News Archive for February 15, 2013
Janesville School District superintendent trying to quell labor rumors
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Superintendent Karen Schulte is trying to quell rumors about school employee benefits and salaries, but she hasn't been able to satisfy the head of the teachers union.
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Janesville Craig girls race away from Madison Memorial in 55-33 win
By ERIC SCHMOLDT - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Craig (11-9, 9-7 Big Eight) sunk its first eight shot attempts of the second half and used a 20-4 run coming out of halftime to race away with a 55-33 conference victory over Madison Memorial (4-16, 4-12).
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Parker girls basketball team's title-clinching party hits delay in Verona
By ERIC SCHMOLDT - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
VERONA --
On a night when Verona staged a Valentine's Day fundraiser to support the American Heart Association's "Go Red for Women" campaign with red warm-up shirts and a halftime half-court contest, they also handed Parker an overtime heartbreaker.
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Stoikes found competent in $2 million copper theft case
By ANN MARIE AMES - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
JANESVILLE --
A Janesville man accused of stealing more than $2 million in copper tubing from his former employer has been found competent to stand trial.
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Rock County officials release names of Magnolia crash victims
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
TOWN OF MAGNOLIA --
Rock County Sheriff's Office officials have released the names of the one person who died and two others who were injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning in the town of Magnolia south of Evansville.
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Edgerton, Parkview boys basketball teams register Rock victories
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
Edgerton High's boys basketball team made quick work of Whitewater on Thursday night.
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Janesville Bluebirds season comes to an end in 6-0 loss to Whitefish Bay
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Janesville's high school co-op boys hockey team failed to score in a 6-0 loss to Whitefish Bay in a WIAA Division 1 regional final game.
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Journalism scholarship honors Gazette sportswriter McPoland
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
JANESVILLE --
A $1,000 memorial scholarship for Janesville high school graduating athletes and/or those planning to study journalism has been established in memory of John McPoland, a Janesville Gazette sports writer who died of cancer in 2009.
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Milton girls basketball team loses to Monona Grove at buzzer
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
Alexa Kelsey rescued Monona Grove's girls basketball team Thursday night.
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Administrator: Rock Haven Nursing Home move-in date set for May 13
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Move-in day for residents of the new county nursing home is now set for Monday, May 13.
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Delavan City Council candidates call finances, industrial park key issues
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
DELAVAN --
Three Delavan residents with deep ties to the community are running for city council in District 2.
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Wilmot girls basketball team downs Delavan-Darien High School, 62-42
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
Sarah Vozel led three Wilmot players in double figures with 16 points as Wilmot jumped out to a 38-20 lead at halftime en route to a 62-42 Southern Lakes Conference girls basketball victory against Delavan-Darien High School.
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Public Record for Feb. 15, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
Rock Valley girls basketball wrap up: Whippets roll past Tide
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
Brooke Trewyn tied a school record by making her 42nd 3-pointer of the season, and Whitewater High defeated visiting Edgerton, 67-49, in a Rock Valley Conference girls basketball game Thursday night.
The Whippets improved to 18-2 overall with the victory.
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Wisconsin Capitol sees smaller crowd on second anniversary of protests
By NICO SAVIDGE - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
MADISON --
Two years ago today, tens of thousands of people descended upon the state Capitol in Madison to protest Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker's bill that all but ended collective bargaining for most public-sector workers. But the crowd that showed up Thursday night to mark the second anniversary of the protests was much smaller than those seen at the movement's height.
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'Green Fire' screening coming to Lake Geneva
By STAFF - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
LAKE GENEVA --
A film screening of "Green Fire," the first full-length documentary film ever made about legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold, will be shown Sat., March 2, at 10:30 a.m. at the Lake Geneva Public Library, 918 Main St., Lake Geneva.
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Death notices for Feb. 15, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
Bookkeeper who stole $53M gets nearly 20 years
By DON BABWIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
A former city bookkeeper was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison Thursday for embezzling more than $53 million from her Illinois community, in what ranks as one of the worst abuses of public trust in the state's corruption-rich history.
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DOA: No record of extra security for Wis. justice
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
MADISON --
There is no evidence to support Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley's claim that Capitol Police set up extra security to protect her from a fellow justice, officials with Gov. Scott Walker's administration said Thursday.
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Meteor explodes over Russia; nearly 1,000 injured
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
MOSCOW --
A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 people.
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Analyst says Walker's health care plan won't work
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
MADISON --
Gov. Scott Walker's plan to move more people off state Medicaid plans and onto private insurance through a federal marketplace won't result in cutting the number of uninsured Wisconsin residents in half as promised, an independent analyst said Thursday.
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Pope’s resignation, speculation on a successor, have local Catholics talking
By MARGARET PLEVAK - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
Spoiler alert: if you're sitting in the pews at Mass this Sunday at St. Peter's Catholic Church in East Troy--and maybe a number of other churches as well--Pope Benedict XVI's resignation will undoubtedly be part of the homily.
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Building dreams at Lake Geneva Home Improvement Expo
By LYNN GREENE - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
Lakeland Builders Association has added more features to its annual home show, which takes place Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 16-17.
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Walker plan for workforce is good step
By SCOTT STOCKER - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
Providing state funding will allow the Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board and other workforce boards in Wisconsin to work with local businesses to build their employee skills. This, in turn, allows employers to expand their businesses and grow the local and state economy.
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Obama’s drone war is defensible
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
WASHINGTON --
The nation's leading chatterers, left and right, are greatly vexed over the morality and legality of President Obama's worldwide drone war. The resulting debate is salutary, but hopelessly confused.
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Obama’s ideological fatigue
By MICHAEL GERSON - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
WASHINGTON --
The main problem with President Obama’s State of the Union address was not zealotry or overreach; it was a pervasive lack of substance and seriousness.
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