Dec. 6 honors saint important to Christmas
Christmas sometimes seems to be the American national holiday. Even as the economy seems to be improving, stores are counting on “the Christmas spirit” to keep them solvent for another year.
Slightly new rules for protesting water fees
It's time again to look at the cost of water bills distributed
RODEO: PBR returns to Bolado Park on Friday
The main event with the bull riding starts at 6 p.m. Saturday
Lessons of Civil War still speak to all of us
On April 9, 1865, the American Civil War came to a virtual end with the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia by General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac in the quaint little town of Appomattox Court House in central Virginia. This pivotal capitulation, soon followed by other confederate submissions, brought to an end the most bloody, divisive, and potentially history changing time in our country’s history.
Lush lawn? That’s so 1980s
Friends, if your lawn is luxuriant and green, I’m here to tell you that you’re heading for a heartbreak. And if words such as sage and yucca, poppy, manzanita and native grasses aren’t yet rolling off your tongue, they soon will be.
