Another fellow Klamath River-Rat has been laid to rest. Joe Gensaw died January 12, 2011 in Eureka. Little Joe, as he was known by many who grew up with him, was born in Crescent City, November 15, 1962. As a kid, Little Joe was a boxer on his dad’s boxing team, Gensaw Boxing Club. He…

The on-air sign lit up and Fletch Taylor spoke to his unseen audience, “And tonight our guest will be renowned psychologist Doctor Sue Conrad. Doctor, it’s great to have you with us.” “It’s great to be here, Mr. Taylor,” she replied. “You can call me ‘Fletch.’ Everyone does, even my mother,” the announcer joked. They…

This is the very first story I ever wrote. It’s almost too embarrassing to share – but why stop now. Once in a land, far away, a boy named Price Pidera asked his father, the great King Wezi, if he could go on a royal journey. His father, with reservations said yes, with a nod…

Before I could enroll as a full-time student at Humboldt State University, I had to take several Veteran’s Upward Bound courses. One of these classes was English, taught by a woman named Mrs. Sue Green. She had the class write several papers throughout the semester.  While I don’t recall exactly what the assignment was about,…

It’s one of the tougher lessons of life anyone can bear witness too — the sudden and unexpected death of a friend. Such is the case for my son, Kyle, who attended school with Maison Ortiz. Maison is the Galena High School sophomore who died while walking down the mountainside at Mt. Rose Ski Resort.…

It’s hard to say what was going on in my mind at the time. Perhaps I was full of energy or I was simply bored, either way it did not have the best of outcomes for me. The sales area to KHIT radio station was a fairly open space. It was in that space that…

It happened sometime around Christmas — I think. I must have left my FacBook page open and some smart-a$$ deleted over 400 people from my friends list as well as much of my personal information. I can only assume the folks at FB designed the system to take note of these kind of actions and…

As promised, I’m following up on the news a 19-year-old friend of mine is accused of murdering a woman in the Las Vegas area. While I’m trying to remain unbiased, I do use his first name rather than last. Many teens are into fast cars, girls and easy money. I jus’ didn’t know how hard…

It was New Year Day and Mary and I had jus’ had an argument about spending money. Little did we know our spat was going to be outdone by our next door neighbors. They had jus’ come up the steps when the two erupted into a fist fight. He was beating her up in their…

One of my many duties as the overnight news guy at the radio station is to do what we call, “beat checks.” This involves looking through our email files as well as checking all the regional and local online newspapers for any information involving a possible link to Nevada. Last week I aired a news…