News Archive for August 4, 2012
Janesville Craig fall practice schedules announced
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
Practices for Janesville Craig High School fall sports programs begin on the following dates
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Donations to air conditioner program generous but they can't keep pace with demand for them
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
BELOIT --
Deb and Terry McCann decided five years ago they wanted to focus their giving on smaller, more immediate ways to help local charities.
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Elkhorn seeks new approval for water plan
By KEVIN MURPHY - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
MADISON --
Elkhorn is seeking state approval to construct two wells and a treatment plant to replace similar aging facilities at a cost of $10.1 million.
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Public record for Aug. 4, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
City to close, seal portion of landfill
By RYAN BROEGE - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
JANESVILLE --
The city landfill probably will smell less after work is finished in September to seal the easternmost section of the facility, city officials said.
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Sentence too light in infant drowning trial, lawmakers say
By STAN MILAM - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Gov. Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers want two state agencies to explain why they recommended probation for an East Troy woman whose neglect led to the death of her 11-month-old twins.
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Janesville strings students learn by writing music
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
JANESVILLE --
"Is this another dead composer?" Ruth Banwell has heard that question more than once in the years she's been teaching in the Janesville School District's annual summer strings camp.
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Janesville Relay For Life draws hundreds to fight cancer
By NEIL JOHNSON - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Hundreds of people walked in circles through the night at the Rock County 4-H Fairgrounds in Janesville. They celebrated their lives, remembered the lives other others and rallied for a singular cause: To fight cancer.
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Beloit Snappers cruise in the seventh
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
BELOIT --
The Beloit Snappers buried the visiting Kane County Cougars with a five-run rally in the seventh inning Friday to post an 8-1 victory in Midwest League baseball.
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Behind every successful swimmer, there is a mom
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
LONDON --
Debbie Phelps and Ike Lochte have been getting plenty of television time, cheering on Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte during their medal-winning performances at the London Olympics.
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US is in the swim
By BILL SHAIKIN - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
LONDON --
Missy Franklin is bubbly and giggly, sunny and happy, all the adjectives that apply to a happy-go-lucky girl who cannot wait for her amazingly awesome senior year of high school to start.
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New refs practice penalizing the Packers
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
GREEN BAY --
Aaron Rodgers was flinging passes all over the place and a large Lambeau Field crowd was enjoying every minute of it.
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Obama, Romney see what they want in jobs report
By BEN FELLER - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
WASHINGTON --
The new employment snapshot seemed too mixed and middling to jolt a consistently close race.
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Brewers' streak snapped, 9-3 by Cardinals
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
ST. LOUIS --
Randy Wolf surrendered a tie-breaking RBI single to pitching counterpart Joe Kelly in a four-run fourth inning as the St. Louis Cardinals rolled to a 9-3 victory over the Brewers.
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Pro: Rules will create jobs, clean air and modernize outmoded utilities
By MICHAEL E. KRAFT - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
GREEN BAY --
There is great deal of confusion about new EPA regulations affecting coal-fired power plants, and also opposition to regulations that could lead to plant closings or loss of jobs.
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Death notices for Aug. 4, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
Happy birthday, World Wide Web, and thanks for expanding our freedoms
By GENE POLICINSKI - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
Welcome to adulthood, World Wide Web. You were born on Aug. 6, 1991, as an interconnected system that makes information accessible around the globe. That makes you 21.
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Con: EPA foolishly seeks to destroy nation’s coal industry
By ANDREW P. MORRISS - Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
TUSCALOOSA, ALA. --
The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates the share of U.S. electricity generated from coal will fall from 42 percent in 2011 to 36.8 percent in 2013.
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