News Archive for March 23, 2012
Lake Geneva Country Meats featured on ‘Discover Wisconsin’
By NEWS RELEASE - Friday, March 23, 2012
LAKE GENEVA --
Lake Geneva Country Meats and Jeff Schmalfeldt will be featured on the television program Discover Wisconsin this Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25.
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City council to consider shingle ban at landfill
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Friday, March 23, 2012
JANESVILLE --
At its Monday meeting, the Janesville City Council will vote on a proposal that would ban asphalt roof shingles from the city's landfill.
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Five things to know about US savings bonds
By JIM LEUTE - Friday, March 23, 2012
JANESVILLE --
A Janesville woman was recently surprised when she wasn't able to buy U.S. savings bonds at her local bank. She wondered how that could be.
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Punzel rolls city-record 888
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 23, 2012
Series tops previous mark of 866
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Two seek Delavan mayor post
By TODD MISHLER - Friday, March 23, 2012
DELAVAN --
The April 3 election for Delavan mayor will be a rematch of 2002, when Mel Nieuwenhuis defeated Ryan Schroeder by four votes after two recounts.
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Genthe challenging Brodhead mayor
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 23, 2012
Incumbent Brodhead Mayor Douglas Pinnow is being challenged by Richard Genthe.
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Motorcycle crash victim identified
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 23, 2012
ALBION TOWNSHIP --
The Janesville woman injured in a motorcycle crash Tuesday remained in critical condition Thursday at University Hospital, Madison.
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Janesville family volunteers to help others in the community
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, March 23, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Bobi Abraham and her 10-year-old son, Brennan, were volunteering Tuesday during game night at Cedar Crest. Bobi watched at bingo for those who needed help and then instructed Brennan to stand nearby.
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Public record for March 23, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 23, 2012
From stores to schools, heat catching area off guard
By NEIL JOHNSON - Friday, March 23, 2012
MILTON --
If you walk into Dave's Ace Hardware in Milton, you'd think it was summer, and not just because customers have been coming in wearing shorts and flip-flops.
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Oostburg downs East Troy 54-38 in semifinals
By STAFF - Friday, March 23, 2012
MADISON --
It was a hard-fought, disappointing finish for the East Troy High School Trojans girls' basketball team in the second semifinal game of the WIAA Division 3 state tournament Friday.
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'Wisconsin Family Business of the Year’ nominations open
By AGRI-VIEW NEWS RELEASE - Friday, March 23, 2012
WALWORTH COUNTY --
The ninth annual Wisconsin Family Business of the Year Award is accepting nominations from businesses throughout the state. The award celebrates companies that exemplify the family spirit of doing business together for everyone’s success. Since the beginning of the program, 51 family-owned companies have been recognized for their contributions to their communities, their industries and the economy.
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Clintonville a reminder that quakes are felt in Wisconsin
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 23, 2012
CLINTONVILLE --
Federal geologists say a minor earthquake occurred this week near the Wisconsin city where researchers have been investigating a series of unexplained booming sounds.
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Trio at Whitewater Innovation Center looking to amplify business
By STAFF - Friday, March 23, 2012
WHITEWATER --
One of the more recent tenants at the year-old Whitewater Innovation Center is a group of three 24-year-old men hoping to serve a niche for musicians by providing a basic product with a high-tech twist, according to a story in the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Warming up in Walworth County ahead of schedule
By STAFF - Friday, March 23, 2012
WALWORTH COUNTY --
The first day of spring felt more like the first day of summer in most of southeastern Wisconsin, and temperatures were high enough to break out the shorts and T-shirts while enjoying blooming flowers and budding trees--a first in March, even for winter-hardy Wisconsinites. Most folks took advantage of the weather and got outside to bike, run, even fly kites.
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For long-unemployed, hiring bias rears its head
By STEPHEN SINGER - Friday, March 23, 2012
HARTFORD, CONN. --
As high unemployment persists more than four years after the start of the Great Recession many who have struggled for years without work say they face discrimination.
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Death notices for March 23, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 23, 2012
Marquette seniors off target in loss to Florida
By EDDIE PELLS - Friday, March 23, 2012
PHOENIX --
Third-seeded Marquette, (27-8) exited the tournament in the round of 16 for the second straight year.
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Owen-Withee holds on, other tournament scores
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 23, 2012
Owen-Withee righted the ship just in time.
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Celtics end Bucks’ winning streak at 6
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 23, 2012
MILWAUKEE --
Paul Pierce scored 25 points to help the Boston Celtics snap the Milwaukee Bucks’ six-game winning streak witha 100-91 victory Thursday night.
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No-name North Dakota? At least for NCAA tourney
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 23, 2012
GRAND FORKS, N.D. --
The NCAA ban of the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo—deemed “hostile and abusive” by the NCAA—has officially taken effect despite years of defiance and lingering legal challenges from proud supporters.
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No. 1 seed Michigan State knocked off by Louisville
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 23, 2012
BOSTON --
Deshaun Thomas scored 26 points and Jared Sullinger had 23 points and 11 rebounds to lead second-seeded Ohio State to an 81-66 victory over No. 6 seed Cincinnati on Thursday night.
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Braves’ Jones retiring after this season
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 23, 2012
ATLANTA --
With his 40th birthday approaching and a long string of injuries slowing him down, ChipperJones announced Thursday he will retire after one more season as the Atlanta Braves’ third baseman.
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Obama’s fog of ambivalence
By MICHAEL GERSON - Friday, March 23, 2012
WASHINGTON --
The horrible murders in Afghanistan allegedly committed by an American have not changed American national interests: to stop the return of Taliban rule, to prevent re-establishment of terrorist sanctuaries, and to limit destabilization of Pakistan. A great power that makes momentous decisions based on the deranged actions of a single soldier would cease to be a great power. It would be a historical joke.
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Obamacare reckoning begins on Monday
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 23, 2012
WASHINGTON --
The issue of Obamacare is back, summoned to the national stage by the confluence of three disparate events: the release of new Congressional Budget Office cost estimates, the approach of Supreme Court hearings on the law’s constitutionality and the issuance of a compulsory contraception mandate.
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