The 25 th year after the world changed. 25 years since 19 men murdered 2,977 people in 4 different terrorist attacks on the same day in the United States of America. 25 years since an unrestrained, …

It’s official, the time is now to jump on the Kern River Valley sports bandwagon. There are exciting times ahead for the sports in the Kern River Valley. The games, the matches, the meets are …

Vince is personable, likable, charismatic, smart, and he makes you feel at ease and heard.  You walk away from a meeting with him feeling like he is a friend and will protect your  …

As we get older things change. That wouldn’t be so bad in itself, but as certain things change it appears that their location on our bodies also changes. Just like us, as we age, and the cold …

 ‘It’s raining like cats and dogs!’ What does that even mean? I know we have all either said it ourselves or we have heard someone else say it to us.  But like a lot of other phrases …

            Two ships set sail from the same port 292 years apart from one another. They traveled two different routes, carried a largely …

You have 10 days to come up with, remember, create, plagiarize, or outright steal a joke. August 16 is a day that comes alive with one liners, long, drawn out jokes, short jokes, puns, limericks and …

            Everyday there is a new word that comes out. Not always from a Webster like publication either. It seems that nowadays anyone can …

            Napeta Cataria. It sounds like it could be a number of things. It could be a disease that if you had it, you’d probably wish you …

On the Fourth of July, I spent part of the afternoon photographing people enjoying the Kern River at Riverside Park. I wasn’t looking for dramatic pictures. What I found was something better. …

            July of 1971. Gary, Indiana. It was the best month of the year. The 4 th of July meant the annual picnic at grandma’s house with a …

            250 years ago a group of 56 men met to discuss the terms of Great Britian’s surrender in the American Revolutionary War. The terms …

            Did you miss it? You better not have. Last Sunday was Father’s Day. Not as big a deal as Mother’s day, or even as anticipated as …

            Growing up, we had a vegetable every night with dinner. If we were having chicken, it was usually corn, either whole kernels or on …

            According to the American Academy of Arts and Science, in 2021 the percentage of Americans over 18 years old who were bilingual was …

​ Why is it that in almost all of the pictures of extraterrestrials they are walking around naked? They travel all those light years away from their homes and they don’t have any clothes? Talk …

​ ‘Have you lost your mind?!’ We have all heard that saying sometime in  our lives. Sometimes it was directed to a person close to us, by us, and other times it was directed to us. The …

There is one invention that was patented on May 20, 1873, 153 years ago that is worth all the gold in California and most worthy to mention here in this column . that is a pair of pants! It was …

​ Do you know the name, Cardinal Richelieu of France? Here’s a hint, he is usually mentioned with four men, D’Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. All created by the French author, Alexandre …

            President Donald Trump getting shot at…again, the ever getting complicated war in Iran, the Jimmy Kimmel uproar and controversy, …