Issues are persevering with to maneuver shortly between the Badgers and not too long ago provided three-star wing Gehrig Normand out of North Richland Hills, Texas.
Evan Flood of 247Sports not too long ago reported that Normand has scheduled three official visits within the month of June, a listing that features Missouri, Wisconsin on June 20-21, and Texas.
“I watched a number of Wisconsin throughout March Insanity and I all the time beloved the best way they performed,” mentioned Normand.
Per 247sports, the three-star wing is the No. 109 general prospect within the 2023 recruiting class, the No. 20 small ahead within the nation, and the No. 8 participant within the state of Texas.
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“I’m in search of someplace I may be as assured as potential, and a faculty the place I can belief the coach and have them belief me so I can put a product on the ground that wins a Nationwide Championship,” Normand informed BadgersWire.
The Birdville Excessive College standout additionally holds gives from Colorado State, Kansas State, New Mexico, Oklahoma State, Oral Roberts, Rice, SMU, TCU, Tennessee, Xavier and a bunch of different colleges.
Standing at 6-foot-6, 175-pounds, the Texas native is a tricky, versatile scorer, who can house the ground along with his three-point taking pictures, and in addition makes use of his measurement to take defenders off the dribble.
“I’m in search of someplace I may be as assured as potential, and a faculty the place I can belief the coach and have them belief me so I can put a product on the ground that wins a Nationwide Championship,” mentioned Normand.
Coach Gard is in want of a real wing within the 2023 recruiting class, and has zeroed in on Jamie Kaiser and Gehrig Normand, each of which might make a ton of sense when it comes to enjoying type.
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BASCO — For those over 6 feet tall, the ceiling still causes a crane of the neck — for some a full-on duck.
It only takes two dimes to play a game of bumper pool. Blatz remains a staple, only now it’s served from a can instead of a tap.
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While Dot’s Tavern now has an outdoor beer garden, music stage and food truck, Kari Ace says the basement bar remains largely the same since a remodel in 1969. Her grandparents bought the place in 1948 and lived upstairs.
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Dot’s Tavern, in the basement of a farmhouse in southern Dane County, is a throwback and a survivor when rural taverns are disappearing along with the thirsty farmers who helped keep them in business.
But here on Henry Road, just east of Highway 69, between Belleville and Paoli, this family-owned watering hole, now in its third generation, has found a path to viability.
It includes picnic tables, craft beer and seltzers, a music stage, food truck, and complimentary sunscreen and bug spray. Small painted rocks are used to anchor the cash of those who have bellied up to the outdoor bar.
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When the weather is warm and the rain holds off, Dot’s Tavern in Basco expands to an outdoor setting with a beer garden, music stage and food truck. The bar, in the basement of a farmhouse in southern Dane County, has been owned by one family since 1948.
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And proprietors Kari and Dave Ace believe the late Dorthea “Dot” Northwick would approve of the slightly more modern improvements and the summer expansion since the COVID-19 pandemic to an outdoor space that provides sweeping views of the Sugar River watershed.
“When Dave and I bought the place, I told him, I said, ‘I want to keep it simple because Grandma was a very simple person.’ She was old school and grew up in the Depression, never threw anything away and never wanted change,” Kari Ace said, while sipping a can of Busch Light. “But I think she would be proud to see how far it’s come.”
Dot and Art Northwick bought the bar in 1948 and moved their family from Belleville into the farmhouse above the tavern. But Art died in 1959, so Dot ran the place by herself, often working seven days a week, opening at 9 a.m. and serving up beer, cooking frozen pizzas and toaster oven sandwiches, hamburgers made in the kitchen of the farmhouse and other bar food like hot nuts and pickled eggs.
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There was no ice machine, so she bought bags of ice and kept them in a freezer. The bar didn’t get indoor bathrooms until the late 1960s: Men used an outhouse or a tree, but women were allowed to use the bathroom on the second floor of the farmhouse via a staircase that has since been closed off.
Photographs of Dot Northwick, left, who purchased Dot’s Tavern with her husband, Art, in 1948, and Dot’s daughter, Shirley Kelliher, who took over the bar after Dot died in 1995, are on display in the basement tavern. The Basco Bologna Bash was a fundraiser and drew more than 100 people to the community.
