The Janesville Morning Rotary Club honored six October students of the month.
The Janesville Noon Rotary Club has announced its October Students of the Month.
Josh Braun has been appointed general manager at Throndsen Lettering.
Eric Thornton has been named president of SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Janesville.
Patrol officer Noe Mar-Garcia received his badge from the Beloit Police Department at a badge-pinning ceremony Nov. 14.
The Walworth County Literacy Council has received at $1,500 grant from the Alliant Energy Foundation.
The Lakeland Audubon Society will receive the Good Earth Award during the 2019 Holidazzle celebration on Sunday, Dec. 8, in East Troy.
Milton Middle School has announced its first-quarter honor roll for the 2019-20 school year.
Orfordville Parkview Junior and Senior High School has released its first-quarter honor roll for the 2019-20 school year.
The Rock County Sheriff’s Office recently hired four new employees: Gabriela Gonzalez, Cody Kinnamon, Chase Larson and Kayla Wood.
Sergi Farms has donated another 1,200 pounds of ground beef to the Walworth County Food Pantry in Elkhorn.
C. David Hiller has been named chief executive officer at Amwood Homes in Janesville.
UW-Whitewater student Ryan Schultz has received the 2019 Richard G. Gaarder Award from the Wisconsin Music Educators Association.
Visit Lake Geneva received the Purple Angel Award from the Dementia Friendly Community Initiative for completing dementia-friendly training.
These area students earned degrees from UW-Oshkosh in the summer 2019 semester:
Lisa Machtemes recently was named the new executive director at KANDU Industries in Janesville.
Henry Miller performed with the Wisconsin Middle Level All-State Honors Band on Oct. 27 and 28 at the Waunakee Performing Arts Center in Waunakee.
The Janesville Art League and four of its members received awards from the Wisconsin Regional Artists Association.
Janesville-based Blain’s Farm & Fleet has opened a new store in Holland, Michigan.
The Hendricks and Packard families each have donated $1 million to Beloit Memorial Hospital to help fund renovations to the Packard Family Care Center.
Grinnell Hall Senior Center in Beloit again earned accreditation from the Wisconsin Association of Senior Centers.
These local students graduated during the summer from Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa:
Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center in Janesville has earned silver-level recognition for its organ donation efforts in the Workplace Partnership for Life hospital organ donation campaign.
Rhett Cunningham, son of Steven Cunningham of Edgerton and Michelle Willits of Oregon, received an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship to attend Ripon College.
Michael Tuttle of Beloit has received a Citizen Lifesaving Citation for preventing a woman from jumping off a bridge in late September.
Two nuclear technology companies, Phoenix and Janesville-based SHINE Medical Technologies, broke a world record for a nuclear fusion reaction in a steady-state system during testing in July.
Six city of Janesville employees recently received the city’s “Mighty Oak” Award.
Court Appoint Special Advocates of Rock County received a two-year $160,000 grant from United Way Blackhawk Region. The grant will help recruit, train and support CASA volunteer advocates in the community.
Laine Bucklin, a senior at Milton High School, has been named a Commended Student in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Star Center Elementary School in Lake Geneva was named a 2019 National Blue Ribbon School by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
These local students earned degrees in the summer 2019 semester from UW-La Crosse:
Justin Henry has joined Consigny Law Firm in Janesville as an associate attorney.
Chrisann Lemery received the Leadership Award from the American Health Information Management Association at its recent “appreciation celebration” at Navy Pier in Chicago.
Keefe Kares, a charitable program run by Keefe Real Estate, has donated $1,000 to the Walworth County Literacy Council.
Mercy College of Health Sciences
These local UW-Eau Claire freshmen received university scholarships and awards for the 2019-20 academic year:
Airman Presley L. Sand graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio.
Airgas branch gets national nod
Airman Madeline S. Heft, daughter of Angel Cradic of Milton and Matthew Heft of Edgerton, graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas.
Lake Geneva Middle School has been accredited by the Wisconsin School Music Association.
Greg Piefer, founder of SHINE Medical Technologies, has received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from the UW-Madison Department of Physics.
Two physicians recently joined Mercyhealth’s emergency medicine staff.
