The library is offering a winter reading program for adults that just started yesterday — “Snow Many Books”! Fill out a slip for every book you read between now and Feb. 28 which will serve as an entry for a grand prize drawing.   more

My house doesn’t have a basement; it has a well that you can walk around in. Down the middle of it is a wall that used to separate part of it off as a furnace room, but at some point the water that regularly bubbles up from below rotted it off at the bottom. more

My mom always had to tell me, “we aren’t opening any presents early.” Christmas Eve as a child was tough because I didn’t like to wait. I was the “can’t we just open one present tonight” kid. Marketwise, things are about to change for the better, but we have to wait a little while for it.  more

Ask just about anyone what state they would like to visit that they haven’t been to yet and I venture to guess that at least 8 out of 10 would say either Hawaii or Alaska. I have had the good fortune to visit both states more than once and both are beautiful and also unique.  more

As the new year gets underway, the Pittsburg Public Library has announced a variety of programs and events planned for the month of January and beyond.  more

I woke on Thursday morning to see a perplexed male cardinal perched atop the half fallen, empty sunflower seed tray dangling on the holder in our south yard.   more

I don't do New Year's Resolutions. In fact, I don't do anything "new year." A night owl by nature (I rarely go to bed before midnight), Dec. 31 is the one day of the year I tend to sign off early. I can't tell you the last time I watched the ball drop over Times Square, but I'm sure it was in the mid-1980s.  more

The New Year is upon us, and along with the parties and resolutions are coming some significant changes to institutions that play key roles in an important piece of the local economy, namely healthcare.  more

Republicans take control of the House of Representatives in one week. When that happens, the Jan. 6 committee, with all its members selected by outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will go out of existence. Now, as the clock ticks down, it appears the committee's demise will leave some significant unanswered questions.  more

Here's a New Year's resolution: Support Ukraine. Stop Putin. Kyiv needs all the essential weapons of war — tanks and missiles, howitzers and drones. But it also needs less obvious weapons, from diesel-powered generators to long-lasting lightbulbs.  more