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Daily Bread for 2.27.14

Good morning. Thursday will be sunny and cold, with a high of six degrees. Sunrise today is 6:34 AM and sunset 5:42 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with just four percent of its visible disk illuminated. The Tech Park Board meets at 8 AM, and the Fire & Rescue Task Force at 6…

Daily Bread for 2.26.14

Good morning. We’ll have a sunny day in Whitewater with a high of about nine degrees. Downtown Whitewater’s board meets this morning at 8 AM. This afternoon, the Seed Capital Screening Committee meets at 4 PM, and the CDA board at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1912, activists of Rock County form a suffrage…

Daily Bread for 2.25.13

Good morning. Whitewater will have a partly sunny day with a high of thirteen. This afternoon, at 4:30 PM, Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets. At 6:00 PM, there will be a joint Common Council – Planning Commission meting to conduct a public hearing on the commercial provisions of the Zoning Re-write project. On this day…

Daily Bread for 2.24.14

Good morning. Monday will be an increasingly cloudy day with a high of twenty. Of local government, the Board of Canvass meets today following last Tuesday’s Spring Primary voting in the Fourth Council District, during which they will select candidates for the April 1st general election. On 2.24.1868, the House of Representatives impeaches Pres. Andrew…

Daily Bread for 2.23.14

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny, with a high of twenty-two. Moderate winds will produce wind chill values near zero for the day. On 2.23.1954, doctors in Pittsburgh begin the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine. After this, a crippling and killing disease slowly, and irreversibly, loosens…

Daily Bread for 2.22.14

Good morning. Saturday will be mostly sunny with a high of twenty-seven. The results of yesterday’s poll are now in, on the question of whether Lykoi cats are preferable. I like cats, and even I had only a mild yes to the question, but 75% of respondents voted against them. So, they’re probably not destined…

Daily Bread for 2.21.14

Good morning. There’s a probability of snow this morning, of about a half an inch in accumulation, and afterward a mostly sunny day with a high of twenty seven. On February 21, 1885, the Washington Monument is dedicated: The 555-foot-high marble obelisk was first proposed in 1783, and Pierre L’Enfant left room for it in…

Daily Bread for 2.20.14

Good morning. Whitewater has a wintry mix ahead this morning, but mostly rain for later in the day (with a chance for thunderstorms in the afternoon). Our high temperature today will be forty-three. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1962, John Glenn traveled 81,000 miles, and in so doing became…

Daily Bread for 2.19.14

Good morning. Wednesday brings sunny skies and a balmy, forty-degree temperature. On this day in 1945, America began the invasion of Iwo Jima, a notably intense, month-long battle against Japanese forces. The Associated Press reported the Marines’ landing: Advanced Headquarters, Guam, Monday, Feb. 19 – American Marines, their path cleared by the most intensive neutralization…

Daily Bread for 2.18.14

Good morning. We’ll have fog in the morning, clouds throughout the day, and a high of thirty-eight. It’s the Spring Primary election in Whitewater, for candidates in the 4th Council District. Whitewater’s Police and Fire Commission meets tonight at 6 PM. On Japan’s Okunoshima Island (know as the ‘Rabbit Island’), wild rabbits are always on…

Daily Bread for 2.17.14

Good morning. Whitewater will have heavy snow today, with an accumulation of about four to six inches. We’ll have a high temperature of twenty-five. On this day in 1972, Nixon goes to China. On this day, twelve years ago, a Wisconsinite strikes gold at Salt Lake City: 2002 – Wisconsin Skater Takes Gold On this…

Daily Bread for 2.16.14

Good morning. Sunday presents a chance of flurries and a high of twenty-two for Whitewater. We’ve only one moon, but Jupiter has many, including the largest in the solar system, Ganymede. NASA Voyager probes and Galileo mission collectively filmed the surface of Ganymede (a satellite bigger even than the planet Mercury) to produce a map…

Daily Bread for 2.15.14

Good morning. Saturday brings a high of twenty and late afternoon clouds to Whitewater. There’s a likelihood of snow this evening, with an accumulation of less than one inch. On this day in 1898, the Maine explodes: A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor, killing 260 of…

Daily Bread for 2.14.14

Good morning. Valentine’s Day in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of nineteen. Sunrise today is 6:54 AM and sunset is 5:25 PM. There’s a full moon today at 5:54 PM. Cold(er) temperatures can be beneficial for one’s health, as James Hamblin explains in How Being Cold Burns Calories: If you are a…