News Archive for August 4, 2011
Parkview School District backs away from building plans
By GINA DUWE - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
ORFORDVILLE --
‘We have to make a decision,’ board member says
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Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin wants "shared sacrifice"
By STAN STRICKER - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
Deal doesn't address need for revenue
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Baseball fever returns to Janesville
By JOHN BARRY - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
ROBINSON, ILL. --
The 14s undefeated on way to World Series
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On to World Series for Janesville 14s
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
ROBINSON, ILL. --
Janesville team goes unbeaten in regional
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Parents, school board members discuss bullying, climate at Delavan-Darien High School
By ANN MARIE AMES - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
DELAVAN --
The Delavan-Darien School Board hosted the district’s first facilitated listening session after a July request by a parents group to address issues in the district including discipline, communication, the climate at the high school, academics and the number of students who leave the district through open enrollment.
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Purse sale fundraiser to benefit abused kids
By DARRYL ENRIQUEZ - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
ELKHORN --
Margaret Downing, Theresa Stalzer, Evelyn Stalzer and Cathy Manthei have melded two passions—purses, almost 500 of them, with raising cash for a new Walworth County Children’s Advocacy Center building.
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Elkhorn awaits smaller carts to make trash disposal easier
By DARRYL ENRIQUEZ - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
ELKHORN --
The city’s new trash collection system is 16-weeks old, and only 13 of 145 residents who asked for smaller carts have gotten them, City Administrator Sam Tapson said Monday.
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Beloit Snappers drop fourth straight
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
BELOIT --
The downward spiral continues for the Beloit Snappers.
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Investigators rule UW-Whitewater student’s death accidental
By KEVIN HOFFMAN - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
WHITEWATER --
Walworth County detectives ruled this week there was no foul play in the death of a 20-year-old UW-Whitewater student who earlier this summer was found at the bottom of a rock quarry.
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Janesville man gets 12 years for beating, robbery
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
JANESVILLE --
A 21-year-old Janesville man found guilty of beating a man during a 2009 home invasion was ordered Wednesday to serve 12 years in prison.
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Demolition, construction projects underway in Janesville
By NEIL JOHNSON - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
JANESVILLE --
Take a cruise along Milton Avenue and through downtown Janesville this week, and you’ll see a mix of rubble and new construction.
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Public record for Aug. 4, 2011
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
Big Ten to play 9 league games starting in 2017
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
The Big Ten football teams will begin playing nine conference games in 2017 instead of eight.
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Sifting through the debris
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
The normal push-and-pull of politics went totally AWOL this time. Normally, when a party finds itself far out of step with public opinion, it trims its sails a bit. It moves back toward the sensible center. Not this time.
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36M lbs. of turkey recalled in salmonella outbreak
By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
WASHINGTON --
Meat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of turkey after a government hunt for the source of a salmonella outbreak that has killed one person in California and sickened dozens more.
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Jones is back with the Packers
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
GREEN BAY --
Wide receiver hopes to eliminate drops
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Badgers hone D’s ‘edge’
By JEFF PETRYKUS - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
MADISON --
Linebacking corps replacing two starters
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Packers no longer locked out of White House trip
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
GREEN BAY --
Super Bowl champions to visit D.C. on Aug. 12
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Death notices for Aug. 4, 2011
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
Unmet needs of a ‘model’ minority
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
CHICAGO --
It's becoming clear that Asian-American and Pacific Islander students have diverse educational challenges that deserve
attention—not the least of which is realizing that they aren’t all academic superstars.
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