News Archive for March 18, 2011
Red Cross seeks disaster volunteers
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, March 18, 2011
JANESVILLE --
Kate Hoesly has never left a disaster scene without first getting a hug. "They (disaster victims) are so grateful they're being comforted by someone, and that someone cares,'' said Hoesly, a local American Red Cross Disaster Action Team volunteer.
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Job fair set for Evansville plant
By GINA DUWE - Friday, March 18, 2011
EVANSVILLE --
A job fair will be held from 7:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 26, at the Stoughton Trailers plant in Evansville.
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Optimism bubbling for Lake Lawn deal in Delavan
By ANN MARIE AMES - Friday, March 18, 2011
DELAVAN --
By the end of the day, Lake Lawn Resort could have a new owner. Already, the Delavan community is buzzing with excitement about the possibility of a reopened Lake Lawn.
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Tobacco-free issue resurfaces at UW-W
By KEVIN HOFFMAN - Friday, March 18, 2011
WHITEWATER --
A small group of students and faculty is revitalizing efforts to make UW-Whitewater the state's second campus to adopt a tobacco-free policy.
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Late charge ignites Red Hawks
By PERRY HIBNER - Friday, March 18, 2011
JANESVILLE --
Ashley Roherty was thinking about just one thing after she stole the ball and saw no one in front of her late in the fourth quarter.
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Boy accused in bomb threat released
By TED SULLIVAN - Friday, March 18, 2011
MILTON --
An 11-year-old boy accused of threatening to detonate a fake bomb on a Milton school bus has been in foster care because his mother is in prison, court officials said Thursday.
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Support crew digs in for Tide
By CRAIG HENQUINET - Friday, March 18, 2011
FORT ATKINSON --
It took a village for Edgerton High's girls basketball team to hold off Lakeside Lutheran here Thursday night.
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Town to talk pivot permit
By ANN MARIE AMES - Friday, March 18, 2011
BRADFORD TOWNSHIP --
Opponents and supporters of a proposal to spray watered-down manure onto growing crops soon could get another chance to share their opinions in public.
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East Troy tumbles
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 18, 2011
Top-ranked Whitefish Bay Dominican ended East Troy's hopes of a trip to the WIAA Division 3 state girls basketball tournament Thursday night with a 68-58 sectional semifinal victory at Waukesha West.
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Group to hold anti-war vigil
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 18, 2011
JANESVILLE --
Rock Valley Fellowship of Reconciliation is planning a war vigil today in commemoration of the eighth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
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Middleton girls advance with win
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 18, 2011
Top-ranked and Big Eight Conference champion Middleton took advantage of 29 made free throws in winning the Division 1 Verona Sectional semifinal game, 75-66, over Madison East.
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Two rescued after falling through ice
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 18, 2011
MADISON --
Two Beloit residents were taken to St. Mary's Hospital with exposure symptoms after falling through the ice while ice fishing Wednesday on Lake Monona, according to a Dane County Sheriff's Office press release.
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Public record for March 18, 2011
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 18, 2011
Cougars advance to sectional finals with narrow win over Vikings
By TIM WESTER - Friday, March 18, 2011
BURLINGTON --
Craig narrowly beat Parker in a WIAA Division 1 girls sectional semifinal game Thursday night at Burlington and will face Franklin in the sectional championship.
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Evansville-area farm wives discuss life on the farm for local history project
By GINA DUWE - Friday, March 18, 2011
EVANSVILLE --
For some Evansville farm wives, their first memories of the farm are from a crib or pen watching Mom do chores.
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Judge blocks contentious Wisconsin union law
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 18, 2011
MADISON --
A Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the state’s new and contentious collective bargaining law from taking effect, raising the possibility that the Legislature may have to vote again to pass the bill.
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Marcum's shoulder another sore spot
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 18, 2011
PHOENIX --
Shawn Marcum felt a little tightness in his right shoulder on Thursday, and decided to call it a day.
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Wisconsin's long-range game grounds Belmont 72-58
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 18, 2011
TUCSON, ARIZ. --
Jon Leuer scored 17 of his 22 points in the second half and the Badgers methodically dispatched Belmont 72-58 on Thursday night, the Badgers’ fifth consecutive NCAA tournament-opening victory.
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Japan official: Disasters overwhelmed government
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, March 18, 2011
TOKYO --
The Japanese government acknowledged Friday that it was overwhelmed by the scale of last week’s twin natural disasters, slowing the response to the nuclear crisis that was triggered by the earthquake and tsunami that left at least 10,000 people dead.
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Death notices for March 18, 2011
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, March 18, 2011
Journalism and deception
By MICHAEL GERSON - Friday, March 18, 2011
WASHINGTON --
The popular justification for the approach that resulted in the NPR scandal is that the other side does it—the ethics of mutual grievance. Abuses are employed as excuses for equal and opposite abuses. The result is more than a race to the murky journalistic bottom. It is the triumph of a thoroughly postmodern view of politics: Power means everything. Truth means little.
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Empty lockbox it remains
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 18, 2011
WASHINGTON --
One can plug in whatever combination of numbers one prefers, but whatever the formula, we will eventually be forced to adopt precisely the reforms—the kind that President Obama's own deficit commission recommended—needed to keep Social Security in balance for years to come. Arguably, this would add to U.S. creditworthiness by demonstrating to the financial markets that we finally got serious about controlling unsustainable pension liabilities.
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