Middleton

students
weigh in
on election Local voters favored
In a mock MHS vote,
support for Trump was Clinton by huge margin
virtually non-existent
VOL. 124, NO. 46

In the weeks leading up to

the 2016 Presidential election,
many Middleton students expressed a desire to have a say in
the election.
The Middleton Public Library, as a neutral space that
supports intellectual freedom
and free speech, was happy to
support the request by providing a voting box for students at
the library. Ballots were anonymous and included a comments
section to explain their choice,
if desired.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016

A total of 71 ballots were returned, with Hillary Clinton favored as the clear winner.
Clinton won 60 votes total and
Jill Stein, of the Green Party,
came in second with seven
votes.
Donald J. Trump, who won
the national election, received
only three votes. Gary Johnson
received one.
We hope our student voters
will continue to practice civic
See VOTE, page 5

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Nearly 8 in 10 voters in the City of

Middleton supported the Democrat

Republicans stunned Democrats nationwide last week, winning the Presidency and holding both the House of Representatives
and the Senate. At the local level, it was a very different story. Voters in the City of Middleton favored Democrat Hillary Clinton
by a margin of more than three-to-one. Seventy eight percent (8,722 people) of city voters cast their ballots in favor of Clinton,
while only 22 percent (2,487) voted for the man who will soon become the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
While Trump had greater support in the more traditionally conservative Town of Middleton, he still lost there, earning 39 percent of the vote to Clintons 61 percent. Two local referendum questions in the city, both regarding support for action to fight
climate change, passed by wide margins as well.

Robber with
gun attacks

On Monday at 8:20 p.m., the

Middleton Police Department
was informed of an armed robbery that had just occurred in
the 5500 block of Century Ave.
See ATTACK, page 4

Making history

Times-Tribune photo by Mary Langenfeld

Middletons girls swimming and diving team had never won a WIAA Division 1 state
championship until last Saturday. The Cardinals, under the direction of head coach Lauren Cabalka, made history by capturing gold. For more on Middleton's historic day, please
see sports on page 8.

Winter parking

The City of Middletons

long-standing alternate side
parking ordinance is in
effectnow and remainsin effect
untilMarch 15 of 2017.
Officers have been putting
warnings on vehicles for the
past couple weeks to remind

residents of the ordinance.

The purpose of the ordinance
is to facilitate snow removal
and street maintenance. If it is
necessary for you to leave a vehicle on the street between 1
See WINTER, page 5

Annual fruit sale

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Call 608-622-2757 or email mhsfruitsale@gmail.com with your name, address and email address by November 27 to order fruit and support local students in band and orchestra.
Photos contributed

Would you like to support

local music education and enjoy
some very fresh fruit this winter? Then the Middleton High
School Band and Orchestra Parents Associations annual fruit
sale is for you.
Fruit can be ordered from any
MHS Band or Orchestra student
through November 27. Your
order will be delivered to your
home or work, beginning on
Saturday, December 10.
Twelve options are available,
with prices ranging from $20 to
$45. This years offerings include Texas Rio Red grape-

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fruit, California navel oranges,

apples, pears and citrus medleys
and very popular varietal Gift
Packs. This is some of the best
fruit you will eat this winter!
(The citrus is on the tree less
than a week before our delivery
day in Middleton.) It is topquality fruit, shipped by semi to
the high school and hand-sorted
and packed by parent and student volunteers. The fruit keeps
very well and makes great holiday gifts.
As in the past, you can designate all or part of your order to
be donated Middleton Outreach

Ministrys
food
pantry
(MOMs) and the students will
deliver it there for you.
The proceeds from this sale
provide funds for student music
camp scholarships, guest performers and clinicians, and uniform and equipment upkeep for
band and orchestra students at
MHS. The proceeds also help
pay for the biennial band and
orchestra tour trips, which combine musical performance and
listening opportunities in a
well-organized program over
the students spring break.
In the spring of 2017, band
and orchestra students will
travel to New York City and
participate in performances and
learning experiences there.
Dont know a band or orchestra student?
Call 608-622-2757 or email
mhsfruitsale@gmail.com with
your name, address and email
address by November 27. A student will contact you to take
your order. Or visit www.mhsfruitsale.org to see all that is
available and place your order.
Get a start on your winter vitamin C needs and order some
fruit from the band and orchestra today.

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Solar power, flood insurance and more

by CAmERON BREN
Times-Tribune

The Middleton Common

Council approved various items
relating to flood insurance, solar
power at a newly approved TIF
development and a cloud-based
permitting software system at
its latest meeting.
The council approved an
amendment to the existing flood
plain ordinance, which will
keep flood insurance affordable
alder Hans Hilbert explained.
FEMA requires after a flood
insurance study is done, in this
case for the entire county, every
municipality that has a flood insurance program update their
ordinance to reflect the most
current study and change to the

maps that are part of that study,

Hilbert said.
If you choose not to comply
with the FEMA requirements to
update they tell you that you are
no longer eligible for the national flood insurance programs, Hilbert said. Which
means that anyone in the community that has flood insurance
no longer is covered in that policy and if they want to get insurance outside that program the
premiums are probably going to
cost more than what they are
trying to insure.
Alder Gurdip Brar said he
was concerned that the dredging
of the confluence pond, an ongoing project, could have an effect on the map and it may need
to be updated again.
City planning director Eileen

Kelley said the consultant who

is working on the dredging project identified the change that
was needed and submitted letter
of map revision to the DNR and
FEMA.
Kelley added that dredging
doesnt necessarily change the
flood map, but in this case it did
and that is why the change was
being made.
Brar said he had concerns
about certain properties, but
Mayor Kurt Sonnentag swiftly
cut off the discussion.
Gurdip, it is not worth talking about, Sonnentag interjected. It is something we have
to do so lets get on with it.
Moved by Hilbert, seconded
by Brar, to approve the Amendment to Floodplain Zoning Ordinance. The motion passed

unanimously.
The council approved minor
change to a large upcoming TIF
project and discussed how the
public funds would be directed.
Electronic Theater Control was
granted conceptual approval of
a TIF request for $3,635,000 for
sustainability features last
month to a 75,000 square foot
addition that will support more
than 100 new jobs by 2022.
Big plans out there, Hilbert
said and asked about rumored
plans for solar.
We are meeting with ETC,
because they are using the increment that is already been
identified we have some ideas
for potentially systems with
solar, not through the city, Kelley said
We are definitely looking

into it, said a spokesperson

from ETC.
City administrator told the
council he has been working on
finalizing the TIF agreement
and would have it before the
council soon.
We are planning to bring a
TIF agreement back, subject to
city attorney Larry Bechlers
workload, in mid-November to
the council, Davis said.
A motion to approve the specific implementation plan modification and design review
passed unanimously.
The council also approved
the purchase cloud based permitting software. The iWorQ
software system has an annual
license fee of $5,850 and a onetime set-up and data conversion
fee of $2,925.

The resolution from passed

by the council says after researching available options the
building inspection department
recommends licensing a software package from iWorQ Systems that replaces a paper file
based system. Building inspection says it will improve efficiency
and
allow
the
department to comply with new
state reporting requirements.
The $8,775 cost is projected
to be covered by personnel savings in 2016 due to staff
turnover.
The city finance administrator noted a final version of the
contract will need to be approved by the council.
A motion to approve passed
unanimously.

Expressing concerns about ATC line at open house

by KEVIN muRphy
Times-Tribune

Steve Gauger has lived in the

Town of Springdale for 40 years
and, like most residents, does
not look forward to the prospect
of a 345-kilovolt transmission
line slicing through the bucolic
community.
Its a nice area to live in
but I absolutely dont want the
power line coming through
there, Gauger said at a Nov. 3

open houseRural Utilities Service of the U.S Department of

Agriculture held in Middleton
for a power line that would span
from Dubuque to the Cardinal
Substation in the town of Middleton.
The Cardinal-Hickory Creek
line is part of 17 similar transmission lines, including the
Badger-Coulee line, currently
under construction in Dane
County, that are proposed or
being built in the Midwest to
bring wind power from adjacent

states to the energy markets further east.

Unlike
Badger-Coulee,
which also will terminate at the
Cardinal Substation, the Cardinal-Hickory Creek line is undergoing an additional layer of
environmental review because
Dairyland Power Cooperative,
one of the proposed lines coowners, may seek federal funding for it.
DPC is a nine percent owner
of the proposed Cardinal-Hickory Creek line because it
owns Mississippi River crossing at Cassville, WI, said Chuck
Thompson, DPCs manager for

siting and regulatory affairs.

