“Believe me my young friend, there is nothing—absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind...
Every spring, California gray whales make a monumental pilgrimage from their winter breeding grounds in the warm lagoons of the Sea of Cortez to their...
At the very beginning of this month, National Park Service biologists assisted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) with four mountain lion kittens...
More than 80,000 households and 100 electrical circuits in five counties were shut down the night before Thanksgiving, during the strongest windstorm in four years,...
Topanga Youth Services is holding auditions for The Music Man Jr. (edited and abridged version)! Open to ages 10-18. Register with tys@topangayouthservices.org for audition materials...
Southern California Edison, borrowing a page from the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, flipped the switch and canceled Thanksgiving for 57,000 SCE customers in five counties—Ventura,...
The holiday season is here and amidst the warmth and togetherness, celebration and cheer, is lots of unnecessary, non-recyclable trash. Each year we generate an...
An extended SCE “public safety power shutoff,” PSPS, made Thanksgiving more of an endurance test than a feast for tens of thousands of people, including...
On Sunday, December 12, from 12pm–4pm, Catherine Tirr Watercolors will appear at an annual sale and fundraiser for the Resource Conservation District of the Santa...
So, let’s take inventory here at Johnny-on-the-Spot corporate offices overlooking the glorious sprawling metropolis of Bakersfield CA. I have reviewed an album, a film, a...
Victory gardens are gaining popularity again, this time in response to the war against COVID-19. Industrialist millionaire Charles Lathrop Pack is credited with creating the...
In Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West (2006), renowned narrative historian Hampton Sides introduces us...
During the second half of the eighteenth century there gathered along the eastern seaboard of North America an enlightened generation of thinkers whose collective will...