Pick your worst-case scenario
Is America headed to a “worst-case” scenario on its way to attempting to hold a free and fair election? According to several nonpartisan and bipartisan studies, commissions and government watchdogs, the answer is a scary and sobering “yes.” The only wavering in these opinions is over which of several imagined worst-case scenarios will prevail over all others.
Country Roads: Get the lead out
For awhile most of the current news will, in some way, concern guns and ammunition. It is nearly impossible not to be consumed with the topic, and a divisive, depressing one it is.
A post-pandemic Easter
Our “shelter in place” and declared public health emergency started here the day after all of Ireland canceled St. Patrick’s Day festivities on March 17. That cultural shock alone was enough to let us know this virus pandemic and economic disaster would be bringing permanent life-changes to all of us.
In need of documentaries
If a single picture is worth a thousand words — as the old saying goes — what is the worth of even the shortest of documentary films, shot at the equivalent of 16 frames per second? (An eight-minute short has 7,680 individual pics.) We dare say, “priceless.”
Mental Strong
We warned ourselves very early that recovering from the historic North Bay wildfires would take more time than we could imagine and that there would be unknown and invisible consequences.
Idlewood 3 … Momentous March
After a soaking, blustery February, March trundled in like mild lamb. Does that mean it will roar out like a lion? Umbrellas or parasols in our future? Email your budding news items to IDlewood 3…” at [email protected]. Idlewood was the original telephone exchange for...
Wine Words Almost a year later
Approaching the one-year mark since the devastating October fires, I am practicing gratitude. Only last week did I have the heart to venture back to Deer Trail Road.
Flashbacks
100 years ago – March 22, 1923
Style Show Scores a Hit
The fashion show staged by Rosenberg & Bush in their big West Street store was well received by Healdsburgers and visiting out-of-town people Friday evening and Saturday. The house was packed during the periods...
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.
