Love is in the air…for tarantulas
By Jill Hedgecock They are big, hairy, and while many people have nightmares about encountering one, I bubbled over with excitement at the prospect of…
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East Bay Parks receive $13.5M to clear dying trees.
A worker in Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in May cuts the limb off of a pine tree affected by a new pattern of mass tree death. The East Bay Regional Park District received a $10 million appropriation to remove dead and dying trees. Credit: EBRPD
How do you define being fit?
By Carmella Lieras, NASM-CPT The word “fitness” makes me cringe most days.I used to love everything fitness related when I was in my twenties and…
Shouldn’t Jean Yokotobi be angry?
By Ricard Eber As news of violence against Asians in the Bay Area occupies the headlines today, March quietly marked the 75th anniversary of the…
Chess with Yoo
Can you solve this puzzle? Christopher Yoo, Dublin California, now age 14 is a local chess prodigy and International Master. He achieved that distinction in…
Remembering John Jawad’s Pioneer Inn in Downtown Clayton
Here’s an old matchbook from John Jawad’s Pioneer Inn, which was located in Downtown Clayton. Before it was John Jawad’s Pioneer Inn, it was named…
OUT TO LUNCH:
By Richard Eber With the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions permitting more indoor dining, (the county’s equivalent of removing restaurants off ventilators), many local restaurants are…
Common Mistakes with DIY Estate Plans
The internet offers all the information and tools we need at our fingertips to create our own estate plan, right? Probably not. Consumer Reports® created…
Diplomacy, ruining friendships for years
By Edi Birsan, Concord Councilman EdiBirsan@gmail.com The board game of Diplomacy dates back to 1959 and is a seven-player game set in Europe as it…
A Victim of CIA’s MK-Ultra The Awakening
Bill Yarborough of Clayton has lived a successful adult life. He worked for a large public accounting firm and then spent years in the financial…
I Was a C.I.A. Victim of the MK-ULTRA Experiments
By David King Bill Yarborough of Clayton has written a novel based on what he believes were his experiences as a child victim of the…