Good morning, Whitewater
It’s Earth Day, today. I’ll post later today about the environmental holiday.
In Whitewater, there are no public meetings scheduled for today.
Affecting our school district, there’s an announcement up on the Holmen School District website about its search for a new district administrator. Our administrator, Leslie Steinhaus, is a candidate for that position. The notice states that
“The School Board is moving forward with the search for a new Superintendent. We are inviting 2 candidates (Dr. Snyder and Dr. Carlson) back to interview with the Board next Monday prior to the Board’s Regular Meeting. This does put us behind by a couple of weeks in the process but we are committed to doing whatever is needed to bring the best possible person to the District by July 1st.”
If the notice is new, then it follows the final candidate open forum Holmen held last week. The Holmen Courier has an online story describing the four candidates who attended the Holmen meet-the-candidates forums. (The story makes it seem that all the forums were on April 9th, but I think the reporter means to say that they began on April 9th.)
The Holmen District is about fifty-percent larger than our own.
The National Weather Service reports that thunderstorms are likely with a high of 71 degrees. The Farmers’ Almanac predicts “blustery showers.” Not identical, but closer to agreement.
There are two very different moments from Wisconsin history to recall today. Today in 1954, the Army-McCarthy hearings began. They lasted for over a month, and led to McCarthy’s disgrace, as he could not prove his charges against members of the government who were supposedly impeding the search for covert communists in public office and the military. Millions watched the hearings.
On a far brighter note, it’s also the birthday of Milwaukee native Charlotte Rae. Rae played Mrs. Garrett from the television sitcom Facts of Life.