DPC may borrow $45 to $50
million from federal sources to
fund its share of the estimated
$500 million project, he said.
Crossing the river is fairly
expensive but theres an existing crossing there. The main
thing is to get U.S. Fish and
Wildlife (Service) and Corps of
Engineers approvalto cross
the river, he said.
The USDA Rural Utilities
Service conducts an environment review of the publically financed projects, takes public
input at three occasions during
the 18-month process in order

to recommend an alternative to
the proposed project.
That alternative could include a recommendation not to
build the power line, or build
the line or something else, said
Dennis Rankin, a RUS environmental protection specialist.
Rankin could not recall the
review process had ever resulted in RUS not recommending building a power line.
Gauger and others present
will recommend substituting
more local generation of energy
and improved management of
the demand for power instead of
building another power line in
the area but understands approval for the power line is
pre-determined.
Theyre limited as to what
they can look for and theyre
mainly interested in developing
an alternative (power line)
route. Discussion about nontransmission (line) alternativesisnt really on the table,
said Michael McDermott, town
of Vermont.
American
Transmission
Company, a project co-owner
with ITC Midwest, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, touts the Cardinal-Hickory Creek line as a
benefit for Wisconsin energy
consumers.

Public input can be sent

by email to: comments@Cardinal-Hickory CreekEIS.us;
Or mailed to: SWCA Enviromental Consultants, Attn:
Cardinal-Hickory Creek EIS,
200 Bursca Dr. Suite 207
Bridgeville, PA 15017
Wisconsins Public Service
Commission also must approve the project. ATC anticipates a decision in 2019 or
2020 and if approved, the
line would go into service in
2023.

The benefits will outweigh

the costsand benefit ratepayers economically through access to lower cost power, said
Kaya Frieman, an ATC
spokesperson.
Wisconsin energy customers
will pay 10 to 15 percent of the
projects cost, said Frieman.
RUS welcomes public input
on the project until Jan. 6 for
consideration as it prepares a
draft Environmental Impact
Statement. The public can comment on the draft EIS after its
issued in the summer or fall of
2017. The selected alternative
will be included in the projects
final EIS which is scheduled to
be released in 2018.
That will be followed by a
30-day public comment period.

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City tree lighting takes

place Saturday, Nov. 19

File photo by Jeff Martin

Middleton City Hall will kick off the holiday season on Saturday, Nov. 19 with an array of festivities, all centered around the lighting of the tree (by Santa) at 5:15 p.m. The fun will start at
2 p.m. and continue until the lighting with horse and wagon rides, cookie decorating, a craft sale,
winter wonderland storytime, an ugly sweater contest and name that tune. It will also be an
opportunity to donate food for the Middleton Outreach Ministry Food Pantry.

Local technology
teacher honored

Haunted library

Photos contributed

The Middleton Public Library was temporarily and gleefully haunted on the night of
Friday, Oct. 28. Local teens helped run this all-ages holiday event.

Holden Pratt, a Business and

Information Technology teacher
at Middleton High School, was
honored and awarded the Wisconsin Educators of Business
Information Technology Early
Career Educator award during
the convention annual award
luncheon on October 7.
This award serves to recognize a business educator currently
teaching
business
subjects (K-12 or postsecondary) who is a current
WEBIT member and has exhibited professional promise. Can-

ATTACK

According to a statement issued by police, the victim, a 40year-old male, indicated he was
walking behind the Rolling
Hills Condos when he was approached by a mixed-race male
believed to be partially African
American, estimated between
the ages of 20-30 years old, approximately six-feet tall and
180 pounds.
The suspect had braided hair

didates for this award will have

no more than five years of
teaching experience.
Holden graduated from
Dodgeville High school in 2008
and attended Edgewood College in the fall. After taking a
wide variety of business classes
in high school he knew he
wanted to go into business, but
did not know in what capacity.
After deciding to take business
and education courses he
quickly knew what he wanted to
do. He graduated from Edgewood in the winter of 2012.

and was wearing a dark jacket

that had a Chicago Bulls emblem on the front and the word
Chicago on the back, as well
as dark colored pants. The suspect allegedly displayed a blue
steel revolver and demanding
the victims wallet.
The suspect hit the victim
over the head with the revolver
and fled on foot northbound
through the parking lot of 3406

Holden was lucky enough to

land a teaching job at Portage
High School in the summer
after graduation in 2013. This
provided him many great opportunities including teaching a
variety of courses, serving as
co-adviser for FBLA, and
coaching middle school boys
basketball.
Holden recently madea career change and began teaching
at Middleton High School
where he hopes to get involved
with student organizations and
coaching again.
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Valley Ridge Rd. The victim

received non-life threatening injuries.

The Middleton Police Department is asking anyone who

may have information or witnessed this incident to contact
the police department at 608824-7300, tipster line at 608824-7304
or
text
at608-824-7300.

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Fantastic!

Photos contributed

The Middleton Community Orchestra held the first concert of its 2016-17 season on the night of Thursday, October 13. In
addition to the regular orchestra, the evening included performances by mezzo-soprano Jessica Kasinski, baritone Gavin
Waid and pianist Thomas Kasdorf (all pictured above). The concert included the works of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and George Gershwin. Mindy Taranto, co-founder of the MCO, called the show fantastic. Check back soon for information about their upcoming holiday concert.

VOTE

engagement and take advantage

of their voting rights as they
grow older, said Rebecca Van
Dan, head of Youth Services at
the Middleton Public Library.
The two main reasons cited
for choosing Clinton were her
experience and the desire to see
a woman president.
Comments included, She

WINTER

has good plans to lead our country forward, She is more reasonable, She inspires me and
my sister, I like her viewpoints and she does a lot for
America, Because she is a
nice person, Because Bernie
[Sanders] likes her, She is
supporting workers and minorities, She will not send His-

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and 7 a.m., park on the evennumbered side of the street on

even-numbered
calendar
daysand likewise,park on the
odd-numbered side of the street
on odd-numbered days.
If signs prohibit parking on
one side of the street, alternate
side parking does not apply. If
the addresses on your street are
all even or all odd numbered,
the alternate side parking regulation still applies. In effect,
there is no on-street parking
every other night in this case.

To do otherwise would mean

that one side of the street could
not be plowed.
For a schedule of the alternate side parking, go to middletonpd.com. (Para el horario en
espaol presione aqu middletonpd.com.)
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
ABOUT ALTERNATE
SIDE PARKING

Alternate side (or seasonal

parking) regulations are

panics back, She knows what

she is doing and saying, She
is not sexist! and Because she
is a she.
A number of the comments
suggested that she was the only
choice against Trump and mentioned Trumps behavior as
their reason for voting for Clinton: Because Trump has said
common in Wisconsin. A notice like the one pictured on the
front page of this edition is
posted at entrances to the
City. It is the responsibility of
hosts to notify guests of the alternate side parking restriction.

Officers do often have more

important things to do than
write parking tickets and on
those occasions citations may
not be issued. However, most
alternate side parking tickets are
written during the time of day
when the fewest crimes, accidents and calls for service
occur.

There is no parking ticket

quota. Officers are not judged
by the number of parking tickets they write, but rather by the
degree of voluntary compliance
in their patrol districts. Consis-

terrible things about stereotyped

groups of people, Trump is
super mean, Trump is not
cool, Trump is a liar,
Trump is disgusting towards
women, and She stands a
chance against Trump who has
made harmful remarks that hurt
my ears and my heart. One
mentioned not understanding
tent enforcement, especially
early in the season, typically results in voluntary compliance
and fewer parking tickets.

The police department

budget is set. The department
does not receive any money
from parking tickets or traffic
citations. All fines go to the
Citys general fund.

Alternate side parking enforcement is NOT contingent

on an impending snow
storm. It is not their objective
to write parking tickets when it
snows, but rather to get people
into the habit of consistently
complying with the ordinance.
Writing tickets to illegally
parked cars during or after a
snow storm doesnt help in the
snow removal operation. Voluntary compliance, precipitated by

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Historic Middleton
Station Neighborhood
Association will meet
to discuss development
The Historic Middleton Station Neighborhood Association
will host a listening session
concerning the progress of
downtown development and
plans for the future.
The listening session will
take place on Wednesday, November 30, starting at 6 p.m. in
Council Chambers at City Hall.

Developer Terrence Wall will

address the group. There might
also be discussion of the Park
Street Pedestrian Safety Study.
While the entire public is
welcome to attend, the meeting
is designed chiefly for residents
and businesses in the Historic
Middleton Station Neighborhood.

Gios Garden is hosting a

Vendor & Craft Fair onSunday,
November 20from11:30 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. at KEVA Sports
Center in Middleton.
The fair will include many
local vendors and crafters selling their products, basket raffle
and a bake sale!

Proceeds benefit Gios Garden, a nonprofit organization

that provides respite care to
families and children with disabilities, birth through six years
old.
For more information, visit
giosgarden.org
or
facebook.com/giosgarden.

