Some Marginalia of My Own

Scribbling in the Margins.  (The New York Times, 2/1/2014)

I not only write in my books but also highlight.   I write in my books. Not in special editions or volumes of great beauty, of course, but in the books that I read closely, fiction or nonfiction. Some of my notes are shrines of memory, as important as any cairn, honoring the place where life-changing events took place or where an author’s words took my breath away.

The green arrows show the approximate path of U.S. highway 6 through Warren.

Cottage Grove Village Board Springs a Big Surprise on Town Officials, Police Chief, and Residents

Plan to split joint police department in Cottage Grove roils community. (Wisconsin State Journal, 2/2/2014)

Lock the doors and close the curtains.  On Dec. 16, village trustees emerged from a closed session and unanimously voted to notify the town of the village’s intent to withdraw from the joint police department at the end of 2014. The contract requires a one-year notice. 

Madison attorney Robert Dreps say the village board "definitely violated the open meetings law".

Village of Cottage Grove

Greetings from Arco, Idaho

Photo credit:  davidwilson1949 via Wikipedia

At the Town in the Middle, Super Bowl Loyalties Are Difficult to Nail Down.  (The New York Times, 2/1/2014)

Edge goes to Seahawks.  Not surprisingly, Idaho, an overwhelmingly red state politically, begins to skew Seahawks lime green, blue and silver the farther west one drives. Capz, a store that sells N.F.L. apparel at Boise Towne Square Mall, ordered 100 hats — 25 Broncos, 75 Seahawks — that arrived Jan. 21. The Broncos hats sold out in two days. All but one of the Seahawks hats had sold in six. Travis Hawkes, who owns Capz as well as three local Pro Image Sports stores, said Seahawks gear had been the top seller all season.



Spelling, perhaps, is not one of the town's strengths.