News Archive for March 20, 2010
Springtime means start of utilities’ pruning season
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Saturday, March 20, 2010
Every year, energy companies in Wisconsin spend $31 million on tree trimming in an effort to cut back on power outages caused by storm damaged trees.
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Janesville City Council to formalize opportunity zone
By MARCIA NELESEN - Saturday, March 20, 2010
JANESVILLE --
A Janesville company has successfully applied for and been awarded tax credits that are designed to encourage job creation and are available through a new Development Opportunity Zone created by the state.
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Janesville School District parents give schools high marks
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Saturday, March 20, 2010
JANESVILLE --
Parents are becoming more and more satisfied with the Janesville School District.
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Municipal judge resigns in Delavan
By ANN MARIE AMES - Saturday, March 20, 2010
DELAVAN --
The city’s municipal court judge has resigned a week after firing his court clerk.
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Edgerton school candidate withdraws
By NEIL JOHNSON - Saturday, March 20, 2010
MILTON --
Jim Salimes, one of six people running for the school board’s three open seats, withdrew his candidacy Friday, citing personal reasons.
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BTC president-search panel named
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Saturday, March 20, 2010
ROCK TOWNSHIP --
Twenty-two people have been appointed to a committee that will assist in the search for a new Blackhawk Technical College president.
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Collins, Spartans continue amazing run
By DAVE WEDEWARD - Saturday, March 20, 2010
MADISON --
Coach Steve Collins and Madison Memorial High School’s boys basketball program are moving into exclusive company in Big Eight Conference and WIAA tournament history.
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Mauermann scores tying goal, but Jets fall in shootout
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, March 20, 2010
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. --
The Janesville Jets lost a shootout to the Springfield Blues, 4-3, in North American Hockey League play here Friday night.
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Parker senior turns family loss into motivation for scholarly research with Washington Seminar
By STAN MILAM - Saturday, March 20, 2010
JANESVILLE --
Karrah and 30 classmates leave Saturday morning for Washington, where she will complete a year-long study of hospital costs by conducting additional research and attending briefings and interviews.
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Public record for March 20, 2010
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, March 20, 2010
Parker faces familiar foe Verona after pulling away from Milton
By TIM WESTER - Saturday, March 20, 2010
JANESVILLE --
The Vikings pounded the Red Hawks 31-10 in the second half en route to a 67-39 victory in a WIAA Division 1 sectional semifinal at Janesville Craig High on Friday night.
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Trip to WWII Monument planned for local veterans
By STAN STRICKER - Saturday, March 20, 2010
Time may be running out
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US hand strengthened by spat with Israel
By ROBERT BURNS - Saturday, March 20, 2010
MOSCOW --
An extraordinary test of wills between the United States and Israel has left the Obama administration a stronger negotiator both with its closest ally in the Middle East and with Arab nations needed to broker peace with the Palestinians.
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Economic development meeting set for BTC
By STAN STRICKER - Saturday, March 20, 2010
Series of similar meetings being held around the state
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Pope blasts Irish bishops, orders Vatican probe
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, March 20, 2010
VATICAN CITY --
Pope Benedict XVI has rebuked Irish bishops for "grave errors of judgment" in handling clerical sex abuse and ordered a Vatican investigation into the Irish church to wipe out the scourge.
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Four ejected in rollover crash
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, March 20, 2010
Rock County Sheriff's officials say four people were ejected from a vehicle following a one-vehicle rollover crash in Fulton Township
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Covenent Harbor's Maple Syrup Fest: How sweet it is
By CSI MEDIA STAFF - Saturday, March 20, 2010
Each year, Covenant Harbor invites the public to see this natural phenomenon for themselves. This year’s Maple Fest is set for March 21.
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Badgers can’t solve St. Cloud goalie
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, March 20, 2010
ST. PAUL, MINN. --
After its leading scorer was carted off the ice on a stretcher, it looked like it was only a matter of time before St. Cloud State surrendered its third-period lead.
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Suppan has so-so outing
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, March 20, 2010
PHOENIX --
Jeff Suppan was one of nine pitchers to take the hill last season as a starter for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Cornell sends Temple home, other NCAA scores
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, March 20, 2010
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. --
Big Red dominate fifth-seeded Owls
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Bucks defeat Kings
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, March 20, 2010
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. --
Brandon Jennings scored 35 points, hit a career-high eight 3-pointers and added eight assists in the Milwaukee Bucks’ 114-108 double-overtime victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday night.
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Actually, Rep. Kennedy, the press does cover the news
By GENE POLICINSKI - Saturday, March 20, 2010
Every day, tens of thousands of print, broadcast and online journalists provide us with news and information on widely varied subjects—local job and housing statistics, crime, education, weather and a zillion other topics—including plenty of in-depth reporting on Afghanistan. In recent years, we’ve even been able to get those news reports in new ways, and around the clock.
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Pro: Rogue firms shame the good name of U.S. military forces
By JOHN B. QUIGLEY - Saturday, March 20, 2010
COLUMBUS, OHIO --
Even though civilian contractors carry out highly delicate operations, they are not subject to a chain of command. They do not answer to the commander in chief. They are not subject to military discipline.
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Con: Quasi-military contractors provide good bang for the buck in war zones
By JAMES JAY CARAFANO - Saturday, March 20, 2010
WASHINGTON --
Forget Hollywood, and look at the facts. The Iraq war has produced only a handful of prosecutions for fraud, waste and abuse. Most of those convicted have been uniformed personnel, not contractors.
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