Today’s Whitewater forecast calls for a sunny day with a high temperature of sixty-five degrees.
There’s a Common Council meeting tonight, at 6:30 p.m. The agenda is available online.
Lincoln School, proud home of the Leopards, has a book fair today in the LMC library.
There are updates on the meteor that streaked across our skies last week. First, Space.com reports in “Meteor Fragment From Wisconsin Fireball Discovered by Farmer” that a Wisconsin farmer discovered a small fragment on the roof of his shed. There’s also a story from the Wisconsin State Journal about others who are on the hunt for fragments, entitled, “Meteorite hunters flock to southwest Wisconsin.”
As a follow up to yesterday’s post about repeat offender and state assemblyman Jeff Wood, of Chippewa Falls, there’s a story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that reports on Wood’s sentencing yesterday:
State Rep. Jeff Wood was convicted Monday of third-offense drunken driving and possession of drug paraphernalia and sentenced to 45 days in jail and more than $1,600 in fines.
The sentence came a day before members of the Assembly were expected to try to remove him from office for three arrests for driving under the influence in less than a year.
“I’m sorry for what I did and especially for putting people in danger on the highway,” the Chippewa Falls independent told the court.
Wood, 40, pleaded no contest and was found guilty of third-offense drunken driving and paraphernalia possession in a deal that saw a charge of marijuana possession dropped.
Wood was convicted of drunken driving in 1991 and 1992.
Note — if it’s true that Wood’s first two offenses came before he was most recently re-elected to the Assembly, I think it strengthens the case that he should not be expelled, as the people of his district have foolishly elected him, and should have to live with that bad decision until the next election.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1836 the
Oldest Library in the State [was] Founded
On this date an Act of Congress created the Territory of Wisconsin and in the sixteenth and final section of that Act appropriated funds for the Wisconsin State Library to support the needs of the fledgling government. The library is still functioning but has been renamed as the Wisconsin State Law Library [Source: Wisconsin State Law Library]