Brodhead News

Submitted photo A barn on Rebecca Aurit's farm near Brodhead has a 'Covered Bridge' barn quilt.

People have long floated the river while drinking alcohol to beat the heat, but landowners are growing tired of garbage, trespassers and unruly behavior along their riverfront property.

July 4th Pops on the Rock Join the Beloit Memorial High School Jazz Band for a patriotic concert on the riverfront, followed by Beloit's fireworks extravaganza.

Independent Register announces new newspaper network The Brodhead Independent Register is pleased to announce the Southern Wisconsin Newspaper Network.

Many southern Wisconsin communities have planned events for Memorial Day weekend.

An author and environmental entrepreneur is applying lessons learned from a little Wisconsin stream to hundreds of miles of muddy drainage ditches in Western India where there's insufficient water for people and farms.

"Oh, that's the dog soap," Dela Ends says from behind the refrigerator. The mottled bars are drying in the factory off the family's machine shed and have been imprinted with the likenesses of English Bulldogs and Great Danes.

SETH M. DEAN, 18, of 1646 S. Walnut St., Janesville, at 6:50 p.m. Sunday at Court Street and Garfield Avenue, Janesville.

The rain caused minor flooding and road closings, and the National Weather Service at Sullivan said the Rock and Sugar rivers and Turtle Creek would continue to rise.

The economy has taken its toll on several newspapers across the nation. Many papers have suffered everything from staff cuts to filing for bankruptcy because of a decrease in advertisement money and an increase in online news.

Officially it's the Midwest National Spring Holstein Show, a gathering of Holstein dairy cattle purists who parade their top show animals before the eyes of a discriminating judge for trophies, ribbons and prestige.

Some have filed for bankruptcy. Others have closed. But in Brodhead, a city of about 3,000 just over the county line in Green County, a new newspaper is just starting.

Back in 1976 we asked readers of this column if anyone could tell us where the Brodhead Latch Co.

A 16-year-old faces two counts of causing bodily harm by reckless driving after a single-car crash.

Law enforcement officials actually are seeing a drop in the number of cases statewide, said David Spakowicz, director of field operations for the state Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigation.

This time, the Milton Post Office is under analysis. Postal workers Monday learned of the analysis, City Clerk Nancy Zastrow said.

Machines monitoring an elderly man's vital signs emit steady beeps while a surgeon uses one arm to grasp a dissector and deftly peel layers of tissue from the patient's cancerous bladder.

Press Release from the City of Brodhead: Department of Police: In the City of Brodhead the traffic stop and later arrest of Roy Van Brocklin of rural Brodhead on March 20, 2009 at about 3:00 p.m. led police to investigate the possession and possible manufacture of methamphetamines by Van Brocklin.

BRODHEADa 'The arrest of a rural Brodhead man during a traffic stop has led to a methamphetamine investigation, Brodhead police said in a news release this morning.

"The current difficult economic times and a reduced production schedule requires less manufacturing capacity and therefore less people," President and Chief Economic Officer Thierry Krier said in a news ...