(Janesville, WI) Ryan Spoehr, APG A Janesville School District program continues to put students in work environments that help them build a resume or even land a job straight out of high school. The district runs Craftsman with Character for high school students...

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, APG The YMCA of Northern Rock County has bought the Boys & Girls Club of Janesville’s portion of the Y’s shared downtown building at 200 W. Court St. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Kylie Balk-Yaatenen, APG The Janesville City Council unanimously approved a $1.8 million TIF deal between the city and a developer eying the site where the former Town & Country Building was located for a 44-unit multifamily apartment complex....

(Beloit, WI) BDN Staff PepsiCo is investing more than $1.3 million into its 550,000-square-foot Frito-Lay facility at 2810 Kennedy Drive, although it won’t mean additional jobs for the local economy. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG The City of Beloit will hold a planning workshop on Tuesday, May 26 to get community input on creating a special taxing district to spur development on the city’s West Side. MORE INFO

(Town of Beloit) Alex Gary, APG Alliant Energy has launched its expansion of the West Riverside Energy Center in what is the largest construction project so far in the town this decade. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG The approval process finally is underway for a new subdivision in Beloit that is being built with the help of $1 million in incentives from the city. Beloit-based Next Generation Homes will add nearly 100 single-family homes and...

(Beloit, WI) Clint Wolf, APG The Beloit Memorial High School Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Chris Behrens, are coming home with several awards that the student musicians earned at the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Clint Wolf, APG A week-long grand re-opening will be held Monday, May 4 through Friday, May 8 for thee Blender Cafe in the Beloit Public Library, 605 Eclipse Blvd. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, APG Janesville’s south side is getting a dose of chicken restaurant love. Buffalo Wild Wings Go — a streamlined, to-go version of the chicken wing-centric chain Buffalo Wild Wings — appears poised to open at a strip mall property at 1905...