O, Eucalyptus!

We pause now to interrogate a couple hundred of our longest-enduring residents. Experts tell us these old-timers are in the way. Creaky old limbs. Messy. ...

Drive-Thru Redwoods

The public-comment process for Caltrans's proposed realignment of U.S. Highway 101 at Richardson Grove began with a low-key meeting in late September 2007, held at ...

the town dandy

This Means War

"Don't imagine your cool new president is going to give you a pass," we said a week after the Nov. 4 election, in re the ...

short stories

Nancy's Day

"I'm so deeply sorry," said Steven Daniel Hash, the thin, soft-spoken man in the orange jump suit, his words barely audible to the woman sitting ...

short stories

Madoffed?

The victims of Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme continue to pile up at the base of the cliff, a sad tangle of duped philanthropic organizations, ...

mailbox

It’s a Weed

Editor: As much as I like the photography and artistic creativity of the New Year’s photo essay, I feel the need to express how old ...

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Sam

Editor: I want to thank you again for last week’s article about Sam Price (“Saving Sam,” Dec. 25). I agree with Jessie Brownlee’s comment that ...

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Rx for St. Joe

Editor: While I wouldn’t have used the term “fed-up,” I am extremely disappointed by the conduct of the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph Hospital ...

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Media Moron

Editor: I seriously don’t think I have ever read anything in this paper as wild as “Zombies of the ER,” by Marcy Burstiner (Jan. 1). ...

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Caveat Lector

Editor: I have been reading the NCJ for as long as it has been published. I look forward to each new edition arriving in time ...

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Computer Glitch

Because of a computer error, the URL given in Cindee Grace’s letter last week (“Mailbox,” Jan. 1) was printed incorrectly. The true address at which ...