Newsroom Notebook: What makes a great headline?
Newsroom Notebook is a new monthly column written by one of our staff members.
Newsroom Notebook: Title Case
Everyone has things they love or hate about their jobs. Me, I love writing headlines. A headline can make or break a story, which is to say it can make a reader pause to read a story or pass it by.
Someday We’ll Laugh About This . . . Right? Siblings, the first friends of our childhoods
We recently celebrated the life of one of my husband’s uncles, with a lovely family gathering held at Matt’s dad’s house.
Mayor Foppoli discusses town with Windsor Dems
At the Aug. 22 meeting of the Windsor Democratic Club, Mayor Dominic Foppoli spoke on his life in Windsor, his role as a town council member and mayor, and the town’s accomplishments and challenges.
Wealthy questions for voters
The California Primary, when we make our first votes for the next U.S. president, is still seven months away. But there are real events happening right now that we should remember when we walk into the voting booth in March 2020. Most of these...
Chicken’s in the kitchen but not to eat
It seems a good bet that if there is a chicken in residence anywhere where there has been a culture of reading children’s literature out loud, the name Henny-Penny is naturally a popular choice for that fowl. Oddly, it isn’t true for the other names in this old English Folk Tale. When was the last time you heard somebody call the Thanksgiving bird, “Turkey-lurkey”? Or how about “Goosey-poosey” and “Ducky-daddles”?
Even in Antarctica there is interesting wine to try
It is late summer and a time when many people explore wine harvests throughout the world. Regardless of where you travel, or on which of the seven continents you land, if you’re a wine lover, you’re sure to discover a plethora of wines while gathering memorable life adventures.
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.