Gios Garden to host vendor

and Craft Fair this Sunday

Trumps campaign promise regarding illegal immigration:

Creating a wall doesnt sound
like a good idea. Drug dealers
could fly in anyway.
Student voters who said they
supported Trump made their
choice because, he sounds like
he will change, and Because
Hillary wants to raise taxes.
continued from page 1

consistent enforcement, results

in a significantly more effective
and efficient plowing operation.

If you have been issued a

parking ticket and wish to
have it reviewed by the department, you can do so it
atwww.middletonpd.com/parking_ticket_review_form.htm

You can now call or TEXT Middleton Police at 608-8247300for non-emergencies.

continued from page 1

The voters for Stein also

liked the idea that she would be
the first female president. Comments included, She is a girl,
that is awesome, I want a female president, and We agree
on environmental issues and
healthcare plans.

CHURCH NOTES

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Mystery solved
Format change knocked progressive
radio program off of local airwaves

County Inn & Suites

celebrates improvements

Photos contributed

Kinseth Hospitality Company (KHC) is pleased to announce the Country Inn & Suites Middleton, located at 2212 Deming
Way, has completed a full hotel and guest room renovation. An official ribbon cutting ceremony and grand re-opening
celebration took place on November 3 to give everyone in the Middleton community and the surrounding areas a glimpse
at what this newly renovated event space has to offer to the community. Guests in attendance were invited to tour the hotel,
enjoy complimentary drinks and hor doeuvres, and enter to win raffle prizes.
Rob Wartella, the General Manager of the Country Inn & Suites, shared his excitement about the new guest rooms:
Country Inn & Suites is looking to the future and have made thoughtful changes that will allow our hotel to grow and
evolve into a product that appeals to a younger generation, however, maintaining our service culture and amenities that
have built our strong, loyal customer base.
The renovation included a complete redesign of the hotel which opened in Discovery Springs in 2004. Renovations began
on the lobby and breakfast area of the hotel in November of 2015, with the corridors and guest rooms starting in February
of 2016. The new contemporary look and feel combines warmth and comfort with iconic elements of which Country Inn
& Suites are known. Wartella and his staff couldnt be more excited about the new Gen4 design and he commends his
team for a job well done during the renovation process, they said.
The Country Inn & Suites Middleton is an select-service hotel featuring a redesigned lobby, complimentary wireless
internet, business center, 24-hour market, indoor pool, fitness center, and complimentary breakfast. Guestrooms offer
luxurious bedding, crisp linens, fluffy pillows, and flat screen TVs.
Kinseth Hospitality is a leading hotel management, development and ownership company. Kinseth has a proven track
record of developing and operating award-winning hotels, restaurants and meeting facilities. Kinseth Hospitality is based
in North Liberty, Iowa, and currently operates over 65 hotels and six branded restaurants in 13 states.

While many of the universes

big mysteries persist, you can
now cross one off the list. The
Middleton Times-Tribune featured a front page story last
week about Mike Crute and the
Devils Advocates radio program, which is going into national syndication but recently,
and until last week inexplicably,
had the plug pulled by its local
home station, The Mic 92.1.
The reason for the cancellation was made clear by a statement issued by the stations
ownership company last week:
Progressive talk is being replaced by holiday jingles.
iHeartMedia Madison announced the debut of Madisons Home for the Holidays
92.1 BEST FM, a new holiday
music station for listeners in the
Madison community.
92.1 BEST FM will broadcast around-the-clock festive

music leading into the holiday

season.
Fans can listen to 92.1 BEST
FM on the stations website,
www.921bestfm.com, as well
as on iHeartRadio.com.
Until the change, which went
into effect Wednesday (the
same day the press release was
issued) 92.1 had been home to
one of the areas only progressive political talk radio stations.
iHeartMedia Madison owns
and operates WXXM-FM,
WIBA-FM,
WMAD-FM,
WZEE-FM,
WTSO-AM,
WIBA-AM and is part of
iHeartMedia. With over a quarter of a billion monthly listeners
in the U.S. and over 85 million
social followers, iHeartMedia
has the largest national reach of
any radio or television outlet in
America.
To follow where the Devils
end up, visit darnwi.com.

More than 2000 people entered and now the Middleton

Tourism Commission is announcing the winner of its fall
Gourmet Giveaway.
Carol Sroka of West Allis,
Wisconsin won a weekend in
the city and breakfast, lunch,
dinner and dessert at some of
the best restaurants in Middleton. She and a guest will spend
a night at theMadison Marriott

Westhotel and the weekend eating their way through the Good
Neighbor City with a hearty,
made-from-scratch breakfast
atPrairie Cafe, an authentic, Albanian lunch at Sofra Family
Bistro and a delicious dinner
atBiaggis Ristorante Italiano.
Theyll top it all off with dessert
at Villa Dolce, home to decadent tortes, crepes and the finest
gelato outside of Italy.

Woman wins Gourmet Giveaway

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Middleton leads the way on climate change

Local citizens are doing their part to save the planet, even if president-elect Trump isnt

Dear editor,
Congratulations and thanks
go to the City of Middleton, its
leaders and its residents. In one
particularly bright spot in an
electoral sea of darkness and
disappointment for climate advocates, Middleton lit a radiant
beacon of hope. On Nov. 8,
Good Neighbor City residents
took the opportunity to vote on
a non-binding advisory referendum that says climate-change
solutions should be a priority
both locally and nationally.
We accepted that opportunity
and we did it! We means you
and me and everybody else who
worked, talked and voted for the
Middleton Climate Referendum. We all together made it

happen! We good neighbors

have helped encourage the
Good Neighbor City to be an
even better good climate neighbor. We overwhelmingly got
both referendum questions approved.
Should the City of Middleton reduce the risks of global
warming through its policy decisions and actions? By Voting YES for Climate with
an80.6 percent majority on this
first question, we have loudly
declared that climate-change
solutions are a priority for the
City of Middleton. Through the
vote we encourage the city to
leverage and improve existing
efforts to cut carbon use and
focus on cleaner solutions. We

have told the city we want it to

prepare for the impacts of climate change through increased
capacity to withstand and respond to severe weather. We
have affirmed the priority of Investing now in appropriate infrastructure and capacity that
will reduce future costs.
Should the City of Middleton endorse a federal carbon fee
and dividend program as part of
a national strategy to reduce the
risks of global warming? By
Voting YES for Climate with
a72.3 percentmajority on this
second question, we have made
Middleton the FIRST CITY in
the COUNTRY to pass a referendum supporting a federal
Carbon Fee and Dividend pro-

gram as part of a national strategy to cut carbon emissions and

reduce the risks of climate
change. An entire city has
shouted one loud message to the
state, the country, and the
world. Everybody now knows
there are people in the United
States, in Wisconsin, and in
Middleton who recognize the
seriousness of climate change
and call for federal legislators to
take significant effective action
against climate change now.
The need for this successful
referendum as well as for similar points of light and beacons
of hope in other communities,
grows as the male Presidentelect doubles down. He dismisses the overwhelming, well

documented and extremely vetted climate change science

which documents a real problem that is really serious, really
human caused and can still really be solved. Instead he has
selected vocal climate change
denier, Myron Ebell, as his a
singularly unqualified EPA transition team head. For this and
other reasons, we must remember as citizens that last Tuesdays ballot marks the start, not
the finish, of our work against
climate change and for a livable
world.
We have begun that work
with this referendum. We have
the privilege and opportunity to
continue that work with the
Middleton Climate Referendum

Project (MiddletonClimateReferendum.org) and the Citizens

Climate
Lobby
(MadisonCCL.info). Be informed, stay in touch and get involved. Together we can make
a difference. When national
leaders, like the President elect,
dont lead and even refuse to
recognize the problem, then we
citizens and local leaders must
show them the way to follow.

If there was any doubt that

Middleton residents want the
city to act aggressively to reduce the carbon footprint of the
community, last weeks vote
dispelled it. I am confident that
the city will carry out this strong
mandate.
The 72 percent voter mandate in favor of advocating a
carbon fee and dividend to our

federal legislators is a national

first by voters at the municipal
level. Hopefully, it will have
many emulators, perhaps some
more in Dane County. It is important for our U.S. representatives and senators to understand
that the peopleeven if not yet
their conservative billionaire
and fossil-fuel interest cash constituentsexpect and demand

responsible action on climate.

While some federal officeholders may hold office mainly because of many millions of
dollars spent by assorted oligarchs to put or keep them in
office, they should never be permitted to forget that they have
real constituents with children
and grandchildren who want
their descendants to have a

chance to live on a habitable

planet.
Middleton voters have delivered a strong grass roots message to Congress that we expect
responsible action on climate
and that carbon fee-and-dividend legislation is a very good
way to do it.
Let other communities emulate Middleton until the mes-

sage reverberates so loudly that

even the purposefully deaf,
Koch Brothers-dependent, ostrich federal legislator cannot
avoid feeling the rhythm
through the sand into which he
has stuck his dense head and responding positively to it.

