Good morning. We’ve a forty-percent chance of scattered showers today (with a hundred-percent chance tonight). Otherwise, Sunday will be cloudy with a high of fifty-two. What was spring break like in the 1950s? Here’s how Chevrolet depicted it: On this day in 1963, Dave Brubeck plays Beloit: 1963 – Dave Brubeck Performs at Beloit College…

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of fifty-six. Sunrise is 5:56 AM and sunset 7:50 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with only eight-percent of its visible disk illuminated. In yesterday’s FW poll, Friday Poll: Brewers – Good or Lucky?, 50% of respondents weren’t sure, 29.17% said good, and…

Good morning. Friday will become increasingly sunny, with a high of sixty-four. On this day in 1990, America places the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit: The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope, a long-term space-based observatory, into a low orbit around Earth. The space telescope, conceived in the 1940s,…

Good morning. Whitewater will have an even chance of afternoon showers today, with a high of fifty-eight. The Tech Park Board meets today at 8 AM. On this day in 1800, the Library of Congress is born: …legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress,” thus…

Good morning. Wednesday in the Whippet City will be increasingly cloudy with a high of fifty-five. Whitewater’s public meetings today show the gap between existing independent businesses and government-backed (and wasteful) efforts to manipulate the local economy to the advantage of insiders’ preferred projects. Downtown Whitewater’s Board meets at 8 AM, and later today at…

Good morning. Earth Day in Whitewater will be sunny, with a high of fifty-five, and northwest winds at ten to 15 mph. The Urban Forestry Commission meets today at 4:30 PM. For Earth Day, Google’s published a doodle with links to information about several animals (Rufous hummingbird, veiled chameleon, moon jellyfish, dung beetle, puffer fish,…

Good morning. Monday brings a probability of afternoon showers or thundershowers and a high of seventy-five. SpaceX, a private aerospace firm, had a successful launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule on Friday. Two days’ time later, on Easter, the capsule successful arrived at the International Space Station with tons (literally) of supplies…

Good morning. Saturday in town will be beautiful, with sunny skies and a high of sixty-five. Sunrise today is 6:07 AM and sunset 7:42 PM. The moon is in a waning gibbous phase with seventy-eight percent of its visible disk illuminated. In the FW third-annual Easter candy poll, there’s an upset of sorts – jelly…

Good morning. Good Friday in Whitewater will be clear, with a high of fifty-five, and north winds around 5 MPH. On this day in 1906, an earthquake hits San Francisco: At 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California, killing hundreds of people as it topples…

Good morning. Thursday will be a partly sunny day, with a high of fifty-five.   The Fire & Rescue Task Force is scheduled to meet at 7 PM.   On this day in 1964, Ford Motor Company unveils a company-saving car: The Ford Mustang, a two-seat, mid-engine sports car, is officially unveiled by Henry Ford…

Good morning. We’ll have a pretty Wednesday in Whitewater: sunny, breezy, with a high of fifty-two. What would happen if a pianist and a singer (let’s say Jimmy Fallon and Anne Hathaway) decided to perform rap songs (let’s say Gin and Juice, In Da Club, and B*tch Don’t Kill My Vibe) as though they were Broadway…

Good morning. It’s a chilly but mostly sunny tax day for Whitewater, with a high of thirty-eight. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. If you didn’t have the chance (or the viewing conditions) to enjoy the lunar eclipse this early morning, here’s a video replay from the Griffith Observatory. Moving ahead to around 1:40:00…

Good morning. Monday will be cloudy with a high of thirty-eight. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6 PM. On this day in 1865, Pres. Lincoln is shot: 1865 – (Civil War) Lincoln Assassinated On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington,…