5.0 Updates - NewsArticles
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rockcounty5 posted on May 14, 2013 16:04
(Janesville, WI) Greg Peck, Gazette Editorial
Ask a child in middle school about career possibilities, and he or she might mention firefighting, he...
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rockcounty5 posted on May 08, 2013 10:38
(Janesville, WI) - Jim Leute, Gazette
Connecting local students and employers is the goal of a web-based program that could debut this fall in middle...
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rockcounty5 posted on April 27, 2013 09:47
(Beloit, WI) - By Hillary Gavan, Beloit Daily News
Students will have the chance to ask area business people what they make, what hours they work and...
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rockcounty5 posted on April 26, 2013 23:30
(Rock County) Media Contact James Otterstein, 608.757.5598
Rock County 5.0 announced the launch of a new business and education engagement strategy a...
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rockcounty5 posted on April 24, 2013 15:16
(Janesville, WI) By Frank Schultz, Gazette
Both Craig and Parker high schools were recognized nationally Tuesday when U.S. News & World Report re...
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rockcounty5 posted on April 18, 2013 09:30
(Rock County, WI) - By Brian Wasag, RE Journals
For businesses considering relocation, Rock County, Wis., certainly offers its fair share of advantag...
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rockcounty5 posted on April 09, 2013 08:27
(Janesville, WI) - By Jim Leute, Gazette
A Janesville manufacturer that plans to build a new plant on the city’s north side hopes to add positions, b...
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rockcounty5 posted on April 08, 2013 08:25
(Janesville, WI) — By Jim Leute, Gazette
Scott Acker visited Janesville last year with an idea of what he would find.
He expected a nearly dest...
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rockcounty5 posted on April 06, 2013 08:29
(Janesville, WI) By Maria Nelesen, Gazette
One tenant already has moved into the city’s new business incubator, and two more are working to finalize ...
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rockcounty5 posted on March 28, 2013 08:28
(Janesville) - By Jim Leute, Gazette
A Janesville manufacturer has received a $64.5 million contract extension that will keep its plant humming for y...
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rockcounty5 posted on March 11, 2013 12:18 
(Janesville, WI) – GOEX Corporation, a manufacturer of extruded plastic sheet products, announced that it intends to expand and relocate its Jane...
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rockcounty5 posted on March 06, 2013 14:31
(Janesville, WI) By Frank Schultz, Gazette
UW-Rock County plans to offer a new, four-year degree this fall, appealing especially to local adults who ...
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rockcounty5 posted on March 05, 2013 11:34
(Edgerton, WI) - Neil Johnson, Gazette
Edgerton High School’s Pipeline to Employment, the district’s new intern partnership with area manufacturers, ...
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rockcounty5 posted on February 22, 2013 14:50
(Janesville, WI) Gary Kohn, BTC
The first step in creating a world class advanced manufacturing region starts with creating a large talent pipeline. ...
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rockcounty5 posted on January 29, 2013 11:12
(Janesville, WI) Gazette Editorial
The industrial turnaround in Janesville and Rock County has been impressive.
Sure, there’s that 4.1-million-squar...
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rockcounty5 posted on January 28, 2013 11:17
(Janesville, WI) By Jim Leute, jleute@gazettextra.com
Not quite four years ago, one of every four square feet of industrial space in Rock County was ...
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rockcounty5 posted on December 28, 2012 09:54
(Janesville, WI) By Frank Schultz, fschultz@gazetteextra.com
Chris Smith was an unemployed carpenter for about two years before he started getting wo...
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rockcounty5 posted on December 20, 2012 10:08
(Janesville) By Gazette Staff
Rock and Walworth counties are now part of a federal trade program that offers significant benefits to existing and new...
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rockcounty5 posted on December 20, 2012 10:01
(Milton) By Jim Leute, jleute@gazettextra.com
A vacant manufacturing facility in Milton tops the list of potential sites for Blackhawk Technical Coll...
