Officials are organizing a new style of summer school that, in part, hearkens back to the early 1990s, when more than 1,000 local kids would annually sign up for “enrichment” courses that went beyond remedial classes in math or literacy. Thursday, February 02, 2012
This time, however, residents of the quiet Harmony Hills neighborhood won’t be able to argue whether the city should allow any exemptions to its underlying zoning or how many apartments are too many. Monday’s public hearing will be about such details as building design and materials, landscaping and recreational facilities.
Girls basketball: Cats begin to relish roles on the court When senior Taylor Lorbiecki went down with an injury earlier in the year, head coach Angie Murphy said the Verona girls basketball team had to adjust and try and fill her role by committee on the court.
Following a 42-28 stifling of Janesville Craig last Friday, several players contributed to the team effort, including senior guard Alyssa Dreher and sophomore guard Marley Campbell – who scored four points in the fourth quarter to put Verona in control.
Jamie King, a 1990 graduate of Verona Area High School, is directing the Feb. 5 performance by the Material Girl after a 15-year stint as her creative director.
Bob McNallie, director of the 403-student school since 2002, recently announced he would retire after this school year, and his retirement was approved by the Verona Area school board Monday night.
An adult Cooper's hawk waits on a deck rail at the home of Michael Kundinger for "an easy meal" this weekend. However, it might not have been the meal Kundinger was thinking of, explained UW-Madison conservation professor Stanley Temple. "They are an increasingly common urban-suburban raptor that often visits backyard bird feeders," Temple wrote in an e-mail to the Verona Press. "The concentration of small birds at a typical bird feeder turns it into a different type of 'bird feeder for an opportunistic predator." Temple also said Cooper's hawks were once scarce because of DDT-induced reproductive failures.
