Good morning, Whitewater
In the City of Whitewater today, there’s a Common Council meeting tonight at 6:30 p.m. The agenda is available online.
Over at the website of the Wisconsin Historical Society, there’s a surprising entry:
1845 – First Free Public School Opened in Wisconsin
On this date the first free public school in Wisconsin was opened in Southport (now Kenosha). Michael Frank, a member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, introduced bills authorizing the establishment of a Wisconsin public school system in 1843, 1844, and 1845. These attempts were failures so Frank sponsored a bill authorizing Southport to establish a public school supported by property tax dollars. [Source: Wisconsin Mosaic]
In all the world, this may have been the first, and was surely the last, time that a public school was free.
| Almanac | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | Sunrise | Sunset |
| Official Time | 05:15 AM | 08:35 PM |
| Civil Twilight | 04:40 AM | 09:10 PM |
| Tomorrow | 05:15 AM | 08:35 PM |
| Tomorrow will be: | roughly the same as today | |
| Amount of sunlight: | 15h 20m | |
| Amount of daylight: | 16h 30m | |
| Moon phase: | Waning crescent | |