The City of Whitewater has announced it will be conducting controlled burns of Meadowsweet Park, 601 N. Tratt St. and the Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve (formerly Indian Mounds Park), 288 S. Indian Mound Pkwy in the next week. The burns will be conducted between the dates of April 9-18 when […]

The Whitewater Parkinson Support Group, which meets at Fairhaven Retirement Community, 435 N. Starin Road, will host guest speakers at its April 14 and May 12 meetings, both of which begin at 1 p.m. On April 14, Thomas Fritsch, PhD, director of the Parkinson Research Institute at the Wisconsin Parkinson […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent With the recent resignation of one of its top staff members now in place, Whitewater officials are in the process of seeking out the successor to Latisha Birkeland, who held the role of neighborhood services director and city planner. City Manager Cameron Clapper discussed short- and […]

On Monday, the City of Whitewater issued an update on the order put in place last month requesting that customers run water to prevent water service lines from freezing. The majority of residents and businesses in the city can safely discontinue keeping a faucet running though there are a few […]

The City of Whitewater Department of Public Works announced this week that it will conduct a leaf and yard waste collection the week of April 14. Residents are advised to place bagged yard waste on the curb by Monday, April 14. Yard waste must be bagged in clear or transparent […]

  Whitewater 5th-6th graders earn first place at home meet Congratulations are in order for the 5th and 6th graders that competed in the TAG Network Math Meet held April 1 at Whitewater Middle School. Local students did well competing against the four other school districts in attendance at the […]

By Adam Knoll Correspondent After a trying application process that was overseen by no less than two separate committees, Justin Stewart, Valerie Troxel and Diana Callope, teachers in the Whitewater Unified School District, won Herb Kohl Fellowship awards, which is handed out to only 100 educators each year. Colleagues in […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent After devoting more than a year to crossing out language and adding in new provisions, the process of a top-down review of Whitewater’s zoning code is nearly complete. Members of the city Plan Commission have been working in tandem with several groups, including the Common Council […]