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,…
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Daily Bread for 12.8.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12.7.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 12.6.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
