By Dave Fidlin Correspondent With tax bills slated to arrive in residents’ mailboxes in a few short weeks, the long and winding road toward adopting a 2014 municipal budget in the City of Whitewater is drawing to a close. In the past two months, city staff and the Common Council […]
Author: Heather Ruenz
Swimmers end season with strong state meet
While a place on the podium wasn’t in the cards for members of the Whitewater High School girls’ swim team, they finished the season strong nonetheless. The team finished a respectable 16th place at state last Friday and according to head coach Gina Foucault, “Sara Foucault, Callie Hebert, Debra Krebs, […]
Playoff run!
UW-Whitewater Warhawk Ryan Givens records the longest run of the season on a 67-yard touchdown run in the 43-6 victory over UW-River Falls last week. UW-W will begin NCAA Division III playoffs at noon Saturday when they host St. Norbert College at Perkins Stadium. The Warhawks are undefeated at 10-0. […]
TIF districts reviewed by city’s CDA
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Expressing optimism with perceived economic improvements, members of the Whitewater CDA recently discussed a number of the areas of the city designated as tax incremental financing (TIF) districts. Officials briefly went over TIF districts 5 to 8 during a meeting Oct. 23. TIFS 5 and 7 […]
Downtown Whitewater announces Main Street Awards
Downtown Whitewater, Inc. joined the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) to recognize the best downtown revitalization projects of 2012-13 at the 23rd Annual Wisconsin Main Street Awards. Tyler Sailsbery and The Black Sheep Restaurant of Whitewater was one of the winners for the Best New Downtown Business Award. The local […]
CDA budget increases by more than $30K
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent The Whitewater Community Development Authority (CDA), the appointed body tasked with overseeing economic growth within the city, has developed an operating budget for 2014. The $137,200 budget for the upcoming year represents an increase from the 2013 budget of $103,803. The CDA voted unanimously in favor […]
Make it a Happy Holly Days
Sign up now to participate in the Nov. 29 parade Have you ever wanted to enter a float, play music, or march in the Happy Holly Days parade? Downtown Whitewater, Inc. is offering a chance for organizations, clubs, schools and special programs to show off at the 2013 Happy Holly […]
Three Whippets named to RVC soccer first team
By David Paulsen Sports correspondent Three Whitewater High School boys soccer players have been named to the Rock Valley Conference all-conference first-team. The honor follows the team’s RVC championship, its first since 2008 and third under head coach Rene Menager. Forward Mark Cuevas, midfielder Max Walton and defender Saul Vargas […]
Washington Elementary giving back big time
By Tom Ganser Correspondent The students of Washington Elementary School are getting into the holiday season in a big way through a special school project, “Giving Thanks by Giving Back.” Their goal is to collect 10,000 clothing items by Nov. 22 for Whitewater’s Community Clothes Closet in a project organized […]
WHS cross country runners presented awards
The Whitewater High School Cross Country team celebrated the end of a very successful 2013 season at their year-end banquet on Monday, Nov. 11. The WHS girls were Rock Valley Champions and the Boys finished 2nd. Brett Harms finished 5th at the state meet for the second consecutive year and […]