Trump could win the nomination and the Presidency.

Why? Because the people,
the hard working, private sector,
physical labor people are sick

and tired of the political establishment and career politicians

(on both sides). Not only did
the outsiders win; money in politics lost. Clinton reportedly
spent $1 billion and couldnt
pull out a win. And remember
how Trump beat Jeb Bush with
about $3 million to Bushs some
$160 million.
And the people won over the
pollsters.
Once again the
polling companies were proven
completely wrong. As I learned
in 2010, the polling companies
promote specific outcomes; its
not about accuracy in predicting
outcomes.
And of course, the hard
working people of America beat
out the money and power and
manipulation by Wall Street.
The heartland of America won won over corruption, won over
the President writing unconstitutional laws via executive
orders without Congressional
approval.
And yes, law and order won.
America has always been a law
and order country - as compared
to all the corrupt nations of the
world. And along with that,
guns and self-defense are back
in.
The establishment is out and
the common man and woman
are in. The elite are out and the
labor force is in. The people are
back in control of their government, a government that was
supposed to be by and for the
people, but which became by

and for government class. This

is also a win for the party that
selected its nominee by voting;
not by manipulation and superdelegates.
How did this happen? Start
with understanding Trump who is fundamentally a developer. A developer is someone
who spends his life arguing and
fighting every step of his life to
try to create jobs, build economic developments that pay
enormous taxes that support our
schools and governments.
Trump didnt get where he is
today by sticking it to people;
he got where he is by compromise. He has had to compromise on every development,
every approval, every deal to license his name. He got where
he is by building successful
teams to implement incredibly
complicated projects. He also
has had to negotiate with world
leaders.
This should guide those of
you who didnt vote for him.
Trump has brought people together to get things done, and he
will again. And I really hope
that he will follow through and
invest in the inner cities and rebuild run down infrastructure
there and that he will establish
a legal system for immigration,
because small businesses need
immigrants to survive, including Trumps businesses.
Now there are those who
should worry. Those in the political establishment, the con-

sultants and those in the federal

government - because there
may be a reduction in the size of
federal government. Certainly
Paul Ryan is now in an awkward position and will need to
kiss and make up. Those who
promote bigger government,
more regulation, and higher
taxes are going to have to set
aside their agenda.
How did this happen? Clinton and Obama, thats how.
This is what extremes on both
sides dont understand. The extreme policies of Obama and
Hillarys corruption caused the
pendulum to swing the other
way. If Obama would have
been less extreme, the voters
would have chosen a different
nominee for the Republican
side. (Attention conservatives dont expect Trump to focus
much on the social issues on the
alternative side of the matter.)
If Trump goes too far, the
voters will throw him out in
four years, but also dont expect
the new administration to play
the game that the media is already pushing, that he somehow
has to reconcile and bring the
other side into his camp.
Obama created the new paradigm of destroying his enemy
and not uniting the country,
something not even Bill Clinton
did. In fact, Obama went out of
his way to divide the country
with his rhetoric, but I do expect
Trump to be different, but without compromising his princi-

ples.
Yes, the era of bigger government is over and Wisconsin is
blazing the trail. The Chairman
of the Republican Party is from
Wisconsin as is the speaker of
the house, and most importantly, Wisconsins 10 electoral
votes were key, absolutely key,
to the Trump win. Wisconsin
has laid out the path to reform
and economic recovery on a
state level and I think youll see
more of that nationally.
Let us not forget what led to
this outcome. Liberals forgot
that when government becomes
too large, the private sector can
not financially support it. There
has to be a balance and this
election is going to help reset
the balance to whereby the relationship between the private
sector and government sector is
one that is synergistic rather
than predatory.
Congrats Donald, but now go
out and unite the country and
restore the balance.

Many Thanks,
KermitHovey
Coordinator, Middleton
Climate Referendum Project

No doubt Middletonians care about climate

Dear editor,

Thanks to Middleton Alders

Brar, Hilbert, Olson, Porter,
Richard and West for putting
the two recent climate referendum questions on the November 8 ballot. Thanks to
Middletonians for their overwhelming positive response to
both questions.

Up Against the Wall

Sincerely,
Robert H. Owen, Jr.

Wall predicts Trump will be Developer-In-Chief

by TERRENCE WALL
Guest Column

I hate to say I told you so, but

I did say this autumn that Donal

Up Against the Wall is a

monthly column written by local
developer Terrence Wall and reflects his views and opinions,
not those of the Middleton
Times-Tribune editorial staff.
Responses and rebuttals are
welcome and can be sent to
mgeiger@newspubinc.com.
They will be published in the
following edition.

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Reischel on
Twitter at
@robreischel

Times-Tribune photo
by Mary Langenfeld

Middletons girls
swimming and
diving team captured the first
WIAA Division 1
state
championship in school
history
last
Saturday.

Swimmers make history

Middleton
wins first
state title
by GREGG hAmmILL
For the Times-Tribune

They came in as the

favorites and left as champions.
Middleton capped a dream
season by claiming its first
WIAA Division 1 state girls
swimming and diving championship at the University of
Wisconsin Natatorium last
Saturday night.
We said in the beginning of
the season, this was our main
goal state, said freshman
Gabriela Pierobon Mays. We
knew we could do it.
Last year, they blew it out
of the park and got second. We
definitely thought we had a
shot at this and then it actually
coming true is just surreal.
Theres no words to describe
how awesome it is. It hasnt
sunk in yet.
Middleton totaled 265
points behind a first-place finish by Pierobon Mays in the
100-yard butterfly and winning
performances by the 200- and
400-yard freestyle relays.
We moved up where we
knew we could, Middleton
coach Lauren Cabalka said.
The girls that were tapered

from last week, they held

where they were and did exactly what we needed them to do.
They just really just came
together as a team and did it for
each other.
Verona-Mount Horeb finished second with 215.5 points,
followed by two-time defending
champion
Hartland
Arrowhead
with
180.
Cedarburg was fourth with
168.5 points followed by Big
Eight Conference schools
Madison West (135) and Sun
Prairie (122).
Verona is an amazing
team, Cabalka said. They
pushed us all year long. I think
its really cool for the two of us
to be on top at the end.
The Cardinals, who won the
Big Eight Conference and the
Middleton Sectional, entered
the meet as slight favorites to
win the title over VeronaMount Horeb and Hartland
Arrowhead based on seed
times from sectionals and felt
the pressure.
I felt a ton of pressure,
Pierobon Mays said. Us coming in as a team being favored
to win that was definitely a
huge pressure on everyone. But
then, me being first and third in
my individuals, I was pretty
nervous for those, but I just
kept saying to myself for the
team, Got to get the points for
them.
Junior Caroline Hippen was
pleased how Middleton handled the pressure.

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For sure, we were favorites

to win and theres always that
little pressure, but we handled
it really well, Hippen said.
We did not let it overwhelm us
and freak us out. We really kept
our cool and went out there and
did what we knew. We know
we were prepared for this. We
worked so hard since August.
Middleton actually trailed
Cedarburg and Verona-Mount
Horeb by a slim margin until
the sixth event when Pierobon
Mays captured the 100-yard
butterfly in a personal best 55.0
seconds. She just beat out
Madison Wests Katrina Marty
who finished in 55.30.
I swam with (Marty) ever
since I started club swimming,
Pierobon Mays said. I love
racing her. Having her by my
side pretty much pushed me to
get that time. Obviously, I
wouldnt have been able to do
that without her.
Pierobon Mays said shes
learned some things from competing against Marty.
Throughout the season,
Lauren (Cabalka) has always
said, You get beat off your
third turn, youve got to push
that up, Pierobon Mays said.
When Ive been swimming
against Katrina, at conference
and sectionals, she beat me off
those turns and I definitely
took that as a learning experience. And here, I just pushed
off the wall and gutted it out.
Pierobon Mays also finished
third in the 100 backstroke in
54.69 seconds.
Perhaps the biggest turning
point of the meet came in the
meets next event, the 100-yard
freestyle. Middletons Cora
Mack and Hippen, swimming
the second of three heats in the
event, wound up with the second- and sixth-best times earning 30 points for the Cardinals.
Mack, a sophomore, finished in
51.32 seconds, easily topping
her 12th seed time of 52.70.
Weve been telling her all
season long, thats the type of
swimmer she is and thats what
shes capable of, Cabalka said
of Mack. For her to do it when
it mattered most was huge for
us.
Hippen was seeded 10th
(52.62) in the race and finished
in 51.76.
Caroline came into this
meet in a really good way,
Cabalka said. She had a really

