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JANESVILLE — Janesville city officials have declined to identify those a City Hall release on Monday afternoon called “finalists” for the job of city manager, saying the applicants need a

A group of Janesville residents continues to press for a ballot referendum on whether the city should borrow millions of dollars of public money to build the Woodman’s Sports and

The city of Janesville is apparently poised to launch a national search for a new city manager as outgoing City Manager Mark Freitag prepares to depart for Colorado.

Janesville Police Chief David Moore will spend the rest of the fall and possibly the winter splitting duties between the Janesville police headquarters on North Jackson Street and the city

It will likely become clearer Monday night, but it’s been a murky few days regarding who is being appointed interim Janesville city manager, and why that finalists name has yet

View the The Gazette for Monday, September 26, 2022

When downtown Janesville was recast as a recreation-friendly urban center with a multi-million-dollar riverfront park, the city likely wan’t picturing kids doing tire burnouts there on electric two-wheelers.

Janesville Transit System employees are entering interest arbitration to settle a yearlong contract dispute between the city’s municipal bus drivers and the city of Janesville.

Well, actually, the city didn’t really have a quota. For class A liquor licenses—the sort issued to retailers that sell packaged alcohol for consumption elsewhere—the city had a quota of 19. That is based on a formula of one such license for every 3,500 city residents. Except the city had granted 25 such liquor licenses based on a 2014 ordinance amendment allowing the council to exceed the quota “… when issuance of a license would expand the trade impact of an existing ...

JANESVILLE Janesville has ended its quota on the number of liquor stores the city can have, but city officials still have the power to deny new store applications. The city council’s action Monday night to end the quota on class A liquor licenses could bring a different kind of store to Janesville, however, said city Economic Development Director Gale Price. Price said if warehouse retailers such as Binny’s Beverage Depot or Total Wine & More were looking to expand, they might have sk...