Good morning. Whitewater’s forecast calls for a chance of thunderstorms, with a high temperature of eighty-three. The Tech Park Board will meet this morning, at 8 a.m. The meeting agenda is available online. Later tonight, at 6 p.m., there will be a community listening session about the search for a new police chief. Information on…

Good morning. It’s a chance of thunderstorms, and a high temperature of seventy-eight, ahead for Whitewater. Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets today at 4:15 p.m.  The agenda is available online. In our schools, there’ll be a fifth-grade district-wide ban concert at the high school at 7 p.m.  At Lincoln School, there will be a PTO…

Good morning. It’s a day of scattered thundershowers forecast for Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-eight. There’s a meeting of the Library Board tonight at 6:30 p.m.  The meeting agenda is available online. The Wisconsin Historical Society notes that in 1950 On this date, in the first sporting event at the new Milwaukee Arena,…

Good morning. It’s a mostly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-seven degrees. Tomorrow is Whitewater’s “Tour d’ Triangle,” taking place on Saturday May 7, 2011 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm beginning at Cravath Lake Front Park.  Downtown Whitewater, Inc. is partnering with W3 ~ Working for Whitewater’s Wellness to promote the…

Good morning. It’s a mild day ahead for Whitewater, with a high of sixty-two degrees, and a chance of afternoon showers. Today will be the third in a series of either groundbreaking ceremonies or openings for the Innovation Center.  For posts about that project, see Innovation Center/Tech Park. After these many months, a building with tens…

Good morning. It’s a sunny day in Whitewater’s forecast, with a high temperature of sixty degrees. This afternoon, there will be a Landmarks Commission meeting in Whitewater. The agenda for the meeting is available online. Later, at 7 p.m., there will be an informational meeting on possible consequences of Wisconsin’s state budget. Several local officials…

Good morning. Whitewater’s forecast offers up a mostly cloudy day, with a high temperature of forty-nine degrees. There’s a Common Council meeting tonight, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting agenda is available online. Lakeview school has a PTA meeting tonight at 6:00 p.m., and at the middle school there will be a 7 p.m. Jazz Band…

Good morning. It’s a partly cloudy day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of fifty-eight degrees. In the City of Whitewater today, there will be a Parks & Recreation Board meeting at 4 p.m., and at 4:30 p.m. there will be a meeting of Whitewater’s Community Development Authority.  I’ve linked to the agendas of…

Good morning. It’s a sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-three degrees. There’s a story over at Wired about an astrophotographer who created an interactive, 360-degree panorama of the night sky.   The story, entitled, Reader Photo: Stunning Interactive Sky Image, describes Nick Risinger’s achievement: Nick Risinger, a 28-year-old native of Seattle,…

Good morning. Today’s forecast calls for a day of showers and a high temperature of forty-six. On this day in 1947, Thor Heyerdahl set sail from South America to Polynesia to show that pre-Incan voyagers would have been able to make the 4,300-mile trip across the Pacific.  Below are a short video about the expedition,…

Good morning. It’s a rainy day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of fifty-four degrees. There’s a Common Council meeting scheduled for this afternoon, at 3 p.m. The agenda is available online. A story from Australia, Australia Pistachio Disaster Hints at Agricultural Breakdown, may be a cautionary tale for agricultural states like Wisconsin. There, a…

Good morning. It’s a day of showers and thunderstorms for Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-degrees. In Whitewater today, there’s a special meeting of the Police Commission at 6 p.m.  The agenda for the meeting is available online. If you’ve ever wondered how ants protect themselves from flooding — and at one time or…

Good morning. It’s a rainy day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of fifty-eight. The Wisconsin HIstorical Society notes that on this day in 1996, Governor Tommy Thompson signed the W-2 (Wisconsin Works) program into law, making Wisconsin the first U.S. state to replace a benefits-based welfare system with a requirement that recipients work…

Good morning. It’s a rainy day predicted for Whitewater, with a high temperature of forty-one degrees. Schools and municipal offices are closed today. The Wisconsin Historical Society posts that On this date the Army-McCarthy hearings began. The hearings were televised live for 36 days to an audience of over 20 million viewers. Kinescopes of these…