:30 p.m. at Baraboo Country Club May 24 5 p.m. vs. Portage at Sauk Prairie High School June 1 9 a.m. at Pleasant View Golf Course June 4 5 p.m. vs. Beaver Dam at Sauk Prairie High School All home games are played at Lake Wisconsin Country Club June 5 11 a.m. vs. Reedsburg (DH) at Sauk Prairie High School June 7 5 p.m. at Beaver Dam High School BOYS JV GOLF April 23 2 p.m. vs. Multiple Schools at Reedsburg Country Club BOYS VARSITY GOLF May 3 10 a.m. vs. Multiple Schools at Lake Wisconsin April 12 Noon at Stoughton Country Club Country Club April 23 8:30 a.m. at Reedsburg Country Club May 7 9 a.m. vs. Multiple Schools at April 26 Noon at Wilderness Golf Course Baraboo Country Club April 27 9 a.m. at Lake Wisconsin Country Club May 10 10 a.m. vs. Multiple Schools April 28 3 p.m. at Lake Wisconsin Country Club

NOTICE OF SPRING ELECTION AND After Voting the Ballot SAMPLE BALLOTS After an official paper ballot is marked, it shall be folded so the inside marks do not show, but so the printed endorsements and inspectors’ initials on the outside do show. The voter shall leave the APRIL 6, 2021 booth, deposit the ballot in the ballot box, or deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit, and shall leave the polling place promptly. OFFICE OF THE VILLAGE OF BLACK EARTH, CLERK After an official optical scan ballot is marked, it shall be inserted in the security sleeve, so the marks do not show. After casting his or her vote, the voter shall leave the booth, insert the ballot in the vot- TO THE VOTERS OF VILLAGE OF BLACK EARTH ing device and discard the sleeve, or deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit. If a central count system is used, the voter shall insert the ballot in the ballot box and discard the sleeve or deliver the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of a spring election to be held in VILLAGE OF BLACK EARTH, on ballot to an inspector for deposit. The voter shall leave the polling place promptly. APRIL 6, 2021 at which the officers named below shall be chosen. The names of the candidates for After an official touch screen ballot is cast, the voter shall leave the polling place promptly. each office to be voted for, whose nominations have been certified to or filed in this office, are given A voter may select an individual to assist in casting his or her vote if the voter declares to the pre- under the title of the office, each in its proper column, together with the questions submitted to a vote, siding official that he or she is unable to read, has difficulty reading, writing or understanding English for a referendum, if any, in the sample ballot below. or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot. The selected individual rendering assistance may not be the voter’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or agent of a labor organi- Information to Voters zation which represents the voter. The following is a sample of the official ballot: Upon entering the polling place, a voter shall state his or her name and address, show an accept- Shellie Benish, WCMC- Administrator/Clerk/Treasurer able form of photo identification and sign the poll book before being permitted to vote. If a voter does not have acceptable photo identification the voter may obtain a free photo ID for voting from the Division of Motor Vehicles. If a voter is not registered to vote, a voter may register to vote at the polling place serving his or her residence, if the voter presents proof of residence in a form specified by law. Where ballots are distributed to voters, the initials of two inspectors must appear on the ballot. Upon being permitted to vote, the voter shall retire alone to a voting booth and cast his or her ballot except that a voter who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the voter’s minor child or minor ward. An election official may inform the voter of the proper manner for casting a vote, but the official may not in any manner advise or indicate a particular voting choice.

Where Paper Ballots are Used The voter shall make a mark (X) in the square next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provid- ed for a write-in vote. On referendum questions, the voter shall make a mark (X) in the square next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall make a mark (X) in the square next to “no” if opposed to the question. When using a tactile ballot marking device (Vote-PAD) to mark a paper ballot, the voter shall obtain from the inspectors, the assistive device and any audio or dexterity aids if required. The voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of a person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote and fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the write-in line. On referendum questions, the voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “no” if opposed to the question.

Where Optical Scan Voting is Used The voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote and fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the write-in line. On refer- endum questions, the voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “yes” if in favor of the ques- tion, or the voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “no” if opposed to the question. When using an electronic ballot marking device (“Automark,” “ExpressVote,” Clear Access or “ImageCast Evolution-ICE”) to mark an optical scan ballot, the voter shall touch the screen at the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall type in the name of the per- son of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote. On referendum questions, the voter shall touch the screen at “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall touch the screen at “no” if opposed to the question.

Where Touch Screen Voting is Used The voter shall touch the screen at the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall type in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote. On referendum questions, the voter shall touch the screen at “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall touch the screen at “no” if opposed to the question. The vote should not be cast in any other manner. Not more than five minutes’ time shall be allowed inside a voting booth. Sample ballots or other materials to assist the voter in casting his or her vote may be taken into the booth and copied. The sample ballot shall not be shown to anyone so as to reveal how the ballot is marked.

Spoiled Ballot If the voter spoils a paper or optical scan ballot, he or she shall return it to an election official who shall issue another ballot in its place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one voter. If the ballot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is defective in any other way, the voter shall return it to the election official, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place. The voter may spoil a touch screen ballot at the voting station before the ballot is cast. Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 STAR NEWS PAGE 21 Patzka honored by WIAC Former Wisconsin Heights sociation (USTFCCCA). During the indoor season, he standout Christian Patzka, a Patzka finished his first- in finished among the top four in freshman at UW-Whitewater, door season among the nation’s his race at every meet, includ- was recently named the men’s top 15 in a pair of distance ing a win in the 1-mile run at Newcomer of the Year inside events. He finished fifth in the the team’s first dual and a run- the Wisconsin Intercollegiate WIAC and 11th in NCAA Divi- ner-up finish in the 3,000-mile Athletic Conference. sion III in the 1-mile run with run at the WIAC Last Chance Patzka was also named sec- his time of 4:14.27. Patzka also Meet. ond-team all-conference and placed second in the conference Patzka also recorded the WI- All-Midwest Region by the and fourth in the nation in the AC’s No. 2 time in the 3,000- United States Track and Field 3,000-meter run with a mark of meter run (8:26.64). and Cross Country Coaches As- 8:26.64.

PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE SAUK PRAIRIE SCHOOL DISTRICT Health Plans MINUTES - SCHOOL BOARD B.New Policy 6114 – Cost Principles - Spending Federal Funds REGULAR MEETING C.Policy 6325 – Procurement - Federal MARCH 8, 2021 Grants/Funds A regular meeting of the Sauk Prairie Board of D.New Policy 6630 – Cash Handling and Education was held on Monday, March 8, 2021 at Deposits the River Arts Center. President Rich Judge E.Policy 8710 – Insurance called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. All mem- F.Policy 8900 – Fraud bers (Rich Judge, Tyler Erickson, Dennis Virta, (Copies available at the District Office.) Steven Sprecher, James Isaacson, Mary Ann 4. Approve Additional Sixth Class/Overload Marx, and Richard Talmage) were present. Pay retroactively for 2020-21 School Year Administrators present: Superintendent Wright, – Bridges – Jonathan Gillespie as Chad Harnisch, Kelly Petrowski, Amy Brehm, recommended by Finance & Personnel Tricia Rodey, Jamie Breunig, Ted Harter, and Committee John Lehan. 5. Approve CESA 5 Contract for 2021-22 Motion by R. Talmage, seconded by D. Virta to School Year in the amount of $497,254.02 adopt the agenda. Motion carried 7-0. The as recommended by Finance & Personnel Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Committee Under Public Comments, Mark Frey lifted up 6. Approve CLC Program Director Wage the Board for valuing all District staff with the Adjustment retroactive to 2019-20 school recent Meet & Confer sessions. He also shared year and effective immediately reallocate information about the National Labor Relations hours to 5.5 hours per day Program Act. Director/2.5 hours per day ELL Assistant Under Board Comments, Richard Talmage as recommended by Finance & Personnel thanked healthcare workers and volunteers for Committee the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and 7. Approve 2021-22 Auxiliary Wage encouraged all to be vaccinated. Dennis Virta Schedule as recommended by Finance & thanked female District staff in honor of Personnel Committee International Women’s Day. James Isaacson 8. Approve Capital Maintenance Projects for echoed Dennis Virta’s comments and provided 2021-22 School Year in the amount of information about Women’s History Month. $250,000 as recommended by Finance & Former Wisconsin Heights standout Christian Patzka was named the WIAC’s Newcomer of Superintendent Wright’s report included the fol- Personnel Committee lowing: Shared February’s enrollment equaled 9. Approve 2020-21 Budget Adjustment with the Year. 2,717. · Highlighted the SPSD staff vaccination Net Difference $5,750 Expenditures and clinic that took place on Tuesday, March 2. $2,140 Revenues as recommended by PHOTO SUBMITTED · Recognized School Social Work Week – March Finance & Personnel Committee 7-13, National School Breakfast Week – March 8- 10. Approve 2020-21 Grants Budget 12, and World Social Work Day – March 16. · Adjustment with No Net Difference as Noted Public School Observance Day “The Great recommended by Finance & Personnel Hunger” in Ireland – March 17. · Provided Committee COVID-19 Protocol updates and the increased 11. Accept Retirements full-time in-person student capacity at Bridges, A.Music Teacher – Bridges – Julie Merrimac, Grand Avenue, and Tower Rock; then Kessenich shared information on the uptick of positive cases B.Music Teacher – Grand Avenue – among eighth grade students and the District’s Glenn Schuster response to the situation. · Highlighted important C.School Psychologist – Bridges & Tower dates included at the end of the agenda. Rock – John Haupt Policy 0132.2 – Administrative Guidelines, D.Special Education Teaching Assistant – Policy 0144.3 – Conflict of Interest, Policy 1400 – Merrimac – Tamara Leidig Job Descriptions, Policy 2260.02 – English E.Science Teacher – Middle School – Language Proficiency, Policy 2261 – Title I Patricia Klappa Services, Policy 2261.01 – Parent and Family F.Elementary Teacher – Bridges – Darcy Member Participation in Title I Programs Wirebaugh Renamed Parent and Family Member G.Social Studies Teacher – High School – Engagement in Title I Programs and Policy Cindy Duban 2460.03 – Independent Educational Evaluation H.Custodian – Grand Avenue – Reid (IEE) were reviewed. Action is expected at the Patterson next regular meeting. I. Reading Teacher – Bridges & Grand Richard Talmage shared the Finance & Avenue – Delores Kessenich Personnel Committee met on February 22, 2021. 12. Approve Co-Curriculars The Committee reviewed the following: Monthly A.Hire Athletic Coaches for Spring Sports Balance Statement & Monthly Accounts Payable; Season – High School Administrator, Certified Staff, Managers & • JV Softball Coach – Ryan Ruhland Coordinators, & Classified Staff Wages for 2021- • JV Boys Tennis Coach – Morgan 22 School Year; Merrimac Additional Mentor Bettner Remainder of 2020-21 School Year (this item was • Freshmen JV2 Softball Coach – Regin removed from the Agenda); Additional Sixth Suchla Class/Overload Pay – Bridges – Gillespie; • Approve Volunteer Baseball Coach – CESA 5 Contract for 2021-22 School Year; CLC Clint Williams Program Director Wage Adjustment; 2021-22 13. Approve One Early College Credit App- Auxiliary Wage Schedule; Capital Maintenance lication Projects for 2021-22 School Year; 2020-21 President Judge thanked retirees for their Budget Adjustment with Net Difference $5,750 years of service. Motion carried 7-0. Expenditures and $2,140 Revenues; 2020-21 Under Discussion Action, motion by R. Grants Budget Adjustment with No Net Talmage, seconded by J. Isaacson to approve Difference; 2021 Aquatic Fee Updates - Cross Categorical Special Education Instructor Administrative Guideline 7510 – Swimming February 26, 2021 - remainder of 2020-21 school Program; and Facility Policy Manual Updates. year – Lucinda Quam. Motion carried 7-0. Motion by M. Marx, seconded by R. Talmage to Motion by J. Isaacson, seconded by S. approve Consent Action items 1-13. Sprecher to approve COVID Substitute Teacher 1. Approve Minutes Extension for remainder of 2020-21 School Year. A.Regular Meeting – February 22, 2021 Motion carried 7-0. 2. Place on File Motion by D. Virta, seconded by J. Isaacson, to A.Finance & Personnel Committee approve New Policy 8395 – Student Mental Meeting – February 22, 2021 Health Services. Motion carried 7-0. B.SPEA Meet & Confer – April 30, 2020 Under Public Comments at the conclusion of C.SPEA Meet & Confer – October 13, the meeting, Mark Frey thanked Dennis Virta and 2020 James Isaacson for their comments on Women’s D.SPEA Meet & Confer – January 18, History Month and International Women’s Day 2021 and shared thoughts on labor relations. E.Classified Staff Negotiations Committee Motion by S. Sprecher, seconded by R. – May 15, 2020 Talmage to adjourn. Motion carried 7-0. Meeting 3. Approve Revisions to Policies and New adjourned at 7:38 p.m. Policies as recommended by Policies & Instruction Committee Mary Ann Marx, Clerk A.Policies 3419.02/4419.02 – Privacy Protections of Fully Insured Group Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP PAGE 22 STAR NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021

