News Archive for March 1, 2010
Parkview school residents face two referendums in April
By GINA DUWE - Monday, March 1, 2010
ORFORDVILLE --
Parkview residents face two questions in April. The first asks voters to allow the district to exceed the state revenue cap by $2.4 million over four years for its operating budget and technology upgrades.
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Report bodes ill for Walworth County
By PEDRO OLIVEIRA JR. - Monday, March 1, 2010
ELKHORN --
Unhealthy employees could cost millions for Walworth County
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No charges in Lake Geneva campaign finance case
By KAYLA BUNGE - Monday, March 1, 2010
LAKE GENEVA --
The Walworth County District Attorney’s Office will not issue charges of campaign finance violations based on a complaint from a Linn Township resident.
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Melton commits to Kishwaukee College
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, March 1, 2010
ORFORDVILLE --
The Orfordville Parkview senior sharpshooter has accepted a scholarship to play basketball at Kishwaukee College in Melta, Ill.
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U.S. Tanker plans move to Delavan
By ANN MARIE AMES - Monday, March 1, 2010
DELAVAN --
A 20-year-old Burlington company is looking forward to moving and expanding in the city of Delavan.
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Public record for March 1, 2010
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, March 1, 2010
New mediation program brings lenders, homeowners together
By MARCIA NELESEN - Monday, March 1, 2010
JANESVILLE --
Sometimes, homeowners didn’t even know who held their loans because the mortgages had been bundled and sold. Many times, the companies couldn’t even find the original paperwork. Homeowners often were told to repeatedly send the same documents.
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Grant helping Delavan-Darien students get fit
By ANN MARIE AMES - Monday, March 1, 2010
DELAVAN --
The school district is working hard to upgrade its physical education programs thanks to a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
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Parker No. 2 seed in Craig Sectional
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, March 1, 2010
The number may not look familiar, but the position will for Janesville Parker High School’s girls basketball team when WIAA tournament play begins.
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Bill would require sign-language interpreters to be state licensed
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, March 1, 2010
MADISON --
Sign-language interpreters would have to hold a state license under a bill making its way through the state Senate.
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Elkhorn's Sarah Paul ends college hoops career with a smile
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, March 1, 2010
ELKHORN --
After a successful career at Elkhorn Area High School, Sarah Paul took her considerable basketball skills to Indiana State, where she played her last collegiate game this weekend.
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Death notices: Fields, Stritt, Cacciatore, McDonald
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, March 1, 2010
Walworth County death notices for March 1, 2010.
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Drug gangs taking over US public lands
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, March 1, 2010
SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, CALIF. --
Pot has been grown on public lands for decades, but Mexican traffickers have taken it to a whole new level: using armed guards and trip wires to safeguard sprawling plots that in some cases contain tens of thousands of plants offering a potential yield of more than 30 tons of pot a year.
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Progress slow on Ryan Braun's Lake Geneva Restaurant
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, March 1, 2010
LAKE GENEVA --
Braun revealed that progress on is Lake Geneva restaurant has been slow, and that he and his investors are close to announcing a new venture closer to Milwaukee.
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In an era of tight budgets, volunteers fill the gap in county programs
By MARGARET PLEVAK - Monday, March 1, 2010
Janice Cochran is just one of the volunteers the county has recruited through its Volunteer Resource Center.
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Death notices for March 1, 2010
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, March 1, 2010
Brodhead man killed Saturday in single-car crash
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, March 1, 2010
DECATUR TOWNSHIP --
A Brodhead man died Saturday night in a one-car crash near Brodhead.
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Al-Qaida growing in strength and numbers in Africa
By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Monday, March 1, 2010
WASHINGTON --
U.S. defense and counterterrorism officials say al-Qaida's terror network in North Africa is growing more active and attracting recruits.
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Badgers fall to Hawkeyes in OT
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, March 1, 2010
MADISON --
Iowa sweeps series; UW seeded No. 4
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Marquette wins again in overtime
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, March 1, 2010
NEWARK, N.J. --
Not only did the Golden Eagles win all three, they may also have punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament.
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MSU topples Purdue
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, March 1, 2010
WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. --
Boilermakers miss injured Hummel
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This time, Johnson doesn’t need any luck
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, March 1, 2010
LAS VEGAS --
Another race, another victory for Jimmie Johnson and yet another round of griping about the NASCAR champion’s dominance.
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For US, it was a serious haul
By JERRY BREWER - Monday, March 1, 2010
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA --
What began as innocuous ribbing of our northern neighbors’ out-of-character audacity turned into the best Winter Olympics showing in United States history.
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Johnson, Hawks end Bucks’ streak at six
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, March 1, 2010
ATLANTA --
The Bucks lost for the first time since trading for Salmons, who finished with a season-high 32 points, including a straightaway three-pointer that cut it to 103-102 with 9.7 seconds left in the extra period.
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Crosby’s OT goal secures coveted gold for Canada
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, March 1, 2010
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA --
With a flick of the wrist from The Next One, Sidney Crosby, Canadians found Olympic redemption Sunday.
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Energy bill could be boon for Wisconsin
By SEN. RUSS FEINGOLD - Monday, March 1, 2010
Congress is drafting legislation to require more use of renewable energy. Unfortunately, that draft legislation leaves out some technologies being produced by Wisconsin businesses. Instead of picking winners and losers, we should be encouraging all types of renewable energy. That is why I recently introduced the Support Renewable Energy Act.
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