Guy McCarthy has a story in the Saturday paper telling the stories of students in the class of 2020 — what they think about losing the various events at the end of the school year, where they're going and what they learned.

 Monday, May 25

Here are some photos sent to us from people who have resumed a hobby or taken up a new one while stay-at-home orders were in place.

Thursday May 21

Tuesday, May 19

Sunday, May 17

Wednesday, May 13

Monday, May 11

"Hamilton" fans will be in the Room Where It Happens a lot sooner than they thought.

It's early morning, and Angus and I are in the woods. This is the very best way to begin the day — at sunrise, outside, among the birds and the trees, with my goofball dog.

Thursday, May 7 

Each spring I wake to the sound of a bird purring in my neighbor's trees. Now, I know birds don't purr, but that's the best word I could come up with to describe the sound. It wasn't chirping. It didn't seem like a flirty mating song. It was a little like a throaty, thrumming hoot. Could it …

Tuesday, May 5

Sunday, May 3 

Wandering peacefully and even aimlessly was always part of the therapeutic joy that the grocery shopping experience offers, shuffling up one aisle and weaving down the next, forearms to the carriage with time essentially halted, the stress of the outside world irrelevant while moving from de…

Sunstar is the name of a new series of pentas debuting this spring and it is an understatement to say they are taking the world by storm. There are four colors in the series coming from Proven Winners _ pink, red lavender and rose _ and all have won awards from north to south.

Friday, May 1

Wednesday, April 29

Tuolumne county health staff have told the coordinator and creator of Peaceful Valley Farmers Market a half-dozen artisan vendors could not sell their wares and services at the market Friday.

The long drought is broken. Diamond Comic Distributors, which delivers most comics to retailers in North America, announced April 28 on Twitter that it would resume full services on May 20.Diamond had previously announced in late March that it was halting all deliveries, which left comic sho…

As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis leads a Re-Open Florida Task Force and says the state is seeing a flattening of the coronavirus curve, buzz about seeing popular businesses and attractions opening is alive.

In the wee hours of Monday morning, Bookshop.org _ an online bookseller whose goal is to offer financial support to independent bookstores _ earned $1 million for local bookstores across the country struggling to survive during the pandemic. Earlier this month, Bookshop partnered with Simon …

So there you are, moving along just fine.

Who do you worry about most right now?

Monday, April 27

If you're looking for ways to delay potential memory loss, a study from the U.K.'s King's College London can provide some insight.

Threatened honey bees, endangered bumblebees, fading butterflies ... we hear alarms all the time about the global decline in pollinators, but does anybody really know how many are out there?

Saturday, April 25

Artists in America are suffering greatly amid the closures and cancellations triggered nationwide by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the sheer scope of their plight is just beginning to become clear.

Some people experience COVID-19 as nothing more than a mild cold, and others exhibit no symptoms at all. Then there are the thousands who sicken and, often, die. Scientists are working hard to understand the underlying reasons for such huge discrepancies in symptoms and outcomes. No one know…

OAKLAND, Calif. — While animals in deserted national and state parks seem to be thriving without the presence of people, many at the Oakland Zoo seemed downright bored without the crowds.

Thursday, April 23

Much is uncertain in these uncertain times, and one of those things is the availability of some items at the grocery store.

It's no surprise we're embracing victory gardens today: During both world wars, patriotic Americans kept the home fires burning _ and their soldiers fed _ by converting any available space into a garden. It was an act of defiance and self-reliance with a shovel and a hoe.

Tuesday, April 22

Running out of books yet? Is such a thing possible? As we continue staying at home, do remember that a) new paperbacks are still coming out, every week, and b) your neighborhood indie bookstore, even though its doors are closed, would probably be delighted to order said paperbacks for you. (…