Good morning. Whitewater’s last day of 2012 will be partly sunny with a high of twenty-seven, with temperatures falling in the afternoon. On this day in 1946, long after actual fighting had ended, as a formality Pres. Truman proclaimed an end to the Second World War: The state of hostilities, a term covering the period…

Good morning. We’ve a sunny and chilly day before us in Whitewater. The high will be twenty-two, and there will be 9h 5m of sunlight and 10h 9m. Almost a century ago, on 12.30.1916, the controversial Rasputin was murdered in Russia: Sometime over the course of the night and the early morning of December 29-30,…

Good morning. It’s snow for Saturday in Whitewater, mostly in the morning, with only a slight accumulation. Today will top out at twenty-nine degrees, with northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Here we go… Zeitgeist 2012: The Year in Review: In our own history on this day in 1879, 1879 – General William “Billy” Mitchell Born…

Good morning. Our week ends with a high of thirty, and a small amount of snow, of about an inch or two. There wil be 9h 3m of daylight, and 10h 8m of sunlight, with a full moon. On 12.28.1981, America’s first so-called test tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, was born: For the first time,…

Good morning. A cloudy Thursday with a high of twenty-eight awaits. We’ll have 9h 3m of sunlight and 10h 8m of daylight. There will be two public meetings in the city today. At 8 AM, Downtown Whitewater’s Board will meet, and at 4:30 PM in the afternoon there will be a meeting of the Community…

Good morning. Wednesday for Whitewater will be cloudy, with a high of twenty-nine and northeast winds at 10 to 15 mph. On this day in 1776, Gen Washington won his first great victory after crossing the Delaware: At approximately 8 a.m. on the morning of December 26, 1776, General George Washington‘s Continental Army reaches the outskirts…

Good morning. Christmas Eve brings a high of twenty-nine, and a thirty percent chance of snow in the afternoon, to Whitewater. On this day in 1923, Pres. Coolidge lights the first national Christmas tree: …President Calvin Coolidge touches a button and lights up the first national Christmas tree to grace the White House grounds. Not only was this the…

Good morning. Sunday in the Whippet City will grow increasingly cloudy, with a high of twenty-five. On this day in 1986, an aviation milestone:  “On Dec. 23, 1986, the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California.”…

Good morning. It’s a sunny Saturday with a high of twenty-seven for Whitewater. We will have 9h 1m of sunlight and 10h 6m of daylight. Tomorrow’s daylight will be about one minute longer. On this day in 1864, a Christmas gift for Pres. Lincoln, from Generals Sherman and Scott: The dispatches of Gen. Sherman and…

Good morning. Friday brings a day of blowing snow and a high of twenty-four to Whitewater. On this day in 1968, America launched the first manned mission to another world: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, Jr., and William Anders aboard.…

Good morning. It’s rain and snow for Whitewater today, with about two inches of snow accumulating during the day, and another one or two inches overnight. We are a winter state, and a snowfall like this is typical for us. Judging from snow that’s already on the ground, we have an answer to a recent Friday poll…

Good morning. Wednesday’s forecast calls for cloudy skies and a high of thirty-five. We’ll have snow this week, but it’s not forecast to begin during daytime Wednesday. There will be 9h 2m of sunlight today, 10h 6m of daylight, and tomorrow will be one minute shorter. On this day in 1776, America first saw one…

Good morning. It’s a snowy day ahead for Whitewater, with only a slight accumulation expected, at a high of thirty. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM, where they will consider both an appointee to that body and a proposed backyard chicken ordinance. On this day in 1957, the first civilian nuclear power plant went…

Good morning. Our week begins with cloudy skies and a high of thirty five. We’ll have 9h 2m of sunlight and 10h 6m of daylight, with tomorrow being one minute shorter. On this day in 1903, the first success of one of the greatest inventions of all history, reported later with marked understatement in the…