Good morning. Sunrise today is 6:41 AM, and sunset is 7:19 PM. It’s a new moon at 1:45 PM today. Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of fifty-six degrees. On this day in 1981, mentally ill gunman John Hinckley shot Pres. Reagan in Washington, D.C. Hinckley also shot three other people…

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be a day of gradual clearing, with a high of forty-four. Sunrise is 6:44 AM and sunset is 7:18 PM today. The moon’s a waning crescent, with two precent of its visible disk illuminated. Birds, and especially large numbers in flight, are often fascinating. In the video below, Starlings…

Good morning. Friday brings a day of gradual clearing to Whitewater, with a high of forty-five. Sunrise today is 6:44 AM and sunset is 7:14 PM. On this day in 1979, a reactor overheats at Three Mile Island: The most serious nuclear accident in United States history takes place at the Three Mile Island plant…

Good morning. We’ll have a rainy Thursday, with perhaps a bit of snow mixed in, with a high later today of forty-four. No accumulation is expected. On 3.27.1865, a meeting of Union leaders: On this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln meets with Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman at City Point,…

Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of thirty-eight, with south winds from 10 to 15 mph in the morning. Later this afternoon, the Community Development Authority board is scheduled to meet at 5 PM. On this day in 1953, a medical accomplishment becomes public: On March 26, 1953, American…

Good morning. It’s spring, but Tuesday will be a blustery day with a high of twenty-five. Sunrise is 6:49 AM and sunset 7:13 PM. The moon’s a waning crescent with 32% of its visible disk illuminated. Today in town, the Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1911, America experiences one…

Good morning. Our week begins with mostly cloudy skies and a high of thirty-five. Sunrise is 6:51 AM and sunset 7:12 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with forty-three percent of its visible disk illuminated. Dogs are, through domestication, naturally attuned and responsive to human actions. Most dogs want to please, and are trusting…

Good morning. Sunday will be sunny with a high of twenty-seven. Sunrise is 6:53 AM and sunset is 7:11 PM. The moon’s in its last quarter tonight at 8:47 PM. In London, Pepsi Co. decided to modify a bus shelter by adding a video screen, and then creating the illusion that fantastic, wholly unexpected things…

Good morning. Saturday in town will be an increasingly sunny day, with a high of thirty-six. Sunrise today is 6:55 AM and sunset 7:10 PM. The moon is in a waning gibbous phase with sixty-five precent of its visible disk illuminated. In Iowa, storm chasers have built a tornado-pursuing vehicle named Dorothy from a Ford…

Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be an increasingly cloudy day, with a high of fifty-one. On this day in 1871, Stanley begins his search for Livingstone: …Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous search through Africa for the missing British explorer Dr. David Livingstone. In the late 19th century, Europeans and Americans were deeply fascinated…

Good morning. Thursday will be mostly sunny with a high of forty-five. A post at Relevant reminds that sometimes a problem offers its own solution: sometimes the very thing that causes your problems might also be the solution—in this case, a biker was knocked over by a speeding mattress, but also happened to land on…

Good morning. It’s a Wednesday of rain in the Whippet City, with a high of forty. Downtown Whitewater’s Board of Directors meets this morning at 8 AM. It seems that France, a place Americans tease as the home of the beret, has a problem: her last indigenous beret-maker is at risk of collapse — I’m…

Good morning. Sunrise today is 7:02 AM and sunset 7:05 PM. The moon is in a washing gibbous phase with ninety-six percent of its visible disk illuminated. We’ll have a partly sunny day today with a high of forty-five. Common Council and the Planning Commission meet jointly tonight at 6:30 PM on campus. Yesterday, I…

Good morning. St. Patrick’s Day in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of thirty-three. Google has a doodle on its search page today with a link to information about the holiday. I’m not of Irish ancestry, but yet still I know – as do most people – that this holiday isn’t meant to…