Sonora graduate Phil Coke winding up for a pitch on the AA Trenton
Thunder not long before being called up to play on the New York
Yankees. Photo courtesy of Doug Coke
By Thomas Atkins
For generations kids across the United States have grown up dreaming about wearing a major league uniform. Each one of these bright-eyed, energetic kids […]

Leading the pack is Adele Hendrickson, Director of Tuolumne County’s
Department of Child Support Services.
Story and Photos by Greg Kristapovich
“Hunger Deserves a Happy Ending!” was the theme of this year’s “ Walk Against Hunger”, a fundraising event put on by the Amador-Tuolumne Community Action Agency (A-TCAA) Food Bank, on Saturday, September 6th. Downtown Sonora was a […]

Kevin Axtell of Mountain Mischief gives a ball-balancing lesson to Ott
Smithson, 9, of Columbia.
Story and Photos by Greg Kristapovich
The second annual Foothill Farmlands Arts Festival got off to a splendid start on September 6th! Notwithstanding the triple digit temperatures, many people turned
out to enjoy the free, opening day event called “Golden Hills Traditions: Family Art […]

 Michael Raver as Romeo and Carey Urban as Juliet. Photo courtesy of Rich Miller Photography.
By John Koptieff
William Shakespeare wrote this play early in his career, sometime between 1591 and 1595, and it was very popular in its day. Since then, it has been done in almost every style, version and setting imaginable. It is based […]

Too Smart?

Thomas Haden Church and Ellen Page star in Miramax Films’ Smart People.
Smart People (Rated R) 95 mins
After another successive week of box-office trash (Bangkok Dangerous? Are they serious?) I decided it might be time to start checking out on DVD some of the higher quality, lesser-known films which have come out in the […]