Buckeye Road

By Wisconsin State Journal Staff – Parents racing toward their children’s school as ambulances sped past them, a sea of police cars, a cry of disbelief as one person crumpled to the pavement. Madison on Monday joined the ranks of communities that have been staggered by gun violence in schools after police say a 15-year-old female student shot and killed a teacher and a teenage student at a Far East Side Christian school and wounded six others, two critically. Read the rest of this story. UPDATE: Friends Recall Those Lost in the Madison School Shooting

By Nicholas Garton – Capital Times – Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church, a predominantly Black church in Madison, is looking for a new home after an alliance it formed with the mostly white Lake Edge United Church of Christ fell apart. Christ the Solid Rock has a congregation of about 300 total members, with approximately 150 attending worship services on Sundays. Lake Edge UCC currently has a membership of around 50 people. The two congregations share a building at 4200 Buckeye Road on Madison’s east side. Read more of this story.