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rockcounty5 posted on December 19, 2012 14:00
(Beloit) By Shaun Zinck, szinck@beloitdailynews.com
Two development sites in Beloit’s Gateway Business Park have been certified as “shovel ready” by ...
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rockcounty5 posted on December 19, 2012 02:00
(Janesville) By Jim Leute, jleute@gazettextra.com
Wisconsin economic development officials are expected in Rock County today to do what local econom...
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rockcounty5 posted on December 15, 2012 02:00
(Janesville) Catherine Idzerda, Gazette
The three R’s of education traditionally have referred to reading, writing and arithmetic.
For a changi...
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rockcounty5 posted on December 15, 2012 02:00
(Janesville) By Hillary Gavan, hgavan@beloitdailynews.com
Representatives from business and education discussed how to better prepare students for th...
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rockcounty5 posted on December 02, 2012 02:00
(Janesville) By Marcia Nelesen, mnelesen@gazettextra.com
Biotech company Virent, now thriving in a 72,000-square-foot facility, got its st...
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rockcounty5 posted on December 01, 2012 02:00
(Janesville) by Jim Leute, jleute@gazettextra.com
Rock County companies are contributing to what could shape up as a record year for exports from ...
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rockcounty5 posted on November 29, 2012 02:00 
(Janesville) By Jim Leute, jleute@gazettextra.com
Rock County's official unemployment rate reached a four-year low in October, but whether that's c...
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rockcounty5 posted on November 28, 2012 02:00
Media Contact: James Otterstein (Rock County, WI)
If you're looking for a quick way to gauge the health of the local economy, check out the Rock Read...
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rockcounty5 posted on November 09, 2012 02:00
(Beloit) By Hillary Gavan hgavan@beloitdailynews.com
In Rock County hourly wages have increased in 2012 with nearly all companies surveyed providing ...
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rockcounty5 posted on November 02, 2012 02:00
Media Contact: James Otterstein
(Rock County, WI) – Rock County 5.0, in conjunction with the Blackhawk Human Resource Association (BHRA...
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rockcounty5 posted on September 23, 2012 02:00 
(Janesville) By Jim Leute jleute@gazettextra.com
When recruiting new businesses or helping existing companies expand, economic development ...
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rockcounty5 posted on September 11, 2012 02:00
(Janesville, WI) By Jim Leute jleute@gazettextra.com
An upcoming bond issue to pay for several projects in Rock County will carry favorable r...
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rockcounty5 posted on August 09, 2012 02:00 
(Janesville, WI) By Neil Johnson, njohnson@gazettextra.com
It’s a calculated risk anytime you rip out a guitar solo in front of potential investors, ...
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rockcounty5 posted on August 09, 2012 02:00
By Erica Pennington epennington@beloitdailynews.com
From high-rising ceiling drills to a website for international students, local entrepreneurs hopi...
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rockcounty5 posted on August 07, 2012 02:00 
Media Contact: James Otterstein
(Rock County, WI) – Businesses of all sizes, industry sectors and ownership structures are encouraged to...
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rockcounty5 posted on July 25, 2012 02:00
Media Contact: James Otterstein
(Rock County, WI) – Rock County 5.0 announced today that Edgerton’s Business Park has earned the Ady-...
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rockcounty5 posted on July 21, 2012 02:00 
By Rick Romell of the Journal Sentinel
(Janesville, WI) - It's been a hard road in Rock County. Now the area - Exhibit A in the recession's impa...
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rockcounty5 posted on July 19, 2012 02:00
By Tom Still, WI Technology Council
(Janesville, WI ) – Jeff Helgesen, one of Rock County’s largest developers, doesn’t parse words when he’s as...
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rockcounty5 posted on July 17, 2012 02:00
By JUDY NEWMAN | Wisconsin State Journal
Rock County is strutting into Chicago, trying to persuade businesses to move north, to Wisconsin.
Billboar...
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host posted on July 10, 2012 02:00
By Shaun Zinck
szinck@beloitdailynews.com
City council members from the city of Beloit and Janesville got together to discuss ways to furthe...
