Retiring Guy's Digest

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

The small-town feel of Glen Oak Hills neighborhood on the west side of Madison WI

No sidewalks. Limited curb and gutter. Some unpaved driveways. The white picket fence.

Screenshot and viceo by Retiring Guy

Original 12/17/2017 post, "Auto tour of Glen Oak Hills neighborhood on the west side of Madison WI", starts here.

The route taken on the video

Glen Oak Hills
Boundaries:

East: Whitney Way
North: Old Sauk Road
West: Rosa Road
South: Regent Street

Google Map (text boxes and highlight added)

Timeline and description (not much to share)

1927 Subdivision started by two lawyers and their wives:

Glenn and Jennie Turner
Lewis and Gertrude Gettle

Originally located within the Town of Madison

140 acres of gently hilly terrain

Sources:

City of Madison neighborhood profiles
The Origins of Some Madison, Wisconsin, Street Name. Part VII. (Historic Madison, Inc. of Wisconsin)

Related posts:
Auto tour of Crestwood neighborhood, Madison, WI. (12/8/2017)
Auto tour of Westmorland neighborhood. (12/7/2017)
Approach and auto tour of Owen Parkway, Hoyt Park. (12/6/2017)
Auto tour of Indian Hills subdivision, (12/6/2017)
Auto tour of Pilgrim Village. (12/5/2017)
Auto tour of Highlands. (12/5/2017)
UPDATE. Madison's "Levittown" at 66. (12/2/2017)

Around Town Middleton UPDATE: Former Old National Bank building remains vacant more than a year after its closing

Located at 6240 Century Avenue

Photos by Retiring Guy

Original 2/9/2020 post, "Around Town Middleton: Say goodbye to Old National Bank". starts here.

Photo by Retiring Guy

Old National Bank to close 10 Wisconsin branches, including 5 in Dane County. (Wisconsin State Journal, 1/30/2020)

The Wisconsin locations closing on April 24 are:

6240 Century Ave., Middleton

6501 Monona Drive, Monona

3052 Cahill Main, Fitchburg

705 N. Main St., Oregon

204 S. Century Ave., Ste. A1, Waunakee

1720 Highways 51 and 138, Stoughton

W3160 County Road KK, Appleton

W7829 State Road 21 and 73, Wautoma

15600 W. Cleveland Ave., New Berlin

18200 W. Capitol Drive, Ste 100, Brookfield

Around Town Middleton posts

June 2021

Tiedeman Poud pumping station upgrade. (6/14)

Public art on the sald shed. (6/10)

Algae bloom at Strickers Pond. (6/10)

May 2021

Buying in bulk almost looks like Before Times at at Willy Street Co-op. (5/5

February 2021

2 inches of fluff is not a snowstorm. (2/10)

January 2021

Hidden Oaks subdivision. (1/28)

4-way stop signs installed at Middleton Street and South Avenue. (1/17)

December 2020

Unhappy neighbors of construction site. (12/10)

November 2020

Good Neighbor City message. (11/12)

Buying in bulk is backj at Willy Street Coop. (11/4)

October 2020

Free House Pub patio. (10/4)

September 2020

This Franklin Avenue home has no curb appeal. (9/11)
A family of sandhill cranes paid us a visit yesterday. (9/6)

The beaches of Stricker's Pond. (9/1)

August 2020

The latest in Woodside Heights Park amenities. (8/19)
Sugars Court. (8/31)

February 2020
Say goodbye to Old National Bank. (2/9)

December 2019
Roman Candle survives the cut, even without the availability of convenient parking. (12/12)
The Monona side of town. (12/6)

November 2019
Bike rack at Sauk Trail Elementary School. (11/8)
Not everybody's on board in the Meadows neighborhood. (11/4)

October 2019
Matching car and garage door. (10/11)

September 2019
Around Town Middleton: Bees love ornamental onion plants. (9/4)

August 2019
60-year-old resident arrested for armed robbery. (8/21)
Staff and visitors may now park in the MCPASD Services Center lot . (8/2)

June 2019
"ROAD WORK AHEAD" trumps "DRIVE LIKE YOUR KIDS LIVE HERE" on Park Street. (6/27)
Free lunch Friday. (6/24/2019)
CBD, just like everywhere else in Wisconsin. (6/24)

February 2019
According to chapter 8.07 of the city ordinances.... (2/4)

January 2019
More than a snow fort, but not a standing-room igloo. (1/2)

December 2018
This section of sidewalk was replaced in 1980. (12/18)
The post office's new and improved self-service kiosk. (12/18)

November 2018
Spell checker. (11/19)

August 2018
Must be on a tight schedule. (8/6/)

July 2018
What type of seeds? (7/6)

June 2018
If it's not one thing, it's another. (6/23)
Bloom Bake Shop to reopen as Bloom Bindery, a bakery/bookstore. (6/15)

May 2018
The Tiedeman Pond frog chorus. (5/15)

March 2018
Tiedeman Pond winter fish kill. (3/30)
Hear that lonesome whistle blow. (3/22)
Explosion on Elmwood Avenue. (3/20)
Googling 'Henry Hubbard'. (3/18)
A not-so-faded Flo strikes a new pose. (3/12)

February 2018

3 orange cones on sidewalk. (2/26)

January 2018
This corner house is now a rental. (1/16)
This 1955, 1296-square-foot ranch on Cooper Avenue was listed at $219,500. (1/13)
It's always the season of the witch at this Anderson Street address in Middleton. (1/11)

December 2017
A sure sign that this request went unheeded, if not unseen. (12/24)
Turnstile Christmas Eve services at St. Luke's. (12/13)
You've heard of a bear hibernating, but how about a bakery? (12/13)

GET ME REWRITE: Arizona GOP Governor Doug Ducey continues to kill off his base

Headline from AlterNet

NPR, 9/27/2021

Through a spokesman, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey called the decision "an example of judicial overreach."

[snip]

The ruling may also impact Ducey's efforts to discourage Arizona public school leaders from requiring students and staff to wear masks.

In August, he announced grants to boost per-pupil funding in public and charter schools, but only for schools that make masks optional and keep classrooms open for in-person learning. Ducey is also offering families who want to opt out of school mask mandates vouchers to cover private school tuition. Those programs are funded by federal COVID-19 relief funds.

The majority of Arizona residents live in areas that are at extremely high risk of Covid spread.

9/6/2021 update, "Arizona governor Doug Ducey has been a COVIDIOT from day 1 of the pandemic", .starts here.

New York Times, 9/1/2021

[Ducey] pledged to withhold millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief from schools that pass mask mandates in defiance of a state law that takes effect at the end of September. He offered $7,000 vouchers to families that opt to leave districts that require face coverings. Masking decisions, he said, belonged to parents, not school officials.\
“In Arizona we are pro-parent,” Mr. Ducey said at a recent news conference. “I want parents to do what they think is the right thing to do.”

Arizona's current 7-day average of new Covid cases (3,225) is as high as it's been since February 8, 2021, and four-and-a-half times higher than it was a year ago (582).