Arena news
by Mariah and Cheryl Schmidt
The Arena Historian’s room (where the kitchen was in the school) will be open the first Sunday of every month from May to September from 1 to 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome to visit and look at scrapbooks, pictures and all kinds of things of Arena history. And everyone is welcome at the Historian’s monthly meeting, the third Monday of every month except December. Meetings are now at 6:30 p.m. at Grandma Mary’s Brisbane Room. The May meeting will be on Roberts Store. April’s meeting was on the history of the Arena food pantry. If you are unable to attend in person, the meeting will be live streamed via Zoom. If you need more information on joining the meeting remotely, please contact Peggy Peterson at pondex1@hotmail.com at least one hour prior to the meeting.
Congratulations to Margaret and Jerry Dorschied. They will be celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary on May 30th. They have been active in Arena since they moved here.
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Sympathies to the Jim Tredinick family. He and his wife Stephanie spent winters in California, coming back to Arena in the summers.
If you’re driving in the township, there’s flags and orange tubing along the roads. We’re getting broadband! There are two different companies putting in the broadband, one part of town getting Reedsburg Utility and the other part getting Mt. Horeb Telephone Co. We’re so excited, we’re willing to lose some plantings to get it brought to the house.
Happy Birthday to Levi P., Bob M., Joe J., Roger C., Brett L., and Carrie L. “And many more!”
The village has been doing several needed projects and of course, streets were torn up and/or closed. Well, it is close to done, there is some new, smooth black top on Sharon Street after the removing/moving a lift station (sewer), a new well pump, and the Village Edge Road walking path and street work. It was rough for lots of residents but things have to be updated so something terrible doesn’t happen where residents would be without necessary necessities, possibly for a longer time than the updates took. Our family has lived in Sharon Street for many years and that’s the smoothest that street has ever been!
The Wildlife Forever ATV Club will be having their May meeting on the 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the VFW building. They’ll be discussing scholarship applications and their summer party in August. You can see more of their activities on their Facebook page-a busy group.
