Edgerton News

On 07-07-09 at approximately 8:14 pm, an individual approached two subjects in the parking lot of the Oregon McDonald's restaurant located at 1029 North Main Street in Oregon.

TERRI L. GRAHAM, 53, of 235 Milton Ave., Janesville, at 6:50 p.m. Sunday at Humes Road and Deerfield Drive, Janesville.

SARAH A. MCCARTHY, 20, of 841 E. Milwaukee St., Janesville, at 2:10 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Parker Drive and Wall Street, on charges of second-degree reckless injury and resisting arrest, after a 32-year-old woman was stabbed in the back with a knife.

A pilot landing at a Janesville airport spotted an unexpected tornado in Rock County Tuesday night, throwing the National Weather Service at Sullivan into a sudden warning mode as more sightings were quickly reported by law enforcement.

Both lanes of eastbound Interstate 39/90 north of Edgerton are closed due to the road buckling in the heat, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

Rock County Court - SCOTT A. SCHUMACHER, 40, of 1628 Royce Ave., Beloit, formerly of Janesville, misdemeanor domestic battery, nine months in jail with Huber privileges with credit.

The Department of Natural Resources is accepting comments about the rehabilitation project proposed by the Consolidated Koshkonong Sanitary District through 4:30 p.m. Friday, June 19.

Oh no, they don't really raise tobacco in Wisconsin? Do they? That's the common response when the subject of tobacco growing in the dairy state comes up in conversation, something that only happens when folks like this writer brings up the subject -- which is seldom.

Edgerton, WI-based Large Format Digital, a provider of vehicle photographic color printing is taking "being green" to the extreme with its numerous actions to become more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

If you want to get the economy moving, put people to work. In the midst of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration to provide jobs for the unemployed millions.

After a four-hour recount, the results were the same as they were Tuesday. The referendum passed by 17 votes.

The board of canvassers will meet at 7 a.m., Sunday, at the Edgerton Library, 101 Albion St., Edgerton, to recount ballots from Tuesdaya s referendum.

SCHOOL PRAYER: Lee Murray's May 29 letter contained the following bit of misinformation: 'Justice Black wrote the opinion removing prayer from schools in the early 1960s.' In 1962, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black did write the majority decision in Engel v. Vitale, which outlawed government-mandated prayers in the public schools.

It all depends on how many people show up to vote on a referendum Tuesday, a day when no other elections are taking place.

The popular social networking website Facebook gets credit for an arrest Thursday in Dane County.

Helen Ardene 'Ardie' Gunderson, 74, of Sherwood, formerly of Edgerton, went home to be with her Lord on Sunday, May 24, 2009, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Motorists using northbound Interstate 39/90 north of Edgerton should expect some delays Wednesday morning and afternoon as traffic will be reduced to one lane due to bridge work.

BURGLARY reported at 5:45 p.m. Monday to a home in the 3200 block of Briar Crest Drive, Janesville.

"Unfortunately, the bad ones have come at the end of the relationship," he said.

Boaters on the Rock River in the town of Fulton will be subject to the no-wake rule through Memorial Day weekend, the Rock County Sheriff's Office said.