NOTICE OF SPRING ELECTION AND SAMPLE BALLOTS APRIL 6, 2021

To The Voters of Town of Berry: Notice is hereby given of a Spring Election to be held in the Town of Berry on April 6, 2021 at which the officers named below shall be chosen. The names of the candidates for each office to be voted for, whose nominations have been certified to or filed in this office, NEW are given under the title of the office, each in its proper column, together with the questions submitted to a vote, for a referendum, if any, in the sample ballot below. PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE INFORMATION TO VOTERS ADDRESS? Upon entering the polling place, a voter shall state his or her name and address, show an acceptable form of photo identification and STATE OF WISCONSIN sign the poll book before being permitted to vote. If a voter does not have acceptable photo identification the voter may obtain a free Star News CIRCUIT COURT photo ID for voting from the Division of Motor Vehicles. If a voter is not registered to vote, a voter may register to vote at the polling place serving his or her residence, if the voter presents proof of residence in a form specified by law. Where ballots are distributed to Note to Subscribers: SAUK COUNTY voters, the initials of two inspectors must appear on the ballot. Upon being permitted to vote, the voter shall retire alone to a voting booth IN ThE MaTTEr Of ThE and cast his or her ballot except that a voter who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the voter’s minor child or minor ward. Please notify us two weeks ESTaTE Of: An election official may inform the voter of the proper manner for casting a vote, but the official may not in any manner advise or indi- in advance of address SARAH J. BLUM cate a particular voting choice. changes. Call 767-3655, DOD: 02-04-2021 Where Optical Scan Voting Systems are Used or email classifieds@ Notice to Creditors The voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he (Informal administration) or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of the person newspubinc.com Case No. 2021Pr000035 of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote and fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the write-in line. On refer- or send your changes to PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: endum questions, the voter shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall fill in the News Publishing Company 1. an application for informal oval or connect the arrow next to “no” if opposed to the question. When using an electronic ballot marking device (ExpressVote) to mark 1126 Mills Street administration was filed. an optical scan ballot, the voter shall touch the screen at the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or 2. The decedent, with date of she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall type in the name of the person of Black Earth, WI 53515 birth March 28, 1928 and date his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote. On referendum questions, the voter shall touch the screen at “yes” if in favor of death february 4, 2021 was of the question, or the voter shall touch the screen at “no” if opposed to the question. domiciled in Sauk County, State Spoiled Ballot of Wisconsin with a mailing If the voter spoils a paper or optical scan ballot, he or she shall return it to an election official who shall issue another ballot in its address of 1050 Prairie St., place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one voter. If the ballot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is defec- Prairie du Sac, WI 53578. tive in any other way, the voter shall return it to the election official, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place. The voter may spoil a 3. all interested persons MISCELLANEOUS waived notice. touch screen ballot at the voting station before the ballot is cast. Become a Published Author. We After Voting the Ballot want to Read Your Book! 4. The deadline for filing a After an official optical scan ballot is marked, it shall be inserted in the security sleeve so the marks do not show. After casting his Dorrance Publishing-Trusted by claim against the decedent’s or her vote, the voter shall leave the booth, insert the ballot in the voting device and discard the sleeve, or deliver the ballot to an inspec- Authors Since 1920. Book estate is June 23, 2021. tor for deposit. If a central count system is used, the voter shall insert the ballot in the ballot box and discard the sleeve, or deliver the manuscript submissions 5. a claim may be filed at the ballot to an inspector for deposit. The voter shall leave the polling place promptly. currently being reviewed. Sauk County Courthouse, A voter may select an individual to assist in casting his or her vote if the voter declares to the presiding official that he or she is unable Comprehensive Services: Baraboo, Wisconsin, room to read, has difficulty reading, writing or understanding English or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot. The selected Consultation, Production, C234. individual rendering assistance may not be the voter’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or agent of a labor organiza- Promotion and Distribution. Call /s/ James Daniels tion which represents the voter. for Your Free Author`s Guide Probate registrar The following is a sample of the official ballot: 1-888-612-0710 or visit http:// March 8, 2021 dorranceinfo.com/nnwi franklin r. Kirk DENTAL INSURANCE from Kirk Graves & Nugent Physicians Mutual Insurance PO Box 9 Company. Coverage for 350 Prairie du Sac, WI 53578 plus procedures. 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Motion RefrigerantFinders.com Carried. Roll Call: Bender-Aye, PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE Lester-Aye, Meixelsperger-Aye, Sherman-Aye, Strathman-Aye, STATE OF WISCONSIN Dinger-Zach-Aye, Bolton- CIRCUIT COURT Aye SAUK COUNTY b. Consider Resolution No. 03-09-2021(b), Approving IN ThE MaTTEr Of ThE Roadway Functional ESTaTE Of: Classification Changes–Would CAROLINE A. STEUBER like to make 13th Street into DOD: December 27, 2020 Sauk City a collector street. Notice to Creditors Sauk City did not agree and we (Informal administration) need to stay on the same page Case No. 2021Pr000003 as them. They want to keep it a PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: local street. (Lester) made a 1. an application for informal motion to approve resolution administration was filed. contingent with Sauk City fol- 2. The decedent, with date of lowing suit. It was discussed birth June 2, 1929 and date of that more information was death December 27, 2020 was needed from the Wisconsin domiciled in Sauk County, State DOT. (Lester) withdrew his of Wisconsin with a mailing motion. Stetzer and Wildman to address of E10264 Cty hwy Pf, discuss further with the DOT Prairie du Sac, WI 53578. and bring back to Board. 3. all interested persons c. Consider 21st Street waived notice. Extension Bids –7 bids 4. The deadline for filing a received. Low bid came in at claim against the decedent’s $1,157,831.96 from Meise. estate is July 2, 2021. There were no alternative bids. 5. a claim may be filed at the First time using electronic bid- Sauk County Courthouse, ding and it worked well. Meise Baraboo, Wisconsin, room had all necessary paperwork in. C234. Construction to start in April. /s/ James Daniels (Dinger-Zach/Meixelsperger) Probate registrar moved to approve bid. Motion March 17, 2021 Carried. franklin r. Kirk Roll Call: Bender-Aye, Kirk Graves & Nugent Lester-Aye, Meixelsperger-Aye, PO Box 9 Sherman-Aye, Strathman-Aye, Prairie du Sac, WI 53578 Dinger-Zach-Aye, Bolton-Aye 608-643-2456 Respectfully Submitted, Bar No.: 1016819 Niki Conway, Clerk Treasurer Publish: 3/25/21, 4/1/21, 4/8/21 Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP Brenda Kahl, Clerk/Treasurer Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP WNAXLP THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 STAR NEWS PAGE 23