positive attitude, she was ready

to go, she was excited, and she
wasnt letting nerves get the
best of her. She swam out of
her mind. Between her and
Cora they carried us.
Mack and Hippen had the
advantage of swimming next to
each other in lanes 5 and 6.
I just kept with her and she
kept with me and we really
pushed each other like we did
this whole season, said
Hippen, who added a podium
finish in the 200-yard freestyle,
finishing sixth in 1:52.11. It
was a surprise, but it was also a
goal of ours. We knew that we
could do that. It really helped
having my teammate right next
to me.
Mack agreed.
I think we both push each
other to do better and this
whole season weve gone back
and forth, Mack said.
Mack also swam the second
heat of the 50-yard freestyle
and wound up with the thirdbest time in 23.52. Mack was
seeded ninth with a time of
24.22.
It feels pretty good, Mack
said. I wasnt expecting to get
on the podium because I was in
the second heat. I was really
surprised in both of my races.
Hannah Aegerter also had a
big performance for the
Cardinals. The sophomore was
second in the 200-yard
freestyle in 1:51.13 and fourth
in the 500-yard freestyle in
5:01.39.
Middleton dominated the
relay events.
The 200-yard freestyle team
of Mack, sophomore Makenna
Licking, Hippen, and Aegerter
cruised to a first-place finish in
1:33.72, more than two seconds faster than second-place
Madison West in 1:33.75.
The 400-yard freestyle relay
team of Aegerter, Hippen,
Mack, and Pierobon Mays
swept to victory in 3:24.94,
well ahead of second-place
Cedarburg in 3:27.63.
Middletons 200-yard medley relay team of junior Chiara
Pierobon Mays, freshman Alex
Anagnostopoulos, Gabriela
Pierobon Mays, and Licking
finished second in 1:45.0.
Also for Middleton, senior
Elise Hokanson was ninth in
the 500-yard freestyle in
5:05.77; Licking was 12th in
the 100-yard freestyle in 52.82

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and 22nd in the 200-yard

freestyle in 1:57.29; Chiara
Pierobon Mays was 14th in the
100-yard backstroke in 58.94
and 19th in the 100-yard butterfly
in
59.44;
and
Anagnostopoulos was 14th in
the 100-yard breaststroke in
1:06.94.
Junior Eleanor Mackey also
finished 13th in the diving
competition with 286.25
points.
Gabriela Pierobon Mays
couldnt have asked for a better
finish to her freshman season.
It was awesome, Pierobon
Mays said. There was so
much support from everyone.
Everyones so cheerful, so positive, and so excited. I dont
think Id want another high
school team. I wouldnt want
another group of girls to share
this opportunity with and mentor me through the season and
to be by my side.
Hippen said winning state
was an overall team effort.
(State) is a big goal of ours
this whole season, Hippen
said. Weve been the top dog
for a lot of the season and none
of us could have done it without any of our teammates with
morning practice and afternoon
practice and pushing each other
and just a really great time.

WIAA STATE SWIM MEET

At UW Natatorium
DIVISION 1
Team scores: Middleton 265,
Verona/Mount Horeb 215.5, Hartland
Arrowhead 180, Cedarburg 168.5,
Madison West 135, Sun Prairie 128,
Appleton North 126, Brookfield Central
122, Neenah 104, Madison Memorial
83, Bay Port 70, Mequon Homestead 68,
Muskegon 64, De Pere 56, Waukesha
South/Mukwonago 51, Racine Case 47,
Hartford 38, West Bend West 38,
Kenosha Tremper 34, Brookfield East
33, Menomonee Falls/Sussex Hamilton
32, Stevens Point 31, Janesville Craig
30, Waunakee 20, DeForest 20, Hudson
17, Milton 17, Oak Creek 13, Schofield
D.C. Everest 13, Milwaukee DSHA 13,
Pius
12,
Greenfield/Milwaukee
Kenosha Indian Trail 11, Chippewa
Falls/McDonell 11, Beloit Memorial 11,
South Milwaukee 9, Fond du Lac 9,
Waukesha West/Catholic Memorial 8,
Eau Claire Memorial 7, Wisconsin
Rapids 6, Germantown 6, Oshkosh
North/Lourdes 3.
Diving: 1, Osero, Nee, 508.65; 2,
Nickerson, MH, 473.80; 3, Locante, BC,
471.05; 4, Sanchez, RC 459.15; 5,
Tompkins, RC, 457.35; 6, Kornfeld,
MDSHA, 444.50; 7 (tie), Avila, Ced,

Times-Tribune photo by Mary Langenfeld

Junior Chiara Pierobon Mays helped Middletons 200-yard medley relay team finish second at
state.

and Nunn, VMH, 439.05; 9, Osell, SM,

438.10; 10, Pach, ECM, 434.45; 11,
Donkle, MM, 411.25; 12, Woida, HA,
402.85; 13, Mackey, Mid, 396.20; 14,
Neveau, ONL, 392.40; 15, Wrasman,
HA, 387.35; 16, Anderson, OC, 385.35.
200 medley relay: 1, Cedarburg (L.
Hosack, Remington, Fore, M. Novack),
1:43.44; 2, Middleton (C. Pierobon
Mays, Anagnostopoulos, G. Pierobon
Mays, Licking), 1:45.00; 3, Madison
West (Marty, Kissel, Mirus, Cardwell,
1:45.71; 4, Verona/Mount Horeb
(Stewart, Bennin, McCartney, Larsen),
1:45.96; 5, Bay Port, 1:47.21; 6,
Muskego, 1:48.13; 7, Appleton North,
1:48.15; 8, Sun Prairie (Unmacht,
Nelson, Carey, Powers), 1:48.29; 9,
Necedah, 1:48.32; 10, Hartland
Arrowhead 1:48.69; 11, West Bend
West, 1:49.50; 12, Mequon Homestead,
1:49.61; 13, Madison Memorial (Meyer,
Vaccaro,
Spielman),
McMahon,
1:50.28; 14, Brookfield East, 1:50.26;
15, Menomonee Fall/Hamilton, 1:51.79;
16, Kenosha Tremper, 1:51.98.
200 freestyle: 1, Cabush, HA,
1:50.77; 2, Aegerter, Mid, 1:51.13; 3,
Powers, SunP, 1:51.18; 4, Stegner,
MFH, 1:51.58; 5, Horn, AN, 1:51.99; 6,
Hippen, Mid, 1:52.11; 7, Stupar, StevP,
1:52.89; 8, Daniel, BC, 1:53.14; 9,
Champagne, WBW, 1:53.20; 10, Tranel,
WSM, 1:53.44; 11, Cortina, Nee,
1:53.71; 12, Held, HA, 1:53.87; 13,
Farber, WWCM, 1:53.88; 14, Wilhelms,
Waun, 1:54.17; 15, Graves, HA,
1:54.33; 16, Henshue, VMH, 1:54.88.
200 individual medley: 1, Hosack,
Ced, 1:59.47; 2, DuChene, KT, 2:03.85;
3, Donagan, JC, 2:04.42; 4, Seidl, VMH,
2:05.17; 5, Lasecki, BP, 2:05.57; 6,
Rice, Nee, 2:06.02; 7, Macco, DP,
2:06.28; 8, Gilbert, KIT, 2:08.13; 9,
Ketterling, OC, 2:08.97; 10, Zablocki,
DP, 2:08.99; 11, Westcott, BE, 2:09.10;
12, Gastrow, HA, 2:09.59; 13, Scanlan,
WSM, 2:09.83; 14, Drapp, VMH,
2:10.08; 15, Melendy, BP, 2:10.80; 16,
Tatro, DCE, 2:11.28.
50 freestyle: 1, Gustafson, BC,
:23.31; 2, Bennin, VMH, :23.43; 3,
Mack, Mid, :23.52; 4, Fore, Ced, :23.54;
5, Mirus, MW, :23.79; 6, Hilt, AN,
:23.93; 7, Larsen, VMH, :23.94; 8,

