While you may prefer to forget the side braid and amateur archery phase of your adolescence, “The Hunger Games” universe is back on the big screen — and this time, audiences know the main character all too well. “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” tells the story of a young Coriolanus Snow,…

Women meet challenges as they seek equity, and this was the topic for American Association of University Women at their November meeting. Shane McGarrett told about her life journey spending 45 years in aerospace. She was just 17 years old when she joined the military. After three years in the United States Air Force, she…

On the first Saturday of each month, Tehachapi Heritage League features a book by a local author. On Dec. 4, the book will be a reprint of two books written by Judy Barras. “The Formative Years” and “The Long Road to Tehachapi” have been combined into one volume. It is interesting to read and makes…

The Pacific Daily News is partnering with Guam Animals in Need to help get cats and dogs into loving homes. Every week, we feature some of the cutest at the shelter. If you’d like to meet any of these adorable fur babies, you can swing by the Yigo shelter, Monday to Saturday, but call for…

Quick Read In short: Aleziah Spiers has been jailed for two years and four months for possessing illegal weapons, ammunition and body armour. The court heard Spiers had a “strange” survivalist mindset, teaching courses and acting in amateur apocalypse films. What’s next? Spiers will be eligible for parole in 15 months. A Victorian man with an “unusual and unhealthy interest”…

For many years, lifestyle funds were a popular option with savers in stakeholder, personal and many defined-contribution workplace pension plans. The funds invest your money relatively aggressively while you’re younger, channelling your contributions into equities with the aim of building as large a pension fund as possible. Then, five to ten years before you’re due…

In 2020, with the world locked at home, consumer sales of office chairs in the U.S. jumped by 75%. Podcasts, articles, how-tos and buying guides sprouted up seemingly overnight in response to the troubling reality that many white-collar workers now faced: The chairs they had at home were terrible. Those of us with desk jobs…

Peil said her clients find her sessions healing and occasionally more effective than traditional therapy.  “I’m able to really understand the traumas that they’ve been through, that most of these people don’t talk about to anybody, but suddenly I see them, and I understand exactly where they’ve been, and more importantly, I help them really heal,”…

”Thanksgiving is nice because, especially with the hustle and bustle of the semester, it can get hard to remain thankful for the things I do have, like groups like this,” Eldridge said.  Artsgiving Minaieva plans to attend a creative Friendsgiving event at her elderly neighbor’s home. The older woman taught Minaieva and her neighbors about art,…

Following record-breaking unemployment numbers in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, congress passed the CARES Act, which invoked a moratorium on home foreclosures and provided loan forbearance options for federally-backed mortgages. While the relief options offered through the CARES Act applied only to federally-backed mortgages—which comprise about 70% of the total—many private lenders offered…