Good morning. We’ve a lovely blanket of snow in the city today, and we’ll have a high of twenty-three, with wind chill values around zero. The latest FW poll, The Rabbit in the Statue’s Ear, is now closed. 63.16% of respondents felt that South Africa should remove a tiny rabbit surreptitiously placed in the ear…

Good morning. Saturday brings blowing snow, a high of fifteen falling to two degrees by the afternoon, and about two inches of snow overnight. On this day in 1981, the late Chairman Mao’s widow has a fall: Jiang Qing, the widow of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death for her “counter-revolutionary crimes” during…

Good morning. We’ll have blowing snow throughout the day, with a high of twenty-three, and about one to two inches of snow overnight. It’s the anniversary of the first sales (from 1935) of beer in a can: Canned beer makes its debut on this day in 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company, the…

Good morning. Thursday comes to Whitewater with a chance of flurries and a high of two degrees. On this day in 1775, British merchants speak against their government’s restrictions on trade with America: …London merchants petition Parliament for relief from the financial hardship put upon them by the curtailment of trade with the North American…

Good morning. Wednesday brings a high of eleven, and a likelihood of morning snow with accumulation of less than one inch. Sunrise is 7:19 AM and sunset 4:55 AM. The moon’s a waning gibbous with 65% of its visible disk illuminated. At 8 AM, Downtown Whitewater’s board members meet, and at 5 PM there’s a…

Good morning. It will be sunny and cold today, with a high of four degrees, and wind chill values between ten and twenty below. Whitewater’s Alcohol and Licensing Committee meets at 6 PM, and Common Council at 6:30 PM this evening. We’re not the only ones with interesting weather. A Russian videographer recorded a sundog…

Good morning. We’ll have an even chance of a wintry mix of freezing rain and snow in Whitewater today (with slight accumulation), and a high of twenty-two (before dropping into the teens). Friday’s FW poll was about the likelihood of victory for each of the NFL’s four remaining teams, and respondents favored Seattle (31.43%) and…

Good morning. We’ll have a mostly sunny Sunday with a high of thirty. Luca Iaconi-Stewart has finished a 1:60-scale model of an Air India Boeing 777 from manila folders. The level of detail on his years-long project is truly extraordinary. It’s likely that one has never seen anyone command a greater attention to a paper…

Good morning. We’ve a likelihood of snow today, of about an inch, with a high of nineteen. Sunrise this Saturday is 7:21 AM, sunset is 4:50 PM, and the moon is in a waning gibbous phase with 94% of its visible disk illuminated. Every so often, while film makers are recording penguins, a bird of…

Good morning. Friday brings a likelihood of snow to Whitewater, with less than an inch of accumulation, and a high of seventeen. On this day in 1893, Hawaii loses its native government: On the Hawaiian Islands, a group of American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, and establish a…

Good morning. Whitewater will have about an inch of snow this afternoon, with a high just around freeing. In the city today, there’s a scheduled Public Information Meeting on the Reconstruction of the Downtown East Gateway area at 4:30 PM, and there is a meeting of the Fire & Rescue Task Force at 7:30 PM.…

Good morning. Today will be mostly sunny with a high of sixteen. On this day in 1967, the Packers win the first Super Bowl: ….at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first-ever world championship game of American football. In the mid-1960s, the intense competition for players…

Good morning. We’ll have snow today in Whitewater, amounting to between one and three inches by evening. Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board is scheduled to meet at 5:30 PM today. On this day in 1784, the Second Continental Congress makes it official: ….the Continental Congress ratifies the Second Treaty of Paris, ending the War for…

Good morning. Whitewater’s week begins with a partly sunny day and a high of thirty-seven. The city’s Planning Commission meets this evening at 6 PM. If you’d like to begin your week with something thoughtful – and in that way truly inspirational – then Lizzie Velasquez’s talk at TEDxAustin is just the thing.  Velasquez has a…