Local legislators take action to have a road named after the first person from Orfordville to be killed in the line of combat since Vietnam.
State Senator Mark Spreitzer says Corporal Benjamin H. Neal was a 2009 graduate of Parkview High School.
Corporal Neal died in Afghanistan in 2012 after being attacked by an improvised explosive device.
A bill the Beloit Dmocrat is co-sponsoring along with fellow Representatives Ellen Schutt, Jenna Jacobson, Clinton Anderson, and James Edming, and State Senator Steve Nass, passed the state Senate (Tuesday).
The bill would rename the stretch of Highway 11 between Orfordville and Footville as the Corporal Benjamin H. Neal Memorial Highway.