Residents resolve to improve in the new year
Each new year should be treated as an opportunity to get things right, a fresh start; a blank slate that’s full of promise. Sometimes it’s filled with too many promises. People make New Year’s resolutions to get fit, save money or get organized, hoping that the new year will help them keep their promises to themselves.
Save our creeks (and streets)
The Russian River Watershed Association through its member agencies strives to inform community members about our watershed. This series of articles serves as a tool to educate the community in ways to promote and maintain healthy watersheds.
Holy innocents
December 25 is, of course, Christmas Day, the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Christians believe that this birth is the turning point, the very center of human history. From it we count the years forward and backward, B.C., before Christ, and A.D., Anno Domini, Year of our Lord. We believe that the baby born in Bethlehem is Emmanuel, God with us, fully human from the flesh of His Mother Mary, and fully God by the power of the Holy Spirit. We also know, along with this and because of this, that every birth is sacred. Carl Sandburg, in his uniquely down to earth way, said that a baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. When my older brother’s first child was born he called me in the middle of the night to tell me that his son’s birth, at which he was present, was the closest thing to a miracle he had ever seen. I had the joy of witnessing the births of my five children and I agree with Carl Sandburg and my brother and certainly with Mary and Joseph. Birth is a miracle, it is God’s opinion, it is God with us.
Recycle your Christmas trees
As the holiday wraps up and it is time to break down the decorations, local waste management agencies are making it easier for residents to dispose of their trees.
Heat returns as fire fee hits home
As promised by the state of California following the signing of ABXI-29 in July 2011, homeowners living in State Responsibility Area are now paying the price for fire prevention.
Interesting new trend for best selling books of 2012
Booklists got a bit kinky in 2012. It’s true — it got a little weird. And the proof is in the pudding — or more accurately, in the lists of the top ten bestselling books of 2012.
New year brings new laws
The new year will usher in a sales tax increase, and immunity from arrest for someone possessing illicit drugs when they are seeking emergency assistance for themselves or someone else suffering an overdose, among a slew of other laws which take effect Jan. 1.
Fire departments gear up for annual Bucket Brigade
Give blood in Geyserville Jan. 4, in Healdsburg Jan. 15
