Members of the Watertown Public Library Board of Trustees were presented with a special William P. Lindborg Award for Historic Preservation Certificate of Appreciation for their outstanding effort to renovate and expand the library while preserving the historical integrity of the original Carnegie library building. Pictured (from left to right) is Jonathan Lampe, library trustee; Barry Ashenfelter, Historic Preservation Commission; Mike Trego, Historic Preservation Commission; Chris Koppes, Board of Trustees president; Jarred Burke, library trustee; Jacob Maas, Historic Preservation Commission; Kevin Clifford, Watertown Main Street Program; Peg Checkai, library director; Kim Rahfaldt, library trustee; and William Lindborg.
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The Ice Bowling Event held at River Bend Resort, Watertown, on February 11 raised $3,850 to benefit Chlidren’s Hospital of Madison. Pictured from left to right: Lori Schultz, American Family Children’s Hospital representative; Brynn Peirick, Kay and Jim Plagemann, event organizers.
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FILE -Green Bay Packers’ Jordan Love throws during an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, in Green Bay, Wis. With Aaron Rodgers saying he intends to play for the New York Jets in the upcoming season, Love finally gets his chance to take over as a starting quarterback in his fourth NFL season.
- Morry Gash - staff, AP
FILE — Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. A federal judge will hear arguments Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in a high-stakes court case that could threaten access to abortion medication and blunt the authority of U.S. drug regulators.
- Allen G. Breed - staff, AP
FILE- This Feb. 14, 2019 file photo shows a Honda logo at the 2019 Pittsburgh International Auto Show in Pittsburgh. Honda is recalling a half-million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, because the front seat belts may not latch properly. The recall covers some of the the automaker’s top-selling models including the 2017 through 2020 CR-V, the 2018 and 2019 Accord, the 2018 through 2020 Odyssey and the 2019 Insight. Also included is the Acura RDX from the 2019 and 2020 model years.
- Gene J. Puskar - staff, AP
File — Hundreds of customers of the insolvent Penn Square Bank line up to withdraw their money, on Tuesday July 6, 1982, in Oklahoma City after federal officials closed the bank. The recent failure of Silicon Valley Bank was unlike a traditional bank run.
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Ryan Redington mushes down Front Street to win the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Tuesday, March 14, 2023 in Nome, Alaska. Redington, 40, is the grandson of Joe Redington Sr., who helped co-found the arduous race across Alaska that was first held in 1973 and is known as the “Father of the Iditarod.”
- Loren Holmes - member, Anchorage Daily News
A Beaver Dam man can now perform the same techniques used to save his life this summer after he suffered cardiac arrest in Clyman. Jon Helbing, 57, was certified late last month in CPR at the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office annual recertification class.
FILE - This booking photo provided by the Columbia County, Wis., Sheriff's Office shows Brian Higgins. Higgins, a Wisconsin man who made a surveillance drive past the home of Michigan's governor during a scheme to kidnap her in 2020, is returning to court to change his not-guilty plea, records show.
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Central Maine Power Co. lineman John Baril works to restore electricity, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine. A late-winter storm dumped heavy, wet snow on parts of the Northeast, causing tens of thousands of power outages.
- Robert F. Bukaty - staff, AP
Annie Wedl and Linda Kraemer, owners of Draeger’s Floral, 616 E. Main St., were presented with the William P. Lindborg Award for Historic Preservation recently. Pictured from left to right: Jacob Maas, Historic Preservation Commission; Kevin Clifford, Watertown Main Street Program; William Lindborg; Barry Ashenfelter, Historic Preservation Commission; Linda Kraemer and Annie Wedl, Draeger’s Floral; Sandra Budewitz and Melissa Lampe, Watertown Main Street Program; and Mike Trego, Historic Preservation Commission.
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Dan Rahfaldt of Deerfield Properties was presented with the William P. Lindborg Award for Historic Preservation Honorable Mention for the restoration of the façade at 314 E. Madison St., now home to Wilder’s Plants & More. Pictured at the award presentation: (First row, left to right) Rahfaldt and William Lindborg; second row) Mike Trego and Jacob Maas, Historic Preservation Commission; (third row) Barry Ashenfelter, Historic Preservation Commission, and Kevin Clifford, Watertown Main Street Program; (fourth row) Melissa Lampe, Main Street Program director and Courtney Saniter, owner of Wilder’s Plants & More.
