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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 2008
Page
4
The new Shafter Press reporter reflects on Melissa Rossiter’s departure after nearly three years as editor. The piece notes her mentorship, community ties, and the editor’s role in delivering timely local news, with a call for readers to engage and support the paper.
The state faces renewed water shortages after a dry spring, with Sierra snowpack at 67 percent of normal and court-ordered cutbacks on delta water shipments threatening to worsen shortages. Urban restrictions and lawn watering bans echo from past droughts as Californians brace for potential historic impacts.
The East Bay Municipal Water District ordered a 20 percent water-use cut in May as California faces its driest period in decades. Marin County, with long-standing local water systems and no direct link to the state Water Project, escapes early curtailment as the drought shifts impact across the region.
Rising gas prices inflation and tuition costs strain students across the nation and in California as budget deficits limit enrollments. Colleges respond with hybrid online options remote libraries and flexible courses to reduce travel and tuition burdens helping students pursue degrees amid financial hardship.
Barbara records a full week in which she stays busy despite not achieving much. Activities include a CSU meeting, eye appointment, city council session, depot furniture move, historical board updates, a ribbon cutting on October 11, and a 1955 Shafter High Class reunion auction. A long anecdote follows about a classmate who outbid her for a photo, then returned a favor by delivering a TV, culminating in the gift of the cherished picture.
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