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When Dot died in 1995, her sister Shirley took over the business and ran it until 2012, when she sold it to the Aces, her niece and nephew. Shirley died two years later.
‘And oh, did she ever get the crowds’
Dot’s daughter, Audrey Rear, 86, was 10 years old when the family made the move to Basco and remembers the time well, especially when drunken women would make their way to the bathroom, which was next door to the bedroom she shared with her sister Shirley. Rear moved out of the farmhouse in 1958 when she married a dairy farmer and moved to Mount Vernon but also remembers her mother’s annual dinner featuring roasted racoon.
“It was good. She had a certain recipe that used sherry,” Rear recalled. “It was almost like roast beef. And oh, did she ever get the crowds.”
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Audrey Rear, 86, left, Dot’s daughter who grew up in the house with Dot’s Tavern in the basement, wasn’t pleased when her parents bought the bar in 1948. On a recent Wednesday, 76 years later, she laughed as she shared stories with her daughter, Kari Ace.
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Rear was sitting at a table in the beer garden drinking a Diet Pepsi cloaked in a St. Louis Cardinals koozie. She never forgave the Braves for moving out of Milwaukee in 1966 to Atlanta, but she loathed the Chicago Cubs. So the Cards became her team. On a recent Wednesday evening, she reminisced about the past as customers began to fill picnic tables and crowd around the wooden bar while King Sies Fries, a guitar duo of Doug Sies and Bob King, played on the stage that was built in 2023. Acts used to play on the grass and a concrete pad.
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The other major addition to Dot’s is the food truck. At first, Athens Grill would come out to the bar and set up shop, but a few years ago, the Aces bought the truck that is now permanently parked on the west side of the beer garden. It serves up hamburgers made with beef from Knoche’s, a former meat market in Madison whose beef business is now owned by the folks at Athens Grill. The food truck also sells gyros made with the Athens meat and recipe. It has a Friday night fish fry and tacos on Tuesday.
Lyla Kubly takes a food order from brothers Isaiah and Seb Gopin on a recent Wednesday night when gyros were the nightly special at Dot’s Tavern.
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There’s also a Wednesday night beanbag league, something unheard of back in Dot’s days. Instead, Dot had Thursday night euchre leagues and served up spaghetti and meatballs to the players. Despite owning a bar, Dot never drank. Rear concurs with Kari Ace that Dot would welcome the changes.
“She would think it’s wonderful, as long as she didn’t have to do it,” Rear said. “She didn’t like to spend a lot of money.”
A community hub
The bar recently hosted its annual 0.1K Basco Bologna Bash, likely one of the shortest fundraising walks on the planet, to raise money for the Forever 56 Foundation, named in memory of Eric James O’Connor, a Belleville High School football player killed in an ATV crash in 2017.
The Aces also run the Brother Love Music Festival in Belleville. This year’s event, a tribute to Dave’s brother, Kevin, who was killed in a motorcycle crash in 2018, is July 21 at Library Park and raises money for school lunch programs in Belleville.
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Back in Basco, the outdoor additions over the past four years came in the wake of the pandemic and out of necessity when Dane County ordered bars in 2020 to limit capacity to 25%. For Dot’s basement bar, that would have meant a maximum of four customers.
“It was one of the few silver linings,” Dave Ace, a retired machinist, said of the pandemic-induced changes.
Customers are no longer just farmers or those from the Basco neighborhood, a small collection of homes and apartments, including a few in the building across the street with faded wood siding that back in the day was home to a general store, post office and dance hall. Now with a cult-like following, Dot’s includes people from Madison, Belleville, New Glarus, Verona and points in between.
Unlike Paoli, there are no shops, restaurants, art galleries or a former creamery that has been transformed into a hotel, restaurant and event space.
But just like Paoli, Basco is a stop for bikers pedaling the 12.5-mile Badger State Trail between Fitchburg and Belleville. The trail crosses Henry Road a couple hundred feet from Dot’s. Only now instead of opening at 9 a.m., the business opens at 3:30 p.m.
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In the summer, the basement bar is open only when it rains, although customers still have access to the bathrooms, ATM and video poker machines.
“It’s friendly and people feel comfortable here,” Kari Ace said. “Everybody knows everybody.”
