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Posts published in “Day: September 16, 2010

Letters to the Editor

DEFENDING WALLIS Editor, This is my rebuttal to Bruce McEwen. I asked Mark Scaramella if he were going to publish it, he thought 'yes.' It was emailed it late Sunday August 23rd. The following week…

Farm To Farm

Sunday morning all my boys were at the farm. That crew is growing hungrier by the day. They'd eat a mountain lion if it came within firing range. I fried up potatoes and onions along…

Panther Soccer 2010

The soccer program’s ‘road trip’ of six-games in 15 days that has opened our season continued last week with a visit to chilly Tomales on Wednesday, Sept 8th. Well, not quite. As the coaches were…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I am indebted to Pat Hulbert who informs me that her father’s cousin, Yorkville’s Austin Hulbert, was born in April 1917 thus…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Betsy Taylor

I met with Betsy at her home on Vista Ranch behind the Breggo Cellars Winery a week or so ago and we sat down to talk. She was born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in…

‘Viva Mexico! Let’s Go Kill Some Gachupines!’

The clocks are literally ticking as Mexico starts the final leg of the countdown to the 200th anniversary of its independence from Spain. Dozens of huge, solar-pow­ered timepieces have been installed in this monster city's…

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