Good morning, Whitewater
There is one scheduled public meeting in Whitewater, at 4:30 p.m. today, about the reconstruction of Center Street. Here’s a description, from the City of Whitewater website:
The public is invited to a meeting to discuss the reconstruction of Center Street. Center Street will be reconstructed from Fourth Street to S. Franklin Street. The project includes the reconstruction of the street surface with new curb and gutter, complete replacement of water main, and spot repairs of the sanitary sewer. The street is being widened slightly to accommodate parking on the south side of the street in front of the Library. There will be no assessments to the adjacent property owners for this project. Mark Fisher, Strand Associates engineer and DPW staff will provide a brief presentation of the project then will listen to comments from the public. This project’s contract is scheduled to be awarded by the City Council on May 5 with construction to start in early June and completion in early September.
There’s one public meeting scheduled in Fort Atkinson, at 10 a.m., but I don’t cover Fort Atkinson (except by contrast), and anything involving stormwater is 23% less interesting that anything I would ever consider blogging about. (I seriously doubt that I have any readers who care about stormwater, but if I do, please stop reading. Go out to a bar, or take your girl to a movie, or something, anything, to balance an interest in ‘stormwater issues.’)
In American history today, it’s an anniversary of two technical accomplishments. If you thought that Jefferson and Lincoln were just political men, you’d be mistaken:
Wired reports that
It’s the anniversary of significant scientific and technical accomplishments by two of the greatest U.S. presidents. Thomas Jefferson read a scientific paper in 1797 that’s considered the first American contribution to vertebrate paleontology. Fifty-two years later, Abraham Lincoln filed for a patent, starting a process that would make him the only U.S. president to patent an invention.