Arriving at the Arcata Farmers’ Market on graduation Saturday, I must confess that my thoughts were not directed at cheering students, but at cheerful strawberries. I had a feeling they would be there and my feeling was correct. I believe the look in my eyes must have been particularly spirited, prompting the smiling young woman […]
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Men On Bikes
The light is fading at the Arcata Community Skate Park as Oliver Wallace begins another lap around the perimeter of the park, heading towards the big concrete bowl. He dips his bike over the edge of the bowl, rolls across the middle, and swoops up the other side, keeping one hand on the handlebars and […]
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Manifest Destiny
I should have seen it immediately. The clues were right there in Chris Durant’s splashy piece in the Times-Standard at the end of December. The headline, "Crooks pull elaborate casino heist" was accompanied by a clever graphic with the three suspects’ mug shots embedded in a slot machine. The photo of Peter Daniel Collins wasn’t […]
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Roger and out
Supervisor Roger Rodoni was creaky and hoarse when he made his last stand at the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday morning – at least that’s the way he appeared on television – but flu or not, the old cowboy did manage to unleash a customarily acerbic defense while his colleagues held his head under the […]
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Test
At Jacoby Creek School in Arcata, billows of steam cloud the plastic food guards that protect the tables of hot food, duplicating the winter fog that mists the cafeteria windows. The smells of ketchup, vegetable soup and yesterday’s lasagna mingle with the odors of rubber balls and kid sweat from the game of kickball that […]