Good morning.

Thursday in Whitewater will be increasingly cloudy with a high of seventy-eight. We’ll have an even chance of thunderstorms tonight.

Whitewater’s Tech Park Board meets this morning at 8 AM, and at 7 PM there will be a Police and Fire Commission meeting with members of Common Council in attendance.

CNN offers a a dog meets (same) dog story:

On this day in 1897, Jack London begins a fateful trip:

Jack London leaves for the Klondike to join the gold rush, where he will write his first successful stories….

From an early age, London struggled to make a living, working in a cannery and as a sailor, oyster pirate, and fish patroller. During the national economic crisis of 1893, he joined a march of unemployed workers. He was jailed for vagrancy for a month, during which time he decided to go to college. The 17-year-old London completed a high school equivalency course and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, where he read voraciously for a year. However, he dropped out to join the 1897 gold rush.

While in the Klondike, London began submitting stories to magazines. In 1900, his first collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf, was published. Three years later, his story The Call of the Wild made him famous around the country. London continued to write stories of adventure amid the harsh natural elements. During his 17-year career, he wrote 50 fiction and nonfiction books. He settled in northern California about 1911, having already written most of his best work. London, a heavy drinker, died in 1916.

On this day in 1999, a new member of the Hall of Fame:

1999 – First Brewer Inducted into Hall of Fame
On this date Robin Yount became the first player inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in a Brewer’s jersey. Yount entered the major leagues at the age of eighteen and spent his entire career with the Milwaukee Brewers as number 19 at short stop and center field. His awards are numerous, including being selected as an all-star three times as well as American league MVP twice. [Source: Milwaukee Brewers]

Puzzability’s current series is called Sun Screens:

Sun Screens
If you can’t stand the heat, we’ve got just the ticket. For each day this week, we’ll give a three-by-three letter grid in which we’ve hidden the title of a movie that’s set during the summer. Each has 10 or more letters and any number of words. To find the title, start at any letter and move from letter to letter by traveling to any adjacent letter—across, up and down, or diagonally. You may come back to a letter you’ve used previously, but may not stay in the same spot twice in a row. You will not always need all nine letters in the grid.

Example:
F S U
O M A
R E M

Answer:
Summer of Sam

Here’s Thursday’s puzzle:

W G X
D N O
E L P

Good morning.

Midweek in Whitewater will be sunny and mild, with a high of seventy-three and calm winds.

Whitewater’s Fire & Rescue Task Force meets this morning at 9:30 AM.

On this day in 1911, American archeologist Hiram Bingham discovers the Inca settlement Machu Picchu:

Tucked away in the rocky countryside northwest of Cuzco, Machu Picchu is believed to have been a summer retreat for Inca leaders, whose civilization was virtually wiped out by Spanish invaders in the 16th century. For hundreds of years afterwards, its existence was a secret known only to the peasants living in the region. That all changed in the summer of 1911, when Bingham arrived with a small team of explorers to search for the famous “lost” cities of the Incas.

Traveling on foot and by mule, Bingham and his team made their way from Cuzco into the Urubamba Valley, where a local farmer told them of some ruins located at the top of a nearby mountain. The farmer called the mountain Machu Picchu, which meant “Old Peak” in the native Quechua language. The next day–July 24–after a tough climb to the mountain’s ridge in cold and drizzly weather, Bingham met a small group of peasants who showed him the rest of the way. Led by an 11-year-old boy, Bingham got his first glimpse of the intricate network of stone terraces marking the entrance to Machu Picchu.

Puzzability’s current series (7.22 to 7.26) is called Sun Screens:

Sun Screens
If you can’t stand the heat, we’ve got just the ticket. For each day this week, we’ll give a three-by-three letter grid in which we’ve hidden the title of a movie that’s set during the summer. Each has 10 or more letters and any number of words. To find the title, start at any letter and move from letter to letter by traveling to any adjacent letter—across, up and down, or diagonally. You may come back to a letter you’ve used previously, but may not stay in the same spot twice in a row. You will not always need all nine letters in the grid.

