Good morning. The week ends for Whitewater with a likelihood of showers and a high of fifty-nine. There is a reception for city manager candidates today at 4 PM, and a community forum at 6:30 PM today: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. COMMUNITY RECEPTION – MEET AND GREET Innovation Center Atrium, 1221 Innovation Drive in…

Good morning. It’s a mostly sunny day with a high of sixty-six ahead for Whitewater. On this day in 1973, millions of Americans watched a tennis match: On this day in 1973, in a highly publicized “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, top women’s player Billie Jean King, 29, beats Bobby Riggs, 55, a former…

Good morning. Whitewater’s midweek will be sunny and breezy, with a high of seventy-three. The city’s Zoning Rewrite Steering Committee meets tonight at 6 PM. From Australia, a film maker caught a rare fire devil, a fiery tornado, on film. Astounding: On this day in 1832, the Fox and Sauk signed the treaty that ended…

Good morning. It’s a slight chance of showers and a high of sixty-one for Whitewater today. In the afternoon, Whitewater’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee meets at 3:45 PM. This evening, Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Commission meets at 6:00 PM, with Common Council meeting thereafter at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1793, an architectural beginning: …George…

Good morning. Whitewater’s week begins with showers and a high of seventy-two. On this day in 1862, Americans fought the bloodiest one-day battle in American history at Antietam Creek: When fighting began in the foggy dawn hours of September 17, this strategy broke down into a series of uncoordinated advances by Union soldiers under the…

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be warm and sunny, with a high of eighty-two, and southwest winds at 5 to 15 MPH. On this day in 1620, the Mayflower’s one-hundred-two passengers left England for America: In a difficult Atlantic crossing, the 90-foot Mayflower encountered rough seas and storms and was blown more than 500 miles off…

Good morning. It’s a beautiful Saturday ahead for Whitewater, with sunny skies and a high of seventy-eight. From LiveScience.com, it turns out that not only human babies have odd sleep schedules: some aquatic infants don’t sleep at all. From Google’s daily puzzle, a question of stages and phases: “In the process that includes, prophase, metaphase,…

Good morning. Whitewater’s week ends with sunny skies and a high of seventy-three. On this day in 1812, Napoleon entered Moscow, only to find his achievement a Pyrrhic victory: One week after winning a bloody victory over the Russian army at the Battle of Borodino, Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée enters the city of Moscow, only…

Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater looks to be a rainy day, with a high of sixty-two. On this day in 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner: From Google’s daily puzzle, a question about literature: “What famous Russian writer wrote a novel while gambling in the town that the ancient Romans called ‘Aurelia…

Good morning. Whitewater’s mid-week will be sunny and warm, with a high of eighty-eight. Whitewater’s Tech Park Board is scheduled to meet this morning at 8 AM. (The test of a meeting is to match an agenda against the final product. We’ll see.) On this day in 1940, the discovery of beautiful but ancient cave…

Good morning. Tuesday’s forecast calls for a breezy day with a high of eighty-five. Common Council in Whitewater meets tonight at 6:30 PM, to discuss recruitment plans for a new city manager, and then in closed session to select city manager finalists. The Common Council agenda for this (partly) closed session is set up as…

Good morning. Whitewater’s Monday will bring sunny skies and a high of seventy-eight. The city’s Parks & Rec Board meets at 5 PM today. Thereafter, the Planning Board meets at 6 PM, and the Library Board at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1897, in England, the world saw the first drunk driving arrest. In…

Good morning. A mostly sunny day, with a high of seventy-one, awaits Whitewater. Today’s the day in history on which Congress gave the country, formally, a new name: On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the “United States” of America. This replaced the term “United Colonies,”…

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny, with a high of seventy, and a thirty percent chance of showers in the late afternoon. On this day in 1974, Pres. Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former Pres. Nixon. Also on this day, in 1664, New Amsterdam became New York: Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders…