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Founded 1901

Royal Purple

Founded 1901

Royal Purple

Founded 1901

Royal Purple

The City of Whitewater denied a request to rezone the property that the 1868 Hamilton House resides on last Tuesday night. Following the guidance of the Plan Commission and Christine Munz-Pritchard, who recommended the Council deny the rezone application, the Council unanimously voted to keep the property zoned as Planned Development instead of R-3. The sale of the home was contingent on the approval of the rezone application.

Council Denies Main Street Property Rezone Request

Kimberly Wethal, Editor-in-Chief January 22, 2018

Citing parking limitations and “not fitting into the neighborhood” were among the reasons the City of Whitewater Common Council unanimously denied a motion to rezone the Hamilton House Bed and Breakfast,...

Council to Review Room Tax Ordinance

Kimberly Wethal, Editor-in-Chief January 22, 2018

The City of Whitewater, the Common Council, and the Whitewater Tourism Council want to put more “heads in beds” in hotels and motels, but those heads will soon be paying more to be there. And short-term...

Eleana Maria Alevarez Yepez works hard in Laurentide Hall while she shares stories of her life, and how she has succeeded in becoming the Commencment speaker at the 2017 winter ceremony.

Using Her Voice

Kimberly Wethal, Editor-in-Chief December 6, 2017

School student Eleana Maria Alvarez Yepez was afraid to speak. She was outgoing, but having been uprooted from her native country of Venezuela and moved to the United States by her parents for their safety,...

Property tax pending council approval

Kimberly Wethal, Editor-in-Chief November 15, 2017

City of Whitewater residents will see an increase in the property tax mill rate in the fiscal year of 2018, should the Common Council approve the budget in the form it was presented at the Nov. 7 meeting. Several...

Housing pays $40,000 in payroll due to ACA rules

Kimberly Wethal, Editor-in-Chief October 10, 2017

A partnership between University of Wisconsin-Whitewater University Housing and the Police Services Campus Service Officer (CSO) program, brought about by the changes in student hours under the Patient...

Perkins Loan renewal fails on Senate Floor

Kimberly Wethal, Editor-in-Chief October 5, 2017

The Federal Perkins Loan Program, which provides financial aid to half a million low-income university students, 1,213 of whom are University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students, has failed in the U.S. Senate....

UW-W parking changes, explained

UW-W parking changes, explained

Kimberly Wethal, Editor-in-Chief October 3, 2017

Members of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater administration spoke at Tuesday’s Common Council meeting to address the council’s concerns about changes to the structure of parking in August 2017. Chancellor...

Proposed landmark ordinance dies at council

Proposed landmark ordinance dies at council

Kimberly Wethal, Editor-in-Chief October 3, 2017

An ordinance that would have allowed the City of Whitewater Common Council to rescind the status of a landmark for any reason, died on the floor Tuesday night when no other council member would give the...

New commencement structure sticks

Kimberly Wethal, Editor-in-Chief October 3, 2017

While the structure of next semester’s spring commencement hangs in the balance of how many students participate, the dual-commencement system implemented last spring is expected to be used again. The...

Parking changes a sore spot for Common Council

Parking changes a sore spot for Common Council

Kimberly Wethal, Editor-in-Chief September 19, 2017

  Despite the Whitewater Common Council’s plan to adjourn into a closed session to discuss University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s new parking rules, many council members elected to speak publicly...

Public Relations major Tyler McNamer will be the commencement speaker for the College of Arts and Communication and Business and Economics ceremony.

Public relations major builds confidence, pride at UW-W

Kimberly Wethal, Co Editor-in-Chief May 3, 2017

When senior Tyler McNamer transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater at the beginning of his sophomore year, he has had his fill of the small school setting he’d been educated in his whole...

UW-W witnesses madness in March

UW-W witnesses madness in March

Justin St. Peter, Sports Editor March 14, 2017

With three game-winning shots with less than two seconds left on the clock in the first and second rounds of the Division-III NCAA Men’s Tournament at Kachel Gymnasium in a little over 24 hours, you...

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