Good morning. We’ll have a sunny day with a high of fifty-six, and southwest winds of 5 to 15 mph. Sometimes a hard call is still a correct and right one. Last night, in Game 3 of the World Series, third-base umpire Jim Joyce called Obstruction (Official Rules of Major League Baseball, Section 2.00 Definition…

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be a day of partly sunny skies, a high of fifty, and winds of 15 to 20 mph. Perhaps, for Halloween, you’d like to design some unusual graphics, of strange and imaginary creatures. Mashable has tips on how to Photoshop ordinary animal photos into ones of imaginary animals: How…

Good morning. The works week ends with a sunny Friday and a high of forty-six. On October 25, 1774, America tries to be reasonable: On this day in 1774, the First Continental Congress sends a respectful petition to King George III to inform his majesty that if it had not been for the acts of…

Good morning. Thursday offers a high of forty and northwest winds at 15 to 15 mph. Sunrise will be 7:20 AM and sunset 5:58 PM. The moon is in a waning gibbous phase with 71% of its visible disk illuminated. Moon rise was 9:27 PM last night, and moonset will be 12:23 PM today. On…

Good morning. Wednesday will bring a high of forty-three, and a one-third chance of light rain or snow showers in the afternoon. The low tonight will be around twenty-six. In the city today, there will be three public meetings: Downtown Whitewater’s board at 8 AM, the CDA at 5 PM, and the Cable Commission at…

Good morning. We’ll have a partly sunny Tuesday with a high of forty-four. Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets this afternoon at 4:30 PM, and her Common Council at 7 PM. On this day in 1797, a first – a successful parachute jump: Google Doodle link. Google has changed the design of its homepage to celebrate…

Good morning. In Whitewater, we’ll have a mostly cloudy day with a high of forty-four. Sunrise today is 7:16 AM and sunset will be 6:03 PM. The moon is in a waning gibbous phase with 92% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1879, Thomas Edison invents the incandescent bulb. The New York…

Good morning. We’ll have a high of fifty-six today, with a twenty-percent chance of afternoon showers. We are far from the Atlantic Ocean, and so among the many immediate concerns of Wisconsinites, the lionfish, fortunately, is not one: The clear waters around Bermuda are as picturesque as you can imagine, and the brilliantly colored fish…

Good morning. We’ll have a Saturday of probable (60%), late afternoon showers and a high of fifty-one. John Trumbull, Surender of Lord Cornwallis. On October 19, 1781, an American and French victory over Britain truly and without overstatement changes world history profoundly: Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers…

Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of forty-nine. If you happen to enjoy a polite, turn-taking conversation today, you’ll not be alone. A marmoset may be having a similar experience. Asif Ghazanfar, a neurobiologist at Princeton University, finds that other than humans, marmosets are the only known species to…

Good morning. We’ll have a Thursday that brings morning showers and a high of fifty-six. On this day in 1931 Al Capone goes to prison: …gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $80,000, signaling the downfall of one of the most notorious criminals of the 1920s and…

Good morning. Midweek in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of fifty-three, and winds from the west at 10 mph. Zoologists recently found something in the jungles of southeast Asia…a giant flying squirrel that puts our own local species to shame: Biswamoyopterus laoensis is a large flying squirrel that weighs 1.8 kg and measures…

Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be a rainy day with a high of sixty-three. The Alcohol Licensing Review Committee meets at 5:30 PM, and Common Council at 6:30 PM this evening. On this day in 1945, the Vichy leader and Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval meets his fate: Hostile to the declaration of war against…

Good morning. Monday brings areas of frost and fog in the morning, giving way to sunny skies and a high of sixty-two. Sunrise will be 7:07 AM and sunset 6:14 PM. The moon is in a waxing gibbous phase with 79% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6 PM. On…