No, it did not snow last night. But it did snow on this day in history 105 years ago. Local postcard collector Steve Lazar dug out this photographic postcard record of the unusual weather event, although it took some history detective sleuthing to figure out exactly when and where the photo was taken. (View from […]
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Eureka’s Plein-air Hoarder
He trashes our marshes and can’t stand to live among people. He steals shopping carts by the dozens, ties them together and circles them two-abreast like wagons about his mucky plein-air fortress. Drags home every sort of busted big-item implement — computer monitors, lawn mowers, microwave ovens — and all the lowly goods in between, […]
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Family on the Corner
Around noon on Oct. 19, a Tuesday, she sat on the curb near the corner holding her cardboard sign so that people in the cars could read it before heading into the Costco gas station. She was young, fair-skinned, with a little bit of makeup and long, wavy, blonde-highlighted hair. She wore flipflops, black capris […]