Hannah Powell

2 weeks 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.

1 month 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 :?

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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?