Good morning. Ahead for Whitewater today is a day in the low eighties, with a chance of rain this afternoon. This weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, I’ll post a series on newspapers, in our area, and farther away in the state. Today’s poll and comment forum will ask which papers you read, whether you like…

Good morning. It’s a sunny day in store for Whitewater, with a high temperature of eighty-two. Today’s a memorable day for Wisconsin sports, as the Wisconsin Historical Society notes that in on this day in 1919 the Green Bay Packers professional football team was founded during a meeting in the editorial rooms of Green Bay Press-Gazette. On…

Good morning. It’s a sunny and mild day ahead for the Whippet City, with high temperatures in the mid-seventies. So, how powerful was the March 11th Japanese Tsunami? So powerful that it broke off icebergs in Antarctica: New space-based images show the same tsunami that devastated Japan also caused a series of giant icebergs to break…

Good morning. It’s a partly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature in the lower eighties. In six senate districts across Wisconsin, our fellow citizens will have a chance to decide whether to retain their GOP state senators, or replace them with Democratic challengers.  (In two more districts, they’re be a recall election…

Good morning. It’s a rainy day with a high temperature of eighty-one ahead for Whitewater. In Whitewater at 6 p.m. tonight, the Planning Commission meets at the municipal building.  The meeting agenda is available online. On this day in 1974, President Nixon announced his resignation, effective noon the next day. A controversial company in Indonesia…

Good morning. Whitewater’s week ends with a partly sunny day, with high temps in the mid eighties. You’ve probably wondered (and who hasn’t?) what a tarantula’s heartbeat looks like.  Wired Science has the answer for which you’ve been patiently waiting, in a story entitled, “Tarantula MRI Reveals Strange Double Heartbeat.” Danielle Venton explains: Spider hearts…

Good morning. It’s a partly cloudy day today with a high of eighty-three for the Whippet City. The draft’s never been popular, and sometimes unpopular even in wartime. The Wisconsin Historical Society writes about how Wisconsinites reacted in 1862: 1862 – War Department Order Prompts Riot On this date the War Department issued General Order…

Good morning. It’s a partly cloudy day for Whitewater today, with only a small chance of rain, and a high temperature of eighty-six. There’s a meeting of Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission this afternoon, at 5 p.m., in the city manager’s conference room at the municipal building. The agenda is available online. Danielle Venton, writing at Wired…

It’s thunderstorms ahead for Whitewater today, with a high temperature in the lower nineties. There’s a Common Council meeting tonight, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting agenda is available online. The Wisconsin Historical Society marks this day in 1832 as the end of the Black Hawk War: On this date the defeat of Black Hawk and…

Good morning. It’s a warm and humid Monday for Whitewater, with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms, and a high of ninety. There’s a meeting of the Park & Rec Board today at 4 p.m.  The meeting agenda is available online.  At 4:30 p.m., there’s a meeting of the Community Development Authority, with that meeting agenda…

Good morning. Whitewater’s Friday will be mostly sunny, with a high temperature of eighty-nine. Today — July 29, 2011 — is that day for which movie-goers, and perhaps all Americans, have been waiting: it’s the opening-day of Cowboys & Aliens. I know of no other people that would make a film like this — it’s…

Good morning. It’s thunderstorms ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of eighty-three degrees. There’s a meeting of the Police Commission tonight, at 6:00 p.m., in both a closed and later an open-session.  The agenda is available online. On this day in 1934, labor strife left two dead in Kohler: Two killed, 40 hurt in…

Good morning. It’s a rainy day, of thunderstorms, ahead for Whitewater. The high temperature for the day should be in the upper eighties. From the Wisconsin Historical Society, a reminder of a late-nineteenth-century tragedy, but also of resiliency: 1894 – Forest Fire Destroys Phillips On the afternoon of this day, a forest fire swept over…

Good morning. I’ve no idea what your day will be like, but if you’re in Whitewater today, you’ll be experiencing that day under mostly sunny skies, with a high temperature of eighty-five degrees. I’ve written before about how dangerous chimpanzees are (Chimpanzees: Cuddly Primates or Vicious Killers? Vicious Killers!), but it’s worse than I thought…