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Courtney Beuthin, Clerk Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE • PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF SPRING ELECTION AND Monday, March 8, 2021 Curriculum and Mazomanie SAMPLE BALLOT Board of Education Elementary Principal; Scott TOWN OF BERRY Moore Director of Assessment APRIL 6, 2021 LOCATION AND HOURS OF POLLING PLACE Meetings and Black Earth Elementary Wisconsin Heights Principal; Matthew Green, OFFICE OF THE TOWN OF BLACK EARTH CLERK At the Election to be held on April 6, 2021 in the Town of Berry Director of Pupil Services School District 6:00 PM TO THE VOTERS OF TOWN OF BLACK EARTH: the following polling place location will be used for the wards indi- - Regular Session 5. District Business - Committee Discussion / cated: Closed Session to follow Information NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of a spring election to be held in Town of Berry Hall, (Step Room) Middle School 5.1 Budget and Finance the Town of Black Earth, on the 6th day of April, 2021, at which 9046 State Road 19, Auditorium (Step Room) (focus point) the officers named below shall be chosen. The names of the can- Mazomanie WI 53560, Join Zoom Meeting The following question was didates for each office to be voted for, whose nominations have Wards 1 & 2 https://wisheights-k12-wi- posed by a community member. been certified to or filed in this office, are given under the title of us.zoom.us/j/92457077989?pw My question is how much the office, each in its proper column, together with the questions The polling place will open at 7:00 am and will close at d=S2lwOWlYRHJGdU1TY0Rh savings has developed from submitted to a vote, for a referendum, if any, in the sample ballot 8:00 pm. d0tySkFCQT09 Meeting ID: 924 schooling at home and now the below. If you have any questions concerning your polling place con- 5707 7989 hybrid learning since the onset tact the Town Clerk: Passcode: 210978 of Covid 19. Some schools Information to Voters Brenda Kahl Web attendees: Please be have seen substantial cost 9046 State Road 19, Mazomanie, WI 53560 sure your speakers are enabled reductions. If any, what would Upon entering the polling place, a voter shall state his or her 608-767-4152 on your computer devices. those savings be applied to? name and address, show an acceptable form of photo identifica- 7:30 am to 4:30 pm When you click on the meeting District staff will present infor- tion and sign the poll book before being permitted to vote. If a The polling place is accessible to elderly and disabled link, you will be prompted to mation in response to this ques- voter does not have acceptable photo identification the voter may voters. download and install the Zoom tion. obtain a free photo ID for voting from the Division of Motor application being used to host 5.2 Curriculum - Goals - Vehicles. If a voter is not registered to vote, a voter may register Notice of Meeting of the Local and Municipal Board of the meeting. Once installed, you Standards (focus point) to vote at the polling place serving his or her residence, if the Canvassers will need to launch the applica- Admin team members and voter presents proof of residence in a form specified by law. At the close of voting on Election Day, pursuant to the provi- tion at which point you can enter Katy Howe (school nurse) will Where ballots are distributed to voters, the initials of two inspec- sions of Wis. Stat. § 19.84, the Election Inspectors will convene your name and join the meeting. share updates on our opera- tors must appear on the ballot. Upon being permitted to vote, the as a joint meeting of the Local Board of Canvassers and the This entire process usually tional planning. voter shall retire alone to a voting booth and cast his or her ballot Municipal Board of Canvassers for the purpose of conducting the takes less than a minute and 5.3 Employee Relations except that a voter who is a parent or guardian may be accompa- local and municipal canvasses pursuant to Wis. Stat. §§7.51 and assumes you do not already (focus point) nied by the voter’s minor child or minor ward. An election official 7.53(1). This meeting will be open to the public pursuant to Wis. have the application installed. A draft job description for dis- may inform the voter of the proper manner for casting a vote, but Stat. §§ 19.81-89. All public attendees will be auto- trict teachers will be reviewed. the official may not in any manner advise or indicate a particular matically muted upon entering 5.4 Facilities & voting choice. Brenda Kahl, Clerk/Treasurer the meeting. This will ensure Transportation (focus point) Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP that background noise is not Reps from PSI will join the Where Optical Scan Voting is Used audible while the Board is con- meeting to provide updates per- The voter shall fill in the oval next to the name of the candidate ducting business. taining to the following: of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to PUBLIC AGENDA Individuals who are joining in 1. Updates on the planning vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the the meeting electronically, and TOWN BOARD process for the new elementary ballot, the voter shall write in the name of the person of his or her would like to submit feedback, school and MS/HS remodel. choice in the space provided for a write-in vote and fill in the oval can email the School Board The Town Board of the Town of West Point will hold their regu- 2. Design ideas and research next to the write-in line. On referendum questions, the voter shall president, Mr. James Kartman lar monthly meeting on Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 7:00pm virtu- regarding possibilities for solar fill in the oval next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter a t ally and at the West Point Town Hall, N2114 Rausch Road, Lodi, energy will be shared. shall fill in the oval next to “no” if opposed to the question. [email protected] WI 53555. A community information ses- or the District Administrator, Mr. NOTICE: In compliance with CDC guidelines limiting the num- sion will be run on March 16 When using an electronic ballot marking device Jordan Sinz at ber of people attending large gatherings, the Town Board meeting regarding the auditorium refer- (“ExpressVote,”) to mark an optical scan ballot, the voter shall [email protected]. will be accessible remotely. endum. More information can touch the screen at the name of the candidate of his or her choice Comments should be submitted Please use the URL below to join the meeting: be found on the WHSD website. for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a by 5 PM on the day of the meet- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83719153012?pwd=ODVLdVlHdTg0 https://www.wisheights.k12.wi.u person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall ing. RGpuc2FUN0xhMDhOdz09 s/community-discussions/ type in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space 1. Meeting Procedures Or Zoom.us 5.5 Insurance provided for a write-in vote. On referendum questions, the voter 1.1 Call to order Meeting ID: 837 1915 3012 5.6 Policy (focus point) shall touch the screen at “yes” if in favor of the question, or the The meeting was called to Password: 631776 1. Review updated 2021- voter shall touch the screen at “no” if opposed to the question. order at 6:00 PM Or Telephone by dialing: +1 312 626 6799 2022 district calendar - minor 1.2 Roll call and establish- Members of committees/commissions serving the Town of updates to discuss Spoiled Ballot ment of a quorum West Point may be attending and may represent an accidental 2. Review draft of 2022-2023 If the voter spoils an optical scan ballot, he or she shall return Mike Wagner, Cindy Beuthin, quorum of said committee/commission. No action will be taken district calendar - this is a first it to an election official who shall issue another ballot in its place, James Kartman, Mary Beth by such an accidental quorum at the town board meeting if that draft of the 22/23 calendar but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one voter. Schall, Gary Damaschke, Barb accidental quorum has decision making responsibilities. 5.7 Public / Government If the ballot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is defec- Statz, Matt Crowe – ALL PRES- The regular business agenda is: Relations tive in any other way, the voter shall return it to the election offi- ENT 1. Call to Order - Roll Call – Certification of Compliance with 6. District Business - Student cial, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place. 1.3 Proof of posting the Open Meetings Law Issues Star News, the official news- 2. Pledge of Allegiance 6.1 Action on Open After Voting the Ballot paper 3. Approval of Agenda Enrollment In Student for 2020- After an official optical scan ballot is marked, it shall be insert- Black Earth Village Office 4. Citizen Input on non-agenda topics. The Town Board 2021 ed in the security sleeve, so the marks do not show. After cast- Mazomanie Municipal Office welcomes citizen input on any agenda or non-agenda CB/MW motioned to approve ing his or her vote, the voter shall leave the booth, insert the bal- Wisconsin Heights topic, but will not discuss or take action on any topic that Open Enrollment In Student for lot in the voting device and discard the sleeve, or deliver the bal- Administrative Office is not on the agenda. Input on agenda topics will be taken 2020-2021. Motion carried 7 – lot to an inspector for deposit. The voter shall leave the polling By: Bev Whalen, Designee during that agenda item. The Town Board has the right to 0 place promptly. for Board of Education Clerk limit the duration of citizen statement and will not engage 7. Future Meetings/Important Date: March 4, 2021 in a debate with a citizen presenter. Dates A voter may select an individual to assist in casting his or her Pledge of Allegiance DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION BY TOWN BOARD 7.1 Future meeting dates vote if the voter declares to the presiding official that he or she is 1.5 Approval of agenda 5. Approval of Minutes from the last meeting 8. Executive Session unable to read, has difficulty reading, writing or understanding CB/MC motioned to approve 6. Treasurer’s Report 8.1 Roll call to adjourn to English or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot. the agenda. Motion carried 7 - 7. Correspondenc Executive Session The selected individual rendering assistance may not be the 0 8. pproval of Payment of the Bills Mike Wagner, Cindy Beuthin, voter’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or 2. Minutes and payroll 9. Reports - Committee / Commission / County / Department James Kartman, Mary Beth agent of a labor organization which represents the voter. 2.1 Approval of Board of / District Schall, Gary Damaschke, Barb Education meeting minutes of 10. Town Roads Statz, Matt Crowe – ALL PRES- The following is a sample of the official ballot: February 22, 2021 a. Selwood Speeding – Signage ENT MW/CB motioned to approve b. Temporary Speed Reduction on East Harmon Roll call to adjourn to execu- SAMPLE BALLOT the Board of Education meeting 11. Temporary “picnic” license tive session pursuant to minutes of February 22, 2021. 12. Land Division & CSM Review for Bender Vollbrecht Wisconsin statutes § 19.85 (1) Town of Black Earth Motion carried 7 - 0 Developers & Pamela Halverson – Tax Parcel #11040- (c) Considering employment, April 6, 2021 2.2 Approval of payroll accru- 413.001 & #11040-413.002 promotion, compensation or als/disbursements 13. LAFD & LAEMS Inter-governmental Agreements performance evaluation data of Town Board Chairperson MW/CB motioned to approve 14. Selwood Property any public employee over which Barbara Parrell payroll accruals/disbursements. 15. Contract Renewals the governmental body has Motion carried 7 – 0 16. COVID-19 jurisdiction or exercises respon- Town Board Supervisor I 3. Public Input a. Facility Use sibility. Don Ripp 3.1 Public input guidelines 17. This agenda may be supplemented subsequent to publi- When the executive session 4. Reports, where applicable cation and the final agenda will be posted within the Town ends, the school board meeting Town Board Supervisor II 4.1 Board President of West Point 24 hours in advance of the meeting and on is adjourned. Tom Turk Jordan Sinz, District the Town’s web site. The meeting ended Administrator; Elizabeth Dostal, 18. Next Meeting Agenda – May 13, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. at 8:01 PM Town Treasurer 19. Adjourn MS/HS Principal; Andrew Brenda Kahl Pickett, Athletic Director and Dated this 1st day of April, 2021. Signed: Barbara AW Statz Assistant Principal MS/HS; Taffy Buchanan, Town Clerk Date: 3/8/2021 Stephanie Zwettler, Town Clerk Cherryl Knowles, Business Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP Official; Dale Green Director of Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP PAGE 24 STAR NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021

