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1 week ago | 
gazettextra.com | Hannah Powell |Kylie Balk-Yaatenen
By HANNAH POWELL/ [email protected],KYLIE BALK-YAATENEN [email protected] JANESVILLE - Eleven months after a tornado swept through the city's southside, the nonprofit Janesville Urban Forest Alliance, SSM Health and the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin are teaming to help residents replace lost trees.
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1 month ago | 
gazettextra.com | Hannah Powell |Kylie Balk-Yaatenen
JANESVILLE - Library directors in Janesville and Milton are expressing grave concern about an executive order recently issued by President Donald Trump, eliminating the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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2 months ago | 
gazettextra.com | Hannah Powell
JANESVILLE — A 23-year-old Janesville man was was shot and killed on March 7 at a BP gas station just east of Madison. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene in the town of Pleasant Springs and, following an investigation, Creed Moore and Duane Johnson were arrested in the death of Kyle Thrasher of Janesville. kAmpFE9@C:E:6D 2==686 E92E E96 EH@ >6? 2CC2?865 E@ >66E %9C2D96C[ C@3365 9:>[ 2?5 D9@E 9:> H9:=6 96 D2E F?2C>65 :? 9:D 42C]k^AmkAm|@@C6 H2D 2CC6DE65 @? |2C49 `c :?
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2 months ago | 
gazettextra.com | Hannah Powell
JANESVILLE — “Opioid overdoses have been a crisis in our county. This gives people an opportunity to save a life if they were to come across someone who is experiencing an overdose,” Shari Faber, a public health strategist with the Rock County Public Health Department, said Wednesday as she taught downtown business owners how to administer NARCAN. Faber led a free NARCAN training at 29 South Cafe, 29 S Main St., in downtown Janesville Wednesday night.
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2 months ago | 
gazettextra.com | Hannah Powell
JANESVILLE — “Even though we do not have visible layers, like onions or trees, we have things deep inside of us… throughout my life, I have experienced many things despite my age,” Niah Holmes, a 16-year-old junior at Joseph A. Craig High School, said in a speech to her school in January during a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assembly. Continuing, she said, “For me, each month was a new thing. It was another chapter in my story. It was a layer to my life, each one more tragic than the other.
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2 months ago | 
gazettextra.com | Hannah Powell
JANESVILLE — Thunderstorms and high winds Friday night into Saturday morning caused significant damage across the Rock County area. The Rock County 911 Communications Center said between 11 p.m. Friday night, March 14, and 11 a.m. Saturday, March 15, it received more than 250 calls for downed wires and trees, and a dozen brushfires were reported, none with injuries. kAmp44@C5:?8 E@ E96 }2E:@?2= (62E96C $6CG:46[ H:?5D A62<65 36EH66?
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2 months ago | 
gazettextra.com | Hannah Powell
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2 months ago | 
dailyunion.com | Hannah Powell
WHITEWATER — Nolan Johnson and Jonathan Wicklein were the last two “polar plungers” for Saturday’s Special Olympics Polar Plunge in Whitewater. kAm%96 EH@ &?:G6CD:EJ @7 !=2EE6G:==6 DEF56?ED 5C@G6 @FE 7@C E96 6G6?E] y@9?D@? D2:5 “:E H2D 4@=5 3FE H@CE9 :E[ H6 =@G6 DFAA@CE:?8 492C:EJ 2?5 H:== `__T 5@ :E 282:? ?6IE J62C]”k^AmkAm“#FD9 $:8>2 %2FP” E96 EH@ C6A62E65 H96? 2D<65 7@C 2 7:?2= DE2E6>6?E]k^AmkAm(9:E6H2E6C H2D @?6 @7 6:89E =@42E:@?D 24C@DD E96 DE2E6 H96C6 A6@A=6 A2CE:4:A2E65 :?
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2 months ago | 
gazettextra.com | Hannah Powell
JANESVILLE — Cautiously approaching the “made for her” royal blue electric car, Presley Keller glanced toward her mother. April Keller gently set her daughter, 16 months old, in the driver’s seat and gave her a moment to adjust. After gentle coaxing, Presley relaxed and beamed a wide smile at her family as she grabbed the steering wheel. kAm!C6D=6J H2D @?6 @7 D6G6? 49:=5C6?
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2 months ago | 
gazettextra.com | Hannah Powell
JANESVILLE — Making a silly face and a sarcastic comment, Andy DeLong poked fun Wednesday at two female nurses as they inserted a needle into the PICC line in his chest for his weekly dose of chemotherapy. Andy’s mom, Mysty Trapp, smiled, sharing that this is how he always is, no matter the diagnosis or day. kAm%96 ``\J62C\@=5 7C@> y2?6DG:==6[ H9@ H2D 5:28?@D65 :? y2?F2CJ H:E9 24FE6 =J>A9@3=2DE:4 =6F<6>:2[ 86ED E96 H66<=J 496>@ EC62E>6?ED 2E p>6C:42? u2>:=J r9:=5C6?’D w@DA:E2= :?
