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Final utility truck made in Janesville hits auction block By: Associated Press May 31, 2021 7:08 am The city of Janesville is auctioning a 2002 GMC dump truck that was the last-ever big truck to roll off the Janesville General Motors Assembly plant’s medium-duty truck line. It’s got about 65,000 miles on it, and ran about 6,500 hours, most of the time as a blacktop truck. (Neil Johnson at Janesville Gazettte) Neil Johnson Janesville Gazette JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) The big, yellow GMC truck first operated as a snowplow on city of Janesville streets. Then, for years, it became an asphalt mule for city street maintenance. ....
View Comments MADISON - Republican lawmakers writing the next state budget plan to provide schools with $150 million in new funding less than 10% of what Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proposed for schools and will steer more federal stimulus funding toward districts that provided in-person instruction during the coronavirus pandemic. The details of the GOP spending plan for schools over the next two years were released Thursday, days after Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester and Senate President Chris Kapenga of Delafield questioned the need for large increases for Wisconsin schools in light of $2.6 billion in federal aid they are receiving because of the pandemic. ....
May 21, 2021 A shooting incident Thursday night at a Janesville mobile home park that resulted in two deaths is being investigated as a murder-suicide. Police told the Janesville Gazette the two men who were found dead Thursday night while officers were investigating a shots fired call in the trailer park off Kellogg Avenue knew each other. Officers had responded to lot B-17 just before 10:00 o’clock when they found the bodies. Police say the public is not in danger. Janesville Police say more information will be released Friday afternoon. ....
Firefighter training key in rescue of 50 people from Janesville apartment fire Janesville Gazette (WI) The Janesville Fire Department had used the building at 120 St. Lawrence Ave. to train firefighters just one day before an actual fire barreled through the complex. Training in real structures is part of a regimen fire department officials said was key in saving dozens of lives when a fire started in the St. Lawrence Avenue building in the early-morning hours of March 28. Josh Uecker said the March 28 fire was the most significant call he has responded to in his 15-year career. It required several ladder rescues and sent firefighters crawling through pitch-dark rooms as they looked for people. ....