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NOTICE OF REFERENDUM the Division of Motor Vehicles. If an elector is not registered to vote, an elector may register to vote WISCONSIN HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT at the polling place serving his or her residence, if the elector presents proof of residence in a form specified by law. Where ballots are distributed to electors, the initials of two inspectors must appear APRIL 6, 2021 on the ballot. Upon being permitted to vote, the elector shall retire alone to a voting booth and cast his or her ballot except that an elector who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the elec- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that at an election to be held in the Wisconsin Heights School District tor’s minor child or minor ward. An election official may inform the elector of the proper manner for on April 6, 2021, the following proposed Initial Resolution of the School Board will be submitted to a casting a vote, but the official may not in any manner advise or indicate a particular voting choice. vote of the people: On referendum questions where paper ballots are used, the elector shall make a mark (X) in the square next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the elector shall make a mark (X ) in the square next INITIAL RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING GENERAL OBLIGATION to “no” if opposed to the question. BONDS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $7,500,000 When using a tactile ballot marking device (Vote-PAD) to mark a paper ballot, the elector shall obtain from the inspectors, the assistive device and any audio or dexterity aids if required. On refer- BE IT RESOLVED by the School Board of the Wisconsin Heights School District, Dane and Iowa endum questions, the elector shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “yes” if in favor of the Counties, Wisconsin that there shall be issued pursuant to Chapter 67 of the Wisconsin Statutes, gen- question, or the elector shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “no” if opposed to the ques- eral obligation bonds in an amount not to exceed $7,500,000 for the public purpose of paying the cost tion. of constructing, furnishing and equipping an auditorium at the current Middle/High School campus and On referendum questions where optical scan voting systems are used, the elector shall fill in the completing site improvements. oval or connect the arrow next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “no” if opposed to the question. The question will appear on the ballot as follows: When using an electronic ballot marking device (“Automark”, “ExpressVote”, Clear Access or “ImageCast Evolution-ICE”) to mark an optical scan ballot, the elector shall touch the screen at “yes” “Shall the Wisconsin Heights School District, Dane and Iowa Counties, Wisconsin be authorized to if in favor of the question, or the elector shall touch the screen at “no” if opposed to the question. issue pursuant to Chapter 67 of the Wisconsin Statutes, general obligation bonds in an amount not to On referendum questions where touch screen voting systems are used, the elector shall touch the exceed $7,500,000 for the public purpose of paying the cost of constructing, furnishing and equipping screen or use the keypad to select “yes” if in favor of the question, or the elector shall touch the screen an auditorium at the current Middle/High School campus and completing site improvements?” or use the keypad to select “no” if opposed to the question. The vote shall not be cast in any other manner. Not more than five minutes’ time shall be allowed EXPLANATORY STATEMENT AND EFFECT OF VOTE inside a voting booth. Sample ballots or other materials to assist the elector in marking his or her bal- The referendum election ballot will ask District electors to vote “yes” or “no” on the referendum elec- lot may be taken into the booth and copied. The sample ballot shall not be shown to anyone so as to tion question as set forth above. reveal how the ballot is marked. If the elector spoils a paper or optical scan ballot, he or she shall return it to an election official A “yes” vote on the question is a vote to approve the borrowing of $7,500,000 by the Wisconsin who shall issue another ballot in its place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one Heights School District through the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purpose of paying the elector. If the ballot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is defective in any other way, the elec- cost of constructing, furnishing and equipping an auditorium at the current Middle/High School cam- tor shall return it to the election official, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place. pus and completing site improvements. The elector may spoil a touch screen ballot at the voting station before the ballot is cast. After an official paper ballot is marked, it shall be folded so the inside marks do not show, but so A “no” vote on the question is a vote to deny the Wisconsin Heights School District the authority to the printed endorsements and inspectors’ initials on the outside do show. The elector shall deposit the borrow $7,500,000 through the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purpose of paying the cost voted ballot in the ballot box or deliver the ballot to an election inspector for deposit, and deposit any of constructing, furnishing and equipping an auditorium at the current Middle/High School campus and unvoted ballots in the discard box. The elector shall leave the polling place promptly. completing site improvements. After an official optical scan ballot is marked, it shall be inserted in the security sleeve so the marks do not show. The elector shall insert the ballot in the voting device and discard the sleeve, or deliver In the event a majority of the electors voting on the question vote “yes”, the District will be author- the ballot to an inspector for deposit. Where a central count system is used, the elector shall insert ized to undertake the school building program described in the question and borrow not in excess of the ballot in the ballot box and discard the sleeve or deliver it to an inspector for deposit. The elector $7,500,000 therefor; if a majority vote “no” on the question set forth above, the District will not be so shall leave the polling place promptly. authorized. After an official touch screen ballot is cast, the elector shall leave the polling place promptly. An elector may select an individual to assist in casting his or her vote if the elector declares to the LOCATION AND HOURS OF POLLING PLACES presiding official that he or she is unable to read, has difficulty reading, writing or understanding Information as to the location of the polling places is available in the District Office at 10173 US English or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot. The selected individual rendering Highway 14, Mazomanie, Wisconsin. assistance may not be the elector’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or agent of a labor organization which represents the elector. ALL POLLING PLACES WILL BE OPEN AT 7:00 A.M. AND WILL CLOSE AT 8:00 P.M. The following is a sample of the official ballot:

If you have any questions concerning your polling place, contact the municipal clerk: OFFICIAL REFERENDUM BALLOT Town of Berry Village of Black Earth Brenda Kahl, Clerk/Treasurer Shellie Benish, Admin, Clerk/Treasurer April 6, 2021 9046 State Road 19 1210 Mills St. Mazomanie, WI 53560 Black Earth, WI 53515 608-767-4152 608-767-2563 Notice to Voters: If you are voting on Election Day, your ballot must be initialed M-T, Th-F – 7:30am-4:00pm M-F – 8:00am-4:30pm by two election inspectors. If you are voting absentee, your ballot must be W – 7:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. initialed by the municipal clerk or deputy clerk. Your ballot may not be counted Town of Black Earth Village of Mazomanie without initials. Stephanie Zwettler, Clerk Susan Dietzen, Clerk/Treasurer Lower Level of 1116 Mills St. 133 Crescent Street, PO Box 26 Instructions to Voters Black Earth, WI 53515 Mazomanie, WI 53560 If you make a mistake on your ballot or have a question, ask an election inspector 608-444-6425 608-795-2100 T - 8:00am-12:00pm M-W–7:30am-4:00pm, Th–7:30am-7:00pm for help. in lower level of 1116 Mills St. Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm (Absentee Voters: Contact your municipal clerk.)

Town of Vermont Town of Mazomanie To vote in favor of a question, make an "X" or other mark in the square next to Katie Zelle, Clerk Courtney Beuthin, Clerk 4017 County Road JJ 711 W. Hudson St. "Yes," like this:  Black Earth, WI 53515 Mazomanie, WI 53560 To vote against a question, make an "X" or other mark in the square next to "No," 608-767-2457 608-795-2920 like this:  Please Call Tuesday 1:00-5:00pm Town of Cross Plains Town of Roxbury Referendum Nancy Meinholz, Clerk Lisa Meinholz, Clerk 3734 County Road P 7167 Kippley Road Cross Plains, WI 53560 Sauk City, WI 53583 Shall the Wisconsin Heights School District, Dane and Iowa 608-798-0189 68-643-8281 Counties, Wisconsin be authorized to issue pursuant to Please Call Monday-Thursdaym 8:00am-12:00pm Chapter 67 of the Wisconsin Statutes, general obligation Town of Arena bonds in an amount not to exceed $7,500,000 for the public Joni Johnson, Clerk purpose of paying the cost of constructing, furnishing and 148 State Hwy 14, PO Box 126 equipping an auditorium at the current Middle/High School Arena, WI 53503 608-753-2185 campus and completing site improvements? Please Call  YES All polling places are accessible to elderly and disabled voters.  NO NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF CANVASSERS By no later than 9 a.m. on the Tuesday after the election, the school district board of canvassers Persons with questions regarding the referendum election should contact Jordan Sinz, District shall convene, pursuant to the provisions of Wis. Stat. § 19.84, for the purpose of conducting the Administrator. school district canvass pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 7.53(3). This meeting will be open to the public pur- suant to Wis. Stat. §§ 19.81-89. Done in the Wisconsin Heights School District on April 1, 2021. Barbara A. Statz, District Clerk INFORMATION TO ELECTORS Upon entering the polling place, an elector shall state his or her name and address, show an accept- able form of photo identification and sign the poll book before being permitted to vote. If an elector Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP does not have acceptable photo identification the elector may obtain a free photo ID for voting from THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 STAR NEWS PAGE 25

NOTICE OF SPRING ELECTION AND SAMPLE BALLOTS APRIL 6, 2021

OFFICE OF THE SAUK COUNTY CLERK TO THE VOTERS OF SAUK COUNTY:

Notice is hereby given of a spring election to be held in Sauk County, on April 6, 2021, at which the officers named below shall be chosen. The names of the candidates for each office to be voted for, whose nominations have been certified to or filed in this office, are given under the title of the office, each in its proper column, together with the questions submitted to a vote, for a referendum, if any, in the sample ballot below.

Information to Voters

Upon entering the polling place, a voter shall state his or her name and address, show an acceptable form of photo identification and sign the poll book before being permitted to vote. If a voter does not have acceptable photo identification the voter may obtain a free photo ID for voting from the Division of Motor Vehicles. If a voter is not registered to vote, a voter may register to vote at the polling place serv- ing his or her residence, if the voter presents proof of residence in a form specified by law. Where ballots are distributed to voters, the initials of two inspectors must appear on the ballot. Upon being permit- ted to vote, the voter shall retire alone to a voting booth and cast his or her ballot except that a voter who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the voter’s minor child or minor ward. An election official may inform the voter of the proper manner for casting a vote, but the official may not in any manner advise or indicate a particular voting choice.

Where Optical Scan Voting is Used The voter shall fill in the oval next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote and fill in the oval next to the write-in line. On referendum questions, the voter shall fill in the oval next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall fill in the oval next to “no” if opposed to the question.

