Good morning. We’ll have a mostly cloudy but warm day in the Whippet City, with a high of seventy-four. On this day in 1945, Germany surrenders unconditionally: …the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. At…

Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of sixty-two. The Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 6:10 PM, followed by Common Council at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1937, the German airship Hindenburg explodes in New Jersey. It’s Orson Welles’s birthday: 1915 – Actor and Filmmaker Orson Welles Born On…

Good morning. Whitewater will see a mostly cloudy Monday, with a high of fifty-seven. On this day in 1961, Alan Shepard Jr. became the first American in space. Here’s how the New York Times reported that event: Cape Canaveral, Fla. — A slim, cool Navy test pilot was rocketed 115 miles into space today. Thirty-seven-year-old…

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny, with a high of fifty-seven. The Friday FW poll asked if we were Slaves to Our Devices? Responses were almost evenly split between yes and no, with 52.63% of respondents believing that we’re free, but 46.37% believing that our smartphones ands tablets have enslaved us. It’s…

Good morning. Sunshine returns to Whitewater, with a partly sunny day and a high of sixty-three. Sunrise today is 5:56 AM and sunset 7:58 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with twenty percent of its visible disk illuminated. Training makes a difference, sometimes a critical one: It’s Machiavelli’s birthday: Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Italian: [nikko?l?…

Good morning. Friday will be cloudy with an even chance of showers, and a high of fifty-four. On this day in 1933, someone publishes an account of something in Loch Ness that he describes as a monster: The term “monster” was reportedly applied for the first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by…

Good morning. Thursday will be a day of showers and a high of forty-eight. The Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6 PM. Also at 6 PM, there’s a scheduled meeting of the Fire & Rescue Task Force. Today is the anniversary of the official opening (from 1931) of the Empire State Building: ….The construction was…

Good morning. Mid-week in Whitewater will be cloudy, with a one-third chance of daytime showers, and a high of fifty. On this day in 1803, negotiations conclude successfully to add vast territory to the United States: On April 30, 1803, representatives of the United States and Napoleonic France conclude negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, a massive land sale…

Good morning. We’ll have a rainy day again today, with thunderstorms, and a high of sixty-two. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1862, U.S. Marines take the Confederate flag from the New Orleans city hall, after a successful naval campaign against that city: From April 18 to April 28, Farragut…

Good morning. We’ve a rainy day ahead, with a high of forty-seven. On this day in 1947, Thor Heyerdahl begins an ocean voyage in the Kon-Tiki expedition: Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. Although most anthropologists as of 2010 had come to the conclusion they did not,[1][2][3]…

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…