The great American pianist Cedar Walton died last week at the age of 79 at his home in Brooklyn after a short illness. Like almost…
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The effects of Garberville’s transient population are said to have reached a critical point and merchants have appealed to the Board of Supervisors for help…
Labor Day. Time again for politicians and union adherents to praise organized labor. Time again for others to pontificate about the supposed decline and growing…
When the Northern Humboldt Union high school board met July 26 to discuss Trustee Dan Johnson’s plagiarized June 13 commencement speech, Board President Mike Pigg…
The summer road trip seems to offer the chance to catch up on all those recordings accumulated over the previous year. Depending on your perspective,…
A few days ago, Marion Crombie, our musical neighbor and fellow fruit forager, reported that two of the most promising and easily accessible stands of blackberries hereabouts have begun to fulfill their promise, so the next morning Marcia and I set forth with our knapsack full of glass jars (with lids) to harvest the luscious berries pursuant to making blackberry jam.
August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, but it’s also the anniversary of Midway Atoll formally becoming a United States possession.…
This is one of hopefully many letters from Myanmar discussing what I am seeing and experiencing as an aid worker or English teacher in the midst of a complex ethnic struggle.
My favorite sister was the middle child of five. For want of a boy on their third try, my folks issued her the male spelling…