Novack, Ced, :24.02; 9 (tie), Bjornstad,

MH, and Bloomer, MM, :24.19; 11,
Loeck, DeF, :24.57; 12, DeBack, Hart,
:24.63; 13, Unmacht, SunP, :24.66; 14,
Bollendorf, RC, :24.68; 15, Stewart,
VMH, :24.71; 16, Sebranek, MW,
:24.76.
100 butterfly: 1, G. Pierobon Mays,
Mid, :55.00; 2, Marty, MW, :55.30; 3,
Lasecki, BP, :56.32; 4, Bollendorf, RC,
:56.42; 5, Mirus, MW, :56.74; 6, Stigler,
Mus, :56.81; 7, Tatro, DCE, :57.01; 8,
Carey, SunP, :57.47; 9, Lewandowski,
HA, :57.88; 10, Champagne, WBW,
:58.04; 11, Daniel, BC, :58.22; 12,
Cramer, Milt, :58.27; 13, Brackett, AN,
:58.35; 14, Zablocki, DP, :58.50; 15,
WSM,
:58.62;
16,
Tranel,
Szczupakiewicz, Musk, :58.79.
100 freestyle: 1, Fore, Ced, :50.77;
2, Mack, Mid, :51.32; 3, Seidl, VMH,
:51.33; 4, Gustafson, BC, :51.38; 5,
Horn, AN, :51.44; 6, Hippen, Mid,
:51.76; 7, Cabush, HA, :52.10; 8,
Stupar, StevP, :52.18; 9, Stegner, MFH,
:52.48; 10, Hilt, AN, :52.67; 11,
Bjornstad, MH, :52.78; 12, Licking,
Mid, :52.82; 13, Farber, WWCM,
:52.83; 14, Cardwell, MW, :52.97; 15,
Marks, Ger, :52.34;16, Bloomer, MM,
:53.38.
500 freestyle: 1, Powers, SunP,
4:56.19; 2, Graves, HA, 4:59.19; 3,
Held, HA, 5:01.32; 4, Aegerter, Mid,
5:01.39; 5, Scanlan, WSM, 5:02.53; 6,
Henshue, VMH, 5:02.55; 7, Westcott,
BE, 5:03.17; 8, Gastrow, HA, 5:03.97;
9, Hokanson, Mid, 5:05.77; 10,
Wilhelms, Waun, 5:06. 11, Gnewuch,
VMH, 5:07.51; 12, McCadden, FdL,
5:10.04; 13, Cortina, Nee, 5:10.23; 14,
Ketterling, OC, 5:10.59; 15, Pilecky,
DeF, 5:10.99; 16, Lustig, GMP, 5:13.81.
200 freestyle relay: 1, Middleton
(Mack, Licking, Hippen, Aegerter),
1:33.72; 2, Madison West (Mirus,
Marty, Cardwell, Sebranek), 1:35.75; 3,
Verona/Mount Horeb (Seidl, Larsen,
Gnewuch, Bennin), 1:36.65; 4, Madison
Memorial (DeFever, Meyer, Spielman,
Bloomer), 1:37.43; 5, Brookfield
Central, , 1:37.71; 6, Hartford, 1:37.96;
7, Hartland Arrowhead, 1:38.04; 8, Sun
Prairie (Rybak, Rundahl, Collins,
Carey), 1:38.41; 9, Appleton North,

1:39.29; 10, Neenah, 1:39.45; 11,

DeForest (Hargraves, Taugher, Martin,
Loeck), 1:39.61; 12, De Pere, 1:40.00;
13, Stevens Point, 1:40.06; 14,
Waukesha South/Mukwonago, 1:40.12;
15, Menomonee Falls/Sussex Hamilton,
1:40.20; 16, Chippewa Falls/McDonell,
1:40.80.
100 backstroke: 1, Marty, MW,
:54.31; 2, Hosack, Ced, :54.56; 3, G.
Pierobon Mays, Mid, :54.69; 4,
DuChene, KT, :56.02; 5, Lewandowski,
HA, :57.13; 6, Rice, Nee, :57.25; 7,
Cramer, Milt, ::57.28; 8, Wells, BM,
:57.57; 9, Woods, BE, :57.61; 10,
Meinberg, Hfd, :58.19; 11, Melendy, BP,
:58.27; 12, Unmacht, SunP, :58.35; 13,
Marks, Ger, :58.58; 14, C. Pierobon
Mays, Mid, :58.94; 15, Coons, Nee,
:58.98; 16, Tunney, MH, :59.23.
100 breaststroke: 1, Bennin, VMH,
1:02.13; 2, Stigler, Mus, 1:02.40; 3,
Macco, DP, 1:04.15; 4, Larsen, VMH,
1:04.57; 5, Donagan, JC, 1:04.62; 6,
Teng, BC, 1:05.12; 7, Stein, Hud,
1:04.44; 8, Kirkpatrick, GMP, 1:05.40;
9, Borgenheimer, CFM, 1:05.48; 10,
Bellart, Mus, 1:05.91; 11, Hartman,
WR, 1:06.01; 12, Wood, Hud, 1:06.53;
13, Arps, WBW, 1:06.78; 14,
Anagnostopoulos, 1:06.94; 15, Samels,
BP, 1:06.96; 16, Kult, BC, 1:06.98.
400 freestyle relay: 1, Middleton
(Aegerter, Hippen, Mack, G. Pierobon
Mays), 3:24.94; 2, Cedarburg, 3:27.63;
3, Appleton North, 3:31.75; 4, Madison
Memorial (Meyer, Spielman, Bloomer,
DeFever), 3:32.70; 5, Sun Prairie
(Unmacht, Collins, Rybak, Powers),
3:33.50; 6, 3:34.01; 7, Hartland
Arrowhead, 3:34.41; 8, Verona/Mount
Horeb (Stewart, Gnewuch, Henshue,
3:35.28;
9,
Waukesha
Seidl),
South/Mukwonago,
3:35.44;
10,
Neenah, 3:36.23; 11, Brookfield
Central, 3:36.34; 12, Waunakee
(Wilhelms, Liu, Saxby, Pierce), 3:38.21;
13, De Pere, 3:38.42; 14, West Bend
West, 3:38.67; 15, Fond du Lac,
3:38.96; 16, Bay Port, 3:39.14.

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Middleton falls to Catholic

Memorial in state quarters
by J.R. RADCLIFFE

For the Times-Tribune

If there is a curse surrounding Middletons boys volleyball team at the state tournament, its going to have to last
one more year.
For the fourth straight year
and fifth straight state-tournament appearance, Middleton
was sent home in the quarterfinal round, falling to a talentrich Catholic Memorial squad
last Friday at Wisconsin
Lutheran
College
in
Milwaukee, 25-23, 25-27, 2517, 25-20. The Cardinals finished the season at 30-10.
The Crusaders went on to
win the state title the following day.
For me to complain or
whine, there are going to be
teams saying, Wed love to go
four years in a row,
Middleton coach Ben White
said. Its great weve created
a culture and expectation that
were going to state.
Were a pretty young team
and have a lot of pieces that

can bring this team back next

year. Their goal this year and
next year is to play on that last
day. Weve said that all year
we wanted to start on the first
day and play on the last day.
As I get older and have
coached long enough, I know
you dont take (getting to
state) for granted and just
enjoy the moment, because
you dont know when youll
be back.
Middleton showed it was a
worthy opponent, clawing its
way to a second-set victory
after watching an 18-12 lead
dissolve into a 21-all tie. Brian
Vergenz (12 kills) delivered
the kill and the block that
allowed the Cardinals to hold
on for the win, but CMH was
able to pull away in the third
set and hit the after-burners in
the fourth after Middleton had
pulled to within 22-20.
We didnt know much
about them and really hadnt
faced a team of their level in a
while, Memorial right-side
hitter Joe Heyrman said. We
hadnt been in many tourna-

Photo courtesy of Anne Squires

Brian Verganz (12) and Middletons boys volleyball team gave eventual state champion Waukesha Catholic Memorial a scare in
the state quarterfinals last Friday.

ments down the stretch. It was

good to get our head together
and collect our thoughts.
Theyre a really scrappy team,
and we had a hard time just
putting the ball down. We really had to re-focus. It was a
good reminder; its good to be
battle tested early on in the
tournament. Every team here
is a great team.
Memorial relies on the

high-velocity swings of outside hitter Ryan Brown (17

kills and middle blocker Zach
Engsberg (12), but it was
Heyrman (nine) and Dom
Coello (10) that made the
Crusaders so tough to stop,
providing multiple secondary
options.
They run a really fast
offense, and the block was
hard to find, said Middleton

senior Jack Herder, who finished with two solo blocks and
five assists. And whenever
we would send the ball over,
their passers would get the ball
right to the setter every single
time. They could pretty much
run whatever, whenever they
wanted, and that made it really
difficult to keep up with
them.
White, who was able to

watch
several
Catholic
Memorial
matches
on
YouTube and formulate a
game plan even though the
two teams havent met this
season, said he felt every
CMH passer performs at a
level of 2 or higher on a 3point scale.
Everybody they throw in
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Their time
to shine

