Good morning. Sunday brings showers and thunderstorms with a high of sixty-one. Winds will be from the south, and later southwest, reaching 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph this afternoon. November 17, 1869 sees a grand opening: The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas, is inaugurated in…

Good morning. Saturday brings showers and possible afternoon thunderstorm to Whitewater, with a high of fifty-five. Whatever our weather, we’ll never see a nearby natural event like the one those near Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung recently saw: On 11.16.2001, a film series begins: On this day in 2001, the British author J.K. Rowling’s star creation–bespectacled boy…

Good morning. Whitewater will have a mostly sunny Friday, with a high of fifty-one, and southwest winds of 5 to 10 mph. On this day in 1864, Gen. Sherman begins his March to the Sea: …Union General William T. Sherman begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away…

Good morning. Thursday in town will be sunny with a high of forty-six. Whitewater’s Police & Fire Commission meets tonight at 5:30 PM. ‘Illustration from an early edition of Moby-Dick’ via Wikipedia On this day in 1851, Harper & Brothers publishes Melville’s Moby-Dick: ….Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling…

Good morning. Midweek in Whitewater will be sunny and breezy with a high of thirty-six. Winds will be from the southwest at 10 to 15 mph, with gusts up to 30 mph. Many Wisconsin farmers have sheep or goats, and being familiar with those animals, they know how sure-footed they are. Scientists are now working…

Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny, clear, and crisp, with a high of thirty. Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Department meets today at 5:30 PM. The most recent FW poll asked whether there should be Another Star Wars Film? Just over sixty-percent of respondents wanted to see more films in this series. Here’s a…

Good morning. Monday will be a mix of rain or snow in the morning, with a high of thirty-eight for the day, and temperatures falling into the twenties by late afternoon. Whitewater’s Planning Commission will meet at 6 PM tonight. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the…

Good morning. Sunday will grow gradually sunnier, with a high of forty-five, and lighter winds than yesterday, at only 5 to 10 mph for today. On this day in 1903, Mary Anderson receives a patent: …the patent office awards U.S. Patent No. 743,801 to a Birmingham, Alabama woman named Mary Anderson for her “window cleaning…

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny, and breezy, with a high of fifty-three. We’ll have west winds of ten to twenty mph, with gusts as reaching 30 mph. What if, as a painter, one were to choose people, themselves, as both subjects and parts of one’s paintings? To be an artist like…

Good morning. Friday will be increasingly cloudy with a high of forty-six. On this day in 1895, a profound discovery: “Hand mit Ringen (Hand with Rings): a print of one of the first X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923) of the left hand of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig. It was presented to Professor Ludwig Zehnder…

Good morning. Thursday will be cloudy with a high of forty-three. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6 PM. On this day in 1944, America re-elects FDR a third time, for a total of four presidential wins: In 1940, with World War II raging in Europe and the Pacific, Roosevelt agreed to run for an…

Good morning. Wednesday will be rainy with a high of fifty-three, but with falling daytime temperatures into the forties by the afternoon. Welcome, new readers. Yesterday was a big day for new visitors. Thanks very much for stopping by. To longtime readers, my thanks, too. Each year I’ve been writing has seen solid growth from…

Good morning. Whitewater will have a seventy-percent chance of rain today, and a near-certainty of rain tonight. Tuesday’s high will be fifty-five. Common Council meets tonight, at 6:30 PM. Tonight’s meeting includes, among other topics, budget presentations. On this day in 1862, Lincoln removes a general: ….a tortured relationship ends when President Abraham Lincoln removes…

Good morning. Our week begins with breezy skies and a high of fifty-three. On this day in 1928, a gambler plays his last hand: Arnold Rothstein, New York’s most notorious gambler, is shot and killed during a poker game at the Park Central Hotel in Manhattan. After finding Rothstein bleeding profusely at the service entrance…