Letters to the Editor
Barbra Friedman, who recently won an award for raising the most money in Barb's Tri, a new triathalon that raises money for cancer patients, submitted the following thank you note to the West County community:
Once More Unto the Breach
Walking around H’burg, specifically Veterans Memorial Beach Park, I happened to notice a little book on a picnic table.
It’s not every day that one sees a book on Henry V left behind. Especially a children’s book describing a king from William Shakespeare’s 1599 play.
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Letters to the editor, Feb. 20
EDITOR: In response to Mr. Churchill and the no on SMART Train folks let me first suggest that they present a false choice. No longer are we voting for or against the train, since it is already in operation and enjoying increased ridership every year with a newly expanded service to the San Francisco ferry terminal. Instead our choice is merely to continue making this a viable alternative to the freeway or after spending tens of millions of dollars on the system to abandon it.
Arts & Entertainment
Blues from the Hill Country
“Modern Mississippi music.” If you ask singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Luther Dickinson to define what the North Mississippi Allstars (NMA) create, that’s the answer he’ll give. It’s the path he and his brother Cody have been traveling down ever since NMA dropped their 2000 debut, Shake Hands with Shorty, and one the band members will share when they hit stages on their latest tour.