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host posted on July 10, 2012 02:00
By Marcia Nelesen (Contact )
(Janesville, WI) — When readers picked up their July 2 copy of Crain's, a noted Chicago business magazine, a promin...
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host posted on July 10, 2012 02:00
Media Contact: James Otterstein
(Rock County, WI) – Rock County 5.0 released the details of its current media and public relations campaign, ...
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host posted on May 11, 2012 02:00
By Erica Pennington
epennington@beloitdailynews.com
(Beloit, WI) Whether interested in showing off the first prototype of the next big thing...
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host posted on May 11, 2012 02:00
By JIM LEUTE (Contact )
Click here to learn more about the Rock/Walworth FastPitch Competition.
JANESVILLE — Local entrepreneurs enthra...
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host posted on May 11, 2012 02:00
Media Contact: James Otterstein
Phone: 608.757.5598
(Rock County, WI) – Rock County 5.0, in collaboration with various regional economic and workfor...
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host posted on April 01, 2012 02:00
GazetteXtra.com
By JIM LEUTE (Contact )
Click here to participate in the survey, which takes about 10 minutes to complete.
JANESVILLE — When discus...
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host posted on March 31, 2012 02:00
By Hillary Gavan
hgavan@beloitdailynews.com
JANESVILLE — While every community wants to land that economic development big fish, the most ef...
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host posted on March 30, 2012 02:00
By JIM LEUTE (Contact )
JANESVILLE — Anticipation of new products, increasing market share and a relative lack of global production all are factors t...
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host posted on March 29, 2012 13:27
ROCK COUNTY 5.0
ONE VISION | ONE VOICE
Media Contact: James Otterstein Date
Phone: 608.757.5598
(Rock County, WI) – Rock County 5.0 released the r...
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host posted on March 26, 2012 02:00
By Hillary Gavan
hgavan@beloitailynews.com
High school students in Rock County are being called upon to take an online survey to help provide bett...
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host posted on March 23, 2012 02:00
Media Contact: James Otterstein
Phone: 608.757.5598
(Rock County, WI) – Rock County 5.0, in collaboration with a subcommittee of the Leaders...
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host posted on March 18, 2012 02:00
By JIM LEUTE (Contact )
Photos by Dan Lassiter
JANESVILLE — Buffeted by strong economic headwinds and a sharp descent in operations, the Southe...
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host posted on March 14, 2012 02:00
Southern WI Regional Airport Video Released
Media Contact: James Otterstein
Phone: 608.757.5598
(Rock County, WI) – Rock County 5.0 rel...
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host posted on November 22, 2011 02:00
Summits Provide Forum to Address Employer Needs
Media Contact:James Otterstein
Phone:608.757.5598
(Rock County, WI) – To address today’s, a...
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host posted on October 21, 2011 02:00
By Hillary Gavan
hgavan@beloitailynews.com
Learning Spanish may be one of the best things Janesville Police Officer Chad Sullivan has ever done.
Su...
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host posted on October 21, 2011 02:00
By JIM LEUTE (Contact )
JANESVILLE — The judges in the "Accelerate Your Business Plan" contest liked the cops last year.
They loved them this year, ...
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host posted on October 20, 2011 02:00
Media Contact: James Otterstein
Phone: 608.757.5598
(Rock County, WI) – Representatives from Rock County 5.0, as well as the Contest’s Title Sponsor...
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host posted on September 23, 2011 02:00
By Hillary Gavan
hgavan@beloitailynews.com
Rock County has received excellent credit ratings from Standard & Poor (S&P) and Moody's....
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host posted on September 21, 2011 02:00
By JIM LEUTE (Contact )
JANESVILLE — Two top bond-rating firms have put their stamp of approval on a $4.5 million borrowing plan for Rock County.
Ah...
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host posted on September 06, 2011 02:00
By JIM LEUTE (Contact )
Web traffic is up, and the phone is ringing. Now all local economic development officials need is for one or two of those vis...
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