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April 2021

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Hubert C. “Sonny” Brabender

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 10:25

MIDDLETON–Hubert C. “Sonny” Brabender, 84, of Madison, passed away on April 16, 2021, at University Hospital, Madison, after a massive stroke suffered on March 29. He was born May 16, 1936, in Madison, the son of Hubert P. and Rosalia (Friedl) Brabender.

Hubert, better known as Herb, spent the first five years of his life in Madison with his parents, until moving to the family farm in Ashton in 1941. He graduated from Ashton St. Peter’s Catholic elementary school, and then graduated from Middleton High School in 1955 after lettering in baseball, basketball, football, and track. Herb was a member of the 1954 Middleton High School basketball team that went to the state tournament. School Principal Meyer often chided him, “If only you would work as hard on your academics.” During the summers Herb starred on the Ashton Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) baseball team and hung out with his buddies, Joel Larson, Kenny Bram, Jim Shaksted and others, creating havoc and having fun.

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Good Day

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 10:25

In recent weeks, I’ve been following Australian news rather than its US counterpart. It’s more fun, as a spectator, because I’m protected by a vast ocean from the idiots who headline their stories. If those politicians and criminals (putting “and” in between two synonyms feels incorrect) want to come here and harm me and my family, we will at least have some time to prepare, thanks to the 100-hour flight. Plus, their stories–including both the fluffy ones and the serious ones–always include bonkers details delivered in absolutely straight faces by their newscasters.

“A young girl who was eaten by a shark in Dungadoo last month has now taken top honors at the regional school spelling bee, eking out a victory against two wombats and a billabong,” a man in a suit will say in the teaser, causing me to scrunch my face and glance up from my work. Wait, what??

“The extinct BongaShark has been wreaking havoc on the Outback’s feral camel population. Find out how at six!” 

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PFAS

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 10:24

Many years ago, when I began taking journalism classes at a community college, I was tasked with writing a paper about a timely topic. The assignment included writing an investigative news story and then explaining the process you went through in attaining information, interviewing, organizing, etc. 

The topic I chose for this assignment was Lake Erie recovering from being declared a dead lake in the 1960s due to decades of pollutants being tossed in the water. It was once thought that you could throw anything into the Great Lakes and it would just magically disappear–not unlike a magician’s rabbit. Of course, humans learned the hard way that this was not the case, and many of the contaminants have and will linger for years to come.

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ETS Performance Opens Training Facility in Middleton

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 10:23

MIDDLETON–Ryan Englebert had aspirations of becoming a NFL football player from the age of three, but a life-threatening car accident in 2003, when Englebert was 21 years old, stopped that dream short.

“I was told I would likely never walk again,” he recalled.

But Ryan did walk again and trained his was to onto the field and into the Cincinnati Bengals training camp. And although his goal to be a professional football player didn’t come to fruition, Englebert realized that training was about more than physical strength and endurance, it was also psychological. It was about life lessons, and character building, and from that was born his training company, ETS Performance.

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State Retains Congressional Seats

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 10:17

WASHINGTON DC–Preliminary 2020 US Census data has revealed that Wisconsin saw a slight increase in population over the past decade, allowing the state to retain its eight US Congressional seats. 

The information is part of the agency’s apportionment report, which is responsible for determining electoral votes as well as seats in the US House of Representatives delegation and shows that Wisconsin grew by 206,732 residents between 2010 and 2020. The increase brings the state’s total population to 5,893,718, or the 20th highest in the country, but ranked only 34th in growth at 3.6 percent.

The biggest growth areas in the state were seen in cities, including Madison, Green Bay and Milwaukee.

Gains in populations leading to additional seats were seen in Texas, which will add two seats, Florida, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon, all of which picked up one added seat. 

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Garlic Mustard on Residents' Minds

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 10:15

TOWN OF MIDDLETON–In prior annual electors’ meetings, Town of Middleton residents discussed; runway expansion at the city of Middleton’s airport; buying land for a storm water pond and developing a subdivision near the town hall.

Last week, garlic mustard was the main topic residents discussed or, precisely the refusal of garbage collectors to haul away the noxious weed residents had pulled from their properties.

John Haverberg, a Plan Commission member and a resident for 47 years, said he and other neighbors pull garlic mustard from their properties, including filling 40 garbage bags last year.

In the past, bagged garlic mustard was hauled away by the town’s contract garbage collector, Advanced Disposal. Earlier this year, it was acquired by Waste Management, Inc. which no longer accepts the plant.

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School Board Approves Changes to SRO Program

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 10:14

MIDDLETON–The Middleton Cross Plains Area School District (MCPASD) Board of Education approved the district’s first evaluation of the school resource officer (SRO) program and the recommended changes to the program proposed by the district administration.

The SRO program at MCPASD started in the mid-1980s at the high school and later expanded to the middle schools. The program has never been formally evaluated or changed since implementation.   

In June 2020 students, parents and community members called on the City of Middleton to suspend its contract with the MCPASD while the SRO program was reviewed. The Middleton Common Council tabled the contract with MCPASD, which provided police officers at Middleton High and Kromrey Middle School, until the district reviewed the program. 

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Drop in Vaccine Clinic Planned at MOM

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 10:13

MIDDLETON–In partnership with Fitchburg Family Pharmacy, MOM (Middleton Outreach Ministry) will host a pop-up vaccine clinic using the two-part, Pfizer vaccine.

Dose 1 will be distributed on May 5 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at MOM, 3502 Parmenter St., Middleton, WI.

The second clinic will be held on May 26 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at MOM. Dose 2 will be administered, or participants may get their first dose (and get their second dose directly through Fitchburg Family Pharmacy). No appointment is necessary, anyone 16 and older is welcome, but 16 and 17 year-olds must be accompanied by an adult if they are not pre-registered.

To pre-register for the clinic, go to momhelps.org. Paper copies will be available on-site.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit: https://momhelps.org/.../covid-19-vaccination-clinic-at-mom/

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Baseball Cardinals ready to roll

Submitted by MTT News on Thu, 04/29/2021 - 21:19

In a normal April, Brent Jorgensen would certainly know who his top players were.

He’d know who he’d want on the mound at crunch time, what batting lineups worked best and what late-game defensive replacements made the most sense.

But many of those things remain a mystery to Jorgensen, Middleton’s third-year baseball manager. That’s what happens when COVID-19 wipes out a season like it did with all spring sports in 2020.

“It's hard to say who will be our top position players and our expectations for each player because we are entering a season where we didn't really get to see kids last year,” said Jorgensen, whose team opened the year Tuesday against Madison East. “We have a lot of players with similar qualities who will push each other for playing time, and we have a handful of multi-sport athletes who are juggling their schedules.

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