coronavirus – Main Street Dog

Newsprint blues

These are not days of wine and roses for newspapers, not even in swanky Palm Springs.

Costco’s had a different look on this day — it being the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and all. The lot was only half full, but there was a long line outside. Working class folks were double file all the way around the building.

Social distancing with the fellas

I signed up for the walking portion and we set out at 3 p.m. into the neighborhood, which I immediately noticed did not include as many tattoo parlors and thrift stores as my old ‘hood down by the freeway.

Crisis postpones her Texas wedding, but Redlands High grad maintains

Photo courtesy of April Rew/Local Nomad Photo By John Murphy I shouldn’t have been surprised last week but I was. Surprised, that is, the Texas wedding of Redlands High graduate Felicia “Mafel” Lopez and college sweetheart Tenari Tenari of Long Beach has been postponed. Why? That dreaded novel coronavirus, of course. Full disclosure, Mafel isContinue reading “Crisis postpones her Texas wedding, but Redlands High grad maintains”