December 2019

The Green County Land & Water Conservation Department is offering nine varieties of trees and two varieties of shrubs for landowners interested in planting next spring. The tree varieties are Bur Oak, Red Oak, White Oak, Swamp White Oak, Sugar Maple, Shagbark Hickory, American Plum, White Pine, and Norway Spruce. Shrubs available are Serviceberry and Black Currant. The trees and shrubs are bare root, and range in height between 1’-4’ depending on species. The cost is $20.00 for a bundle of 10, and must be ordered in increments of 10.

Mia Belle Miller is a level 3 registered USA gymnast from New Glarus, competing with Gymfinity's gymnastics team, and competed at the Wisconsin State Championship in Appleton on December 7th. Mia placed 1st All-Around, 1st on Bars, 1st on Beam, 1st on Floor and 6th on Vault. Her team from Gymfinity also took 1st place. This is Mia's second year in a row competing at state.

The New Glarus girls played at home against Poynette on December 3rd. The Lady Knights lost a hard-fought battle on a last second shot by Poynette, making the final Poynette 60, New Glarus 58.
New Glarus was down 25-34 at halftime and down by 13 with six minutes left in the second half, but the girls never gave up.
Junior Jaylynn Benson finished with 18 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists. Lily Himmelmann added 12 points and 8 rebounds and Dylan Noll put in 11 points and grabbed 8 rebounds.

Belleville Girls Basketball brings home the win in both of their games during the first week of December.
On Tuesday, December 3rd, the team traveled to Pecatonica for a non-conference game against the Vikings. The Wildcats came out on fire from the beginning and were very focused throughout, leading to an 81-25 victory over the Pecatonica Vikings.
Coach Tony Pharo was very happy with the effort of the girls on this night. It was a great team win.
Leading scorers for Belleville were senior Erin Kittleson with 20 points and sophomore Ava Foley with 16.