I’m still trying to formulate a sensible, reasonable, logical, attainable New Year’s Resolution. I had told my readers that my resolution was to finally learn to ski – though I’ve made that very same resolution, every January – for the last seven years! This all reminds me of my twelve years on O’ahu. Every January […]

Co-owner Fred Brunton at Sonora Skate Park
By Eric Aldrich
So there I am sitting on a hospital gurney in the emergency room of Ukiah Medical center and all I could do was sit and stare at my knee, which at this time was the size of a large cantaloupe. I poked at it with a […]

The New Look
“Nice new format. New owner? Looks like the Santa Cruz “Good Time” – my old read…” – Jim Bailey, via email.
Thanks Jim, We hope that we can continue to please all of the people some of the time or some of the people all of the time. ~Publisher
Thumbs Down For New Font
Dear SMT, […]

The fine folks of Fruit ala Cart reading the Sierra Mountain Times during the 2008 Fall Strawberry Bluegrass Music Festival at Camp Mater. From left to right: Randy, Sally (owner), Mike, Cindy, Sue, Dolores and satisfied customer #4032. Sally and Fruit ala Cart are based in Twain Harte and she can be found at many […]

I’d like to welcome back some regular readers, and say howdy to a bunch of new ones with this, the first Friday column I’ve done in nearly a year, and my first for this newspaper.
I’ve written perhaps a half million words about technology stuff since the first column more than ten years ago. The effort […]