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016

MHS girls
basketball
team has
high hopes
by ROB REISChEL
Times-Tribune

Twelve
months
ago,
Middletons girls basketball
coach Jeff Kind stood in the
schools gymnasium and said,
If Veronas ever going to win
(state), it will be this year.
The Wildcats then made
Kind looked Nostradamus and
captured the WIAA Division 1
state championship in March.
During that same conversation, Kind also said, If were
ever going to win it, it will be
the next year.
Well, that year is here and it
begins when the Cardinals
head to Madison Memorial
Friday for a 7:30 p.m. contest.
Now, Kind hopes his prognosticating skills are as strong as
they were a year ago.
Kind brings back arguably
the finest team hes had in 24
years
of
coaching
at
Middleton. And considering
Kind has guided nine teams to
state and has been second at
state three times, thats saying
something.
This
is
the
year,
Middleton junior forward
Halle White said. This is definitely the year. We all think
that.
With good reason.
Middleton went 17-1 in the
rugged Big Eight Conference
last season and tied for the
league title with eventual state
champion
Verona.
The
Cardinals went 21-4 overall
and lost in the sectional semifinals to Janesville Craig.
Middleton returns its top six
scorers from that team, including first-team all-Big Eight
Conference point guard Bria
Lemirande and second-team
all-league forward Alexis
Thomas.
I think this team definitely
has the most potential of any
team Ive played on here, said
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Autumn Delaney 11
Alyssa Lemirande 12
Brittany Tonnesen 10
Payton Hodson
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Tavi Tanin
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Katrina Anderson 12
Alexis Thomas
12
Haley Dunn
11
Christina Schauer 11
Karina Bursac
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Charlotte Dunn
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Claire Staples
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Hannah Flottmeyer 10
Bria Lemirande
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Carlee Lemirande 12
Halle White
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Head coach: Jeff Kind

Assistant coaches: Brent Jorgenson, Danielle Dixon
player. I think were really
focused and were really driven because we dont want to be
the group that didnt live up to
our potential.
The Cardinals certainly
have an impressive combination of potential and production.
It starts with Lemirande,
who also earned honorablemention all-state honors last
year.
Lemirande
led
the
Cardinals in scoring (14.7) last
season, highlighted by a 37point outing at Janesville
Craig. Lemirande also led
Middleton in assists (4.7),
steals (2.8), and rebounds
(6.8).
It really starts with Bria,
Kind said. Shes going to
have a great year. Shes gotten
even better and shes definitely
going to lead us.
Thomas was second on the
Cardinals in scoring (14.1),
second in steals (2.4) and
grabbed 3.0 rebounds per
game last year. Shes stronger
physically than any time in her
career and should be ready for
a banner senior season.
Weve teased her how
skinny she used to be, Kind
said of Thomas. Not anymore
though.
Middleton has several other
key cogs back, as well.

Senior
guard
Alyssa
Lemirande (10.0 ppg) is a terrific offensive player and an
extremely scrappy defender.
White
(10.1
ppg)
is
Middletons top inside player
and should be poised for a big
season after injuries limited
her to nine games last year.
Senior forward Carlee
Lemirande (8.0 ppg) is one of
the top shooters in the conference. And junior forward
Claire Staples (7.8 ppg)
flashed the ability to become
one of Middletons top allaround players.
In addition, sophomore post
Hannah Flottmeyer (5.0)
improved steadily during her
freshman season and could be
poised for big things.
Freshman Karina Bursac is
expected to contribute from the
word go.
Others like senior guard
Katrina Anderson and sophomore guard Charlotte Dunn
could play key roles.
We could easily go 12
deep, Kind said.
We are definitely a deep
team, White said. We have a
lot of potential if we just keep
working and make each other
better. I know we can go really
far.
Middletons talent and
depth will allow Kind to run a
5-in, 5-out attack. Kind will

File photo

Bria Lemirande and Middletons girls basketball team believe that a state championship is possible in 2016-17.

function almost like a hockey

coach and substitute five players at a time every two or three
minutes. Hell then demand
they play at a fevered pitch,
where the goal is to eventually
wear out an opponent.
Two seasons ago, that style
of play helped Middleton reach
the state semifinals, where it
lost in overtime to eventual
champion DSHA.
I think back to that game
all the time, Bria Lemirande
said. I just think if maybe we
were a little more focused in
one or two practices, that could
have made the difference.
But this team definitely
has the ability to go back (to
state). And if we can do it
again, I like our chances.
Few coaches in the state
have enjoyed more success
through the years than Kind.
He now ranks eighth in state
history with 540 wins and

should add handsomely to that

total this season.
About the only thing Kind
hasnt done at Middleton is
win a state title. Perhaps 2016
is finally the year.
Its possible, Kind said of
winning a state title. Ive felt
that way at different times
through the years. But this is a
really good bunch of kids and
hopefully well have a

chance.
Bria Lemirande agreed.
Weve been waiting for
this year for a long time, she
said. We want to make it a
great year and we have the
players to do that.
Which could make Kinds
forecasting spot on for a second consecutive year.

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to win Big Eight
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Editors Note: The following

story is a preview of the Big
Eight onference compiled by
Wissports.net.

2015-16 Recap

Verona and Middleton

shared the Big Eight title after
splitting their contests.
Verona went on to win the
Division 1 state championship
defeating Mukwonago, 52-46,
in the title game. Middleton
lost to Janesville Craig in the
sectional semifinals.
Craig, which finished third
in the league, fell to Verona in
the sectional finals.

Players to Watch

Alyssa Blair, sr., Sun

Prairie Blair averaged 9.2
points per game for the
Cardinals last year. She currently holds a pair of Division
II scholarship offers.
Ali Carlson, sr., Janesville
Craig Carlson averaged 8.8
points per game as a junior and
was named honorable mention
all-conference.
Carly Coulthart, jr., Sun
Prairie Courthart received
third team all-Big Eight honors
after averaging 12.5 points per
game. She was among the best
three-point shooters in the state
last season, connecting on 73
triples and shooting better than
53%. Coulthard is currently
recovering from a torn ACL
and it's uncertain when she will
make a return to the court.
Justice Filip, jr., Madison
East Filip was named third
team all-Big Eight after averaging team-highs in points
(13.4) and assists (3.3).
Julia Hartwig, soph.,
Janesville Parker Hartwig
was named second team allleague as a freshman after averaging 15.3 points and 11
rebounds per game.
Erin Howard, jr., Madison
East Howard, an Auburn
recruit, averaged 13.3 points,
8.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 2.2
steals and 2.5 blocks per game
and was named second team
all-league.
Jayda Jansen, jr., Sun
Prairie Jansen was named
first team all-Big Eight after
finishing second in the conference in scoring with 17 points
per game.
Alyssa Lemirande, sr.,
Middleton Lemirande finished third on the team in scoring with just under 12 points
per game as a junior.
Bria Lemirande, sr.,
Middleton Lemirande was
named first team all-Big Eight
and honorable mention WBCA
All-State after averaging 15
points per game as a junior. She
tallied a career-high 37 points
in a win over Janesville Craig
last season.
Alex Luehring, sr., Verona
Luehring was named second
team all-Big Eight after averaging 14 points and 4.5 assists
per game as a junior. The UWGreen Bay recruit knocked
down 50 three-pointers last
season.
Grace Schraufnagel, sr.,
Verona Schraufnagel, a
Quincy University recruit, will
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role this season after playing

behind Division 1 and Division
2 recruits last season.
Alexis
Thomas,
sr.,
Middleton Thomas was
chosen second team all-league
after averaging 15 points per
game as a junior.

Team Previews (in

projected order of
finish)
1) Middleton

The Cardinals are the

favorite to capture the conference title as they return nearly
their entire roster from last seasons co-championship squad.
Jeff Kind, the eighth-winningest coach in state history
with 540 victories, welcomes
back all five starters with seniors Alexis Thomas and Bria
Lemirande leading the way.
They each averaged 15 points
per game last season and
played key roles on the
Cardinals' state tournament
team in the 2014-15 season.
Middletons starting five
includes a set of triplets in the
Lemirande's, with Alyssa and
Carlee joining sister Bria.
Alyssa scored 11 points per
game while Carlee tallied just
under 10 per game last year.
Middleton had two posts
that started much of last season, as well. Sophomore
Hannah Flottmeyer (5 ppg)
started the first half of last season, while junior Halle White
(9.9 ppg) moved into the starting lineup when she returned
from a shoulder injury.
Kind said that along with
the 10 returning letterwinners
Middleton will also add several
players from its JV and freshman teams.
We should be able to play a
real up-tempo style," Kind
said.
Junior Claire Staples (8 ppg)
was a key reserve last year,
while newcomers such as sophomore Charlotte Dunn and
freshman Karina Bursac will
provide depth.

2) Madison East

The Purgolders hope to

make a big jump in the standings this season after finishing
in sixth place last season.
Coach James Adams said that
speed and skilled players are
Easts strengths.
The Purgolders welcome
back their starting five, highlighted by Auburn recruit Erin
Howard. Fellow junior Justice
Filip led East in assists last year
and is another strong scorer.
Junior Aireyanna Conners
(9.8 ppg), senior Kalea Kruser
(7.9 ppg) and senior Riley
Larson (6 ppg) are all returning
starters, as well.

