Last Bus to Clarksville

Clarksville, TN – School bus drivers will be paying closer attention to who board their buses after a 46-year-old man posed as a middle school student and tried to get onto a Kenwood Middle School Bus. Even with a shave, baggy pants and a backwards hat, it would be hard to blend […]

Watchmen: Watching Over Us 
Watchmen 
(Rated R) 163 mins. 

Set in 1985, Watchmen imagines a world where masked heroes have existed in helping America fight its enemies (foreign and domestic) since the 1940s. Although masked, these are not your typical comic book superheroes, for all but one of these “Watchmen” lack supernatural powers, and the one who does […]

More About ATCAA’s Effort 
Last week’s column – which apparently was read by at least a half dozen of you out there and thanks for that – elicited a response from Teri Murrison, District 3 Supervisor, Tuolumne County, that I think merits reprinting here in its entirety:

“I just finished reading the article in the SMT entitled, […]

Soroptimist International of Calaveras County’s Saturday of Service project filled 125 “First 5 California” kits for new parents last Saturday morning, March 7th. First 5 California recently accepted an award from the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs for its kit for new parents, bringing national recognition to this comprehensive parenting resource. Since the original […]

I was fortunate enough, being just prior to St. Patrick’s Day, to be able to sit with Séamus Fagan, a recently local leprechaun. Being of Irish decent myself, I found this wee man quite fascinating. There were so many questions I wanted to ask, and it took everything I had to keep my composure. Standing […]