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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Point Reyes Station’s Hazel Martinelli celebrates 101st birthday with party at son’s deer camp
More than 80 guests showed up Sunday at Leroy Martinelli’s deer camp in Tomasini Canyon to celebrate his mother Hazel Martinelli’s 101st birthday. Mrs. Martinelli, who lives with her daughter Patricia in Point Reyes Station, is seen here with her son Leroy at right and Joan Haley of Point Reyes Station at left.
Leroy Martinelli, himself […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, General News by dave
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Vandals dump sewage at West Marin School
Vandals in the early hours Sunday pushed over 11 portable toilets that had been set up in the parking lot of West Marin School for a lunch stop on the Waves to Wine Bike Tour. The tour, which passed through Point Reyes Station Saturday, was a fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Each of […]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Paving Point Reyes Station’s main street at night
Caltrans repaved Point Reyes Station’s three-block-long main street, Highway 1, Wednesday and Thursday nights. Wednesday night the southbound lane was paved; Thursday night it was the northbound lane.
Each night, a state highway crew ground off a three-inch-deep layer of the main street and then filled the trench with asphalt.
Point Reyes Station resident Tony Ragona, owner […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, General News by dave
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Bolinas Firehouse & Clinic opening party Sunday
Chief Anita Tyrrell Brown parks at Bolinas’ new firehouse. The new station, which replaces one that was not earthquake safe, had been in the works for more than eight years. It has now been in use for almost a week. Scores of people showed up Sunday for a grand-opening party for the firehouse and adjoining […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Marin County, General News, History, Photography by dave
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres XVII: As seen by an old, almost-blind dog
My houseguest’s tiny Bichon Havanese mix becomes acquainted with one of my resident raccoons. The raccoon could see the elderly dog better than the dog could see her, but neither could smell the other through the glass pane of my dining-room window, so both soon lost interest in each other.
A former neighbor, who through no […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, Dave Mitchell, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Despite public-be-damned management, it’s still a beautiful park
State Senator Carol Midgen (center) on Sunday afternoon lent her support to a crowd of more than 50 people, who were protesting the Point Reyes National Seashore’s beginning to kill off its fallow and axis deer herds. The park began shooting deer last month, along with giving contraceptive injections to some does. The shooting […]
3 Comments » - Posted in General News, Dave Mitchell, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Inverness, Photography by dave
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Language, politics & wildlife
Let’s start with the wildlife and move on to language and politics.
A female Anna’s hummingbird at my cabin. The website Hummingbirds in Motion reports, “The hummingbird (scientific family: trochilidae) does not fly in the same way other birds do. They can fly forward, backward, up, down, and even upside-down. The motion of their wings changes […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Marin County, Sonoma County, General News, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Truth becomes an endangered species at the Point Reyes National Seashore
A spotted axis doe with a white fallow doe in the Olema Valley. Ever since the Point Reyes National Seashore in defiance of public opinion set out to eradicate their herds, the park administration has repeatedly contradicted itself regarding who would benefit from their meat. (Photo by Janine Warner, founder of DigitalFamily.com)
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Seldom are prophecies […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Marin County, General News, History, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, West Marin nature, Wildlife by dave
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
‘Possums,’ a sequel to the musical ‘Cats’
Using flash photography last Friday night, I managed to get neighbors Jay Haas’ and Didi Thompson’s Charlie cat climbing into a field of horses.…which is better than getting a Charlie horse climbing into a field of cats.
Cats, the musical, was loosely based on a collection of poems by T.S. Eliot titled Old Possum’s Book of […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
The KWMR/Love Field ‘Far West Fest’
KWMR and Love Field in Point Reyes presented a “Far West Fest” Saturday, Aug. 18, as a fundraiser for the community radio station (90.5 FM in Point Reyes Station and 89.3 in Bolinas). Throughout the fair, which ran from 11:30 a..m. to 7 p.m. at the privately owned baseball field, acoustic music and amplified music […]
