Opinion

Here at Feather Publishing, we start the New Year with some new faces, some returning ones and a few “old” ones in new positions.

Copyeditor Mona Hill has moved to a staff writing position. Her fans will be glad to know that she will continue to write her Gentle Reader and Accidental Gardener columns for us. She will also cover Plumas District Hospital, Feather River College and the fair. She will handle school and about-town activities in Quincy, too.

Small school funding reinstated: Future is secure for Indian Valley schools

Supervisors ante up for more veterans services

PDH doctors save vacationing billionaire’s life; grateful patient offers to pay for new hospital (left over from 2010)

As we passed through yet another holiday season I found that I was conflicted about the old making a wish for Christmas and the making of a resolution for the New Year thing.

If I were to make a wish, it would be quite different from all the beauty pageant contestants portrayed in the film “Miss Congeniality.” I would not end every sentence with “and world peace.” Not because I don’t desire for all my global neighbors to live in harmony, but because the internal push behind wanting to make wishes in the first place has more to do with my being over the top, again, with the topics of choice being reported on the national news.

In 17 days, we will put 2010 to bed. As it has been said, it will be one for the history books. The news staff has been diligently sorting through its archives compiling stories and photos from the last 52 weeks of news coverage.

Some of the stories are haunting while others are routine, but each one retells the history of our community in 2010.