When using an electronic ballot marking device (“ExpressVote”) to mark an optical scan ballot, the voter shall touch the screen at the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall type in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote. On ref- erendum questions, the voter shall touch the screen at “yes” if in favor of the question, or the voter shall touch the screen at “no” if opposed to the question.

Spoiled Ballot If the voter spoils an optical scan ballot, he or she shall return it to an election official who shall issue another ballot in its place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one voter. If the bal- lot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is defective in any other way, the voter shall return it to the election official, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place.

After Voting the Ballot After an official optical scan ballot is marked, it shall be inserted in the security sleeve, so the marks do not show. After casting his or her vote, the voter shall leave the booth, insert the ballot in the vot- ing device and discard the sleeve, or deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit. If a central count system is used, the voter shall insert the ballot in the ballot box and discard the sleeve or deliver the bal- lot to an inspector for deposit. The voter shall leave the polling place promptly.

A voter may select an individual to assist in casting his or her vote if the voter declares to the presiding official that he or she is unable to read, has difficulty reading, writing or understanding English or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot. The selected individual rendering assistance may not be the voter’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or agent of a labor organization which represents the voter.

The following is a sample of the official ballot: Rebecca C. Evert, Sauk County Clerk

CANDIDATE LISTING Ross Curry (Vote for not more than Two) APRIL 6, 2021 – SPRING ELECTION Greg Anstett Town Board Supervisor I Town of Excelsior Kevin H. Vodak (Vote for One) STATE Town Board Chairperson Jim Mercier State Superintendent of Public Instruction (Vote for One) Town of Greenfield (Vote for One) Ken Nolden Town Board Chairperson Town Board Supervisor III Jill Underly (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Deborah Kerr Town Clerk Terry W. Turnquist Pat Rego (Vote for One) MUNICIPAL Sandra Meyer Swanson Town Board Supervisor 1 Town of Merrimac Town of Baraboo (Vote for One) Town Board Chairperson Town Board Chairperson Town Treasurer Fred Coller (Vote for One) (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Charlie Hall Bill Klemm Brittany Syvrud Town Board Supervisor 2 (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor 1 Town Clerk Town Board Supervisor I John Geoghegan (Vote for One) (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Tim Healy Morgan K. Olson Kurt R. Muchow Town Clerk (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor 2 Town Treasurer Town Board Supervisor II Mary Friesen (Vote for One) (Vote for One) (Vote for One) John M. Gaedke Mary Farrell-Stieve Karl Berna Town Treasurer (Vote for One) Town of Prairie du Sac Town Board Supervisor Town of Fairfield Robert Geenen Town Board Chairperson (Vote for not more than Two) Town Board Chairperson (Vote for One) Michael J. Terry (Vote for One) Town of Honey Creek Janine Godfriaux-Leystra Paul Hasheider Tim Stone Town Board Chairperson (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor 1 Town of Bear Creek Town Clerk Donald Gieck (Vote for One) Town Board Chairperson (Vote for One) John Lichtenheld (Vote for One) Brandie Grob Town Board Supervisor I Marty McCluskey (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor 2 Town Treasurer Craig Raschein (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor 1 (Vote for One) Thomas Schneller (Vote for One) Rebecca DeMars Town Board Supervisor II Jeffrey J. Scallon (Vote for One) Town Clerk Town Board Supervisor I Michael Niemann (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor 2 (Vote for One) Richard Nolden (Vote for One) John Van Hoosen Town Clerk Steven J. Emerson (Vote for One) Town Treasurer Town Board Supervisor II Crystal Fahrenkampf (Vote for one) Town Clerk (Vote for One) Richard Meier (Vote for One) Darlene Otto Town Treasurer Danielle Heiser (Vote for One) Town of Reedsburg Sheila Carver Town of Franklin Robbie Hager Town Board Chairperson Town Board Chairperson (Vote for One) Town Treasurer (Vote for One) Town of Ironton Carl H. Mundth (Vote for One) Joseph Prem Town Board Chairperson Terri L. Connors Donna J. Lins (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor 1 Jerry White Town Board Supervisor I Town of Dellona (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Town Board Chairperson Eric Ruhland Town Board Supervisor I Rebecca M. Klitzke (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Gerald (Jerry) Dallman Town Board Supervisor 2 John L. Pearson Town Board Supervisor II (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor Randall Roelke Town Board Supervisor II Chad L. Allen (Vote for not more than Two) (Vote for One) Daniel Fleming Town Clerk Bill Kinsman Town Clerk Daniel Hess (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Christine Elliott Town Clerk Rebecca Lynn Meyer Town of Delton (Vote for One) Town Board Chairperson Town Treasurer Sharon Verthein Town Treasurer (Vote for One) (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Brent P. Gasser Tamara J. Alt Town Treasurer Erin Mitchell (Vote for One) Kathy J. Schwartz Town Board Supervisor 1 Town of Freedom Dorothy Harms (Vote for One) Town Board Chairperson Town of Spring Green Roman Statz (Vote for One) Town of La Valle Town Board Chairperson Dennis Rehr Town Board Chairperson (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor 2 (Vote for One) Nate Robson (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor Ray Demaskie

