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July 6, 2006
Making sense of grief |
Local families touched by suicide aim to get word out about prevention
By Jeanne Carbone Lewis
Staff Writer
The act of suicide has been described as a permanent solution to a temporary condition. It leaves family and friends devastated with unanswered questions of what they could have done differently.
Some suicides are high profile. University of California Chancellor Denice Dee Denton apparently jumped to her death from a 44-story San Francisco apartment rooftop in June. Other suicides don’t make the front page, but are just as traumatic leaving a myriad of questions and guilt behind for the family and friends of the victims. Read more...
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| Local authors pen new history book of New Almaden area
By Jeanne Carbone Lewis
Staff Writer
Once a sleepy hamlet, the New Almaden area is gaining national recognition as a rural community steeped in history, detailed in the newly released book, “Images of America: New Almaden.”
Local authors Arthur Boudreault and Michael Boulland have penned essays accompanied by archival photographs of the area from the Ohlone Indians to California’s first and richest mine to the colorful people who now reside in the scenic local.
“New Almaden” is Read more...
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