ParadoxWhat place is new when it’s every place you’ve been?  Who do you talk to when you can’t find a friend?  What can you do when it’s everything you’ve done?How can you laugh without any fun?  ...
Prineville man arrested for DUI After Riding a Bear on hwy 26 near Mitchell, OR. – A man from rural Crook County was arrested late Saturday after being caught on police body cam riding a full-gr...
IMAGINATION A Short Fiction Fantasy Story By Bob Kaster I’m an old guy. A widower. I live by myself. My 1906 two-story Victorian is in the old part of town. Wonderful house, no...
In 1962 John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley was first published. It wasn’t appreciated at the time. Steinbeck was known mostly for his novels, i.e. The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Travels...
Welcome! Raise your hand if you are 100 years old! No one? Then, listen to Norma’s biography for hints about how you, too, can reach that age. Norma was born in Yreka, 100 years ago....
Assemblywoman Heather Hadwick’s Newsletter Ten-year-old Hunter George knows firsthand the difference the Ronald McDonald House can make. Born with serious health challenges, Hunter has spent nea...
THE TOY BOX By Sandy Harmon Johnson In our garage, under the workbench, is a 21-inch x 14-inch wooden square box with a lid. The box is brown and slightly weathered with a few streaks of white paint a...
By Andrew Benson Brown Many composers had pets, and most of them seem to have been dog people. Wagner had about a dozen over the course of his life. Edward Elgar also had several, and even alludes to ...
By: William E. Simpson II Under the cloak of a moonless night, I navigated the treacherous, pothole-riddled Copco Road toward our remote ranch in Siskiyou County, California. The rugged path, ba...
Almost thirty years ago, the Yreka YMCA had just hired a new executive director, who moved to town from Colorado with her family. My wife Ann was on the YMCA Board of Directors at the time, and ...