News Archive for March 15, 2013
Buzzer beater sends Warhawk women to the DIII championship game
By STAFF - Friday, March 15, 2013
HOLLAND, Mich. -- The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater women's basketball team defeated Amherst College 64-62 in overtime in a NCAA III Women's Basketball Championship Tournament semifinal played at Devos Fieldhouse at Hope College in Holland, Michigan Friday. The Warhawks, 26-6, will face DePauw University for the NCAA III title at 7 p.m. Saturday in Holland.
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Rock County transport program turns away new clients
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, March 15, 2013
A non-profit program providing free transportation for Rock County seniors is stretched beyond what it can afford and has begun turning away new clients.
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Hinkle heads 2013 class of 'Women'
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, March 15, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Six women will be honored during the YWCA Rock County's annual Women of Distinction Awards ceremony Friday, April 12, at the Holiday Inn Express & Conference Center.
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Rotary Gardens plans spring symposium
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 15, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Everything from heirloom gardening to plant diseases will be discussed as topics of Rotary Botanical Gardens' Spring Symposium titled, "Our Gardening Heritage."
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Caucus bill resurfaces
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 15, 2013
MADISON --
Many of the names have changed, but a bill that would make Wisconsin legislative caucuses open to the public is back in essentially the same form it has taken twice since 2009.
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Police department ceremony honors officers, citizens
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 15, 2013
JANESVILLE --
The Janesville Police Department on Thursday night honored employees and Janesville residents at its annual awards ceremony. Here are the winners.
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Area United Way offering free prescription cards
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 15, 2013
A free prescription card distributed by United Way Blackhawk Region to area residents saved 16,859 people more than $1.4 million on costs for medicine in 2012, according to a local United Way news release.
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Job seekers look for work as seasonal employers begin to gear up
By NICO SAVIDGE - Friday, March 15, 2013
ELKHORN --
More than 500 people attended to the annual Walworth County Job Fair at Gateway Technical College's Elkhorn campus Thursday.
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Update: East Troy races into state championship game
By STAFF - Friday, March 15, 2013
East Troy girls basketball team, in its second straight trip to state, is playing Lodi this morning at the Resch Center in Green Bay.
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Walker signs bill to create job grants, database
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 15, 2013
MADISON --
Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that lays out millions of dollars for job training grants and creates a new database to help job seekers find openings.
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UW-Whitewater women's team feels presence of former teammate as magical season unfolds
By ERIC SCHMOLDT - Friday, March 15, 2013
WHITEWATER --
Alex Scarbro was looking forward to the trip to Holland, Mich., from the moment it was scheduled. She would be a sophomore on the UW-Whitewater women's basketball team when it traveled to play highly-ranked Hope College.
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Wisconsin population growing since 2010 census
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 15, 2013
MILWAUKEE --
A new U.S. Census Bureau report says Wisconsin's population is growing.
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Walworth County sailors make U.S. sailing team
By STAFF - Friday, March 15, 2013
LAKE GENEVA --
Gordy Lamphere of Lake Geneva was named today to the U.S. Sailing Team Sperry Topsider along with 33 other of the US's best sailors. He is training in the Finn class and is one of two in that class who will be funded partially by the U.S. Lamphere has been training extensively for the past year and has climbed steadily in the US and World International Sailing Federation rankings.
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Find your inner Irish in Walworth County this weekend
By STAFF - Friday, March 15, 2013
WALWORTH COUNTY --
There's no day in the calendar when everyone is universally Polish, or sports T-shirts saying, "Kiss me, I'm German," but come March 17, Irish rules.
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Codify the drone war
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 15, 2013
A war conducted quite similarly by Presidents Bush and Obama has forged a broad national consensus. What we need now is a president willing to lead and a Congress willing to take responsibility for the conduct of a war which, however wishful the thinking of Rand Paul and his acolytes, will long be with us.
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The boilerplate gap
By MICHAEL GERSON - Friday, March 15, 2013
WASHINGTON --
A budget proposal—of the type that Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., have recently announced—represents the internal agreement reached by a party caucus and the starting point of a high-stakes political negotiation. If a Republican or Democratic budget expert were to craft an actual proposed budget—one that would deserve a vote and could secure a majority in both chambers—it would look very different.
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