![]() ![]() “I can’t afford that,” he told the plumbers. The two-person crew told Herman the fix would cost about $1,000. Herman is a retired optometrist who lost nearly all of his savings to a Ponzi scheme run by someone he’d trusted.Īll he needed just before the holidays was for his drains to back up. IF MONEY’S INVOLVED, you can’t blame Petaluma’s Paul Herman for being as cautious as a bleeder hired to install concertina wire. She dares to hope that the driver will come forward, or that a witness or someone anyone who knows the mystery driver will contact the CHP. ![]() She hurts, and she misses the totaled convertible that she bought to celebrate surviving heart surgery 10 years ago and fitted with the plate ONLY2DY. “This person did a terrible thing in not helping me,” she said, “but the gift of being able to sit down with my family for Christmas was priceless.” If that driver hadn’t slammed on the brakes and pulled right, Day suspects the impact would have been fatal. “You are dead,” she told herself as the large vehicle bore down on her from behind after she’d stopped in a traffic jam. ![]() Candice Day of Penngrove feels some gratitude even to the driver of the hit-and-run pickup or SUV that slammed into her Saturn convertible on Highway 101 in Santa Rosa on the Tuesday before Christmas. Jack might like for us to remember why it is that Chaucer said good things must end: “To make way for better things to happen because the best is yet to come.” Three months after the death of Jack DeMeo, remaining partners Emily DeMeo and Joshua West prepare to close the firm.Įmily, who is Jack’s granddaughter, Nick’s great-granddaughter and the daughter of judge and former DeMeo & DeMeo partner Brad DeMeo, said the family decision to terminate the practice was tough, “but it’s one we had to make.”Įmily will join the historic firm of Geary, Shea, O’Donnell, Grattan & Mitchell. But as Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in 1374, all good things must come to an end. “Nick” DeMeo went into practice together in 1939.īy now, three more generations of DeMeos and their partners have sustained and built upon Nick and Chop’s legacy. ![]() New Kent has good depth and could gain a few wins.The DeMeo law firm has reigned among Sonoma County’s most respected and effective since sons of immigrants Charles “Chop” DeMeo and J.N. The Clippers placed third in the Newport News tournament, trailing just Menchville and Poquoson. Grafton, in its first year coached by Latasha Randon, also looks improved. What teams might be most improved or sleepers? The Demeos will boost Bruton. Poquoson and Grafton could make runs, too. (Ball certainly applied her tennis footwork skills to great benefit in basketball as a lock-down defender.) As for what should be a competitive chase for second place, Lafayette and Tabb return plenty of experience. The Eagles garnered a lot of attention for winning their first state basketball crown earlier this month, but they have won five of the last six girls tennis titles and seem likely to make it six of seven. What will be the top teams to watch? It will be stunning if any team other than Jamestown finishes first in the district or region. Jamestown coach Peter Schweitzer said freshman Kelly Little could crack the Eagles’ top six. Who will be the top newcomers? Emily Demeo, who has played national-level tournaments in 12- and 14-and-under, is joining her older sister Cora at Bruton. Among the seasoned players on the next rung down are Jamestown’s Whitney Ball, Bruton’s Cora Demeo, three Tabb teammates named Sarah (Haase, Florer and Rowe), and Lafayette’s Emily Cetrone, Tori Ford and Chandon Hudgins. But Maxwell beat James at a Mid-Atlantic Section tournament in Winchester this past winter, a reversal of their meetings as Eagles. Maxwell, a James Madison recruit, was the runner-up to James in the district and Region I singles and shared all of last year’s doubles crowns with her. She has won three state doubles titles in three years, extending an incredible six-year streak that her older sister, Ashley, began in 2000. James, a solid left-hander, last season became the first player in the 30 years of Group AA girls tennis to win the state championship in singles, doubles and team play in the same event. Who will be the top players to watch? This district is better than the Peninsula, but everyone falls in line behind Jamestown seniors Mary Kate James and Kelly Maxwell. ![]()
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