Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour

Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour More than 50 stops listed for annual tour in East Bay Jessica Olthof, The Chronicle The Butts’ garden features natives, such as this huge ceanothus shrub. Joe Eaton and Ron Sullivan April 2, 2013 Formal or wild, lush or...

More Castro County Verse

Verse flows like spring sap rising. Another talented North and East bard, Brian Lewis, added this to Janis Mara’s ditty. He may be a dark horse candidate for Castro County poet laureate. Better look over your shoulder, Janis. So cleverly did you feign, to split CoCo...

An Ode to Castro County

Journalist by day and North and East Poet Laureate by night, Janis Mara was inspired to pen this pithy poem heralding Castro County. Perhaps she has ambitions to become the first poet laureate of Castro County and wishes to establish her bona fides before the...

Chevron Corporation Upgrades from “C” to “B”

Chevron Corporation Upgrades from “C” to “B” NEWS by Marilyn Langlois, April 1, 2013 – TRANSCEND Media Service Richmond, California Refinery to Be Worker-Owned and Operated Chevron CEO John Watson announced today that Chevron Corporation, a major oil company under...