BOSTON (AP) — Police andfederal agents appealed to thepublic Tuesday for amateur videoand photos that might yield cluesto the Boston Marathon bombingas the chief FBI agent in Bostonvowed “we will go to the ends ofthe Earth” to find whoever car-ried out the deadly attack.Two bombs blew up seconds

apart Monday at the finish lineof one of the world’s most storiedraces, tearing off limbs and leav-ing the streets spattered withblood and strewn with brokenglass. Three people were killed,including an 8-year-old boy, and

more than 170 were wounded.A doctor treating the wounded

said one of the victims wasmaimed by what looked like ballbearings or BBs.Federal investigators said no

one had claimed responsibilityfor the bombings on one of thecity’s biggest civic holidays, Pa-triots Day. But the blasts raisedthe specter of another terroristattack on U.S. soil.President Barack Obama was

careful not to use the words “ter-ror” or “terrorism” as he spoke atthe White House on Monday, butan administration official said

the bombings were being treatedas an act of terrorism.“We will go to the ends of the

Earth to identify the subject orsubjects who are responsible forthis despicable crime, and we willdo everything we can to bring

them to justice,” said RichardDesLauriers, FBI agent in chargein Boston. He said investigatorshad received “voluminous tips,”were interviewing witnesses andwere analyzing the crime scene.Gov. Deval Patrick said con-

trary to earlier reports, no unex-ploded bombs were found. Hesaid the only explosives were theones that went off.Across the U.S., from Wash-

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BOSTON — Running Network President and Fort Atkinson resident Larry Eder was coveringthe Boston Marathon Monday when tragedy struck.At 2:50 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, two explosions detonated near the finish line of the elite

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A ma-jor earthquake described as thestrongest to hit Iran in more thanhalf a century flattened homesand offices Tuesday on both sidesof the Iran-Pakistan border,killing at least 46 people in thesparsely populated region andswaying skyscrapers and build-ings as far away as New Delhi.Iran’s Red Crescent said it

was facing a “complicated emer-gency situation” in the area withvillages scattered over desolatehills and valleys.Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news

agency and others described thequake, measured at least magni-tude 7.7, as the strongest quakein more than 50 years. State-runPress TV called it a “massivequake.”It also was the second deadly

quake to hit Iran in less than aweek after a magnitude 6.1 tem-blor struck near Bushehr, onIran’s Persian Gulf coast, killingat least 37 people and raisingcalls for greater internationalsafety inspectors at Iran’s lonenuclear reactor nearby.Press TV said the quake was

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By Ryan WhisnerUnion regional editor

The Rev. Paul Scharrer was ona good pace Monday afternoon tocomplete his first Boston Mar -athon.At 2:38 p.m. Eastern Standard

time, Scharrer, co-pastor of St.Paul’s Evangelical LutheranChurch in Fort Atkinson, was atthe 24-mile mark running at apace of approximately 10 min-utes and 30 seconds per mile. Atthat pace, he was on track to bewithin the vicinity of the finishline in a little more than fourhours and six minutes after thestart.“By the grace of God, I was a

little slower than that,” Scharrersaid.Two bombs blew up seconds

apart around 2:50 p.m. EDTMonday near the finish line,tearing off limbs and leaving thestreets spattered with blood andstrewn with broken glass. Threepeople were killed, including an8-year-old boy, and more than140 were wounded.Scharrer was only two-tenths

of a mile from the finish line at

By Randall DullumUnion staff writer

Two local legislators voicedtheir opinions on Gov. Scott Walk-er’s proposed biennium budgetand its impact on education Mon-day night in the board room atLuther Elementary School inFort Atkinson.State Sen. Tim Cullen, D-

Janesville, and Rep. Andy Jor-gensen, D-Fort Atkinson, partic-ipated in the legislative forum,hosted by the School District of

