Jan. 10, 2018
Books
KAYAKING THE VERMILION SEA: Eight Hundred Miles Down the Baja by Jonathan Waterman (Simon & Schuster: $22; 223 pp.).
June 18, 1995
Alan Watts once observed that some spiritual seekers are so profoundly ill at ease with the frailties and foibles of human existence that they secretly prefer the vision of Earth as a bare rock scrubbed clean of humanity.
June 28, 1995
High School Sports
Shannon Thompson came off the bench to hit eight straight baskets and lead the Mesa College women’s basketball team to a 43-40 first-round victory over Vermilion (Minn.)
Jan. 3, 1985
Travel & Experiences
A federal plan allows more recreation and mining in a rugged land of national monuments.
April 19, 2006
World & Nation
The rarest set of French stamps, a block of four vermilion one-franc stamps issued in 1849, is up for sale, and the owner is asking 3.25 million francs ($310,000), according to an announcement in a collectors’ magazine.
March 7, 1985
As officials survey the damage, focus turns to restoring power and water services, as well as saving stranded residents and livestock.
Sept. 27, 2005
Music
Listening to the lilting strains of Gene Bowen’s new album “The Vermilion Sea” as you drive along the Rincon, some kind of sonic/geographical synchronicity takes place.
June 30, 1994
Deyshia Hargrave had a question for the Vermilion Parish School Board: Why was the superintendent getting a pay raise when teachers like her and other school employees hadn’t had one in years?
Survival: By 1987, the population of America’s largest, rarest bird had dwindled to seven. Today, thanks to captive-breeding programs, that number is 132 and counting.
Nov. 9, 1997