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Media Life: Auburn photo album sparks history mystery

    Auburn’s Tori Connolly has a soft spot for old photo albums, the kind that you find at a swap meet or antiques fair that have been separated by time and circu ...

Media Life: Wisconsin pays tribute to Auburn caricaturist

    In terms of dollars, it’s not up there in the higher echelons of the art world. A recent online auction by Live Auctioneers in Dallas, Texas fetched a final ...

Now quiet East Street once held a lively city park

A few times when reading accounts of life in Auburn I have come upon allusions to a place called Sierra Park, and I had always wondered just where and exactly what this Sierra Park ...

This could be the last time, I don’t know

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this column ran on Nov. 8, 2006, two days after I attended my 13th Rolling Stones concert. Last Sunday, the “Greatest Rock ‘n ...

Typical behavior, books, quotes

I keep being taught a lesson about human behavior. Each time I learn this lesson, I look for more situations that reinforce it. And each time I look, the lesson gets reinforced. ...

Media Life: Auburn product’s first novel evolves from hard sell to softcover

  Already a critical success in a hardback edition that was marketed on a global scale by a prestigious publishing house, Newcastle resident and Placer High School grad Chris ...

Another View: Prude or prudent?

WASHINGTON — They lost me at the word “women.” As so often happens with contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of allowing teenagers as young ...

Media Life: New horror film debuts with a hush and a twist of Auburn

    Auburn filmmaker Chris Crites will debut his “labor of Lovecraft” this weekend at a Portland horror film festival. Crites, who goes by the nom de film ...

Heavenly Skies: How do I become a docent at the observatory?

If you’ve had the pleasure of visiting the Community Observatory, you’ve met docents who guided you through the Universe. Maybe they showed you Saturn through a telesco ...

The Fairly Good Mother: Shopping cart showdown: The grocery store obstacle course

  Editor’s note: “The Fairly Good Mother” offers musings, advice, etc. on raising children that will be published every other Tuesday.  The groc ...