Fort Atkinson.Republican state Sen. Neal

Kedzie, R-Elkhorn, and Rep.Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, de-clined the invitation to attend.All four legislators represent theSchool District of Fort Atkinson,as well as constituents in Jeffer-son County and neighboringRock County.Both Kedzie and Nass cited

school District Administrator Dr.James Fitzpatrick’s “aggressiveapproach” and “partisanization ofthe issue” as their rationale for

refusing to attend. Fitzpatrick inrecent weeks has been outspokenand critical of the proposed budg-et both in his column in the Dai-ly Jefferson County Union aswell as in presenting at one offour education forums hosted bythe Fort Atkinson Branch of theAmerican Association of Univer-sity Women.Walker’s 2013-15 budget pro-

posal, presented Feb. 22, wouldincrease state aid to schools by$111.4 million for 2013-15, but

By Chris WelchUnion staff writer

WHITEWATER — GretchenTorres, a financial industry pro-fessional and parent with twochildren at Lakeview Elemen-tary School, is the newest mem-ber of the Whitewater UnifiedSchool District (WUSD) SchoolBoard.Torres was appointed Monday

after two rounds of voting by thesix other board members. She and fellow candidate Tra-

cy Arneson-Baker survived thefirst round of voting, which waspurposefully designed to narrowthe field from six contenders totwo finalists. On the second bal-loting, Torres won in a 4-2 boardvote.Torres was sworn in immedi-

ately after winning the board’svote. She will serve the one yearremaining on Kurt Harkness’term; Harkness resigned lastmonth after moving outside thedistrict boundaries.

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“Life changes really quickly, you know?It’s amazing.”Jim Lemke had just accomplished

something most people will never do. Af-ter three years of training and qualifyingraces, plus a four-hour 26-mile trek on hisown two feet, he had just crossed the fin-ish line at the Boston Marathon.Then he heard the explosions.“You know, when you get to the finish

line at a major marathon, things go to avery slow crawl, so you’re in the area for

a long time as they work you through andgive you some food and water and yougrab your belongings. So we were fairlyclose (to the bombs) when they went off,”the Fort Atkinson man said. “We were re-ally close. I mean, you could feel the blast.It was an impressive blast.”Lemke crossed the finish line at 3:55:23,

about 14 minutes before the explosionsdetonated at the 4:09 mark.At first, Lemke said, he wasn’t sure

whether the blasts were part of the race-day program or really something bad hap-pening. He’d been shuffled along farenough that he wasn’t among the throng

of people who rushed toward the epicen-ter, so he couldn’t see what was happen-ing on the ground.“When we saw people moving for the

emergency equipment to come through,we just thought, ‘Oh, that’s not a goodsign,’” he said. “And people just moved.People got out of the way and let the peo-ple through. Because it’s chaos downthere.”He and his wife, Nedra, who own J-N-

L Wrought Iron in Fort Atkinson, decidedto do the same. Nedra had traveled toBoston with Jim to support him in therace.

“We got out of the area as fast as wecould. And that’s for safety’s sake,” he said.“I mean, you could see the emergency peo-ple are scrambling, trying to get a handle(on the situation) and help those who arein need and you’ve got this mess of peo-ple, and the fewer people you’ve got there,the better. You’ve got to let those guys dotheir job; that’s what they’re doing.”After spending a few minutes trying to

locate another Fort Atkinson runner, theRev. Paul Scharrer, the Lemkes hopped onthe amazingly still-functioning transitsystem and got out of the area. Lemke par-

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(Continued from page 1)the time of the explosions.The race winds up near Copley

Square, not far from the land-mark Prudential Center and theBoston Public Library. It is heldon Patriots Day, which commem-orates the first battles of theAmerican Revolution, at Con-cord and Lexington, Mass., in1775.The first blast occurred on the

north side of Boylston Street, justbefore the finish line, and some— including Scharrer — initial-ly thought it was a celebratorycannon blast.“There was a big puff of white

smoke and it sounded like a can-non going off,” Scharrer said, not-ing that he initially thought itwas someone observing PatriotsDay.When the second bomb went

off, he said, the race officialsquickly stopped the event, send-ing runners who were closer tothe site of the explosion back theway they came.“I was going to try and walk

