Good morning. It’s a a cloudy day for us, with a high of forty-two, today. On 12.16.1773, the original tea party: In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in…

Good morning. We’ve a rainy Saturday ahead, with a high of forty-four, and rainfall in an amount between a quarter and half of an inch. On this day in 1791, a triumph of American liberty: …Virginia becomes the last state to ratify the Bill of Rights, making the first ten amendments to the Constitution law and completing…

Good morning. Our work week in Whitewater ends with sunny skies, a high of 44, and winds from the southeast at 5 to 10 mph. Very pleasant. On this day in 2003, the U.S. military captured Saddam Hussein, who had been in hiding since the fall of his regime. In Wisconsin history from 12.14.64, 1964…

Good morning. Thursday in town will be breezy and mild, with a high of forty-eight, and mostly sunny skies. On this day in 2000, Al Gore concedes the presidency to George W. Bush: In a televised speech from his ceremonial office next to the White House, Gore said that while he was deeply disappointed and…

Good morning. Whitewater’s Wednesday will be mostly sunny, with a high of forty, with a south winds at 5 to 15 MPH. We’ll see a sunrise at 7:17 AM, and sunset at 4:21 PM. Tomorrow will be roughly the same length as today, with 9h 4m of sunlight, and 10h 9m of daylight. Downtown Whitewater’s…

Good morning. Tuesday offers Whitewater a partly sunny day, a high of thirty-two, and southwest winds at 5 to 15 MPH. On this day in 1941, Germany declared war on the United States: The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany…

Good morning. Our week starts with a wintry mix of freezing drizzle, on a cloudy day with a high of thirty-two. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6 PM, and our Library Board at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration on Human Rights: Paris, Dec, 10–A universal…

Good morning. Sunday brings rain or snow to Whitewater, intermittently throughout the day, with a high of thirty-six. On December 9, 1921, an engineer at GM made a momentous discovery about gasoline: …a young engineer at General Motors named Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovers that when he adds a compound called tetraethyl lead (TEL) to gasoline,…

Good morning. Saturday in town will be mostly cloudy with a high of thirty-eight. We’ll have 9h 7m of sunlight, 10h 11m of daylight, and tomorrow will be one minute shorter. On this day seventy-one years ago, America declared war against Japan, in response to that nation’s attack the previous day. Here’s the lede from…

Good morning. Whitewater’s week ends with cloudy skies, but a relatively mild forty-one degree day. It’s the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and in the Washington Post there’s a moving story entitled, “A reporter remembers ‘the vision of death’ at Pearl Harbor.” It’s a story about ninety-seven-year-old Betty McIntosh’s “account of the attack…

Good morning. Whitewater will see a slight chance (about 20%) of rain this afternoon, with a high of forty-five. The Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6 PM. On this day in 1884, the Washington Monument was at last completed: …in Washington, D.C., workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the…

Good morning. A sunny Wednesday with a high of thirty-six is ahead for whitewater. On this day in 1945, the tragic loss of a torpedo-bomber squadron led to decades of fanciful speculation about the so-called Bermuda Triangle: At 2:10 p.m., five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval…

Good morning. It’s another unseasonably mild day ahead for Whitewater, with sunny skies, a high of fifty-one, and a west wind of 5 to 15 MPH. We’ll have 9h 12m of sunlight, 10h 14m of daylight, and tomorrow will be two minutes shorter. Whitewater’s Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. On this day in…

Good morning. The week begins with an even chance of showers and a high of sixty-three. At 5 PM this afternoon, Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board meets. On this day in 1776, Gen. Washington arrived at the banks of the Delaware River: In a letter dated December 3, 1776, General George Washington writes to Congress…