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 […]
Whitewater
News from the Whitewater area
Whitewater’s zoning code review nears completion
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 […]
Take a trip to Never Land
Say “Good-bye and good riddance” to the long Wisconsin winter with a dreamy trip to Never Land at Whitewater Middle School’s production of “Peter Pan Jr.,” slated Thursday and Friday, April 10-11 at 7 p.m. in the Whitewater High School Auditorium. The Thursday, April 10, show is “Pay What You […]
Library to open MakerSpace April 11
The Irvin L. Young Memorial Library is pleased to announce the opening of its MakerSpace on Friday, April 11 at 2:30 p.m. with open hours set for Monday – Thursday 2:30–5:30 p.m. MakerSpaces are the spaces and materials dedicated to knowledge sharing and content creation. The library will support access […]
Mapping the Milky Way
UW-W scientists using images from NASA space telescope By Jeff Angileri Contributor Vast, wondrous, captivating – the Milky Way Galaxy with its myriad stars, solar systems and planets – was revealed two weeks ago in an unprecedented galactic portrait. It was unveiled at the 30th TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference […]
Palmyra-Eagle name change on school board agenda
By Heather Ruenz Editor The Palmyra-Eagle Area School District is facing a dire situation, losing students, teachers and money at an alarming rate, according to district officials. In an effort to make the district more appealing, a strategic plan was put in place, beginning with a proposal to change the […]
Deaths from 150 years ago relived through poetry
By Tom Ganser Correspondent Beth Lueck’s lecture, “Bearing Witness: American Poets on Suffering and Death in the Civil War,” focused on poems by the well-known American poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson, along with a poem by Obadiah Ethelbert Baker, a school teacher and Union soldier who enlisted in the […]
DanceScapes to take the stage April 6-8
The beauty and creativity of movement comes to life in the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Theatre/Dance Department’s annual dance performance, DanceScapes. Performances will take place Sunday, April 6 at 2 p.m. and Monday and Tuesday, April 7-8 at 7:30 p.m. in Barnett Theatre in Greenhill Center of the Arts. This event […]
Fish-a-ree nets fish, anglers and sunshine
The 38th Annual Whitewater Lions Club Fish-a-ree kicked off at 6:30 a.m. Feb. 9 with breakfast being served to more than 400 people by the Whitewater Lioness with some help in the kitchen by members of the Lions Club. The weather, according to Fish-a-ree Chairman Lenny Plucinski “was perfect, as […]
All American
Washington Elementary School students McKenley Rich (from the left), Brandon Mueller and Jayanne Aron show off their talents during the school’s Spring Sing concert March 21. Entitled “All American: A Musical Celebration of America’s Multicultural Heritage,” the program featured 14 selections by 4th and 5th graders under the direction of […]
