October 2022

Wed
26
Oct

Sugar River Raiders Win Regional Championship

The Sugar River Raiders are moving on in the post season tournament after winning their regional last week. After a first-round bye, they faced the Jefferson Eagles on Thursday, October 19th, at Reddan Soccer Park in Verona. The Raiders came out strong and took a 3-0 lead in the first half, with goals scored by Breckyn Thompson off an assist by Eli Leonard and two by Aiden Hatleberg, one of those assisted again by Eli Leonard. The second half would present much of the same, with the Raiders finding the back of the net three more times.

Wed
26
Oct

Pack-A-Sack a Great Success!

The Monticello Lions Club and the FCCLA Club at Monticello School held a Pack-A-Sack drive last Saturday, October 22nd. On the Tuesday prior, the two clubs distributed a sack to every household in the village. The residents filled the sacks with non-perishable items and left them by their front door. Then on Saturday, October 22nd, the two clubs went around the village and picked up the sacks and took them to the Lions Shelter where they sorted everything and checked expiration dates. Then it was taken to the Green Cares Food Pantry. Both clubs were very busy.

Wed
26
Oct

Monticello High School Students Hold Math Collaboration With Students from Czech Republic

This week, Monticello High School had the first math collaboration with students from the Czech Republic for this school year. Students did a fun geometry activity measuring parts of our school and comparing it to the Great Pyramid of Giza. We also shared some of our fall holiday events and activities with the Czech Republic students, and the Czech Republic students shared with us how the Ukraine war is affecting them and their nation. We will have future math collaborations discussing different approaches to solving a variety of math problems.

Wed
26
Oct

NGHS Student Recognized by the National Merit Scholar Corporation

Lola Endicott, daughter of Kris and Sarah Endicott, was recently recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Program and received A Letter of Commendation for her outstanding academic achievements. In the United States, 34,000 students are Commended Students and recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Program.
Students are initially selected based off of their Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which serves as the initial screen of program entrants. As a Commended Student, Lola ranks in the top 50,000 of students nationwide.

Wed
26
Oct

Agrace Thrift Holiday Pop-Up Shop Opens October 27

Agrace Thrift Stores’ annual Holiday Pop-Up Shop will open Thursday, October 27, 2022, selling a mix of donated new and gently used items for holiday entertaining, giving and decorating.
Located at 1922 S. Stoughton Road, in Madison, between Pflaum and Buckeye Road, the store will be open until November 26, Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Because the shop’s merchandise is donated by the community, most items will be one-of-a-kind treasures and updated every week.

Wed
26
Oct

Wildcats Fall to Cubans in Regional Play

On Thursday, October 18th, the Belleville varsity volleyball team played at Cuba City in the first round of the WIAA Division 3 Volleyball Regional Tournament. The Wildcats were seeded #12 for the tournament, while Cuba City was seeded #5. Cuba City won the match in 3, 25-19, 25-11, 25-15.
Madi DeSmet and Mikayla Caskey led Belleville in kills with 7, while Addy Edge had 18 assists, Kailey Prochaska had 2 blocks and Kylie Humke had 13 digs and 13 aces.

Wed
26
Oct

Sugar River Euchre

Once again there were three teams that failed to have a single couple reach 100 points. But, before we identify those teams, let’s try to identify that horrific smell you may have noticed if you were traveling through New Glarus around 11:00 p.m., on the night of October 20th.

Wed
26
Oct

Swim Team Places Third at Platteville Meet

The Monroe-New Glarus Varsity swim team competed at the Platteville-Lancaster Invitational, held at UW-Platteville, on October 22nd. They placed 3rd out of 7 teams.
The 200Y Medley Relay team of Amelia Geib, Maggie Piper, Riley Hoesly and Piper Faber finished 3rd with a time of 2:07.47.
Megan Chapman won the 200Y Freestyle, with a time of 2:05.04, while Kristina Foley finished 12th with a time of 2:29.17 and Brinlee Chapman finished 15th with a time of 2:45.79, which was a personal best.

Wed
26
Oct

Wildcats Advance in Playoffs

On Friday night, the #3 seeded Belleville Wildcats hosted a Division 6 WIAA Football play-off game against #6 seeded Westby. Leading at the half, 20-12, Belleville squeaked out a win in the final seconds of the game. The final score was Belleville 27, Westby 20.

Wed
26
Oct

Wildcats Sending Scholey to State Meet

The Wildcats ran exciting races at Albany for the Section 6, Division 3 State Qualifier meet. I couldn't be prouder of the hard work the kids put into their seasons.
Alora Spiegel led the girls team with a time of 22:00, and placed 11th overall. Following Alora was Lainey Winkers (23:34), Alice Elliott (26:15), Ruby Gustafson (29:23), Maddie Miller (30:36), Allison Dyrhaug (31:44) and Annika Esselstrom (35:07). The girls placed 9th of 11 teams.

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