Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater: mostly sunny, a high of thirty-one, with 12 hours of sunlight, and 12h 56m of daylight. From the deepest place in my heart, loving advice: avoid the Greyhound bus from Atlantic City to New York. On this day in 1776, the British retreat from Boston: …British forces are forced to…

Good morning. It’s a ‘wintry mix’ for Whitewater before 1 PM, and a few flurries thereafter. Weather reporting has descended into base scare tactics and attention-grabbing alerts, all designed to induce fretting over even ordinary conditions, and through fretting to encourage repeat viewers for the Weather Channel or local news. One would think that the…

Good morning. Friday brings rain to Whitewater, with a high of thirty-five. Today was, in 44 B.C., an especially bad day for Julius Caesar: Julius Caesar, the “dictator for life” of the Roman Empire, is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey’s Theatre. The conspiracy against Caesar encompassed…

Good morning. Thursday brings mostly cloudy skies and a high of thirty-four (with a chance of snow) to Whitewater. On this day in 1879, Albert Einstein is born: On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity drastically altered…

Good morning. It’s a sunny day ahead with a high of thirty. Today brings 11h 48m of sunshine, 12h 44m of daylight, and a new moon. On this day in 1855, American astronomer Percival Lovell is born. Lovell’s work aided Clyde W. Tombaugh in the discovery of Pluto, and it was Lovell, of course, who…

Good morning. Tuesday brings afternoon snow showers and a high of thirty-two. They can rebuild him. They have the technology. It’s just that he’s an alligator: On this day in 1933, FDR gives his first fireside chat: ….eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address or “fireside chat,” broadcast directly…

Good morning. Monday brings rain, turning to light snow, with little accumulation and a high of thirty-six. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets today at 6:00 PM. On this day in 1818, a literary masterpiece is published: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world’s first…

Good morning. It’s a rainy Sunday for Whitewater, with a high of forty-one. On this day in 1927, Robert Kearns is born: Robert Kearns, who patented a design for a type of windshield wiper and later won multi-million dollar judgments against Chrysler and Ford for using his concept without permission, is born on March 10,…

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be a rainy day with a high of forty. We’ll have 11h 37m of sunlight, 12h 33m of daylight, and somewhere behind the clouds there’ll be a waning crescent moon. On this day in 1862, the U.S.S. Monitor battles the C.S.S. Virginia: ….one of the most famous naval battles…

Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be a sunny day, with a high of thirty-eight. On March 8, 1917, before the Bolshevik Revolution, the February Revolution: In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar) begins when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd.…

Good morning. Whitewater will have a mostly sunny Thursday with a high of thirty-three. We’ll have 11h 30m of sunlight, 12h 27m of daylight, with three minutes’ more light tomorrow. The Landmarks Commission is set to meet at 6 PM tonight. On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. In Wisconsin history,…

Good morning. Whitewater will have a cloudy Wednesday, with a high of thirty-three. The Whitewater Tourism Council is scheduled to meet at 9 AM. On this day in 1899, Bayer patents aspirin: …the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer…

Good morning. Tuesday will bring snow to Whitewater, of about three to five inches during the day, with less than an inch additional this evening. The city now has a Bicycle & Pedestrian Steering Committee meeting scheduled for 4:30 PM, and a Common Council meeting for 6:30 PM (Update: Canceled). What does three feet of…

Good morning. Monday will be cloudy with a high of thirty-one. Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board meets at 5 PM. On this day in 1789, government under the U.S. Constitution begins: The first session of the U.S. Congress is held in New York City as the U.S. Constitution takes effect. However, of the 22 senators and 59 representatives called…