Edgerton News

As 2009 draws to a close, I can't help but reflect on the strides that the state Legislature has made to help Wisconsin dig itself out of the economic downturn and of the significant challenges that lay ahead of us in 2010.

RONALD J. RYAN, 37, of 1616 E. Road 7, Edgerton, at 11:15 a.m. Monday at the Dane County Jail on a charge of forgery.

Everyone has an opinion on how his or her tax dollars should be spent. Those opinions seem to get sharper during a recession, when every dollar counts.

A Saturday accident on Interstate 39/90 left two people with nonlife-threatening injuries.

Teri Huber would like to start a support group for men and women in the Janesville area who have spouses who commute to GM plants.

The Edgerton City Council voted unanimously to make the Edgerton Veterans Memorial Building available for lease but not purchase tonight after passionate speeches from veterans and their families.

"It's a good Christmas present," said Tracey Pederson, hospital spokeswoman. The hospital announced plans in 2005 to build a new facility to replace the aging building at 313 Stoughton Road.

Two Edgerton residents face drug charges after the Rock County Special Investigation Unit executed a search warrant at their home on Newville Street.

Pink Houses will play starting at 9 p.m. Saturday at The Grove nightclub, Route 173, Poplar Grove, Ill.

CRAIG D. DENSON, 26, of 917 Wolcott St., Janesville, at 7 p.m. Monday at the Janesville Police Department on two counts of delivery of cocaine near certain places and one count of bail jumping.

DUANE E. RUTHERFORD, 38, of 1301 Center Ave., Janesville, at 1:32 a.m. Saturday at Center Avenue and State Street, Janesville.

Firefighters remained at the scene of a house fire in Milton Township late Saturday night.

Some highways and streets were icy-rutted thrill rides. In both the city of Janesville and around the county, efforts to clear the snow on Tuesday and Wednesday were hampered by plow breakdowns, downed power lines, broken tree limbs and massive snow downpours.

Spontaneous combustion in wet corn started a fire in an underground conveyor system at United Ethanol, according to a spokesman at the Milton Fire Department.

Both of the finalists announced Friday live and work in southern Wisconsin. The school board chose Steven McNeal, assistant superintendent in the Beloit School District, and Dennis Pauli, principal at Mendota Elementary School in Madison, after interviewing four of the 36 original applicants.

The Edgerton School District has chosen two superintendent finalists in its search for a replacement for Norm Fjelstad, who is retiring at the end of the school year.

Wind Chill: 41 F Font Size: Posted Tuesday, November 24, 2009 --- 8:38 p.m. On 11/24/2009 at 7:57 PM an incident occurred that adversely impacts traffic on the NORTHBOUND AND SOUTHBOUND lanes of INTERSTATE 39/90 near mile post 165 and NEWVILLE ROAD.

The I-90 Industrial Center, aka former Caterpillar plant in Edgerton at 1220 W. Fulton.

Five people are dead after three separate traffic crashes in Wisconsin over just a few hours.

A 6-year-old boy and a 54-year-old were killed Tuesday near Edgerton when a driver lost control of his car and crashed into a minivan on I-39/90. The Capital Times of Madison says Ruby Alexander, 54, and the 6-year-old boy, both from Rochester, died in the wreck and three other people suffered non-life threatening injuries.