Sierra Mountain Times

Supporting the Jerry Rice Toy Drives, from left to right are: Lorenzo Noto, of Noto’s Sicilian Restaurant, retired NFL player Don Peterson, former 49’er cheerleader Christine Castillo and Nugget Bar owner, Dennis Sanfilippo. 
 
The readers have spoken – or at least a few. After last week’s column, I got some callers on my hippy dippy hotline […]

Tree House Texting
Skane, Sweden – If you ever decide you need to hide out so you can search through your spouse’s cell phone’s text messages…make sure it is a place you can get out of. A Swedish wife who thought her son’s tree house was the best place to check her husbands cell phone for […]

Sharing Your Internet Signal with a Neighbor 
From the mailbag (hey, out there readers, send more questions – you will never receive a bill with the answer and your name might make the paper, who knows, for something other than shooting your dog while cleaning one of your guns) comes an interesting question that I’ll answer […]

Change
If change is the only constant, then why are most of us so scared of it? Change can be a good thing, but it can also be a scary thing. I started to think about it as I watched a girl looking lost walk around campus. I walked up to her and asked her if […]

Tourist Tax Could Help Grow Economy, Fix Roads
Tuolumne County has two major economic problems. One is the Great Recession. This will hopefully be sorted out, if slowly because California was hit so hard by the housing bubble and collapse and because our state legislature has been so dysfunctional.
The second economic problem is specific to the […]