The Fiscal Response Task Force (such a name!), the budget panel appointed by the City Council, had its first meeting Thursday, and I was there. Sunday’s column has the story. It also has suggestions for better acronyms and some action-movie jokes.
Under that mock-sententious headline comes the latest out of Upland City Hall, where the City Council found the will to make two decisions. One was to merge its Fire Department’s command staff with Montclair’s. The other was to kill a dog. (Really.) Wednesday’s column explains.
Seats at Monday’s Upland City Council meeting were scarce, but a chair with a view was provided for me. There was plenty to see — and do. Wednesday’s column has the details.
Sunday’s column is a profile of Upland resident Beverly Hutchinson regarding her backyard garden, started last summer after a panel discussion at the Upland library moderated by yours truly. How could I resist writing about her? A one-minute video of Hutchinson, in which she gives me a tour of her garden, can be seen here.
Upland is apparently going broke, although the City Council is proving hard to light a fire under. Wednesday’s column presents the high- and lowlights of Monday’s council meeting.
That headline ought to turn a few heads, or result in a few clicks, eh? Friday’s items column begins with a freak accident involving yours truly and a commemorative plate of Pope Francis. After that, the usual news ‘n’ notes from around the valley.
Upland now has an official cookie. Isn’t that perfect? That was some of the news from Monday’s City Council meeting, the subject of Wednesday’s column.
By the way, I love my headline. I was thinking of other things a city or state might have, like an official flower, and the pun came to me.
My colleague Sandra Emerson attended the presentation Saturday night at the old Carnegie Library in Upland by Darklands Paranormal and found 205 people present, said to be the largest attendance for an adult event. People lined up for a chance to get in. Read her story here.
The alleged interdimensional time machine showed up in a series of three photographs taken of the children’s room. In the first, nothing untoward appeared. In the second, a boxy object can be seen, vaguely, across the room. In the third, the entire image was black. You can see the first two here.
Investigators returned after examining the photos and asked any spirits present what the wooden-appearing box was made of. Once a recording of ambient sounds in the room was analyzed, a voice is said to have replied: “It’s graphite.”
I like a helpful ghost.
The Upland City Council is a little behind in dealing with the budget and the Lemon Festival, but the alleged time machine at the public library may explain that. So may Wednesday’s column.
This shop in Upland trades in gold and also will cash your paycheck. Do you think you could make use of both services, by asking them to convert your paycheck to an ounce or two of gold?
