Newsroom Notebook: What makes a great headline?
Newsroom Notebook is a new monthly column written by one of our staff members.
Be a Chelsey
It’s another work week here at the newspaper, and then next week we will work some more. For almost all of us, our lives get defined by the kind of work we do. When we have steady jobs our daily habits, travel patterns, alarm clocks, meal times and relaxing moments are all fit in around what we do to get paid.
Someday we’ll laugh about this … right?
The me project About a year ago, I was in a doctor’s office and at the end of the exam the doctor asked, “So, are there any issues you have that you’d like to bring up?”
Off the Top of My Head: ICE cold
You know a family that lives up the block. You aren’t personal friends but when you see each other you exchange pleasantries. They have small children and appear to be as normal as anyone else. They are dark skinned and you assume they are...
California Dreamin’
California has been designated a “golden” place of expansive vistas, dreams and opportunities since at least the original Gold Rush of 1849. Through different eras there have been many different hues and sources of gold that has defined our state with the motto Eureka...
Arts & Entertainment
Return to the Russian River
When Jake Messing stood in front of the mural he had just completed for Russian Riverkeeper on the north side of the nonprofit’s headquarters at 139 Healdsburg Ave., he had finished more than another mural. He had made a return to the source from the sea himself, like the salmon he portrayed.
