For music lovers possessed of even a dollop of reason September was a grim month as paeans to George Gershwin crescendoed toward mega-sforzando on the 24th, the hundredth anniversary of his birth. Aside from their…
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Before the Ukiah Costco opened for business in 2018, I talked with then-General Manager Michael Wiederholt as his employees were running around getting the store ready for customers. When one of those employees, 18-year-old Ashtyn…
Selma sat in a corner of the big couch in her parents’ living room, hands folded neatly in her lap. Her father stood in front of her, stern and larger than life. “If you marry…
INTERIOR TEMPERATURES will remain slightly above normal today through Saturday and then diminish early next week. The threat of isolated thunderstorms in the interior will persist for next several days. Storms are forecast to produce…
I hate to say “I told you so”, but in my column a year or so ago, when Minal Shankar, the Wall Street whiz kid who was then expressing an interest in taking on the…
I was riding a city bus to the diner for breakfast, and on the way, I glanced out the window and noticed a bum sprawled the long way across the bench in a bus shelter.…
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“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” — Yogi Berra At their last Board meeting on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 before taking an…