Good morning,
Today’s forecast for Whitewater calls for a mostly sunny day, with a high of eleven degrees.
A smattering of stories available this morning:
- Unemployment is up in Walworth County, yet again: Walworth County’s unemployment rate hits 9 percent.
- Walworth County Today has a brief item about a diversity mural at Whitewater’s Lincoln School: “Students, teachers, parents and staff dedicated the mural, Celebrating Diversity and Community recently at Whitewater’s Lincoln Elementary School. Artist Reynaldo Hernandez helped dedicate the mural, which he created with the help of art teacher Jean Buckingham and the more than 300 students who attend Lincoln Elementary School.”
- State Senator Judy Robson has decided not to run for re-election.
- Meanwhile, Democratic Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan of Janesville declared that he does not intend to resign his position.
- The Whitewater Register, a weekly newspaper available in town, was free yesterday. I’d make a joke, but it’s bad form to speak ill of the dead.
On this date in 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame selected its first members: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.
Today is also the anniversary of the publication, in 1845, of Poe’s The Raven.
….But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yoreMeant in croaking “Nevermore.”