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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 […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, General News, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Monday, June 11th, 2007
Monday’s demonstration against The Point Reyes Light
PROTEST AT POINT REYES LIGHT — Some 15 to 20 demonstrators showed up Monday morning to protest new publisher Robert Plotkin’s debasing the formerly all-West Marin-news community newspaper. (Photo by Scott Leslie)
In the year and a half since Plotkin bought The Light, the paper has dropped most coverage of West Marin’s local-government and school-board meetings […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, History, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper by dave
Friday, June 8th, 2007
Inverness Park fire Friday razes art studio
A 2,000-square-foot art studio at 80 Blackberry Way in Inverness Park burned to the ground Friday afternoon. The owner, Sherburne Slack, whose home is next to the studio, told me while the fire was still burning that he had “no clue” as to what started it.
Slack noted he gone to the studio half an hour […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Marin County, General News, Inverness, Photography by dave
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Western Weekend retrospective; anonymous satire of Point Reyes Light distributed at parade; Light’s use of unpaid interns may run afoul of labor laws
Immediately after Saturday’s Western Weekend livestock show and immediately after Sunday’s parade, I published unscheduled postings on the events. Also covered were the contemporaneous debut of The West Marin Pilot and The Point Reyes Light’s reporting that it had lost $62,000 to an allegedly embezzling bookkeeper.
As always, there were photos for which there was no […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, General News, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, agriculture by dave
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
Sunday’s Western Weekend parade and barbecue
With the traditional lasso twirling and the Coast Guard color guard’s precision marching, Sunday’s Western Weekend parade drew roughly 2,000 spectators, who lined the sidewalks of Point Reyes Station’s three-block long main street.
Of course, back in 1980 and 81, the parade drew crowds of 10,000 people, largely because participating groups came from all over […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, General News, History, Photography, agriculture by dave
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
Many fail to find Western Weekend livestock show; a new newspaper debuts in West Marin; The Point Reyes Light reports its former bookkeeper is under arrest on embezzlement charges
Liberty 4-H Club member Danae Burbank (with brown cow) took first in Senior Showmanship (for members 12 and older) in dairy cow judging at the Western Weekend livestock show. Janelle Kehoe of Point Reyes-Olema 4-H Club (walking behind Burbank) took second, and Michele McClure of Point Reyes 4-H (foreground) took third. Judging their animals was […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, Photography, agriculture by dave
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part XVI: A gopher snake & other neighbors
I ran into a snake near the foot of my driveway last Thursday. Or, to be more precise, I managed to avoid running over it.
A Pacific gopher snake three to four feet long was warming itself on sunny patch of Campolindo Drive near the ends of Skip and Renée Shannon’s driveway, Jay Haas and […]
No Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, General News, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
New newspaper to be published in West Marin
Few Point Reyes Light reporters have received as many awards as Ivan Gale (upper left) of Chileno Valley, winning five state and national journalism awards in 2004 alone. The Light’s new owner, Robert Plotkin, on May 3 announced he will no longer display the awards won over the years by Gale and other […]
16 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, Sonoma County, General News, History, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, Dave Mitchell by dave
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Mermaids, Cows, Horizon Cable, and Russia’s Internet war on Estonia
Tomales cartoonist Kathryn LeMieux drew an enthusiastic crowd to Bodega Landmark Gallery in the town of Bodega Saturday when she opened a two-week exhibit of her surrealistic and often-whimsical oil paintings.
The final days are this Friday through Monday.
Not surprisingly, two of her favorite subjects — cows (such as Moonrise Over Tomales […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, Sonoma County, General News, agriculture by dave
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part XV: ‘Among animals…one finds natural caricatures.’
“Nature has wit humor, fantasy etc.,” wrote Novalis (1772-1801). “Among animals and plants, one finds natural caricatures.” His observation came to mind last week when I photographed this great blue heron standing watch over a World War II army bunker at the Muir Beach Overlook.
Novalis, by the way, was the nom de plume of Baron […]
