Columns

What’s wrong with the rest of America these days? There are too many places and hometowns where angry mobs are marching in the streets and hate speech is spewing from their town squares. Why are so many of our fellow Americans at odds about their own history? They are tearing down old statues from their plazas and courthouse lawns, but not everyone understands why. We should teach them a lesson about how to make better use of their public squares. We really should.

Whatever the date, summer arrives for most of us when summer fruit appears in its true ripeness. This means that apricots are soft and coral, lip-smacking in flavor. Peaches wake up your mouth and dribble down your chin. Berries are perfectly soft, chubby, deeply colored and ready to dive into a piecrust.

Editor’s Note: This month we welcome Gary Quackenbush to the Windsor Times. This is the first in a series of monthly columns, written by Gary, highlighting the many congregations to be found in Windsor’s faith-based community.

A bas-relief sculpture in Healdsburg along University Avenue harkens back to the days of manual labor when steel and iron workers built skyscrapers that changed America’s city skylines. The subject matter and style reflects Depression Era art coming from the Federal Emergency Relief Act, which...

100 years ago – November 14, 1918

 

Out of the smoldering ashes of the Kincade wildfire and after the days of darkness from the massive PG&E power shut-offs, an all-embracing “war plan” about how we manage our power utilities, avoid wildfires, harden our telecommunications systems and avoid unnecessary costs must be established post haste.

I’m excited to write this article. Though it’s the end of the year, this story is about a new beginning for the Mark West schools. All the schools want everyone to know that Mark West Union School District is alive and well and waiting for the new group of kids to register for kindergarten.