my way up to the finish line to tryand meet my family,” the pastorrecalled.His wife, Kathryn, and their

son Phillip, and his wife, Mary,were awaiting the pastor’s ar-rival near the finish line. Fortu-nately, the stands for spectatorsin that locale were full when hisfamily arrived, so they were wait-ing for him at another designat-ed meeting spot, farther awayfrom the area where the explo-sions eventually occurred.Due to the bombings, Scharrer

was not permitted to cross thefinish line or travel on the side-walk to try and find his family.“It was a bit chaotic,” he said.However, the pastor said he did

not see a lot of panic; rather, of-ficials were simply keeping addi-tional runners from entering thearea impacted by the blasts aseveryone was trying to find his orher way around the detour andreconnect with family.“I didn’t see a lot, but there

were bodies lying on the road inthe path to the finish line andEMTs were working on them,”Scharrer said.As a pastor, he considered of-

fering his own assistance. How-ever, it was quickly evident thatthere were many people helpingfrom the Boston Marathon.“They had that well in hand, so

my number one thought was ‘I’vegot to reconnect with my familyso we can make our flight,’” hesaid. Unknown to him at the time,

using the tracking system onlinewith his times, his familythought for certain he had beencaught in the blast.It took him nearly 45 minutes

to find his way around to the buswhere the bag with his cellphonewas being kept. Service seem-ingly was jammed and the bestthing he could do was to leave amessage on his son’s cellphone,who then was able to leave a mes-sage back on his.After about an hour, the Schar-

rers finally were able to make anemotional reunion. The prelimi-nary plan was to use the subwayto return to their rental car andmake their way back to Provi-dence, R.I., to catch their flighthome. However, due to the ex-plosions, the subway was shutdown and they had to walk.“By the grace of God, after the

marathon, sometimes you can’teven walk,” Scharrer said. “TheLord was with me because I said,‘yep, we can do it, and we walkedabout a mile to where the carwas.”He said they did miss their

flight; however United Airlineswas gracious in getting them newtickets and he and his familywere expected to fly into Chica-go later today and drive back toFort Atkinson tonight.Scharrer noted that this was

his first time in Boston and in theBoston Marathon itself.“It is an awesome place to

come,” the pastor said. “You learnabout some of these places in his-tory books, but it just doesn’t reg-ister with actually being where itall happened.”At least twice before, Scharrer

had qualified for the BostonMarathon, but the field had filledup in record time and there wereno slots available.“This was a blessing, to be able

to not only qualify, but they ac-cepted my registration,” Scharrersaid.The pastor described the time

prior to the explosions as beingthe perfect day for the event.“There was beautiful weather

and it was really a fabulous runthrough all these little commu-nities lined with lots of specta-tors,” he said.He said the event was very

well-organized, considering therewere 27,000 participants.The race started in three

waves of 9,000 runners. Scharrerbegan in the third wave.“There was a nice cool breeze

on my face,” he said.Among the challenges of the

Boston Marathon is HeartbreakHill, a 0.4-mile section betweenthe 20- and 21-mile marks nearBoston College. It comes at a por-tion of the marathon distanceduring at which many runnersare known to be “hitting thewall.”Scharrer noted that he trained

by running up the hill on Hack-barth Road at the end of his prac-tice runs in Fort Atkinson.“That indeed did help,” he said.

“The good news is, after reachingthe top of the hill, it was all down-hill coming into the finish line, soI was coming in strong.”However, the explosions pre-

vented him from ever claiming afinishing time.“I’m just thrilled to participate

in it,” Scharrer said. “It was oneof the things on my bucket list.Even before this incident, I re-garded it as a once-in-a-lifetimeopportunity.”

