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…
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Daily Bread for 12.21.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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.…
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Daily Bread for 12.20.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12.19.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12.18.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12.17.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12.16.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12.15.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12.14.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Daily Bread for 12.13.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12.12.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Daily Bread for 12.11.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12.10.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12-9-12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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,…
