(Janesville, WI) Harrison Freuck, Adams Publishing Group Rock County plans to finish paving the Peace Trail by November. The county board voted unanimously Thursday to use nearly $90,000 in excess sales tax and funds from American Transmission Company to fill the...

(Milton, WI) Scott Foehlich, Gazette The City of Milton has plenty to be happy about over the last year, as 2021 brought monumental changes to a city transitioning into a period of expansion. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Jacob Roushia, BDN G5 Brewing in the Gateway Business Park may be expanding soon after action taken at Monday’s Beloit City Council meeting. The Beloit City Council approved the sale of four acres of city-owned property in the Gateway Business Park to the...

(Beloit, WI) Hillary Gavan, BDN Rock County Jumpstart has been awarded a $1 million Diverse Business Assistance grant from the Wisconsin Department of Administration. Its fiscal agent Center for Community Stewardship will act as its pass-through agent. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Clint Wolf, BDN The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) announced that Beloit College’s Logan Museum of Anthropology has earned reaccreditation. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette Jeff Woodman is a Verona resident whose family for generations has owned the hot corner on the city’s busy, northeast side retail strip. He said casual restaurant chain Chili’s is ready to pull the trigger on developing a...

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette A Janesville downtown with several hundred new apartment units? Throughout the region, consumers are looking for a sweet spot that rests somewhere between affordability and location. But there will be a growing number of families...

(Milton, WI) Scott Froehlich, Adams Publishing Group A Janesville developer wants to build nearly 100 one- and two-family houses in the city of Milton. Chris Roach, owner of Park Place Investments LLC, submitted a petition to the city of Milton to annex 49 acres of...

(Milton, WI) Pam Beres, Milton Courier Opening a small-town coffee shop at the beginning of a pandemic would daunt the heartiest of entrepreneurs. But the crisis hasn’t stopped Dave and Sharla Walker. On June 20, 2020, they opened Sharla’s Coffee Shop inside the...

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette On Monday, the Janesville City Council breezed through approval of a $447,200 pay-as-you-go tax-incentive package for Rockford, Illinois-based Phelps Pet Products—a pet snack producer that plans to produce jerky-style, “meaty”...