Good morning,
Today’s forecast calls for a chance of thunderstorms with a high of eighty-two degrees.
In the City of Whitewater today, there’s a meeting of the Urban Forestry Commission at 4 p.m. The meeting agenda, for a group that would more simply be called a tree commission, is available online. Having abolished the former commission, the city chose to find a new, if less apt, name for the new commission.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this date in 1787, the
Northwest Territory [was] Established
On this date the Northwest Ordinance was passed by the Continental Congress. The ordinance provided for the administration of the territories and set rules for admission as a state. The Northwest territory included land west of Pennsylvania and Northwest of the Ohio River, which encompassed present day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, parts of Minnesota and of course Wisconsin. [Source: Indiana Historical Bureau]
And there we are …
