Back when, Fitch Mountain was a wild game refuge…
In order to pick the remainder of the grape crop and the light walnut crop with hands, it is urged that all local people, including high school pupils, assist with the grape harvest over the coming weekend. A shortage of over two hundred grape pickers exists in the Healdsburg section at the present time.
Last week’s news, tomorrow’s history
Not all weeks contain big or world-changing news. Very often it takes the passing of time for the news of the day to become part of our history lessons. Last week was certainly full of all kinds of news, but we’ll have to wait to see what kind of history might have been made.
Decoding Teenagers: The Creeper
Happy Holidays to everyone out there. As much as I enjoy Christmas, it can be a hectic time and I’m glad to be moving forward. I’m thankful that my family spent it together, in peace and that we all enjoyed each other’s company and savored our wonderful Christmas dinner.
Fire Diary: The empty spaces left behind
Recently we had a visitor from the east coast, a friend of over 30 years whom we see a few times a year, but never out this way.
Winter pruning is for suckers
It’s winter. The occasional frost tips the blades of grass creeping slowly but surely through the brown, dry turf we don’t water all summer long, conserving water for the warm season crops of vegetables and orchard trees.
Honoring Labor
Labor Day’s long weekend winds up summer. Vacations end. School starts. Days are progressively shorter. Autumn comes to mind and fall colors slowly show.
Labor Day honors the American worker. The U.S. was the first country to establish “labor day,” and the first parade took...
Arts & Entertainment
‘Angels’ lands at Raven Performing Arts
:Every Sunday matinee we do a post-show discussion with the audience, so they get a chance to make comments and ask questions of the actors. We saw there were a lot of people who were quite moved and quite touched by the play. So the opening weekend could not have gone better, as far as I’m concerned," said director Steven David Martin.
