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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Quotes Worth Saving & the Inverness Fair
The band System 9 entertained several hundred Inverness Fair goers Saturday, Aug. 11, in First Valley. The fair ran from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Gene Ptak of Inverness and Nav Singh, an owner of the Inverness Store, shucked and barbecued oysters throughout the fair as a benefit for Papermill Creek Children’s Corner preschool.
Fairgoers admire […]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Watching the Point Reyes National Seashore obliterate cultural history
Last week’s posting discussed Senator Dianne Feinstein’s challenging Point Reyes National Seashore Supt. Don Neubacher’s plans to close Drakes Bay Oyster Company.
County supervisors had asked Feinstein to intervene after hearing from members of the public, including UC Berkeley biologist Corey Goodman, who revealed the park administration had misrepresented research to justify closing the company.
On July […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Marin County, General News, History, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Inverness, Photography, agriculture by dave
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Congress sees through National Seashore claims
Threatened with extinction in the Point Reyes National Seashore, black and white versions of fallow deer browse in the park’s underbrush. Generations of the deer, whose ancestors came from in the Near East, had lived on Point Reyes before the National Seashore opened in 1965. The National Seashore now wants to eliminate them as non-native […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Marin County, General News, History, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography, agriculture by dave
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Music, wildlife, and the cosmos
Two ravens have begun defending my pasture, often sitting atop pine trees and croaking out loud “cr-r-ruck” warnings. Whenever I wander down my driveway, they circle low overhead, creating quite a din. The easiest way to distinguish ravens from crows, by the way, is by their tails. Raven tails are tapered like the bottom of […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, General News, History, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Garbage in, garbage out
There was a time in these parts when “W.M.” stood for “West Marin,” but in 1998, Waste Management appropriated the initials for its new, shiny containers which hold our home and yard debris. It now appears that this coast will soon be able to reclaim the abbreviation. These containers are at the foot of Balboa […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, Sonoma County, History by dave
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
76-year-old Nick’s Cove reopens
Nick’s Cove restaurant and cottages, which Croatian immigrants Nick and Frances Kojich originally opened on the east shore of Tomales Bay in 1931, reopened last week after being closed seven years for remodeling.
This past Sunday, owners Pat Kuleto and Mark Franz held a benefit party for the Tomales Volunteer Fire Department and invited the West […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized, Marin County, Sonoma County, Inverness, Photography by dave
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
What we didn’t celebrate on the Fourth of July
A blacktail doe and her two fawns in my field.
Fawns at play bound across my field.
Now that Independence Day is over, let’s take a moment to reflect on what it was really all about. Footraces in Inverness? Parades in Woodacre and Bolinas? A tug of war between Bolinas and Stinson Beach? Illegal fireworks on […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, History, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Ship’s flare or meteor?
Was it a ship’s flare or a meteor? It appeared at almost exactly 11 p.m. Monday while I was standing in my living room talking with Nina Howard of Inverness. Suddenly a bright-white light came into view out my window, traveling west to east in the moonlit sky.
“Turn around quick!” I said to Nina, who […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, General News, History by dave
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
The death of a salesman: Andrew Schultz
Inverness resident Andrew M. Schultz died on Monday, June 18, at the age of 58 from complications related to small-cell lung cancer.
His death will inevitably be described by those who knew him as “The Death of a Salesman,” and Andrew would be the first to agree, as evidenced by his personalized license plates, “AD SPACE.”
Andrew’s […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, Sonoma County, General News, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, Inverness by dave
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Preventing fires at home while The Point Reyes Light feels the heat
In contrast to the controversy raging in town and in the press this week over the sorry state of The Point Reyes Light under its new publisher, life has remained fairly bucolic at my cabin.
In preparation for the fire season, tractor operator Gary Titus from Tomales on Saturday mowed my pasture and that of my […]
