Good morning, Whitewater. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of forty-eight, with an even chance of showers this evening. Sunrise is 6:40 AM and sunset 4:37 PM, for 9h 56m 52s of daytime today. In the Friday FW poll, about a help-line worker who spoke in an intentionally robotic voice, a majority…

Good morning, Whitewater Our Saturday will be partly sunny with a high of forty. Sunrise is 6:39 AM and sunset 4:38 PM. We’ll have 9h 59m 15s of daytime, and the moon is in a waning gibbous phase. On this day in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen first observes X-rays: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen…27 March 1845 – 10…

Good morning, Whitewater. Our week ends with a mostly cloudy day and a high of forty-five. Sunrise is 6:37 AM and sunset 4:39 PM. We’ll have 10h 01m 38s of daytime. If one is tenacious, even nearly a score of adversaries are manageable: at a private game reserve in Africa, a single porcupine defended itself…

Good morning, Whitewater. Thursday in the city will be partly cloudy with a high of forty-three. Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 4:40 PM, with 10h 04m 02s of daytime. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM, and Common Council at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1861, the Confederate States of America select a…

Good morning, Whitewater. I hope readers’ election experiences went well and smoothly (as mine did, with few lines and an easy process). Our weather was good, and I always enjoy (as so many others do) a trip to the Old Armory for voting. Here we are, on the other side of a long and expensive…

Good morning, Whitewater. Election day in town will be cloudy in the morning, but sunny later in the day, with a high of fifty-two. Sunrise is 6:33 AM and sunset 4:42 PM, with 10h 08m 56s of daytime. Google has a doodle for America’s election: Downtown Whitewater’s board will meet this morning at 8 AM.…

Good morning, Whitewater. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of sixty degrees, and winds from the southwest at sixteen miles per hour. Sunrise is 6:32 AM and sunset 4:44 PM. We’ll have 10h 11m 27s of daytime. On this day in 1957, the Soviet Union launches a dog into space: Laika,…

Good morning, Whitewater. Sunday in town will be partly cloudy with a high of fifty-two. Sunrise is 6:31 AM and sunset 4:45 PM. We will have 10h 13m 53s of daytime. Sometimes one encounters an alligator and lives to tell the tale. This is one of those times:

Good morning, Whitewater. A new month begins, with only four days until Tuesday’s election. We’ll have sunny skies and a high of forty-five in the Whippet City. The FW Halloween poll results are in, and vampires have won the most responses, with 32.26% of the total. Last year, with the same choices available, ghosts led…

Good morning, Whitewater. Whitewater will see a bit of snow in the early morning, on a chilly Halloween day with a high of thirty-nine. Google has a doodle (one of several, really) to mark Halloween: On this day in 1968, a win: 1968 – Milwaukee Bucks Win First Game On this date the Milwaukee Bucks…

Good morning, Whitewater. Thursday in town will be cloudy with a high of fifty-four, and just a one-in-five chance of rain. On this day in 1938, Orson Welles captivates and scares America with a radio play: “The War of the Worlds” is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on…

Good morning, Whitewater. Midweek in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of forty-eight. On this day in 1929, Wall Street (and so America) suffers its greatest stock crash. Here’s how the New York Times reported the losses: Stock prices virtually collapsed yesterday, swept downward with gigantic losses in the most disastrous trading day in…

Good morning, Whitewater. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of fifty-four. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. It’s Jonas Salk‘s birthday, and Google commemorates that day with a doodle: On this day in 1919, the House of Representatives passes the Volstead Act: While the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States…

Good morning, Whitewater. Our week in town begins with partly sunny skies and a high of seventy-four. There’s an even chance of rain later in the day. Posts this week will include commentary on the schools referendum (two on politics for Tuesday, the curriculum apart from the referendum on Wednesday), videos for Halloween, and on…