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Local wild salmon season is in full swing. With the increase in salmon’s popularity, the methods for preparation have increased as well. This week, I present a unique and elegant salmon preparation well-suited for a dinner party or an individual.

The first show that Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote together was a 20 minute cantata for the St. Paul's Junior School all boy choir in England. Julian, Andrew Lloyd Webber's brother, was attending the school and his choir instructor asked youthful teen Andrew to create a pop cantata for the school choir for the Easter concert.

Go back to the 1940s when Hollywood was churning out movies and script writers were used up and spit out like stale chewing gum. (A typical line from that era.) Here we have the time frame and plot for “City of Angels.” Producer Peter Mandel brings this inventive and complicated musical to Morgan Hill’s South Valley Civic Theater.

This installment of Barn Again! is about probably the most historically significant barn in the region—that red barn surrounded by a fence on the ranch side of Christmas Hill Park.  While a search continues to find a deed or building permit, or other official document to settle the matter, many are quite sure this barn was built by Henry Miller.

When we flip through maps looking for destinations with scenic beauty and solitude, we generally find places with proper names and boundary lines that define them. Yosemite National Park, Henry W. Coe State Park, Rancho Cañada del Oro Open Space Preserve and the John Muir Wilderness are all distinct regions carefully defined on a map.

Memorial Day weekend in South County means many residents turn their attention to the Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras. Aside from the Mushroom Mardi Gras and occasionally noticing the scent of warm mushroom compost, most people pay little attention to our local mushroom farms the rest of the year. Mushrooms have a lot to offer our local residents and are an important part of our community. Here are some things you probably did not know about our local mushroom farms.

Far-sighted groundwater management is key to coping with drought. As we cope with severe drought conditions, the state of our local groundwater is of keen interest. In a typical year, about half of the water we use in Santa Clara County is pumped from the ground. The Santa Clara Valley Water District actively manages groundwater basins that span from Palo Alto

Extraordinary family dynamics and deep Bay Area roots characterize the legacy of Morgan Hill resident Timothy Gomes.

Mendiola/Fonseca: Amanda Mendiola and Sammy Fonseca were married May 3, 2014.

Grant Bennett has accepted a position as senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Gilroy. He and his wife, Meghan, along with their young daughter Abby will move to Gilroy at the end of the month, and Grant will conduct his first service at 10:45 a.m. June 1.