"Poco a poco," Raymond Paez tells his students. The phrase means "little by little," or "bit by bit," and it's a good motto for the 20 or so students who attend Paez's English language classes at Turtle Creek Elementary School in Delavan.
JANESVILLE --
Janesville Management Analyst Al Hulick has been named to fill one of two economic development coordinator positions recently created by the council.
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TOWN OF ROCK --
A tax increase of about 1 percent and a spending increase of 11.8 percent are part of a 2013-14 budget the Blackhawk Technical College District Board adopted preliminarily Thursday.
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JANESVILLE -- A garden run by inmates at the Rock County Jail will sell "shares" to community members. In exchange for the money, buyers will receive produce from the garden each week. Read more, add a comment »
MADISON --
This year, 43 schools from 12 counties participated in the Overture Center for the Arts’ Tommy Awards for high school musicals and local artists took home nearly 30 awards.
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JANESVILLE --
For graduates at UW-Rock County, it was a night of advice, beginning with last-minute instructions for what to do during their commencement ceremony.
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MILTON --
While grappling with the transition to a new superintendent, an explosion in class sizes and a potential budget gap, the Milton School Board now has another problem—employee morale.
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JANESVILLE --
Janesville's Tim Bakke knew he and his son Hunter were reeling in a big one at Lions Beach on opening day. With the line ready to break, the two landed a "fish of a lifetime": an 8-pound, 23-inch bass.
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TOWN OF ROCK --
A Blackhawk Technical College instructor accused of physically removing a student from a classroom was suspended and told to take an anger-management class.
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BRODHEAD --
Brodhead school officials hope to name a new head football coach, athletic director and tech ed teacher in the coming weeks, Superintendent Chuck Deery said.
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BELOIT --
Paula Schutt is taking dramatic measures to provide a creative outlet for seniors at Grinnell Hall.
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JANESVILLE --
With Memorial Day and the unofficial start of summer about a week away, motorists should be prepared for another rite of the season: road construction.
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ELKHORN --
Amid rows of hulking machinery and piles of roof shingles and sand at the B.R. Amon & Sons asphalt plant, a 90-year-old Elkhorn company was selling itself off Thursday afternoon.
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State officials will soon be hanging about 1,000 purple traps in trees across the state, part of a continuing effort to locate infestations of the emerald ash borer.
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