Good morning, Whitewater. Saturday in the city will be partly sunny with a high of eighty-two. In Friday’s FW poll, readers could vote on whether stories about cats trapping their owners in the owners’ homes were evidence of feline fury or human hysteria. The results were close: 52.38% thought humans were being hysterical, but 47.62%…

Good morning, Whitewater. Friday in town will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-eight. On this day in 1969, Woodstock began: The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival, billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music”. It was held at Max Yasgur‘s 600-acre (240 ha; 0.94 sq mi) dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in…

Good morning, Whitewater. Thursday will be sunny with a high of seventy-four. Whitewater’s Police & Fire Commission meets tonight at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1945, the existence of a Japanese proclamation of surrender is made public: …an official announcement of Japan’s unconditional surrender to the Allies is made public to the Japanese people:…

Good morning, Whitewater. Wednesday brings a slight chance of afternoon showers, but otherwise a partly sunny day with a high of seventy-eight. The Fire & Rescue Task Force meets tonight at 7:30 PM. On this day in 1961, Communist East Germany began construction of the Berlin Wall: On 15 June 1961, First Secretary of the Socialist…

Good morning, Whitewater. Election day brings a one-third chance of morning showers, with gradual clearing into a mostly sunny day, with a high of seventy-three. The city’s Parks & Recreation Board meets at 5:30 PM today. On this day in 1939, the Wizard of Oz premieres in Oconomowoc: 1939 – Wizard of Oz World Premier…

Good morning, Whitewater. There’s a seventy-percent chance of afternoon thunderstorms today, with a high of eighty, in the Whippet City. Whitewater Planning Commission meets at 6 PM tonight. In Friday’s FW poll, on whether it would be advisable to pet a zoo lion, 81.82% of respondents would say No, but thanks for asking. To start…

Good morning, Whitewater. Sunday in the city will be partly sunny with a high of eighty. Sunrise is 5:56 AM and sunset is 8:04 PM. It’s a full moon today, at 1:10 p.m. Central Daylight Time. NASA tests a saucer-shaped vehicle using a high-altitude balloon: On this day in 1946, Pres. Polk signs a bill…

Good morning, Whitewater. Saturday in town will be mostly sunny, with a high of around eighty, and east winds of five to ten mph. On this day in 1974, Gerald Ford becomes president: In accordance with his statement of resignation the previous evening, Richard M. Nixon officially ends his term as the 37th president of…

Good morning, Whitewater. We’ll end our work week on a mostly sunny Friday with a high of eighty. On this day in 1974, Nixon resigns, to be effective noon the next day. Text of the full speech is available at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center website. Six years earlier, on August 8, 1968, Wisconsin…

Good morning, Whitewater. Thursday will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-nine. Sunrise today is 5:53 AM and sunset 8:08 PM. The moon is a waxing gibbous with eighty-six percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6 PM. On this day in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt accepted the nomination of…

Good morning, Whitewater. Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of seventy-seven. Farmer Daniel Klingenberg decided to play a cover of a Lorde song on his trombone for his cows. They liked it: On this day in 1945, after years of a war that Japan began at Pearl Harbor, America dropped an atomic…

Good morning, Whitewater. We’ll have a sunny day with a high of seventy-seven today. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. I’ve purchased a few things on eBay, but I’ve never sold anything there. For those who do, or would like to do so, here’s a video that describes a simple way to make one’s…

Good morning, Whitewater. We have a sixty percent chance of afternoon thunderstorms, with a daytime highs of eighty-one. Sunrise today is 5:49 AM and sunset is 8:12 PM. The moon is in a waxing gibbous phase with fifty-seven percent of its visible disk illuminated. The Fire & Rescue Task Force is scheduled to meet tonight…

Good morning, Whitewater. We will have a one-third chance of afternoon thunderstorms on a day with otherwise sunny skies and a high of eighty-three. Sunrise today is 5:48 AM and sunset is 8:13 PM. The moon is in its first quarter today. For the FW Friday poll, about whether extraterrestrial beings or bratty German kids…