Carnival, Arctic blast & drones

Doesn’t take long for the New Year to settle right in. Here on the first full week of 2015, I’m reading about the Jazz Fest dates (April 24-26, and April 30-May 3) and the Carnival events piling up during this compressed season, starting tomorrow and ending on Mardi Gras, Feb. 17. I also am focused…

Holidaze

Did you have to remind yourself that today is Saturday? It’s okay. The holiday season has a way of mixing up our routines and causing us to forget the day, the date and where we put the keys. I’m coming off a bout of something nasty and was looking forward to a quiet, rainy afternoon…

Walk this way

I’m just back from my last daily walk of the year. Whew and Amen. For the second year in a row I’ve filled in the entire calendar on my walking app. That calendar and a spoiled dog are powerful motivators. Total distance this year was 609 miles. (I may still try to round that number…

Bay Council recap: Machine shop tabled; dumpster funk deepens

Downtown merchants prevailed at last night’s Bay Council meeting, saving the public parking lot they consider a tourism asset. After hearing several pro-parking lot speakers, the council voted unanimously to reverse the decision to surplus the parking lot on Main Street behind the former City Hall Annex/Chamber office. That surplus building, you’ll recall, was recently…