Mike Wolcott

I love America for men like my 100-year-old father who left the farm at age 18 and went halfway around the world to fight a war they had no way of knowing they'd win. We are still, to this very day, living off the table crumbs of their sacrifice. May we never forget that.

There are now stop signs on Road 9 (Wyo Avenue) at the intersection of Road N in northern Glenn County in front of Lake School.

This weekend was a fantastic reminder that what we do often comes back to telling people's stories — or letting them tell their own.

17th annual memorial event has led to more than 200 scholarships totaling more than $100,000

It’s Tucker Time. Let’s keep this party going.

“… Somewhere back there in the dust, that same small town in each of us.”

People need to learn — or, maybe, re-learn — the long-forgotten and invaluable act of actually thinking for themselves, because if these little lessons from the past few days have taught us anything, it's that this rapidly evolving technology can still be as wild and erratic as many of the very people so intent with pushing it upon the rest of us in the first place.

August 26 is National Dog Day, so it's a great month to visit a shelter

The real last word on the matter is this: only two monks in the world know the recipe for Chartreuse, and they're the only ones who actually produce the secret herbal mixture. Thus, it's rare, and extremely hard to find — but yes, I've found it in Chico.

It wasn't just all of the things she did; it was also because of the things she didn't do