Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will begin with clouds and grow increasingly sunny as the day progresses. We’ll have a high of seventy-one. Friday’s FW poll asked whether a pilot or a sunbather was more to blame for a near-accident between an airplane and the vacationer. The plurality of respondents (45.83%) thought the sunbather was…
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Daily Bread for 6.7.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. We’ll have a one-third chance of late afternoon showers, with a high of eighty-three today. On this day in 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from Virginia, introduces a resolution: That these United Colonies are, and of right out to be, free and independent States, that they…
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Daily Bread for 6.6.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. In the city today, we’ll have a sunny day with a high of eighty degrees. It’s the seventieth anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy on 6.6.1944. A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (the…
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Daily Bread for 6.5.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. We’ll have a sunny Thursday with a high of seventy-four and calm winds from the southeast at about five mph. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets this evening at 6 PM. On this day in 1933, FDR takes America off the gold standard: …the United States went off the gold standard, a monetary system…
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Daily Bread for 6.4.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. Wednesday brings a likelihood of morning showers and a high of sixty-six. Sunrise is 5:18 AM and sunset 8:19 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with thirty-nine percent of its visible disk illuminated. The European Space Agency posted a video recently of the NASA Hubble telescope’s photographs of the distant universe:…
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Daily Bread for 6.3.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. Tuesday in town will be sunny, with a high of seventy-six and south winds of ten to fifteen miles per hour. Downtown Whitewater’s Board meets this morning at 8 AM, and Common Council this evening at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1989, China committed herself to the massacre of peaceful protesters…
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Daily Bread for 6.2.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. We have a probability of thunderstorms this Monday, with a daytime high of eighty degrees. Sunrise today is 5:19 AM and sunset 8:28 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with twenty-two percent of its visible disk illuminated. The Kansas City Star reports this as the greatest paper airplane shot in sports…
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Daily Bread for 6.1.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. A new month begins with afternoon showers and thunderstorms, and a high of eighty-four. Sunrise today in 5:19 AM and sunset 8:27 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with fourteen percent of its visible disk illuminated. NASA’s Goddard Flight Center published a video of solar observations that’s remarkable: A coronal mass…
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Daily Bread for 5.31.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. Our month needs with a beautiful Saturday: sunny, a high of eighty-two, and winds of five to ten mph. Best, really, to plan carefully before toppling a tower. Amateurs demolish 100-foot tower using power tool, almost get crushed is a case in point: On this day in the last year of the…
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Daily Bread for 5.30.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. Friday will be sunny with a high of eighty-two. Sunrise today is 5:20 AM and sunset is 8:25 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with four percent of its visible disk illuminated. Last night, Elon Musk unveiled a new, and now crew-capable, version of his Dragon space capsule. The ship can…
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Daily Bread for 5.29.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Daily Bread for 5.28.14
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Good morning, Whitewater. It’s already the middle of the week, and we have a mostly cloudy Wednesday ahead, with a high of seventy-three. The Community Development Authority’s Seed Capital Screening Committee meets today at 3 PM, and its Board of Directors at 5 PM. Google’s latest self-driving car has discarded the steering wheel: Google has…
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Daily Bread for 5.27.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. Tuesday brings a likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms and a high of seventy-eight. Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets today at 4:30 PM. Friday’s FW poll asked readers about their most anticipated summer-blockbuster films. Of the choices available, Godzilla (15.79%), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (14.04%), and X-Men: Days of Future Past (14.04%) led…
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Daily Bread for 5.26.14
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater. Memorial Day in Whitewater will be partly sunny, with a high of eighty-two, and a probability of afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Sunrise today is 5:23 am and sunset 8:22 pm. The moon is a waning crescent with 5% of its visible disk illuminated. New York City is renowned for its beauty, and…
