Orestimba Wilderness a weekend retreat
Every spring, the Pine Ridge Association, a volunteer group for
It’s about time for a little Champagne
"Come quickly, I'm drinking stars!" exclaimed Dom Perignon when he first discovered the bubbles in his wine some 300 years ago. And ever since, Champagne (or sparkling wine as it is called outside of the Champagne region of France) has been a staple of New Year's Eve parties and celebrations everywhere.
New Morgan Hill Trader Joe’s Offers Unique Opportunities
A few years ago, the citizens of South County launched a
Temporary cathedral to be built of cardboard
We arrived in New Zealand in July 2002 – winter in the Southern Hemisphere – and stayed in the Millennium Hotel, a fine lodging overlooking Cathedral Square in Christchurch, the South Island’s largest city. Across the plaza was the huge stone Anglican Cathedral; I remember climbing to the top of its 200-foot tower to get a view of the surrounding city, having no idea what fate had in store for this massive historic edifice.
Patriotic T-shirt legal battle marches on
The First Amendment lawsuit over the Cinco de Mayo incident last
A Halloween health horror in U.S. corn fields
Every October around Halloween, the Swank Farm in San Benito County hosts a popular cornfield labyrinth that brings in families to get lost in a maze of maize. Folks encounter scary stuff popping out from behind the cornstalks that makes for good old-fashioned fun. But across the United States, there's something truly sinister creeping out of our nation's cornfields - something killing hundreds of thousands of Americans every year.
