April 2020

TOWN OF MIDDLETON–With the town’s annual meeting five days away, the Middleton Town Board and Stonebrook Estates residents have yet to reach an agreement on a storm water detention pond the board last month approved for construction.

Wisconsin towns can’t buy property without approval from its resident eligible voters, called electors, which is obtained at annual meetings. On April 21, the town will hold a virtual annual meeting at 6:30 p.m. when residents can call a toll-free phone number and participate.

An annual meeting’s agenda is set largely by the residents but the purchase of a 10.1 acre outlot from the Stonebrook Estates Homeowners Association is likely to make the list. 

On paper, it appears that jumping up the Big Eight Conference standings will be a tall order for Middleton’s boys basketball team in 2021.

The Cardinals graduated four starters and 77.6% of their scoring.

On the flip side, though, the rest of the Big Eight Conference will also be in a rebuilding mode. In fact, seven of the eight players that received first-team all-conference honors, and 19 of the 26 players that earned all-conference honors will be gone.

That means the league will be extremely young and unproven.

So perhaps the Cardinals will be able to jump up from this year’s finish, when they tied with two other teams for fifth place in the league.

“We were an interesting league this year,” Middleton coach Kevin Bavery said. “There were three levels of separation with four top teams that collectively only lost one game outside of playing each other.

MIDDLETON–Charles "Zeke” Doll, age 65, of Middleton, passed away surrounded by his loving family on April 3, 2020. 

Charles "Zeke" is survived by his wife, Mary Anne; daughter, Marcella (Karl) Jakobsen; sons, Matthew (Amy) Doll and Michael (Erin) Doll; grandsons, Cooper Doll and Grayson Doll; granddaughters, Nora Doll and Natalie Doll; sisters, Barbara Johnson and Donna Chan; brothers, Dug Doll and Timothy Doll; and other relatives and friends.  He was preceded in death by his parents. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.  

Burial will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Waterloo. Online condolences may be made at gundersonfh.com.

Several citizens, none of whom wanted to publicly be named in the paper, have contacted me in the past week concerning the decision of the Plan Commission to hold a public hearing to discuss future projects at the Middleton Airport/Morey Field. 

Since no one wanted to have their name printed in the paper, I have decided it is best to address these concerns and the process I have been going through to get information on the topic.

First, let me say, I think it is odd for a board or a commission to hold a public hearing for something that is not under deadline or time sensitive. This was my thought when I saw the plan commission scheduling public hearings at their meeting last week as if nothing in our world had changed. 

I first received an email on the matter by a resident who questioned all of the hearings, but specifically that for the airport improvements. Then the next day I received a phone call about the matter, and finally another email.