News Archive for March 20, 2013
Rock County coalition to combat ash borer
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Three Rock County governments are joining forces against a tree-killing beetle, and they’re inviting other municipalities to join them.
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Janesville School Board defeats academic proposal on tie vote
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
JANESVILLE --
A 4-4 vote of the Janesville School Board defeated a proposal to expand the Challenge Program for academically talented third- and fourth-graders Tuesday.
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Milton City Council to spend $156,000 on police department/city hall plan
By NEIL JOHNSON - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
MILTON --
The Milton City Hall staff isn’t packing up shop at the Shaw Municipal Center, but an exit strategy is in the works.
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Wrong ballots mailed for Delavan City Council races
By NICO SAVIDGE - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
DELAVAN --
An error in the Delavan City Clerk’s office meant more than 100 absentee ballots mailed out last week listed the wrong city council races.
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Wisconsin group to discuss offerings at new aging, disability centers
By GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
JANESVILLE --
The opening of the new Aging and Disability Resource Centers in Rock and Dane counties will be the featured topic of the Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups’ spring District 1 meeting Friday, April 5, at The Gathering Place, 715 Campus St.
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Public Record for March 20, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Officials call Aging and Disability Resource Center a 'one-stop shop'
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
JANESVILLE --
A new one-stop shopping center for the elderly, people with disabilities, their families and caregivers has opened in Janesville.
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Public comment sought on corn treatment to deter cranes
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
MADISON --
Wisconsin agriculture officials are inviting public comment regarding a plan to let corn growers treat seed with a nonlethal repellent to stop sandhill cranes from eating it.
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Nearly 12 percent increase in Wisconsin home sales
By ASSOCIATED PRESS, STAFF - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
MADISON --
Homes sales in Wisconsin rose for the 20th consecutive month in February.
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Is Levitt looking to leave?
By ANN MARIE AMES - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
JANESVILLE --
As of Tuesday afternoon, officials from Simi Valley, Calif., were in Janesville conducting a background check, hoping to hire Janesville City Manager Eric Levitt to lead the southern California city.
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School officials speak out against vouchers
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
MADISON --
Public school district leaders joined together Tuesday to speak out against Gov. Scott Walker's plan to expand private school vouchers into their communities, while a new poll shows deep division in Wisconsin over the program.
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Most state residents favor gun background checks
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
MILWAUKEE --
A new poll says a wide majority of Wisconsin residents favors background checks for people who buy guns at gun shows or from private residents.
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Ten years after Iraq invasion, group remains committed to troops
By STAFF - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
March 20, 2013 marks ten years since the United States invasion of Iraq.
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The rape of decency
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
NEW YORK --
With a cellphone in every pocket, it has become second nature for most people to snap a picture or tap the video button at the slightest provocation—a baby’s giggle, a fallen tree or, just possibly, a drunk girl stripped naked by boys who don’t think twice. Over time, might the marginalizing effect of bystander detachment impede any impulse to empathy?
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