(Continued from page 1)ticularly was concerned aboutScharrer, a pastor at St. Paul’sEvangelical Lutheran Church inFort Atkinson, because his pacewould have put him near the fin-ish line around the time of theblasts.Fortunately, neither Scharrer

nor his wife and son wereharmed in the attack (see relat-ed story on page 1).Contrary to many reports,

Lemke said, the mood furtherfrom the center of the blasts wasnot one of panic.“I wasn’t right there at the

spot. There were some peoplethat were quite emotionallyshook by it, but for the most part,most people were saying, ‘Let’sget our families, let’s get out ofthe way and let these people dotheir jobs.’ That’s really more ofwhat I saw. I would not call it aplace of chaos at all. I’m sure theyplan for this kind of stuff, unfor-tunately, and this was wheretheir plans came together quitewell. I think they were able to gettheir equipment down there anddo what they had to do.”The Lemkes were camped out-

side the city, and said the inci-dent did not change their plansin any way. Today, they were todrive to the Washington D.C.area for business, before turningtoward home, to arrive back inFort Atkinson Thursday or Fri-day.This marked Jim Lemke’s first

time running the Bostonmarathon, although he’s certainno newbie to long-distance rac-ing. His sport of choice is the ul-tramarathon, which is longerthan a typical marathon, some-times 50 or 100 miles.He has run the Superior Saw-

tooth 100 Mile, on what he calls“some of the toughest terrain inthe country,” and last year, com-pleted the Kettle 100 in 25:37:42.Even so, Lemke said Monday’srace was not an easy task forhim.“I’ve had faster races, I’ve had

slower runs. I did well,” he said.“People who are good atmarathons impress me. This isreally a privilege to do. You’restepping into an area of elite ath-letes and I can’t compete at theirlevel. I mean, you can see mytime is a little under four hoursand the winner comes in at 2:10,so these guys are running in awhole other world. It’s just im-pressive.”Lemke, who usually runs his

races on a trail in the middle ofthe woods, was humbled by thelevel of crowd support themarathon draws. Up to 500,000people flock to the city for therace, slated as one of the world’smost elite running events. “There are spectators every bit

of the way. There’s a section of it,about a quarter-mile, I wish I hadearplugs because the crowd wasso loud it was deafening,” he re-called. “So if you’re going to walk,it’s kind of embarrassing becauseyou’ve got to do it in front ofeverybody, so you push hard.“I hate to think how many

thousands of people are downthere (near the finish line). Somepeople were really shook.”The Boston Marathon, for

which runners must qualify, isone of the world’s six elitemarathons. It is the country’smost historic race and one of themost-covered sporting eventsworldwide. So perhaps it is nosurprise the perpetrators of theattacks chose this venue.“These guys they went for an

international stage and they gotit,” said Lemke. “It’s just sad thatsomebody ... tried to make somestupid statement. Doesn’t havethe guts to stand up and help uschange the world, so they try tomake more mess and the inno-cent suffer. But you know, whenyou look at it, God is in control.I’ve got to trust that God is goingto make a blessing out of themess that we’ve made this worldinto.”Perhaps focusing on the posi-

tive is the best thing one can doin situations such as these, andfor Lemke, that came in seeingthe response of the people aroundhim.“I’ve traveled the world and

I’ve seen a lot of cultures. Andwhen it comes down to Ameri-cans, I’ve seen a very gracious,giving people,” Lemke said.“I always stand in awe of how,

when somebody’s hurting, theydo what they can,” he added. “Ifthat means just giving up a littlebit of their own time and space,they give it.”

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Dik Browne

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THE GRIZZWELLS by Bill Schorr

FRANK AND ERNEST by Bob Thaves

ARLO AND JANIS by Jimmy Johnson

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Of the eight runners from Jefferson County in the BostonMarathon, all but two are recorded as finishing the race beforethe two explosions occurred near the finish line Monday, ac-cording to the race site.Rita Brafford, 56, of Watertown and the Rev. Paul Scharrer,

60, of Fort Atkinson were unable to complete the race due tobeing in the vicinity of the finish line at the time of the bomb-ing (see a related story on page 1).The explosions happened at 2:50 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