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FILE — Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell celebrates with players after a touchdown during the first half of the team’s Guaranteed Rate Bowl NCAA college football game against Oklahoma State, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, in Phoenix. New coaches often spend their first several months dwelling on the need to instill a different culture into their programs. Fickell says the Badgers already have what he calls a “really good footprint,” something backed up by Wisconsin’s 21 consecutive bowl appearances.
- Rick Scuteri - freelancer, FR157181 AP
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) drives between Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker, left, guard Terrence Ross (8), forward T.J. Warren (21) and center Bismack Biyombo, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Phoenix.
- Rick Scuteri - freelancer, FR157181 AP
Milwaukee Bucks center Brook Lopez, left scuffles with Sacramento Kings forward Trey Lyles as members of both teams intervene in the final seconds of the second half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 13, 2023.
- Randall Benton - freelancer, FR171663 AP
A person wearing a protective mask walk past an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 and NY Dow indexes at a securities firm Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Tokyo. Asian shares declined Tuesday, as investors around the world continued to be rocked by worries about what’s next to break, following the second- and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history.
- Eugene Hoshiko - staff, AP
Lakeside Lutheran senior guard Levi Birkholz throws down a two-handed dunk during the first half of Saturday’s sectional final versus Edgewood at Oregon High School. The Warriors won 68-65. Lakeside now faces Brillion in a Division 3 state semifinal at the Kohl Center on Thursday at approximately 3:15 p.m.
U.S. Army’s armored vehicles prepare to cross the Hantan river at a training field in Yeoncheon, near the border with North Korea, Monday, March 13, 2023. The South Korean and U.S. militaries launched their biggest joint military exercises in years Monday, as North Korea said it conducted submarine-launched cruise missile tests in apparent protest of the drills it views as an invasion rehearsal.
- Ahn Young-joon - staff, AP
Eight Dodgeland cross country runners who qualified for the state meet during the fall season were named to the Academic All-State Team. The back row from left are Ava Raasch, Tara Schaalma, Lydia Vandeberg and Mallory Kohn. The front row from left are Angelina Prill, Sayrah Benzing, Logan Pickart and Hannah Prinz. Not pictured is Sandra Osorio.
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Spanish Honor Society inductees include third row, left to right: Carsten Hurtgen, Graeson Mihalko, Noah Gilbertsen, Gavin Stivarius, Dylan Morgan. Second row, left to right: Giselle Guadalupe Sandoval, Samantha Hernandez, Iyari Silva, Natalia Acosta, Leslie Herrera, Mariana Cabrera, Rylee Bilgrein, Lily Garbelman, Dena Ruetten, Sophie Sullivan, Ava Roberts, Rae Heir, Estrella Vaquera, and Lucie Hickey. The officers and club advisor (seated) from left to right: Abby Walsh, President; Molly Betschler, Secretary; Emmaleigh Rein, Treasurer/Co-secretary; Olivia Ruetten, Vice President and Jana Zimmerman, Advisor.
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Newly inducted members of the German National Honor Society (back row) from left to right: Ze Zietlow, Kenny Pettitt, Isabela Kresnak, Sofia Wehking, Sara-Ly Rodriguez, Isabelle Harper, Jack Zoellick, and Bradley Vick. The organization’s officers (front row) from left to right: Olivia Beerbohm, treasurer; Ava-Lynn Clyde, vice chancellor; Lilly Walrath, publicity manager; Ava Ashenfelter, chancellor, Angela Tietz, secretary.
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Alabama coach Nate Oats, a native of Watertown, Wis., comes off the court after an NCAA college basketball game against Texas A&M in the finals of the Southeastern Conference Tournament, Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. Alabama won 82-63.
- John Amis - freelancer, FR69715 AP
Logs of coconut husk known as coir sit on the bank of the Shark River in Neptune, N.J., Jan. 31, 2023 where the American Littoral Society doing a shoreline restoration project incorporating coconut fibers. The material is being used in shoreline stabilization projects around the world.
- Wayne Parry - staff, AP
Lakeside Lutheran’s boys basketball team beat Edgewood 68-65 on Saturday in a Division 3 sectional final to secure the program’s second-ever trip to the State Tournament. These Warriors, who are 25-3, join the 2011 team as the only in school history to reach state.
- Nate Gilbert
Lakeside Lutheran senior guard Levi Birkholz scores at the rim during the second half of Saturday’s Division 3 sectional final versus Edgewood at Oregon High School. Birkholz scored a season-high 41 points as the Warriors earned a 68-65 victory to reach the program’s second ever State Tournament.
- Nate Gilbert
