News Archive for March 12, 2013
Investments will help people enter workforce
By REGGIE NEWSON - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Legislature has moved with dispatch, overwhelmingly approving Wisconsin Fast Forward legislation as an important, first step in addressing the skills gap.
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Milton OKs gravel pit permit application
By NEIL JOHNSON - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
MILTON --
When town officials confirmed Monday that a developer’s proposed gravel pit plan is “compatible with the public interest” and gives “substantial justice” to all township residents, several residents responded with a wave of jeering laughter. But Marion Trescher, chairwoman of the town’s planning and zoning committee, quickly extinguished the laughter with a sharp rap of her gavel.
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State moving sex offender from Hanover to Beloit
By GINA DUWE - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
HANOVER --
The end is near for sex offenders living in the small, rural community of Hanover.
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No more strippers for Silver Slipper, Beloit Town Board says
By GINA DUWE - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
TOWN OF BELOIT --
The town of Beloit’s only strip club will close this week under an agreement approved by the town board Monday, and no others will be allowed to open.
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Wisconsin mining jobs are years away, Cullen says
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
MADISON --
Gov. Scott Walker last week issued a news release hailing the Legislature’s passage of the mining bill, referring to “thousands of mining-related jobs over the next few years.” Sen. Tim Cullen on Monday issued a statement saying that a mine is “is seven to 10 years away—if an applicant even survives the permitting process and withstands inevitable litigation.”
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Police: Driver was drunk in crash that killed Fitchburg woman
By ANN MARIE AMES - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
JANESVILLE --
A Janesville man had a blood-alcohol concentration of more than twice the legal limit when his truck smashed head-on into a car last week near Janesville, killing a Fitchburg woman and injuring a Janesville woman, according to police reports.
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Title within Warhawks women’s basketball team’s grasp
By ERIC SCHMOLDT - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
WHITEWATER --
With a 65-60 victory over Hope College on Saturday night, UW-Whitewater clinched a spot in the NCAA’s Division III Final Four for the second time in program history. The feat was still sinking in for many of the players when they practiced at Kachel Gym on Monday.
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Janesville man pleads not guilty to $2 million copper theft
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
JANESVILLE --
A Janesville man pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he stole more than $2 million worth of copper tubing from his former employer.
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Rock River not expected to spill over banks
By MARCIA NELESEN - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
JANESVILLE --
The Rock River is not predicted to flood in the next few days, and a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sullivan predicted Monday that floodwaters on Turtle Creek and the Sugar River would begin receding before this morning.
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Special Olympics basketball team pumped about tournament success
By KEN VELOSKEY - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
JANESVILLE --
It’s March Madness and the frenzy has the Swishers in its clutches. Janesville’s Special Olympics basketball team must win twice in Pleasant Prairie on Saturday, March 23, to earn a berth in the Special Olympics State Indoor Sports Tournament on April 6 at UW-Oshkosh.
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Public Record for March 12, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Bad River tribe begins fund-raising to fight mining
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
MADISON --
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior's leader says the tribe plans to immediately begin raising money for a possible lawsuit challenging Republicans' polarizing mining changes.
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Wisconsin superintendent candidates to debate
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
MADISON --
The two candidates to lead the Wisconsin education department and serve as state superintendent are scheduled to debate on Wednesday.
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Winter storm dumps up to 10 inches of snow in state
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
LA CROSSE --
Parts of Wisconsin are getting a reminder that March can deliver a variety of weather conditions.
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Beloit-based ABC Supply Co. buys out minority stockholders
By STAFF - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
BELOIT --
ABC Supply Co. of Beloit is buying out its minority shareholders, allowing owner Dianne Hendricks total control of the company, according to a story in the Business Journal.
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Kedzie sponsors state Senate bill allowing bars to sue underage drinkers
By STAFF - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
MADISON --
A bill introduced last week in the state Assembly that would allow bars to sue underage drinkers is also coming to the floor of the state Senate, sponsored by Sen. Neal Kedzie (R-Elkhorn), according to a story in the Badger-Herald, the University of Wisconsin-Madison newspaper.
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ET girls ready to take on Neillsville at state Friday
By STAFF - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The East Troy girls' basketball team wasn't about to spend next weekend at home after cheering on the boy's team to a state tournament birth last Friday.
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Rand Paul’s real war
By MICHAEL GERSON - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
WASHINGTON --
It was Sen. Rand Paul’s political genius to pick ripe a populist issue and drive home one narrow, uncontestable point. But in the course of a 13-hour filibuster, it becomes impossible to hide your deeper motivations.
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