Your Health: Vitamin D needed for bones, brain
From time to time, I’ll write about various vitamins and how they affect our health. But what exactly is a vitamin?
The Mountain Gardener: Stirrings of spring mean tidying up garden
I’m beginning to see the stirrings of life on some plants, and although I’ve enjoyed some down time after the holidays, there are several tasks it’s time to do.
Talk about Money: Not even death, taxes are certain in extraordinary times
In 1789, when Benjamin Franklin said “In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes,” even a mind as great as his couldn’t have predicted the surreal state of our tax system at the beginning of 2010. By not properly prioritizing the legislative agenda, our Congress has failed to preempt the one-year repeal of the estate “death” tax and the inevitable mess that will ensue.
The Mountain Gardener: Make your habitat a wildlife habitat, too
One of my resolutions this year is to get my garden certified as a wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.
It’s the Law: Look a gift card in the mouth
How many of you gave or received a gift card this past holiday season?
Let’s Go Fishin’: Steelhead enter Nor Cal rivers
The rivers in the northern part of our state are getting rain and steelhead trout.
Nature Friendly: Visitors at the edge of wildness
In between the raindrops, I found a dry space to spend time in during a visit to Fall Creek in Henry Cowell State Park.
Drainage improvement project on Highway 236 begins next week
The installation and replacement of new drainage pipes on Highway 236, from Boulder Brook Drive to Chipmunk Hollow Road in Boulder Creek, will begin...