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Audrey Rear, 86, center, who’s parents, Dot and Art Northwick, started Dot’s Tavern in the basement of their home, visits with friends, including neighbor, Debbie Versnik, at left, in the outdoor area of the tavern at Rear’s childhood home in Basco, Wis., Thursday, June 20, 2024. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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David Ace, owner of Dot’s Tavern with his wife, Kari, helps customers at the outdoor bar in Basco, Wis., Thursday, June 20, 2024. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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While Dot’s Tavern now has an outdoor beer garden, music stage and food truck, Kari Ace says the basement bar remains largely the same since a remodel in 1969. Her grandparents bought the place in 1948 and lived upstairs.
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Photographs of Dot Northwick, left, who purchased Dot’s Tavern with her husband, Art, in 1948, and Dot’s daughter, Shirley Kelliher, who took over the bar after Dot died in 1995, are on display in the basement tavern. The Basco Bologna Bash was a fundraiser and drew more than 100 people to the community.
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Audrey Rear, 86, left, Dot’s daughter who grew up in the house with Dot’s Tavern in the basement, wasn’t pleased when her parents bought the bar in 1948. On a recent Wednesday, 76 years later, she laughed as she shared stories with her daughter, Kari Ace.
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Weekly special events on display at Dot’s Tavern in Basco, Wis., Thursday, June 20, 2024. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Lyla Kubly takes a food order from brothers Isaiah and Seb Gopin on a recent Wednesday night when gyros were the nightly special at Dot’s Tavern.
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Kari Ace, owner of Dot’s Tavern, shows a pull down ladder to access the upstairs house from the basement bar, which used to be an exposed staircase for female customers to use the house bathroom when her grandparents owned the bar, in Basco, Wis., Thursday, June 20, 2024. A wall of photographs called “Dot’s Around the World” show customers wearing their Dot’s t-shirts all over the world. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Painted rocks are used to hold money down in the outdoor bar at Dot’s Tavern in Basco, Wis., Thursday, June 20, 2024. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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When the weather is warm and the rain holds off, Dot’s Tavern in Basco expands to an outdoor setting with a beer garden, music stage and food truck. The bar, in the basement of a farmhouse in southern Dane County, has been owned by one family since 1948.
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How Wisconsin Compares Against the National Mental Health Rankings
The study examined multiple health factors, including frequent mental distress, life expectancy, and physical inactivity, to assign each state a mental health ranking score.
Wisconsin secures a score of 61.8, claiming 19th place for mental well-being.
Hawaii leads the rankings with a score of 91.4, with West Virginia falling behind at 5.6.
A new analysis has examined how each state’s mental health data compares across the country, with Wisconsin ranking above the national average.
The study, conducted by Leafwell, examined various health indicators for each state, including levels of frequent mental distress, physical inactivity, number of poor mental health days, life expectancy, access to exercise and median household income. An overall health score was calculated for each state out of 100, leading to a ranking based on these critical health metrics.
Wisconsin has calculated a total score of 61.8, placing it 19th within the overall national rankings. Despite a median annual income that is 2.6% lower than the US average, at $67,200, Wisconsin exceeds the average life expectancy by almost a whole year, reaching the age of 79. This state does experience slightly more poor mental health days than the everyday American, listed at five per month, but only 13% of the population experience frequent mental distress. Wisconsin also has a relatively high 80% physical activity rate among the population, due to 84% having access to exercise opportunities – the national average is 81%.
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Commenting on the study, Mitchell L. Doucette, PhD., M.S., Director of Research at Leafwell, said, “As we delve into the intricacies of Wisconsin’s health metrics, it becomes evident that factors such as access to exercise opportunities, median household income, and mental health resources play pivotal roles in shaping the well-being of communities.”
“By highlighting the attributes of Wisconsin and other states in the rankings, we aim to inspire conversations and initiatives that prioritize comprehensive approaches to improve the quality of life for residents nationwide.”
The Five Best States for Mental Health
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Rank
State
Score
1
Hawaii
91.4
2
Massachusetts
83.0
3
New Jersey
80.1
4
California
79.5
5
Colorado
79.4
Securing the top spot is Hawaii, boasting a health score of 91.4. Despite its relatively small population of 1.4 million, Hawaii is often synonymous with a stress-free environment. It stands out with the highest average life expectancy among all states, reaching an impressive 82.3 years. The state also excels in mental well-being, experiencing an average of only 3.6 days of poor mental health per month. Remarkably, only 11% of the population reports more than 14 days of poor mental health in a given month, reflecting low levels of frequent mental distress.
