A donation from the Janesville Noon Lions Club is making books more accessible to two Janesville brothers who are blind.
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Officials at the Oconomowoc YMCA are taking over executive leadership of the YMCA of Northern Rock County under an agreement the Y says will last three months and possibly longer.
The Rock County snowmobile trail will close at Feb. 23.
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The discrepancies between city assessment and private appraisal of a big-box retailer’s property can be staggering.
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Rock County released a list of volunteer opportunities in Rock County.
Agrace HospiceCare needs volunteers and will host an orientation March 25 at Agrace Center for Hospice & Palliative Care.
Edgerton Hospital and Health Services will hold a presentation on skin conditions at noon March 12.
The Knights of Columbus Council 9230 will host a euchre tournament March 9 at St. William’s Parish Hall.
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One lane on northbound Interstate 90/30 is closed from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday south of the County S and Shopiere Road interchange, according to a state Department of Transportation news release.
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SHINE Medical Technologies in Janesville and NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes in Beloit are among four U.S. medical moly-99 startups that can “begin negotiations with the federal agency for potential new cooperative agreement awards” totaling up to $15 million.
More than 50 people attended a program to learn more about how school resource officers work in Rock County school districts.
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Board Clerk Karen Hall said Thursday night during a special board meeting other board members have been communicating with each other and with parties involved in an investigation of the district's handling of stipends.
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The Milton Courier will leave its home of more than 100 years at the end of this month, but the newspaper isn't going away.
The family of Dorothy Reddy will hold a benefit next month to place a memorial bench in her honor outside Consolidated Elementary in Milton, according to a release.
Project Lead The Way has named Eryca Card, a teacher in the Elkhorn Area School District, as the program’s educational leader of the year.
Rep. Deb Kolste has reintroduced a bill that would create a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for those who serve as caregivers for a family member.
The Low Technology Institute, an agricultural nonprofit located in Cooksville, has opened registration for a series of summer sustainability workshops.
A severe weather safety and spotter training class will be offered from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, at the Rock County Health Care Center, 3530 N. County F.
The Rock County Sheriff’s Office and Edgerton Conservation Club will offer two spring hunter safety classes at the club, 1006 Stoughton Road.
The American Association of University Women is accepting applications for high school and Project Renew scholarships.
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Northbound Interstate 90/39 will be restricted to one lane from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at mile marker 183 near Beloit.
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George S. Parker announced he planned to build a new factory and headquarters in 1919. When it was completed, it was considered the "last word in modern construction."
SC Aviation donated $2,900 in household items to the House of Mercy on Wednesday. The donation is the largest the company has given to the homeless shelter since the organizations began working together about a year ago.
Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center, Janesville, has been reverified as a Level II trauma center for the fourth time since 2009.
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Ernest G. Rhodes III, a former fire chief in Missouri and director of that state's emergency management agency, has been named chief of the Janesville Fire Department from a slate of four finalists.
A Darien man was charged with arson the day before he was to be sentenced for crashing his car and fighting with police, who twice shot him with a Taser.
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The Rock County Sheriff’s Office is offering a cash reward for information on the driver or vehicle involved in a November fatal crash that killed a 21-year-old Evansville man.
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Lucas Stuhr, the man accused in the gunfire homicide of a Janesville man in January, will be transferred to a secure mental health facility until he is competent to stand trial, a judge decided Wednesday.
While a group has proposed bringing a domestic violence shelter to Elkhorn, a Madison woman who works in that field spoke at an event Tuesday to address questions and myths about such shelters.
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The new residential exterior improvement program, the starting date of which has not yet been determined, will provide matching grants up to $5,000 for qualifying residents looking to make aesthetic improvements to their homes.
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Beloit police have located a stolen vehicle—and a 10-year-old child with disabilities who police believe was inside the vehicle while it was being stolen.
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In the wake of Tom Den Boer’s exit as YMCA of Northern Rock County CEO, the Y board has left questions unanswered and is being “secretive,” a lawyer for a group of four concerned YMCA members said Tuesday.
Mitchell House Coffee will reopen at The Millworks, 130 Front St., Milton, at a date to be determined, according to a post on the coffee shop's Facebook page.Â
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School board members Karen Hall, Mike Pierce and Brian Kvapil and the school district's legal counsel confirmed the investigation began Tuesday.
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A Clinton teen accused of shooting a Janesville woman Sunday night was charged with attempted murder in Rock County Court on Tuesday.
A Lake Geneva man has been charged with reckless homicide for allegedly helping provide the fentanyl that killed a Delavan man in September, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.
A Beloit Memorial High School teacher has been arrested on a charge of sexual assault of a child by a school staff person.
Blackhawk Community Credit Union plans to donate its administrative building on Kennedy Road to HealthNet of Rock County.
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Security guards at the Rock County Courthouse will remain unarmed after the Rock County Board’s General Services Committee tabled a resolution on the proposal Tuesday.
An estimated 5,000 golf balls spilled onto Highway 11/14 east of Janesville overnight.
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The 2018-19 winter has been a tale of two halves.
The Milton School District announced Monday it will no longer be part of a marketing contract that a trio of Milton entities entered with the Janesville Area Visitors and Convention Bureau.
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An energy company seeking land in the town of Darien for a possible 250-megawatt solar farm also is targeting landowners in the town of Bradford, a project consultant said Monday.
A Mukwonago woman is charged with embezzling more than $31,000 from Whitewater Chiropractic over about seven years, according to a criminal complaint filed in Walworth County Court.
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Tom Den Boer no longer will be CEO of the YMCA of Northern Rock County, the Y’s board president said in a statement Monday.
An 83-year-old was found dead in her house after a fire Sunday night.
