Good morning. It’s a cool and rainy day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-four degrees. School’s out, and for countless thousands across Wisconsin, summer begins. J.J. Abrams has a new movie, Super 8, out today.  It’s both homage to film-making and suspense film.  One of the great pleasures of summer is the…

Good morning. It’s a cooler, but still humid, day awaiting Whitewater: the predicted high temperature is 67, with a chance of showers. It’s the last day of school for the Whitewater Unified School District. Congratulations on a year well and successfully finished. Google commemorates the birthday of Wisconsin-born Les Paul today with a Google Doodle:…

Good morning. Whitewater’s Wednesday forecast calls for scattered strong storms, with a high temperature of ninety-two. Donald Driver visited Washington School on Monday, as a reward for that school’s state-leading clothing collecting drive for Goodwill Industries.  Dan Plutchak’s Students share winning ways with Packers’ great Donald Driver nicely describes Driver’s visit. Wired’s science video section offers…

Good morning. It’s a mostly sunny day ahead, with a predicted high temperature of ninety-five degrees. There’s a Common Council meeting tonight in Whitewater.  The meeting agenda is available online.    

Good morning. It’s a hot day ahead for Whitewater, with an expected high temperature of ninety-three degrees. I’ll write what everyone will say today: stay hydrated. Two days ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel republished, in memory of the anniversary today of D-Day, the editorial they published on June 6, 1944. It is as evocative today…

Good morning. It’s a mostly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of eighty-five degrees. There’s a dedication this morning at 8 a.m. of a less-than-one-mile-long, two-million-dollar spur between Starin Road and the Business Park. In our schools, there are various end-of-the-year adventures before the last day of school on June 9th.  Have fun,…

Good morning. It’s a partly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-seven. Here are pet videos to start the day — with one of them having been viewed six-million times on YouTube — of French bulldogs, and a cat —

Good morning. It’s a sunny day in the forecast for Whitewater, with a high temperature in the mid-seventies. The Space Shuttle Endeavour was docked at the International Space Station, on the last mission of that spacecraft.  The technology’s now old, the program soon to end, with NASA unsure about its future.  For it all, each…

Good morning. It’s a warm day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of eighty-four degrees. The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1899, the Gideons Got Going On this night two salesmen, John H. Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill, crossed paths a second time, in Beaver Dam. The pair had first…

Good morning. Today’s Whitewater forecast calls for a mostly sunny day, with a high temperature of sixty-three degrees. From the Wisconsin Historical Society, a reminder that there are no terrestrial utopias, the trying for one notwithstanding: 1844 – Utopian Community Founded Near Ripon On this date the first settler moved to the Fourierite utopian community…

Good morning. Today’s forecast calls for a windy day, with a high temperature of fifty-six degrees. Whitewater Schools will hold a public listening session tonight, at 7 p.m., about proposed budget cuts.  (For commentary on those cuts, see On Whitewater Schools’ Proposed Budget Cuts.) I posted earlier on how cats drink (Friday Catblogging: How Cats Drink),…

Good morning. It’s thunderstorms ahead for the Whippet City, with a high temperature of fifty-nine. There are myriad animals and plants on earth, and more species are being discovered all the time.  Arizona State University has dedicated an institute, the International Institute for Species Exploration, to cataloguing new discoveries.  They’re out with their 2011 list…

Good morning. It’s a rainy day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of seventy-six degrees. The Wisconsin Historical Society notes that on this day in 1878, Tornadoes Devastate[d] Three Counties On this date destructive storms swept through Dane, Jefferson, and Iowa Counties. Accounts of the storms indicate that three separate tornadoes touched down causing…