News Archive for December 11, 2009
HealthNet hitting a wall
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
JANESVILLE --
Before HealthNet started limiting enrollments, lines formed down the hallway of the charity's cramped, second-floor downtown clinic.
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City Hall to represent true essence of Edgerton
By STACY VOGEL - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
EDGERTON --
The architect working on the Edgerton City Hall project recently compared the city's residents to the Founding Fathers, who built the nation's capital when only a few hundred families lived there.
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Some lose power for more than a day due to storm
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
JANESVILLE --
As of 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Alliant Energy reported 288 electric customers in Rock County were still without power, down from 520 reported at 5 a.m.
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Warhawks, Linfield College to meet again Saturday
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
WHITEWATER --
Linfield College and UW-Whitewater are two of the most successful NCAA Division III football programs in history.
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Nursing home might not be moving with hospital in Edgerton
By STACY VOGEL - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
EDGERTON --
Edgerton Hospital and Health Services and Edgerton Care Center celebrated as one entity in 2006 when the hospital bought land on Highway 59 for a new facility.
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Salvation Army makes public plea to meet holiday goal
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
JANESVILLE --
The Salvation Army's annual holiday fundraising campaign has almost reached its halfway mark.
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Brodhead girls know how to work OT
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Brodhead High's girls basketball team was forced into overtime Thursday night, but then breezed its way to victory.
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Delavan-Darien girls stay perfect
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Delavan-Darien High's balanced inside and outside attack got the two-time defending champion Comets off to a winning start Thursday night in Southern Lakes girls basketball.
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Parker gymnasts win
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Janesville Parker opened its gymnastics season with a 124.35-110.35 Big Eight Conference victory over host Sun Prairie.
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Angling show to highlight Walworth County
By TED SULLIVAN - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
A fishing show will highlight Geneva and Delavan lakes and other area attractions in an episode airing next week on The Sportsman Channel.
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Warhawk women win battle of ranked teams
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
STEVENS POINT --
The 1-2 punch of Heidi Sonntag and Kelsey Hendrickson lifted UW-Whitewater's women's basketball team to victory Thursday night.
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Fury blanks Middleton
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
The Rock County Fury made life tough for Middleton goaltender Catie Roe on Thursday night.
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Janesville schools expel fourth student
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
JANESVILLE --
The Janesville School Board on Tuesday expelled a high school student who was accused of possession of a prescription drug, a Vicodin pill, with intent to deliver, on school grounds.
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Sun Prairie boys collect win
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
A second-quarter outburst carried Sun Prairie High School's boys basketball team to a Big Eight Conference victory Thursday night.
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Parker, Craig wrestlers roll
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
The Janesville Parker and Janesville Craig wrestling teams won easily Thursday night in Big Eight Conference dual meet matches.
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Janesville native Fredricks says he's ready for Vancouver
By CATHY BREITENBUCHER - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY --
It's bad enough that Tucker Fredricks has to live out of a suitcase when he's racing around the speedskating ovals in Europe, but in Salt Lake City, where he owns a condo?
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Public record for Dec. 11, 2009
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Heavy snow, plow problems equal hazardous roads
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
JANESVILLE --
Utility crews, snowplow drivers and homeowners spent much of Thursday fighting ice that the day before had fallen as 12 inches of wet snow.
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Snow blankets one fifth of local corn crop
By ANN MARIE AMES - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
It was the most expensive corn crop local producers ever have planted. And a fifth of it is sitting under more than a foot of heavy, wet snow.
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Janesville Angel Tree needs benefactors
By STAN STRICKER - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Only one-third of the gifts have been donated
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Local congressman is frustrated with attitude regarding jobs in Washington
By STAN STRICKER - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Paul Ryan is frustrated Congress isn't working harder on job creation
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Warhawks get past Pointers in OT
By TIM WESTER - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
WHITEWATER --
UW-Whitewater fans probably need the Kachel Gym lights to stay on during the player introductions this season.
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Charities still stung by Madoff scandal year later
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
NEW YORK --
With the economy in a slump, this year has been a bad one for charities, but few have had such rough going as philanthropies that learned a year ago that part or all of their endowments had been wiped out in the Bernard Madoff scandal.
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Death notices for Dec. 11, 2009
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Latest scores
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Thursday's high school boys, girls baskegball
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Environmentalism is the new socialism
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
WASHINGTON --
The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.
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WIAA must adhere to transparency
By REP. TONY STASKUNAS - Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Because the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association is considered a private entity, it does not need to abide by state public records and open meetings laws. Therefore, its decisions are made without public input or oversight.
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