Good morning, Whitewater It’s St. Patrick’s Day today, but I know that scarcely matters to you. Far more important, I wouldn’t wonder, is your interest in the Common Council meeting, scheduled for tonight at 6:30 p.m. If you otherwise had no justification to drink, you do now… (Quick note — the Common Council agenda is…

Good morning, Whitewater From Free Whitewater It’s Sunshine Week across America — a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civic groups, libraries, non-profits, schools and others interested in the public’s right to know. Sunshine Week is led…

Good morning, Whitewater There are no public meetings today, for the City of Whitewater, but on Saturday at 10 a.m. there will be a candidates’ forum in the Common Council chambers. The Whitewater League of Women Voters is sponsoring the event. (Note: The City of Whitewater’s website, as of this writing, lists the start time…

Good morning, Whitewater There are no public meetings scheduled for the City of Whitewater, today. Their quiet is your happiness. In our schools, there’s been a parent survey, available on the district’s website. The survey is available — as makes sense — in both English and Spanish versions. It only takes a few minutes, and…

Good morning, Whitewater There’s a Birge Fountain Committee meeting at 2 p.m. today, at the White Memorial Building. That’s Whitewater’s only apparent public meeting. If we must have city government, then our municipality’s focus on the Birge Fountain’s better than most activities in which someone would otherwise meddle. If you’ve not already requested time off…

Good morning, Whitewater There is one scheduled public meeting in Whitewater, at 4:30 p.m. today, about the reconstruction of Center Street. Here’s a description, from the City of Whitewater website: The public is invited to a meeting to discuss the reconstruction of Center Street. Center Street will be reconstructed from Fourth Street to S. Franklin…

Good morning, Whitewater Two public meetings are scheduled this afternoon in Whitewater. At 4:30 p.m., the CDA Business Park Marketing Committee meets, and at 6:30 p.m. the Irvin Young Memorial Library Board meets. School’s also back in session, and so many young people are now safely back behind cinderblock walls. Breathe easy, municipal leaders. Conserve…

Good morning, Whitewater There’s still no school today, the second day of parent-teacher conferences. Looking out the window, I can see that the town is still standing. Either concerns about ‘juveniles’ in Whitewater are overblown, or someone managed to handle deftly this community concern. You may have known about actress Amy Pietz, but carelessly, I…

Good morning, Whitewater There’s no school today, and tomorrow, in the district, to allow for parent-teacher conferences. Our town fathers will have to be on heightened alert for the presence of juveniles, loose in town. For the stodgiest of residents: lock your doors, take food and water into a small, secure room, and wait until…

Good morning, Whitewater There’s a Landmarks Committee meeting tonight, from 5 to 7 p.m. More information on that commission, and its work, is available online. I might suggest that the number of legitimate landmarks in Whitewater is likely a fixed number, but the implication would make me seem a Philistine, I’m quite certain. I’ll not…

Good morning, Whitewater It’s not just any day in Whitewater — there’s a Common Council meeting at 6:30 p.m. tonight. The agenda for the meeting is available online. In Wisconsin history, the Wisconsin Historical Society reports that Walter J. Kohler, politician and plumbing king, was born on this day in 1875: On this date Walter…

Good morning, Whitewater One often hears that March arrives like a lion, and leaves like a lamb. We’ll see. In our schools today, the Book Fair at Washington School — proud home of the Golden Eagles — continues today. At the High School today, at 6:30 p.m., there is a scheduled Music Parents meeting. It’s…

Good morning, Whitewater No municipal public meetings today, but the book fair at Washington School continues. The best, probably, one could hope in these troubled times. On this date in 1904, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin’s second state capitol burned down (we’re now on our fourth, and one hopes we’ll never need a…

Good morning, Whitewater There are no scheduled public meetings for the City of Whitewater, today. In our schools, over at Washington School, there will be a book fair today. The Wisconsin Historical Society notes that February 26th marks the anniversary of the day in 1912 when “local women met at the library and formed the…