Tomah VA gets new medical center director
February 16, 2021 3:39 PM Jourdan Vian
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TOMAH, Wis. (WKBT) The Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center officially has a new director.
Victoria Brahm, network director of the Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 and former leader at the Tomah VA, announced this month that Karen Long has been selected as the new medical center director for the facility.
Long, who started her new role at the Tomah VA this week, will oversee the medical center and four outpatient clinics, including those in La Crosse. The facility provides care for more than 25,000 veterans in 16 counties in west and central Wisconsin and two in Minnesota. It has an annual operating budget of $197 million and 1,400 employees.
A Seven-Way Battle Royale: Candidates vie for state superintendent
Tomorrow will mark the end to a seven-way battle royale for Wisconsin’s state superintendent seat. Seven candidates enter, two will leave with the victors heading on to the spring election on April 6th.
The winner of the April election will replace outgoing State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor, whose term will end this July. The race is nonpartisan, meaning that none of the candidates have formally filed with a political party.
The seven candidates largely share the same view on one of the most pressing issues in modern education: school during the age of COVID-19. All seven support returning students to schools in the near future, most recommend offering virtual alternatives and almost all believe reopening efforts should be left up to individual districts not the state.
Depending on where voters reside, across Racine County, no more than two races should appear on any one ballot in the primary election that ends Tuesday.
Bangor schools announce finalists for superintendent position
February 12, 2021 11:01 AM Jourdan Vian
The finalists are Nicki Pope, Samuel Russ and Troy White.
Pope is an elementary school principal in the Tomah Area School District, serving as building principal at Lemonweir, Camp Douglas and Oakdale elementary schools since 2012. She completed her superintendent certification through the University of Wisconsin Superior.
Russ has been the principal at Sparta High School since 2008 and completed his superintendent certification through Viterbo University in La Crosse.
White is the principal at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School, where he has served since 2011. He also completed his superintendent certification at Viterbo.
Second interviews are scheduled for Feb. 23.
State superintendent candidate Deborah Kerr, who supports the private school choice program and has won Republican backing across the state, raised and spent more money than any of the other six candidates in January, which was the last campaign finance reporting period before next week's primary.