[Photo by Joe Koshollek] Brianna Skonning plays the role of a patient as instructor Rachel Royston demonstrates how to change a bed during a CNA class at Stoughton High School. Students Josie Logan (left), Elisabeth Griffin (center) and Morgan Hanson (right) take part in the procedure.
As Cory Learned took care of his grandmother before she died, she told him that he should be a nurse’s assistant. He had the kindness and the compassion that would make him good at it, she said.
The Stoughton High School junior started pursuing just that option last week through a new class offered at Stoughton.
Council delays wage increase decision A proposed pay bump for several employees ultimately led to a debate last week over the city’s system of pay raises and a decision to postpone the increase.
The Common Council debated raises proposed for three administrative assistants at its Jan. 24 meeting before deadlocking on the issue, with Mayor Donna Olson breaking the tie and voting to send the proposal back to the finance and personnel committees for further scrutiny.
Boys hockey: Stoughton fires blanks against Bulldogs Stoughton senior defensemen Isaac Hale scored a pair of power-play on a new line, but not even that was enough to keep the Vikings from suffering a 3-2 loss to Cedarburg Tuesday evening inside the Mandt Community Center.
This year, the co-op is budgeting for a small profit and planning new events to raise money and heighten public awareness of its mission. An energized board, a store manager with an eye for inventory and a group of volunteers have helped the cooperative weather a rocky start and a recession, doing everything from trimming hours to employing simple conservation measures to rein in utility costs.
SASD: River Bluff to change schedule
Study hall will be eliminated, class periods will be longer, and students will have a larger pool of electives to choose from at River Bluff Middle School next school year under plans unveiled Monday night.
The total length of the school day will remain unchanged, but River Bluff will go from an eight-period day to a seven-period day, and individual class lengths will go from 42 minutes to approximately 53 to 55 minutes. The final details of the schedule, including the new amount of time between class periods, is still to come.
[Photo by Mark Ignatowski]
Stoughton Utilities and street department crews cut down a tree last week near the corner of the West Main and Monroe streets. Traffic was blocked on Monroe Street for most of the day.
![[Photo by Joe Koshollek] Brianna Skonning plays the role of a patient as instructor Rachel Royston demonstrates how to change a bed during a CNA class at Stoughton High School. Students Josie Logan (left), Elisabeth Griffin (center) and Morgan Hanson (right) take part in the procedure.](SiteImages/Article/4067a.jpg)