All times below are in EDT.According to the athlete tracker page on boston mar a -

thon.com:• Paul Zdroik, 26, of Watertown, finished in two hours and

28 minutes at 12:28 p.m.Zdroik, the sports and youth program director at the Water-

town YMCA, was running to raise money for Joy in the Har-vest, an organization in Africa that is seeking to establish aChristian radio station in Tanzania to spread the Gospel andpertinent medical information to that area. It promotes Chris-tian values, AIDS awareness, community health and living es-sentials to the poverty-stricken area.Zdroik won the Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon in October

2012. His goal was to finish in the top 50 runners in Boston.• Matthew Pomeroy, 34, of Johnson Creek finished the

marathon in two hours and 58 minutes at 12:58 p.m.• Dan Harvey, 65, of Lake Mills, completed the race in three

hours and 22 minutes at 1:22 p.m.• Daniel Schopf, 41, of Lake Mills, finished in three hours

and 36 minutes at 1:36 p.m.• Randy Bueschel, 46, Whitewater, is recorded as finishing

in three hours and 38 minutes at 1:59 p.m.• Colin Beveridge, 58, Whitewater, completed the race in three

hours and 58 minutes at 2:18 p.m.• Jim Lemke, 52, of Fort Atkinson finished the race in three

hours and 58 minutes at 2:18 p.m. (see related story on page1).

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BOSTON (AP) — The boy whowas killed in the BostonMarathon bombings was re-membered by neighbors Tuesdayas a vivacious 8-year-old wholoved to run and climb.Martin Richard was among

the three people killed in the ex-plosions Monday, according toU.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, a friendof the family for 25 years. Theboy’s mother, Denise, and 6-year-old sister, Jane, were badly in-jured. His brother and fatherwere also watching the race butwere not hurt.They had gone to get ice cream,

then returned to the area nearthe finish line. Neighbor JackCunningham said Martin’s fa-ther was a runner but had beeninjured and didn’t run themarathon.“They were looking in the

crowd as the runners were com-ing to see if they could identifysome of their friends when thebomb hit,” Lynch said. He de-scribed the family as very strongand said they were doing betterthan might be expected.On Tuesday morning, candle

burned on the stoop of the fami-ly’s single-family home in thecity’s Dorchester section, and“peace” was written in chalk onthe front walkway. A child’s bicy-cle helmet lay overturned on thefront lawn.

“What a gift. To know him wasto love him,” said longtime friendJudy Tuttle, who rememberedsitting at the dining room tablehaving tea with Denise Richardwhile Martin did his homework.“He had that million-dollar smileand you never knew what was go-ing to come out of him. Denise isthe most spectacular mother thatyou’ve ever met and Bill is a pil-lar of the community. It doesn’tget any better than these people.”Neighbor Betty Delorey, 80,

said Martin loved to climb theneighborhood trees and hop thefence outside his home.“I can just remember his moth-

er calling him, ‘Martin!’ if he wasdoing something wrong,” shesaid. “Just a vivacious little kid.”Delorey had a photo showing

Martin dressed as the characterWoody from the Toy Story films,wearing a cowboy hat, a sheriff ’sbadge, jeans and a big smile. Hissister, Jane, was at his rightdressed as Woody’s friend, Jesse.Their older brother, Henry, was totheir left, dressed as Harry Pot-ter.“I’m sick to my stomach,” she

said. “It’s hard to say anything re-ally.”The children’s father, Bill, is

the director of a local communi-ty group, and an avid runner andbicyclist.Denise Richard works as a li-

brarian at the NeighborhoodHouse Charter School, whereMartin was a third-grader andJane attends first grade.Counselors were being made

available Tuesday to staff andstudents, said Bodi Luse, a schoolspokeswoman.“We are devastated,” she said.

“The whole community is devas-tated.”Cunningham remembered

running in a community 5K racewith the Richard family on arainy day years ago. He said Mar-tin would jump out of a strollerhis mother was pushing to hop inthe mud puddles along the route.“I just can’t get a handle on it,”

he said of the boy’s death. “In aninstant, life changes.”

