Let’s assume, as with Whitewater’s 12.4.12 Common Council meeting, the city adopts sensible guidelines for filling vacancies by appointment. The vacancy process adopted at the meeting was the work of Councilmember Binnie and City Attorney McDonell, and one can find the draft of their work online in the 12.4.12 council packet. As with a school…
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The City of Whitewater’s 2013 Draft Budget: Downtown Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Under the 2013 draft budget, there’s the possibility of the City of Whitewater increasing the contribution for Downtown Whitewater, Inc., to compensate for the loss of funding via Tax Incremental District 4. While I’d surely rather the city didn’t prop up businesses, and I’d rather it didn’t fund just one area at that, I candidly…
Beautiful Whitewater, Charity, City, Good Ideas, New Whitewater, Poverty
Sunday, 10.7.12: Whitewater CROP Hunger Walk 2012
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Details: Location – Begins at Fairhaven Retirement Home (435 W. Starin Road, Whitewater) and ends at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (46 S. Church St., Whitewater). Registration – 12:30 p.m., Walk: 1:00 p.m. See, for additional details or donation link, Whitewater CROP Hunger Walk 2012 – CROP Hunger Walk.
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Whitewater’s Evolution
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Update, 5.10.12 @ 8:20 PM: See, along these lines, Whitewater’s city manager’s published acknowledgement in a newspaper interview (online at 1:03 PM today) of a possible position with Walworth County. Original post of 5.10.12 @ 12:30 PM: Change comes at varying speeds, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, still other times seemingly (but only seemingly) not at…
City, New Whitewater
New Whitewater’s Inevitability
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
I’ve written before about the transition — one that I believe is certain, as much as anything human can be — from Old Whitewater to New Whitewater. A summary of my thinking: There’s a transition taking place, slowly but ineluctably, from a stodgy, stagnant Whitewater to a more hip & prosperous one. We’ve probably about…
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Mark Twain T-shirt Art Contest for K-12 Students
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Best to all the contestants, and appreciation to those supporting the contest — Mark Twain T-shirt Art Contest for K-12 Students For the fourth year in a row, the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a local partnership to bring the national Big Read initiative to Rock, Walworth and Jefferson County. Mark Twain in…