Example:
F S U
O M A
R E M

Answer:
Summer of Sam

Here’s Wednesday’s puzzle:

O E B
T H A
K C V

Good morning.

Tuesday in Whitewater brings decreasing clouds and a high of seventy-five, with winds at 5 to 15 mph. Sunrise was at 5:37 AM, and sunset will be at 8:25 PM. The moon is in a waning gibbous phase with 98% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM today.

NASA’s Cassini probe took pictures of the Earth from near Saturn, and the results are astonishing:

On this day in 1885, the death of a former president cuts short a serving vice president’s visit to Wisconsin:

1885 – U.S. Vice President Visits Ashland
On this date the untimely death of Ulysses S. Grant cut short Vice President Thomas Hendricks visit to Ashland. The Vice President arrived in Ashland via the steamship China in 1885. While Vice President Hendricks was in Ashland, he and his wife enjoyed trout caught in the Brule River and Fish Creek. [Source: “B” Book I, Beer Bottles, Brawls, Boards, Brothels, Bibles, Battles & Brownstone by Tony Woiak, p.11]

Puzzability’s current puzzle series (7.22 to 7.26) is called Sun Screens:

Sun Screens
If you can’t stand the heat, we’ve got just the ticket. For each day this week, we’ll give a three-by-three letter grid in which we’ve hidden the title of a movie that’s set during the summer. Each has 10 or more letters and any number of words. To find the title, start at any letter and move from letter to letter by traveling to any adjacent letter—across, up and down, or diagonally. You may come back to a letter you’ve used previously, but may not stay in the same spot twice in a row. You will not always need all nine letters in the grid.

Example:
F S U
O M A
R E M

Answer:
Summer of Sam

Here’s Tuesday’s puzzle:

R A I
E W N
Y D O

Good morning.

Whitewater’s week begins with a mostly sunny day and a high of eighty-six, with a four-in-ten chance of thunderstorms this evening.

Downtown Whitewater’s Design Committee meets this morning at 8 AM.

On this day in 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer is caught in Milwaukee:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, police officers spot Tracy Edwards running down the street in handcuffs, and upon investigation, they find one of the grisliest scenes in modern history-Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment….

Apparently, police had been called two months earlier about a naked and bleeding 14-year-old boy being chased down an alley by Dahmer. The responding officers actually returned the boy, who had been drugged, to Dahmer’s apartment–where he was promptly killed. The officers, who said that they believed it to be a domestic dispute, were later fired.

A forensic examination of the apartment turned up 11 victims–the first of whom disappeared in March 1989, just two months before Dahmer successfully escaped a prison sentence for child molestation by telling the judge that he was desperately seeking to change his conduct. Dahmer later confessed to 17 murders in all, dating back to his first victim in 1978.

The jury rejected Dahmer’s insanity defense, and he was sentenced to 15 life terms. He survived one attempt on his life in July 1994, but was killed by another inmate on November 28, 1994.

On 7.22.1864, Wisconsinites participate in the Battle of Atlanta:

1864 – (Civil War) Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
The Atlanta Campaign had begun two months earlier, in May, but a decisive battle was fought on July 22. Union forces met 37,000 Confederate troops in a battle that some historians consider one of the most desperate and bloody of the war. Although 20 percent of Confederate forces were killed, wounded, or missing at the end of the day, the South still controlled the city. The 1st, 12th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 25th, 26th, 31st Wisconsin Infantry regiments and the 5th Wisconsin Light Artillery were engaged in the Battle of Atlanta.

Puzzability’s new puzzle series (7.22 to 7.26) is called Sun Screens:

Sun Screens
If you can’t stand the heat, we’ve got just the ticket. For each day this week, we’ll give a three-by-three letter grid in which we’ve hidden the title of a movie that’s set during the summer. Each has 10 or more letters and any number of words. To find the title, start at any letter and move from letter to letter by traveling to any adjacent letter—across, up and down, or diagonally. You may come back to a letter you’ve used previously, but may not stay in the same spot twice in a row. You will not always need all nine letters in the grid.

Example:
F S U
O M A
R E M

Answer:
Summer of Sam

Here’s Monday’s puzzle:

Y G A
T D N
R I C