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mately 15 seconds apart, oc-curred about four hours into themarathon — after the top run-ners already had finished. How-ever, many more athletes stillwere on the course.— after the top runners alreadyhad finished. However, manymore athletes still were on thecourse.Eder said the first explosion

from what was being called a “de-vice” occurred at 671 BoylstonSt., approximately 50 feet fromthe Charles Mark Hotel, wherehe is staying, and 150 feet fromwhere he was standing in the me-dia tent. The blast blew out thewindows of the building, and ap-peared to have injured manyspectators standing in the vicin-ity. The second blast followed, inthe same block.Shortly after the explosions,

the race director told Eder andhis fellow media colleagues theywere going into “lockdown” at anearby building, from which Ed-er spoke via telephone to the Dai-ly Union. At that time, runnerswere being diverted one blockaway to the Family Meeting Areainstead of the finish line.Although limited information

was available about the incidentas of mid-afternoon Monday, Ed-er said it appeared the deviceswere placed outside the building.The Boston Police Departmenttold Eder that three personswere killed and as many as 50-60 people had been injured in theexplosions. A third device alsowas being investigated; therewas no information on that or itsfindings.Since that time, the estimated

injury count has risen to over 130people. The existence of a thirddevice has been widely speculat-ed on, but never confirmed.The race’s media personnel re-

mained on lockdown as of 4:30p.m. EDT, as Boston police wereinvestigating the possibility ofmore devices in the area.Eder estimated that as many

as 150,000 people were in down-town Boston Monday for theevent, one of the county’s mostprestigious and historic races.

“Since 9/11, security has al-ways been up,” Eder said. “Frommy experience, these are bombs.”Eder also was at the 1996

Olympics in Atlanta, where abombing killed two and injuredmore than 100 people. Since theSept. 11, 2011, terrorist attack,however, security at the world’slargest races has been especiallytight he said. The Secret Serviceand FBI always have a largepresence, and media personnelmust carry identification at alltimes.“After the Super Bowl, this is

the one of the largest mediaevents in the world,” Eder said.“If someone wanted to send amessage, they did it here.”Eder said that many doctors

and nurses were present near thesite of the explosion, as they wereat the finish line in the medicaltent. Many also were running therace. He added that there wereseveral soldiers on leave runningthe course in full uniform. Manyof them rushed to assist theblast victims in the aftermath.“It’s sad because this is such an

iconic event. This is the most his-toric marathon in the world,” Ed-er said. “This is going to scare alot of people. How could it not? Igo to London right after this andI would guess a lot of peoplewon’t run that because of this.”The London Marathon is slat-

ed for Sunday, April 21.Eder is the president of Run-

ning Network, a company with23 print titles and 29 digital out-lets dedicated to running, basedin the W.D. Hoard & Sons Co.building in Fort Atkinson. Theycover major running eventsaround the world, including theannual Boston Marathon andthe Olympics.The Boston Marathon tradi-

tionally is held on the third Mon-day of April. Begun in 1897, theevent attracts approximately500,000 spectators to the greaterBoston area every years, with anaverage of 20,000 registered run-ners.Eder will be updating the Run

Blog Run Facebook page and live-blogging at runblogrun.com reg-ularly with information fromrace.

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Most of all, he was simplythankful that he and his familywere safe and sound after whathappened.“That’s very minor compared

to our thoughts and prayers withthe families of those who losttheir lives or were injured,”Scharrer said.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — ANeenah woman was among thoseinjured in the explosions at theBoston Marathon.Linda Witt was watching her

son cross the finish line at Mon-day’s marathon when she wasknocked to the ground by an ex-plosion. Witt tells WBAY-TV(http://bit.ly/12j1rek ) she was hitby debris and was covered inblood and pieces of human flesh.She suffered a loss of hearing andwas taken to a hospital. The FBIinterviewed Witt about what shesaw.Witt has been released from

the hospital and plans to returnto Neenah Thursday. She says al-though she saw some gruesomeinjuries, she also saw a lot of peo-ple rally together to take care ofone another.

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