The new year has, unfortunately, started off with a nasty streak. Our staffs in Susanville, Chester and Quincy have been working overtime to cover two major breaking news stories.
In Plumas County, a plane crash at the Chester airport left two dead. In Susanville, a police officer was killed and his wife and her boyfriend have been arrested on murder and conspiracy charges.
The official beginning of winter is Dec. 21, but we have had the cold, snow and rain for about two months now. Already weary of feeding the woodstove, I have to wonder when this season will end. One of the events that takes place when the mercury drops and the skies open up is a mouse infestation.
Here at Feather Publishing, we start the New Year with some new faces, some returning ones and a few “old” ones in new positions.
Copyeditor Mona Hill has moved to a staff writing position. Her fans will be glad to know that she will continue to write her Gentle Reader and Accidental Gardener columns for us. She will also cover Plumas District Hospital, Feather River College and the fair. She will handle school and about-town activities in Quincy, too.
Small school funding reinstated: Future is secure for Indian Valley schools
Supervisors ante up for more veterans services
PDH doctors save vacationing billionaire’s life; grateful patient offers to pay for new hospital (left over from 2010)
As we passed through yet another holiday season I found that I was conflicted about the old making a wish for Christmas and the making of a resolution for the New Year thing.
If I were to make a wish, it would be quite different from all the beauty pageant contestants portrayed in the film “Miss Congeniality.” I would not end every sentence with “and world peace.” Not because I don’t desire for all my global neighbors to live in harmony, but because the internal push behind wanting to make wishes in the first place has more to do with my being over the top, again, with the topics of choice being reported on the national news.
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