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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE SAUK CO, TYPE B, BALLOTS, PT 2 Town Treasurer Town Board Supervisor I Ithaca School District (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Village Trustee School Board Member Karen Shelton John J. Shaker (Vote for not more than Three) (Vote for not more than Three) Jim Witecha Linda M. Peterson Town of Sumpter Town Board Supervisor II Abby Dinger-Zach Joseph Brown Town Board Chairperson (Vote for One) Nick Lester Danielle (Manning) Twining (Vote for One) Tim Novy Becca Keller Timothy H. Colby Village of Rock Springs Amber D. Hilby Village of Cazenovia Village President Town Board Supervisor 1 Village President (Vote for One) Portage School District (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Lisa M. Zautke School Board Member, Rural Timothy S. Bruckert Dennis Adelman Village Trustee (Vote for One) (Vote for not more than Two) Daniel G. Garrigan Town Board Supervisor 2 Village Trustee Jenny Kozlowski (Vote for One) (Vote for not more than Three) Jamie Busser School Board Member, City Donna M. Ziegler Steve Bauer (Vote for One) Rodney Lovell Village of Sauk City Michael O’Grady Town of Troy Mike Adelman Village President Connie Shlimovitz Town Board Chairperson (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Village of Ironton James R. Anderson Reedsburg School District Jeff Lohr Village President School Board Member, (Vote for One) Village Trustee City of Reedsburg, Proper Town Clerk Melissa Berberich (Vote for not more than Three) (Vote for One) (vote for One) Lynn Rausch Leo Almeida Mary Zins Village Trustee Jonathan Cody Sonny Hyde (Vote for not more than Two) John Schmidt Town Treasurer Irvin Berberich School Board Member, Area II (Vote for One) Mike Stahl Village of Spring Green (Vote for One) Lloyd E. Ballweg Village President JR Colvin Village of Lake Delton (Vote for One) Ross Retzlaff Town Board Supervisor 1 Village President Robin A. Reid School Board Member, Area III (Vote for One) (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Bradley J. Anderson John Webb Village Trustee Heather Westphal Tom Ederer (Vote for not more than Three) Village Trustee Debra Miller River Valley School District Town Board Supervisor 2 (Vote for not more than Three) David Saperstein School Board Member, Area 5 (Vote for One) Joe Eck Jennifer Snow (Vote for One) Ed Larsen Tom Diehl Clement Gillitzer Elisabeth Minich Greg Sprecher Aaron Kirby Jeannie M. McCarville Cary M. Brandt Dave Chapman School Board Member, Area 7 Town of Washington (Vote for One) Town Board Chairperson Village of La Valle Village of West Baraboo Frederic H. Iausly (Vote for One) Village President Village President James Huebsch (Vote for One) (Vote for One) School Board Member, Area 8 Rockie Sobeck David Dahlke (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor I Michael Arndt Kiley Cates (Vote for One) Village Treasurer Dave Schulte (Vote for One) Village Trustee Sauk Prairie School District Sara May (Vote for not more than Three) School Board Member Town Board Supervisor II Michael Arndt Village of Merrimac, Towns of Caledonia, (Vote for One) Village Trustee David Bauman Merrimac & West Point Rod L. Escher (Vote for not more than Two) Jake Beard (Vote for One) Lori Dee James Isaacson Town Clerk Bret V. Beier City of Baraboo (Vote for One) Mayor School Board Member Joyce Huebsch Village of Lime Ridge (Vote for One) Towns of Franklin, Honey Creek & Troy Village Trustee Rob Nelson (Vote for One) Town Treasurer (Vote for One) Deb Moses (Vote for One) Clayton Mead 2nd Aldermanic District John Hutchins Gary A. Smelcer (Vote for One) Village Treasurer Thomas Kolb School Board Member Town of Westfield (Vote for One) Villages of Prairie du Sac & Sauk City Town Board Chairperson Corene J. Ederer Sklar 5th Aldermanic District (Vote for One) (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Joel Ludowitz Larry Wilkinson Village of Loganville Joel D. Petty Village President Weston School District Town Board Supervisor (Vote for One) 8th Aldermanic District School Board Member, Area 2 (Vote for not more than Two) Russell R. Lankey (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Pete Giese Heather Kierzek No Candidate Ron Bindl Village Trustee 2 (Vote for One) 9th Aldermanic District School Board Member, Area 3 Town Clerk Ron De May (Vote for One) (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Bob Wood Laurie E. Osborne Julie Strutz Village of Merrimac Mary Kathleen Thurow Village President School Board Member, Area 4 Town Treasurer (Vote for One) City of Reedsburg (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Philip E. Budde Alderperson, District 1 Tara R. Bauer Jess Eastman (Vote for One) Village Trustee No Candidate School Board Member, Area 5 Town of Winfield (Vote for not more than Two) (Vote for One) Town Board Chairperson Kirk Olson Alderperson, District 3 Peter W. Lange (Vote for One) Bob Pfaff (Vote for One) Kurt A. Mead Andrew Gallus Missy Frenz School Board Member, Area 6 Amy Buffardi Richard Braun (Vote for One) Town Board Supervisor 1 Nicholas Stittleburg (Vote for One) Village of North Freedom Alderperson, District 4 Jerry Moll Village President (Vote for One) Wisconsin Dells School District (Vote for One) Tom Seamonson School Board Member, Area 1 Town Board Supervisor 2 Andrew Dear Aaron N. Bauer (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Robert McClyman Jeremy Schyvinck Village Trustee City of Wisconsin Dells (Vote for not more than Three) Mayor School Board Member, Area 2 Town Clerk Trent Beale (Vote for One) (Vote for One) (Vote for One) Michael Carignan Ed Wojnicz Jennifer Gavinski Teresa Bass Al Doering Michael Weiland Alderperson, District 1 Wonewoc Union-Center School District Town Treasurer (Vote for One) School Board Member (Vote for One) Village of Plain Brian K. Holzem (Vote for not more than Three) Robin Craker Village President Cory Wohlrab (Vote for One) SCHOOL DISTRICTS Nancy Dieck Town of Woodland Raymond Ring Baraboo School District Melanie Benson Town Board Chairperson School Board Member (Vote for One) Village Trustee (Vote for not more than Two) Referendums Ed Woolever (Vote for not more than Three) Alex Schenck Town of Greenfield Referendum Melissa Marx (Kraemer) Advisory Referendum Town Clerk Andrew Kraemer Hillsboro School District Should the Greenfield Town Board pass an (Vote for One) Carl J. Oppert School Board Member ordinance under the authority of Wis. Stat. Nancy Dieck Brian L. Brey (Vote for not more than Three) 23.33(8)(b) designating all town roads in the Kelly Yanke Josiah Woirol Town of Greenfield as ATV/UTV Routes? Town Treasurer Jason Oetzman Yes (Vote for One) Village of Prairie du Sac Denise Huntley No Gary Dieck Village President (Vote for One) Cheryl A. 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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE SAUK CO, TYPE B, BALLOTS, PT 3 Weston School District Referendum Question Number 1 Shall the School District of Weston, Sauk and Richland Counties, Wisconsin be authorized to exceed the revenue limit specified in Section 121.91, Wisconsin Statutes, by $975,000 per year for four years beginning with the 2021- 2022 school year and ending with the 2024-2025 school year, for non-recurring purposes consisting of operational expens- es, including maintaining existing programs?

Yes No Question Number II Shall the School District of Weston, Sauk and Richland Counties, Wisconsin be authorized to issue pursuant to Chapter 67 of the Wisconsin Statutes, general obligation bonds in an amount not to exceed $1,900,000 for the public purpose of paying the cost of district-wide capital mainte- nance and building infrastructure improvements, including a roof and flooring at the High School, and a boiler and control updates at the Elementary School; and acquisition of furnish- ings, fixtures and equipment?

Yes No Wisconsin Dells School District Referendum Shall the School District of Wisconsin Dells, Sauk, Adams, Columbia, Juneau and Marquette Counties, Wisconsin be authorized to exceed the revenue limit specified in Section 121.91, Wisconsin Statutes, by $619,108 for the 2021-2022 school year; by an additional $970,832 (for a total of $1,589,940) for the 2022-2023 school year; by an addition- al $1,031,603 (for a total of $2,621,543) for the 2023-2024 school year; by an additional $950,323 (for a total of $3,571,866) for the 2024-2025 school year; and by an addi- tional $1,318,534 (for a total of $4,890,400) for the 2025- 2026 school year and thereafter, for recurring purposes con- sisting of maintaining existing programs and services?

Yes No

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LOCATION AND HOURS OF POLLING PLACE NOTICE

At the Spring Election to be held on April 6, in the Town of The Army is hosting a public meeting of the Badger Restoration Vermont, the following polling place locations will be used: Advisory Board (RAB) on Thursday, April 29 at 6 p.m. To protect the health of the community during the COVID-19 response, this Town Hall RAB meeting is being conducted virtually. If you are not a RAB 4017 County Road JJ MIXED AD member, but would like to participate, please contact Kay Toye at Black Earth, WI 53572 302-313-1770 or [email protected] she will provide infor- 26P 12S mation on how to join the teleconference. RAB members will

ALL POLLING PLACES WILL OPEN AT 7:00 A.M. AND receive their invitation and meeting information in a separate ***************12-30-21 EXPIRATION DATE WILL CLOSE AT 8:00 P.M. 000 of your subscription email. You may join by phone or through any internet connec- YOUR NAME tion. You do not need to download any software to participate. YOUR ADDRESS If you have any questions concerning your polling place, con- YOUR CITY & STATE 12345-6789 tact the municipal clerk. The community is invited to attend this important meeting where the Army will be presenting its new story map which has Kathryn Zelle Don’t miss a week! been designed with input from RAB members and the communi- (608) 767-2457 Check your mailing label for the expiration date of ty to better communicate sampling data and ultimately remedia- your subscription. Then mail your check, along tion activities. The agenda will include an update on the ground- All polling places are accessible to elderly and disabled with the label to renew your subscription ... water modeling effort, an update on the initial work plan for the voters. or call us with a credit card! Its that easy! Site Inspection at Settling Pond 2 and a discussion from the WDNR on PFAS. The Army will also provide updates on ongoing Notice of Meeting of the Local and Municipal Board of environmental restoration efforts at the former Badger Army Canvassers Star News Ammunition Plant. At the close of voting on Election Day, pursuant to the provi- PO Box 286, Black Earth, WI 53515 sions of Wis. Stat. § 19.84, the Election Inspectors will convene 608-767-3655 Publish: 4/1/21, 4/8/21 WNAXLP as a joint meeting of the Local Board of Canvassers and the Municipal Board of Canvassers for the purpose of conducting the 1 Year: $46; $61 out of state • 2 Years: $90; $120 out of state local and municipal canvasses pursuant to Wis. Stat. §§7.51 and VILLAGE OF SAUK CITY 7.53(1). This meeting will be open to the public pursuant to Wis. LOCATION AND HOURS OF POLLING PLACE Stat. §§ 19.81-89. TOWN OF TROY Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP NOTICE At the Spring Election to be held on Tuesday, April 6, 2021 in LOCATION AND HOURS OF the Village of Sauk City, the following polling place locations will LOCATION AND HOURS OF POLLING PLACE TOWN OF TROY POLLING PLACE be used for the wards indicated:

