News Archive for February 13, 2013
Stoughton's Plan B earns 'A' victory
By ERIC SCHMOLDT - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
JANESVILLE --
The Stoughton girls basketball team swiped a page from their boys team's playbook.
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Proposal would make rubble of plan for gravel pit
By NEIL JOHNSON - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
TOWN OF MILTON --
A California dairy owner with ties to Milton has a proposal he says would prevent a wooded hillside that borders Storr's Lake Wildlife Area from becoming a gravel pit.
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Repeat trip for Badger wrestlers
By GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
It's back to state for Lake Geneva Badger's wrestling team. The Badgers rallied to win the Milton Team Sectional title Tuesday night with a 29-23 victory over Mount Horeb/Barneveld.
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School board OKs long list of possible partners
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
JANESVILLE --
The Janesville School Board has recently changed the wording of a new policy so it could approve a new kind of partnership called a strategic alliance.
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McFarland utilizes halftime rest
By GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
The second half was the difference Tuesday night for McFarland High's boys basketball team.
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Janesville City Council OKs beer in parks
By MARCIA NELESEN - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
JANESVILLE --
After a 45-year dry spell, residents can drink in pavilions in four Janesville parks with a $50 permit.
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Burlington downs Delavan-Darien
By GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
Burlington tuned up for Friday night's first-place showdown with Wilmot by rolling over Delavan-Darien on Tuesday night.
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Murder suspect still in hospital
By ANN MARIE AMES - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
Eileen Bellard was putting the family dog into their van the morning of Feb. 6 when she heard a gunshot from the barn. She and her 75-year-old husband, Daniel, had been planning a trip to the dog park that morning.
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Keenan, Reeves spark Badger
By GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
The combination of Taylar Keenan and Karina Reeves carried Lake Geneva Badger to a Southern Lakes Conference win Tuesday night.
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Primary to trim Beloit Town Board chairman candidates
By GINA DUWE - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
TOWN OF BELOIT --
Voters in the Tuesday primary will decide which two of the four men running for Beloit Town Board chairman will appear on the April ballot.
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Johnson's half-court shot shocks Monroe
By GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
Noah Johnson played spoiler Tuesday night. The Milton High guard banked in a halfcourt shot as time expired to give the Red Hawks a 44-41 win over Monroe in a key Badger South Conference boys game.
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Transportation fund would be protected under amendment
By ASSOCIATED PRESS AND GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
MADISON --
The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a constitutional amendment designed to prevent lawmakers from raiding money from the state transportation fund to pay for other items.
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Parker has prep for league meet
By GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
Janesville Parker's gymnastics team wrapped up the regular season with a nonconference triangular against Whitewater and Elkhorn.
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GOP faults Obama speech for liberalism, hostility
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON --
Republicans charged Wednesday that President Barack Obama delivered a State of the Union address studded with tired liberal notions and campaign-style hostility and said the speech did little to ease partisan tensions over issues like gigantic budget deficits.
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Public record for Feb. 13, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
Local women pony up hair for children's charities
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
JANESVILLE --
On Monday, longtime friends and Rock Aqua Jays members Jeanice Fox and Judy Slatter had a combined seven ponytails and 80 inches cut from atop their heads. The pair had been growing their hair out for four years.
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Schrock Scholarship seeking applicants
By CSI STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
JANESVILLE --
The Joseph B. Schrock Memorial Scholarship, a component of the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc., is being offered to graduating seniors or previous graduates from Big Foot and/or Elkhorn high schools.
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First day of Lent marked with 'ashes to go'
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
MADISON --
At least a half dozen churches in the Madison area are marking the first day of Lent by meeting the faithful on the streets.
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Wisconsin tribe threatens Walker jobs project
By TODD RICHMOND, ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
For generations the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has quietly carved out a hardscrabble existence in the evergreen forests and sloughs along what people here call the Big Water, living off wild rice, fish and game.
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US wrestlers blindsided by Olympic ouster
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
Olympic wrestling star Cael Sanderson woke up Tuesday morning to news that seemed too shocking to process: wrestling would no longer be an Olympic sport.
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Fact check: Overreaching in State of Union speech
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON --
President Barack Obama did some cherry-picking Tuesday night in defense of his record on jobs and laid out a conditional path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that may be less onerous than he made it sound.
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10 things to know for Wednesday
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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Death notices for Feb. 13, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
Telemarketing leads consumer complaints in 2012
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
MADISON --
Telemarketing once again tops the list of complaints from Wisconsin consumers.
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Emerald ash borer found in Greendale, Milwaukee County
By WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, TRADE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
MILWAUKEE --
The Emerald ash borer was detected in the village of Greendale in Milwaukee County, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. EAB larvae were collected after extensive woodpecker damage in trees was observed and a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources urban forester was notified. Village officials submitted photos Feb. 8 to the WDATCP, where an entomologist positively identified them as EAB. Milwaukee County is already under quarantine for EAB and this latest find in Greendale does not change the quarantine status.
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Curtain rises tomorrow for BIFF
By CSI STAFF - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
BELOIT --
The Beloit International Film Festival kicks off Thursday and runs through Sunday, featuring more than 125 films from 30 different countries.
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The feminist mystique at 50
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON --
As her critics have noted, Betty Friedan didn’t tackle any of the legal obstacles to women’s equality. Nor did she pay attention to women of color or members of the working class. She mostly noted that women like her—well-to-do, well-educated and stifled by domestic bliss—wanted and deserved more
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Time to put our money where our mouth is
By REP. JANIS RINGHAND - Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
Forbes magazine projects our state will experience the second-worst job growth through 2016. We must do something now. The fact that the state only contributes 8 percent toward our overall workforce development budget is atrocious.
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