Editorial

Thursday night's performance of "My Fair Lady" at the Anderson Union High School Performing Arts Center was a truly fabulous example of community theater at its best.

Winter is just ahead, and when the cold winds blow and the rain pounds down, animals as well as humans need a safe, warm shelter.

The ability to know yourself, your imperfections, flaws, and every unique thing about who you are is something everyone has at birth.

How can these (medical marijuana) dispensaries be popping up like weeds and be so readily accepted just because they have a business license? It is time that city councils exercise good judgment in reviewing these dispensaries.

The young girl's average day was now flipped around, twisted, rearranged. Her life went from going to school, cheer-leading practice and hanging out with friends to medical appointments and random visits to places in the medical field. This changed everything ...

The holidays are a favorite time of year, especially for those of us who like to eat. I mean turkey, ham and prime rib main courses are the cat's meow as far as I'm concerned. There is a lot of ...

"The rampant illegal production of marijuana on our public lands is outrageous and unacceptable and is putting citizens at risk. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, 3.68 million marijuana plants were seized on federal lands between January and November of ...

When then-Governor Ronald Reagan introduced returning POW John McCain at a speaking engagement in 1974, the future president asked, "Where do we find such men?"

They say bad news comes in threes.So does mechanical failure.I can attest to those more recently. One bad experience is enough, two is pushing it but the third can push you over the edge. Then, if there is a fourth ...

Have you ever breathed so loudly that everybody looked at you funny?That's the situation she soon found herself, sometimes every other week. A doctor's office is every little kid's nightmare. She had to wait patiently listening to the ticking of ...

We have a new puppy at our house. We've had him four months during which he has grown to 53 pounds, seven or eight times the size of my Toy Fox Terriers. They flee from him when he bounces gleefully, ...

Some critics will likely say that Anderson lost the $211 million Shasta County Courthouse race.In my book, however, one cannot lose something that it never had. After, all, the cards were stacked against Anderson from the very beginning.

When it comes to fast food, please make it my way. I don't know how many times I've placed a food order at a drive up window and driven away only to discover the order-taker must have been deaf.

Normality strikes us all in different ways. Being prepared is our only advice. Growing up, everything seemed so normal, so easily average and simply perfect. Yes, she stumbled a time or two, just as nearly every teen does, but overall, ...

Witches and ghosts. Ghouls and goblins.Halloween is a favorite holiday for many. Young and old remember they fun they had on Halloween and enjoy the excited expressions of the children who look forward to the coming holiday with its costumes, ...