Opinion

While the temperature frequently drops a little below freezing for the morning rush hour many recent mornings, there just hasn’t been much precipitation this winter. That’s disturbing.

According to local attorney Mark Nareau, the county could save about $750,000 over three years if it contracted the public defender’s services to his newly formed consortium of five attorneys.

Jan. 10, 2012 — Ask around any community, and you will hear many people voice a need for volunteers.

I have been creating a list of organizations in Westwood that need help in order to write a series of articles on volunteerism, and the opportunities for volunteering are great.

Jan. 10, 2012 — Last week I had the pleasure of casually strolling into a Main Street eatery and sliding into a booth across a freshly bleached table from the mighty Ben Wade — famous for his work with the college soccer teams, the Susanville Symphony, his world-record-breaking kayak trip, a daring escape from famished, spear-toting natives on the Amazon River, a book based on his journals, another in his own write, a rock and roll movie and, of course, his participation in the Survivor reality television show.