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Ron Patton of Portage takes his time sizing up the vintage vehicles parked along DeWitt Street in downtown Portage, as part of the Taste of Portage festivities Saturday.
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Cook Street, so recently torn apart by construction, is ready to receive visitors by the dozens, as the road is blocked off to motor traffic Saturday for Taste of Portage.
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Getting in a few licks of Wii Air Guitar is Josh Brodeur, 20, of Poynette, who managed to get through an entire Kiss number without getting booed off the virtual stage for missing too many notes.
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Taiya Shafer, 20 months old, can’t get enough of spooning the seed mixture at a table set up in the kids’ area of Taste of Portage on Saturday. With sunny skies and temperatures in the 80s, the open-sided tent offered a breezy, shady spot for kids and their parents at Taste of Portage.
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Wielding her Wii controller to mimic a smashing lob, Sasha Mashchemko of Madison joins her cousin, Meghan Maurer, in a virtual game of doubles tennis.
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Razzmatazz offers a Dixieland sound for Taste of Portage visitors on Cook Street, where chairs were set up for people who wanted to take a break from walking among the car show and craft show displays.
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Jeff Omen of Beaver Dam says his unnamed pet emperor scorpion doesn’t sting him, even though it can. Omen held the creature while displaying his refurbished Cadillac hearse at the Taste of Portage car show.
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It’s called Taste of Portage because it’s an opportunity to partake of the area’s favorite foods, and that’s what Ken Solitaire of Briggsville does, as he polishes off an ear of sweet corn Saturday. Hundreds of people came to the event, where clear sunny skies and warm temperatures put to rest any fears of a possible rainout.