At the ELECTION to be held on April 6th, 2021 in the Town of At the Spring Election to be held on April 6, 2021, in the Town Location Wards Mazomanie, the following polling place locations will be used for of Troy, the following polling place location will be used for the Sauk City Village Hall, 1-6 the wards indicated: wards indicated: 726 Water St, Sauk City, WI 53583

Location Location Wards ALL POLLING PLACES WILL OPEN AT 7:00 A.M. AND Town of Troy Town Hall 1 WILL CLOSE AT 8:00 P.M. 711 W Hudson St, Mazomanie, WI 53560 S10371 County Road C This polling place is accessible to elderly and disabled Black Hawk voters. ALL POLLING PLACES WILL OPEN AT 7:00 A.M. AND If you have any questions concerning your polling place, con- WILL CLOSE AT 8:00 P.M. The polling place will be open from 7:00 a.m. and will close tact the municipal clerk: at 8:00 p.m. The polling place is handicapped accessible to If you have any questions concerning your polling place, con- the elderly and disabled voters. tact the municipal clerk. Heidi Koch If you have any questions concerning your polling place, con- 726 Water Street, Sauk City, WI 53583 (608) 643-3932 Courtney Beuthin tact the municipal clerk. Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. 711 W Hudson St, Mazomanie, WI 53560 (608) 795-2920 Mary Zins [email protected] E9699 Fuchs Road Notice of Meeting of the Local and Municipal Board of By Appointment Only Sauk City, WI 53583 Canvassers Telephone: 608-544-3549 At the close of voting on Election Day, pursuant to the provi- sions of Wis. Stat. § 19.84, the Election Inspectors will convene All polling places are accessible to elderly and disabled as a joint meeting of the Local Board of Canvassers and the voters. Notice of Meeting of the Local Board of Canvassers At the close of voting on Election Day, pursuant to the provision Municipal Board of Canvassers for the purpose of conducting the local and municipal canvasses pursuant to Wis. Stat. §§7.51 and Notice of Meeting of the Local Board of Canvassers of Wis. Stat. § 19.84, the Election Inspectors at the polling place At the close of voting on Election Day, pursuant to the provi- will convene as the Local Canvassing Board for the purpose of 7.53(1). This meeting will be open to the public pursuant to Wis. sions of Wis. Stat. § 19.84, the Election Inspectors at each polling conducting the local canvass pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 7.51 and Stat. §§ 19.81-89. place will convene as the Local Canvassing Board for the pur- 7.53(1). This meeting will be open to the public pursuant to Wis. pose of conducting the local canvass pursuant to Wis. Stat. § Stat. § 19.81-89. Heidi Koch, 7.51. This meeting will be open to the public pursuant to Wis. Village Administrator Stat. §§ 19.81-89. Publish: 4/1/21 Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP WNAXLP PAGE 30 STAR NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 CLASSIFIEDS CLASSIFIED RATES & POLICIES: DEADLINE: THURSDAY NOON the week PRIOR to publication for the Buyer’s Guide and the Star News. RATES: $13.00 for up to 10 words. Additional words are 30¢ each. Your ad automatically runs in both publications for the price of one. For multiple week discount and additional paper coverage, please call our office in Black Earth at 608-767-3655. PAYMENT POLICY: Ads must be paid in advance by cash, check, or credit card at 1126 Mills Street, Black Earth, WI 53515. OR YOU CAN EMAIL YOUR AD WITH CREDIT CARD INFO: [email protected]

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Mount Horeb Area School District - Support Staff Openings

• BUS DRIVERS EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT • CUSTODIAN Kraemer Brothers is currently hiring an Executive Assistant who will provide administrative support to the executive team of the company. This challenging • PARAPROFESSIONALS and rewarding role is multi-faceted and focuses on: preparing and finalizing We are hiring! (GENERAL OR SPECIAL EDUCATION) client materials, including budgets, proposals, and contracts; company communication both internally and externally; and various other corporate Seeking talented and passionate • SUBSTITUTES administrative duties. individuals to join our Team! (BUS DRIVER, CUSTODIAN, FOOD SERVICE, Become a Viking today. Call 608-437-7034 PARAPROFESSIONALS & TEACHERS) The individual in this role should be well organized, detail oriented, able to for more information. multi task, proficient with Microsoft Word and Excel, capable of learning to use industry specific software, and have strong communication skills- both oral and written. NOTICE OF SPRING ELECTION & SAMPLE BALLOT Salary will be based on experience. Qualified females, minorities and veterans SAUK PRAIRIE SCHOOL DISTRICT are encouraged to apply. EEO/AA employer. SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS APRIL 6, 2021 Please send your resume to: Kraemer Brothers, LLC 925 Park Ave NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, to the qualified electors of the Sauk Prairie School District that on Plain, WI 53577 Tuesday, April 6, 2021, an election of school board members will be held. Candidates for the School Email: [email protected] Board are as follows: Phone: 608-546-2411 Sauk Prairie School District School Board Member Village of Merrimac, Towns of Caledonia, Merrimac, & West Point Vote for One DEPUTY CLERK / OFFICE ASSISTANT James Isaacson The Village of Mount Horeb, an innovative and progressive local government organization, is in search of an experienced professional to Sauk Prairie School District join our team as a Deputy Clerk / Office Assistant. Candidates must have a School Board Member positive attitude, be customer service focused and highly skilled at a wide Towns of Franklin, Honey Creek, & Troy Vote for One array of administrative functions. Deb Moses Essential tasks for this position include processing bi-weekly payroll, taking minutes John Hutchins at committee/board meetings, knowledge of Accounts Payable function, welcoming and assisting the public with issues related to property taxes, pet licensing, and utility Sauk Prairie School District payments. This position also assists the Village Clerk in conducting elections and is the School Board Member Villages of Prairie du Sac & Sauk City back-up for all Village Clerk duties. Typical hours for this position are 7:00am-4:30pm Vote for One (Monday – Thursday) and 7:00am-Noon (Friday). Occasionally there are after hours Joel Ludowitz requirements due to meetings or elections. Successful candidates will have a minimum three years of public contact experience; This is a school district wide vote. District electors must vote at the times and places at which they Wisconsin Municipal Clerk Certification within four years after hire; Associate’s Degree cast their ballots at regularly scheduled elections. A listing of polling locations is available at the preferred, or any combination of education and experience that provides the necessary District Office, 440 13th St., Prairie du Sac. knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job. Below is a sample of the official ballot. The Village of Mount Horeb offers a competitive wage and benefits package. The wage for this full-time position is dependent upon qualifications, with minimum of Dated this 17th day of March, 2021. $20/hr starting wage. Village application and a job description can be found on the Mary Ann Marx, Clerk Village website, www.mounthorebwi.info, or can be picked up at the Village Office, 138 E Main Street, Mount Horeb, WI. Applicants must submit a resume, application, cover letter, and references to be considered. Please contact the HR Manager, Wade Udelhoven, at [email protected] or (608) 437-9402 with any questions or to submit your application materials. Review of applications will begin immediately. Recruitment to remain open until position is filled.

NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TOWN OF MAZOMANIE APRIL 6TH, 2021

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at an election to be held in Dane County, Town of Mazomanie on Tuesday, April 6th 2021,The following question will be submitted to a vote of the people:

Notice to Voters: If you are voting on Election Day, your ballot must be initialed by two election inspectors. If you are voting absentee, your ballot must be initialed by the municipal clerk or deputy clerk. Your ballot may not be counted without initials. (See back of ballot for initials.) Instructions to Voters If you make a mistake on your ballot or have a question, ask an election inspector for help. (Absentee Voters: Contact your municipal clerk.) To vote in favor of a question, make an “X” or other mark in the square next to “Yes,” like this: ! To vote against a question, make an “X” or other mark in the square next to “No,” like this: !

Referendum

Are you in favor of allowing ATV-UTV use on Township of Mazomanie roads, with no expense to the Town and following all state statutes and local ordinances?

! Yes

! No

A copy of the entire text of the resolution directing the submission of the question can be obtained ! from the office of the Town of Mazomanie clerk.

Acceptable Photo ID will be required to vote at this election. If you do not have a photo ID you may obtain a free ID for voting from the Division of Motor Vehicles. Courtney Beuthin, Clerk Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP Publish: 4/1/21 WNAXLP PAGE 32 STAR NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021

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