Life and death on Oct. 26: How one day turned great joy into great pain, then great pain into great joy. Carolyn In 1965, 20-year-old Carolyn was traveling with friends in Germany when she met…
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Something amazing happened when I went to get a new phone last year: I didn’t buy one, because instead of pressuring me to spend a bunch of money, the salesperson helped me keep my old…
There are already too many lists of things you should see, yet I’m going to make another: Sights that are so beautiful, they still exceed even the most hyped expectations. First on my list is…
As many people driving past Ukiah on Highway 101 lately have noticed, a sturdy black fence is being built along the freeway north of Perkins Street. When asked for more details, Caltrans spokesman Manny Machado…
During its last regular meeting, the Ukiah City Council approved the hiring of a Placer County firm to assist in the search for a new, permanent chief of the Ukiah Police Department. According to the…
At my first newspaper job after college I was on the night news desk, where your shift didn’t end until you checked the first copies of the next day’s paper as they came off the…
When Laura Hopper was a kid, her mother had a friend who lived in a tree. “And I thought he was the coolest thing ever,” Hopper said of the man who lived in the woods…