3. Verona

The Wildcats captured the

Division 1 state championship
last season, their first in pro-

gram history. Verona figures to

remain near the top of the conference this season, despite the
graduation of four starters,
including current University of
Wisconsin athlete Grace
Mueller.
Coach Angie Murphy, who
enters the year with a 218-70
career record, said that work
ethic and teamwork are
strengths.
We have so many new
inexperienced faces that our
four returning letter winners
from last year are going to have
to really step up and not only
score a lot of points for us and
be great leaders, Murphy said.
The Wildcats will build
around UW-Green Bay recruit
Alex Luehring, who had an
outstanding showing at the
state tournament last season.
Grace Schraufnagel, a Quincy
University recruit, will move
into a more prominent role this
season after playing in a
reserve role last season.
The Wildcats will look to
junior Chandler Bainbridge
and Sisi Mitchell to provide
stability to their backcourt.
Senior Stacey Giese and juniors Josie Mueller and Bryanna
Wood are among others who
will contribute this season.

4. Sun Prairie

The Cardinals finished last

season with an 11-7 conference
mark and will compete for a
spot in the top three with the
return of their top five scorers.
Coach John Olson said that
athleticism and shooting will
be strengths, while size is a
weakness.
Leading the way is Jayda
Jansen, who finished second in
the conference in scoring as a
sophomore. Senior Alyssa
Blair and junior Carly
Coulthart also return as impact
players. Coulthart might be out
an extended period of time as
she recovers from a torn ACL.
Other key returners include
sophomore Alexis Baker, senior Gabriella Miller and sophomore Elle Moore.

5. Janesville Craig

The Cougars will compete

for spot in the top half of the
standings, despite the graduation of four starters from their
2015-16 squad that finished
third in the league and reached
a sectional finals.
Coach Kerry Storbakken,
who has a 107-40 record at
Craig, said Craig will be fast
with good depth.
We will rely on defense
and balance on offense," he
said.
Senior Ali Carlson is the
lone holdover from last year's
starting five. Others that return
as key contributors include
senior Sam Pierson and sophomore Emily Pierson, who will
take on more prominent roles
this season.
Additional players that saw
varsity minutes last season are
senior Hannah Halverson, junior Genna Laesch and sophomore Amanda Carlson. The
Cougars also added Verona
transfer Ally Johnson, who
averaged six points per game

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Alexis Thomas and Middletons girls basketball team are the favorites to win the Big Eight
Conference this season.

for the state champs as a junior.

6. Janesville Parker

The Vikings finished with a

9-9 record in the Big Eight last
season in Jennah Hartwig's first
season as their head coach.
Hartwig said that Parkers
strength will be in its post play
with the return of sophomore
Julia Hartwig, Jennahs daughter, and senior Kam Blazer (5.6
PPG, 5.9 RPG).
Our guards are young as
we graduated three seniors and
lost two more to ACL injuries,
Hartwig said.
Jacy Benway saw varsity
action in the second half of her
sophomore year and will take
over point guard duties this
season. Sophomore Brooke
Graesslin will also be a key
player in Packers backcourt,
but will be out until around
Christmas as she recovers from
an ACL injury. Senior Sydney
Brewster will provide depth at
the guard position. Coach
Hartwig indicated that freshman Jena Forrestal and Tina
Shelton could also be key contributors.

7) Madison Memorial

The Spartans will look to

compete for a spot in the top
half of the standings, despite
the graduation of four starters

from their 2015-16 team that

went 6-12 in the league.
Coach Marques Flowers
said that Memorial will be a
young team with several freshman and sophomores projected
to play key roles. Flowers
added that speed, athleticism,
perimeter shooting and guard
play are strengths, while interior defense is a weakness.
Memorials lone returning
starter is Mrylena Stewart, who
finished second on the team in
scoring with 7.6 points per
game as a sophomore. Other
players that will contribute
include senior Cora Kinney,
sophomore Elle Kinney and
sophomore Lily Frisch.

8. Madison La
Follette

The Lancers finished with a

6-12 record in the Big Eight
last season. Eight letterwinners
return, but La Follette will need
to replace the production of
Megan Corcoran who graduated.
First-year coach Will Green
said that he has a core of girls
who have played together for a
while. Sophomores Ayona
Johnson (6 ppg) and Kaytlin
Eder (5 ppg) are returning
starters for the Lancers.
Junior Stella Oruruo and
junior Meryl Steel are among

other returnees who will contribute. The Lancers also added

Marshall transfer Sydni Olson.

9. Madison West

The Regents return eight letterwinners from their 2015-16

squad that finished with a 2-16
record in the Big Eight. Second
year coach Chaz Jones said that
having a balanced attack inside
and out is a strength heading
into the year.
A weakness of ours will be
our ability to control the glass,"
Jones said.
The Regents will be without
junior Kate Carlson who suffered a torn ACL in the offseason. Carlson led the team in
scoring (15.2 ppg) and
rebounding (6 rpg) last year
and was named third team allconference.
Returning starters include
senior Giselle Monette (11
ppg), sophomore Kaitlin
Manke (3.8 ppg) and senior
Kate Hettenbach.

10. Beloit Memorial

The Purple Knights went 023 last season.

The good news for Beloit is
that it welcomes back two of its
top players from last year's
squad in junior Aniah Williams
(11 ppg) and senior Sydnee
Marshall (4 ppg).

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016

can pass, White said.

Theres no hole on that team.
You have to try to get momentum and get on a run.
There were brief glimpses
of that. A four-point run in the
fourth set and a three-point run
shortly
thereafter
gave
Middleton an early lead, but
the Crusaders put the game in
hand with a five-point and sixpoint spurt to make it 18-12.
While CMH was keeping
steady in the back row, its
servers were also staying away
from Middleton libero Thomas
Robson, who finished with a
team-best 12 digs.
I think hes one of the top
passers in the state, and they
dont serve to him, White
said.
Sophomore outside hitter
Eagan Peters-Michaud also
added 12 kills, and though the
Cardinals will bid farewell to
five seniors, several key players return.
Herder and Cole Spitler, the
teams leading attacker, will
be among those leaving.
Ive had a back problem
all year and didnt play the

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first half of the season, and it

was really nice to get back and
finally help the team out,
Herder said. It was so exciting being relevant again and
getting kills.
I think we played our
hardest and we had a fantastic
season. I think we can be
proud of ourselves. This is one
of the closest teams ever. Im
just going to miss these guys.
White said the middle
block has made strides in
2016.
To start the year, we were
all outside, White said. We
rode Cole a lot on the outside
and then Eagan. It wasnt until
the second week of October
that the big guy (Herder, who
stands 6-7) started blocking
everything and Brian would
start to get all the hits.
That was the difference
maker for us. We had a middle
that could get all the kills in
Brian and a middle that could
get all the blocks in Jack.
Junior
setter Andrew
Lepage finished with 33 digs,
and junior Brady Schmitt
added 10 digs. Spitler finished

Photo courtesy of Anne Squires

Eagan Peters-Michaud (right) helped Middletons boys volleyball team reach the state tournament for a fourth straight year.

with seven kills. Middleton

held a 21-20 lead in the first

set before surrendering three
straight points, and Brown
delivered the set-clinching kill
with the Crusaders ahead, 24-

23.
We kind of knew what
they were doing, White said
of CMH. We know theyre
going to 4 (Brown) and 14

(Engsberg) all the time. Its

not a big secret what they do.
You cant replicate those two
in practice to try and slow
them down. Thats the hard
part. Executing a game plan
against that much talent is
hard.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016

MHS golfers honored

Middleton girls golfers

Alexis Thomas, Morgan Miles
and Payton Hodson all
received academic all-state
honors by the Golf Coaches
Association of Wisconsin.
Students are nominated by
GCAW member coaches if
they meet the following criteria:
1) A cumulative grade point
average of at least 3.25.

2) Participation in at least
75% of their teams varsity
matches.
3) They are at least a sophomore in high school.
The coaches association
announced that 325 girls from
96 high schools were honored
this year for maintaining high
academic standards in the
classroom while competing in
varsity golf. The average
cumulative GPA of this years

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honorees was a 3.790.

Baseball, softball
registration

Online registration for the

2017 summer baseball and
softball programs through
Middleton Baseball/Softball
Commission is open. To regisplease
go
to
ter
www.mbscwi.com.
The website contains information about the programs and

schedules for upcoming events

and camps.

Bowling

Middleton Ladies League

Lyn Passini 518, Bonnie
Coy 499, Cindy Hall 448,
Chery Theis 442.

Golf scores

Middleton Ladies
Sept. 13
Patti Larson 545, Frayne

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Born 497, Verelene Morris 489,

Lyn Passini 480.
Sept. 20
Theresa Meisel 486, Lyn
Passini 484, Paula Brunner

476, Krista Miller 474.

Sept. 27
Theresa Meisel 536, Lyn
Passini 528, Frayne Born 524,
Deirdre Vanko 447.

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