- Alta-swimmer Laura Goodwell (a John Muir grad) did well in this weekend's swimming/diving meet at Ithaca (NY) College.
- Ted Tajima, 88, of Altadena, a legendary journalism teacher at Alhambra High School and fixturea at Altadena's First Presbyterian Church, died last week, and LA Times does a bang-up obit.
- SGV Tribune's Ben Baeder looks at the closing of Borders Books, and how it's a symptom of change in the book industry (big surprise: Vroman's says that the need for reference books has almost disappeared). Also get some comment from Michele Zack, whose lavishly-illustrated coffee-table histories will always have a market, who also speculates on the future of literary fiction writers like her neighbor, Michelle Huneven.
