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…
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Daily Bread for 10.11.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
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).
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Daily Bread for 10.10.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
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 –…
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Daily Bread for 10.7.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 10.6.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 10.5.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 10.4.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Daily Bread for 10.3.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 9.30
by JOHN ADAMS •
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”…
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Daily Bread for 9.29
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 9.28
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Daily Bread for 9.27
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. It’s a rainy day for Whitewater, with a high temperature of about sixty. The days are growing shorter by a small amount; today is about three minutes darker than yesterday. Common Council meets tonight at 6 p.m. The meeting agenda is available online. Scientists in Switzerland have found a way to design and…
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Daily Bread for 9.26
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. It’s rain and thunder today with a high of sixty-three for the Whippet City. The Community Development Authority meets today at 4:30. The meeting agenda is available online. At Item 11, one sees that the meeting will go into closed, executive session to Adjourn to closed session at approximately 6:00PM to reconvene at…
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Daily Bread for 9.23.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. It’s a partly cloudy day in store for Whitewater, with a high temperature of fifty-eight. It’s the first day of fall, and growing a bit darker each each day, with recent days having about two minutes less daylight than the previous ones. Comment Forum’s off this weekend, but back next Friday. For this…
