It’s a mostly sunny day, with a high temperature of sixty-one, but a freeze risk tonight, awaiting us. You may have wondered if piranhas make sounds, and if they do, what sounds they make.  Scientists in Belgium have your answer: ….according to Sandie Millot, Pierre Vandewalle and Eric Parmentier from the University of Liège, Belgium,…

Good morning. A windy day with a high temperature of sixty-one awaits Whitewater. Ninety-nine years ago, On the night of October 14, 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in Milwaukee. Roosevelt was in Wisconsin stumping as the presidential candidate of the new, independent Progressive Party, which had split from the Republican Party earlier that year. Roosevelt…

Good morning. It’s a rainy day in store for Whitewater, with thunderstorms and a high temperature of sixty-three. Today’s a better day than yesterday: we’re closer to free trade with friendly countries than we were before.  Bloomberg reports the good news: The U.S. Congress approved free- trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, bringing…

Good morning. It’s a rainy day here in Whitewater, with a high temperature of seventy-four. It’s also likely the last seventy-degree day this month. More seasonable temperatures return tomorrow. October will again be…October. There’s a meeting of Whitewater’s Tech Park Board today, with an agenda available online. Agenda item 10, in closed session, includes consideration…

Good morning. It’s a seventy-seven degree day for Whitewater today, with a chance of afternoon showers. We often hear stories about collisions between deer and cars, and sometimes deer and motorcycles.  South Africans have other problems — Via Evan Van Der Spuy, South African Cyclist, Hit By Antelope While Mountain Biking (VIDEO).

Good morning. It’s a mostly sunny day for Whitewater, with a high temperature of seventy-seven degrees. Whitewater’s Park and Rec Board meets tonight at 5 p.m. The agenda, with the only principal item being the 2012 budget, is available online. The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls a Brewers victory for this day in 1982: 1982 –…

Good morning. It’s a mostly sunny day, with a high temperature of eighty degrees, as Whitewater eases into the weekend. The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that briefly, although now nearly forgotten, was Wisconsin’s time as part of Quebec: On this date B[in 1774] Britain passed the Quebec Act, making Wisconsin part of the province of…

Good morning. It’s a sunny day ahead for Whitewater today, with a high of seventy-eight. There’s a Police Commission meeting tonight at 6 p.m.  The agenda is available online. Well, it’s a game five in the Brewers-Diamondbacks series, although I erroneously thought the Brewers would win in four.   That leaves the 27.03% who answered…

Another sunny day, with a high of about seventy-seven, for Whitewater. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets today, at 5 p.m.  The agenda is available online. On this day in 1846, Wisconsin’s first state Constitutional Convention met in Madison. The Convention sat until December 16,1846. The Convention was attended by 103 Democrats and 18 Whigs. The proposed…

Good morning. It’s a warm and sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature in the mid-seventies. Common Council meets tonight, at 6:30 p.m., and the session’s agenda is available online. The Space Age began on this day in 1957, with Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik.

Good morning. It’s a warm and sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of seventy-one. There’s a Park & Rec Board meeting today at 5 p.m.  The agenda is available online. Video camera traps reveal animals that people, venturing noisily into a jungle, might never see otherwise.  From a Wired story entitled, Video Camera Traps…

Good morning. It’s a mostly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of fifty-six. These are particularly difficult times for Whitewater, for Wisconsin, and all America. Yet, for it all, Americans are an ambitious, resilient people. Ambitious in ways admirable and encouraging. Consider Project T.B.A.C., in which Las Vegas students designed an “aircraft”…

Good morning. It’s a day of scattered thunderstorms and a high of sixty-seven ahead for Whitewater. The Wisconsin Historical Society notes that on this day in 1957, 1957 – Packers Dedicate New Stadium On this date the Green Bay Packers dedicated City Stadium, now known as Lambeau Field, and defeated the Chicago Bears, 21-17. In…

Good morning. It’s a day of showers with a high temperature in the mid-sixties for Whitewater. On this day in 1925, Wisconsin native Seymour R. Cray was born in Chippewa Falls. Cray received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He established himself in the field of large-scale computer design through his…