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The Five Worst States for Mental Health
Rank
State
Score
1
West Virginia
5.6
2
Arkansas
8.7
3
Mississippi
8.9
4
Alabama
14.9
5
Kentucky
15.0
West Virginia has the lowest overall well-being, earning a health score of just 5.6. With a population of 1.7 million, a concerning 19% of residents report experiencing frequent mental distress, which translates to more than 14 days of poor mental health in a given month. This alarming percentage is the highest across the United States. Additionally, the state faces the challenge of the second-worst life expectancy at 74.3 years. This figure is notably four years below the national average, reflecting a critical health disparity within the state.
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If using the story, please credit and link to https://leafwell.com/medical-card/minnesotawho conducted the research.
Sources:University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Methodology: The study analyzed the mental and physical well-being across all 50 states. An index was developed by gathering statistics on median household income, frequent mental distress, poor mental health days, access to exercise opportunities, physical inactivity rate, life expectancy, and population. By averaging the data and combining each variable, a health score out of 100 was calculated, respectfully ranking each state.
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Full State Ranking for Mental Health
Rank
State
Score
1
Hawaii
91.4
2
Massachusetts
83.0
3
New Jersey
80.1
4
California
79.5
5
Colorado
79.4
6
Washington
75.0
7
Connecticut
75.0
8
Maryland
74.8
9
Minnesota
73.1
10
Utah
71.4
11
New Hampshire
70.8
12
Oregon
68.7
13
Virginia
68.4
14
Alaska
67.6
15
Illinois
67.1
16
New-York
65.5
17
Rhode-Island
65.3
18
Nebraska
62.1
19
Wisconsin
61.8
20
Vermont
59.8
21
Arizona
58.9
22
Idaho
57.5
23
South Dakota
56.9
24
Florida
54.6
25
Delaware
54.1
26
Montana
54.0
27
Wyoming
53.4
28
Pennsylvania
52.5
29
Kansas
51.9
30
Texas
51.8
31
Iowa
51.2
32
North Dakota
50.7
33
North Carolina
48.7
34
Maine
48.5
35
Michigan
48.3
36
Nevada
44.2
37
Georgia
40.9
38
Ohio
40.9
39
New Mexico
38.8
40
Missouri
35.3
41
Indiana
34.4
42
South Carolina
29.0
43
Tennessee
26.4
44
Oklahoma
22.5
45
Louisiana
18.2
46
Kentucky
15.0
47
Alabama
14.9
48
Mississippi
8.9
49
Arkansas
8.7
50
West Virginia
5.6
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I-41 pursuit stretches from Fond du Lac County to County Line Road
GERMANTOWN, Wis. – A 41-mile pursuit that stretched from Fond du Lac County into Germantown ended with two people in custody on Friday night, July 5.
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According to the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office, the driver was a 32-year-old man with a lengthy criminal history. The passenger, also a convicted felon, had a nationwide warrant out for his arrest.
The pursuit began on County Highway B near Interstate 41. When a deputy turned on his lights and sirens to stop the vehicle for speeding and running a stop sign, the driver instead sped off.
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Deputies chased the fleeing vehicle onto I-41 southbound and then called for help from neighboring law enforcement agencies.
Near Slinger, the sheriff’s office said the driver tried to get off the interstate in an attempt to avoid stop sticks. A deputy performed a PIT maneuver, but the driver was able to regain control and get back onto the interstate.
The pursuit continued southbound until Washington County sheriff’s deputies and Germantown police officers successfully used stop sticks. The fleeing vehicle tried to get off at County Line Road but lost control and went into a ditch. Some vehicles that were uninvolved in the chase also hit the stop sticks and got flat tires in the process.
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The driver was taken into custody without further incident after a high-risk traffic stop, the sheriff’s office said.
A state trooper arrested the passenger, who ran from the scene. The passenger was hurt due to running through thick vegetation in an attempt to get away, the sheriff’s office said, and was placed into custody again after receiving medical treatment.