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Power back on to 600 Janesville homes

By ANN MARIE AMES ( Contact ) Friday, February 13, 2009 - 7:56 p.m.

JANESVILLE--A broken transformer cut power briefly to 600 Janesville houses, an Alliant Energy spokesman said.

Most of the outage was south of Racine Street near the Janesville Ice Skating Center.

The power came back on about 7:55 p.m.

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klick
Feb 14, 2009 at 12:14 p.m.
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janesvillecomments i'm thinking Beer on Ice
event for the whole family .

chainsawchuckie
Feb 14, 2009 at 11:26 a.m.
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I aint going to blame anyone for the power outage.....there seems to be enough of that going around but a 60% increase that I just might be able to beleive!! LOL everyone STAY SAFE!! had $42 dollars before I started typing and now down to $ 38.. cost me that much in electicity to type this .......LOL and that's not even close to 60% LOL

rooster
Feb 14, 2009 at 10:58 a.m.
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how about alcoholics on ice...

rooster
Feb 14, 2009 at 10:57 a.m.
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the end is near, obama the anti-christ. ( it fits the profile i saw on the history channel.

janesvillecomments
Feb 14, 2009 at 8:46 a.m.
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This incident was totally unrelated to the plan to have the city subsidize Skate-n-Schlitz nights, I mean Hockey-n-Hamms nights, for the young folk at the Ice Arena!

RoadKing
Feb 14, 2009 at 8:06 a.m.
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Alliant will have to raise rates 60% now instead of 6%

frusion
Feb 14, 2009 at 6:40 a.m.
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An evil plot to disrupt plans to bring a junior hockey team to Janesville

jtmek
Feb 13, 2009 at 10:54 p.m.
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Or it's GM's fault.

TrojanVirus187
Feb 13, 2009 at 10:48 p.m.
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lol

klick
Feb 13, 2009 at 9:45 p.m.
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It's all Bush's fault .

tloudon7992
Feb 13, 2009 at 9:12 p.m.
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