Archive for June, 2007
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Ship’s flare or meteor?
Was it a ship’s flare or a meteor? It appeared at almost exactly 11 p.m. Monday while I was standing in my living room talking with Nina Howard of Inverness. Suddenly a bright-white light came into view out my window, traveling west to east in the moonlit sky.
“Turn around quick!” I said to Nina, who [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in General News, History, Marin County, Point Reyes Station by DavidMitchell
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
The death of a salesman: Andrew Schultz
Inverness resident Andrew M. Schultz died on Monday, June 18, at the age of 58 from complications related to small-cell lung cancer.
His death will inevitably be described by those who knew him as “The Death of a Salesman,” and Andrew would be the first to agree, as evidenced by his personalized license plates, “AD SPACE.”
Andrew’s [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in General News, Inverness, Marin County, Point Reyes Station, Sonoma County, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper by DavidMitchell
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 General News, Marin County, Photography, Point Reyes Station, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, West Marin nature, Wildlife by DavidMitchell
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 History, Point Reyes Station, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper by DavidMitchell
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 [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in General News, Inverness, Marin County, Photography by DavidMitchell
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 [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in General News, Point Reyes Station, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, agriculture by DavidMitchell
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 General News, History, Photography, Point Reyes Station, agriculture by DavidMitchell
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 [...]
