Out loud: Living on the fringe …
“People are my bag,” summed up a Desert Sun School counsellor’s lifestyle in a 1972 Town Crier. He is shown sporting longish hair and...
Out Loud: Sacramento
I took my grandson Carter with me to Sacramento last week for the annual California News Publishers Association’s Government Affairs Day.
While he stayed in...
Out loud: Building the Idyllwild Community Center …
Tuesday night, we not only inched, but leapt a vital step toward building the Idyllwild Community Center because of Supervisor Chuck Washington.
This is much...
Out Loud: Social media, fake news and your local newspaper
Editor’s note: I’m giving Jack a turn again this week.
“Fake news” is taken to mean one thing at the national level, but something...
Out Loud: Morning routines …
I don’t drink coffee. I love the aroma but not the taste, heat and jitters it produces. So it takes me a bit more...
Out loud: We’re still here …
1:45 p.m. Monday, July 15, a Mountain Center fire report to San Bernardino National Forest dispatch came over the scanner. I remember the description...
Out Loud: A few kudos …
We produced a paper this week without either an interim operations manager or our incredible Halie, who is on maternity leave, as many of...
Out Loud: November 8, 2018
A rough year hit the mountain and two months remain.
The Cranston Fire destroyed homes and property, but no lives were lost because of it,...
Out Loud: Thanksgiving …
Thanksgiving is our family’s favorite holiday (at least for the adults; the kids prefer Christmas, of course.)
The Side Dishes Squadron (ladies) chop, stir, bake...
Out Loud: October 12, 2017
I want to comment after this column’s silence for many weeks now, about the responses we’ve received from you, our readers, as we continue...