Sarah Fields

While most are getting ready to enjoy the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, many of us will also spend part of the day preparing a solid strategy to make the most out of the biggest shopping day of the year - Black Friday.  While you're out getting the most for your money, I'd encourage your extreme couponing to include a few local businesses, as well.  Dollars spent locally really do make a sig ...

Looking for a few fun ways to enjoy this Halloween? From spooky to spectacular, check out the line up of events going on around Modesto and the Central Valley area. A few of these are entirely too scary for me but wanted to share all of the events I could find. Personally, I'm more of a church parking lot Trunk or Treater type always looking for an excuse to put my kiddos (and myself) in a co ...

There has been extensive discussion (and grumbling) lately about the image of Modesto after a team from the local service organization, CommonWealth Modesto, proposed a new slogan and campaign to equip our community with a positive perspective on our city.  Long, painful story short, the plan was quickly overlooked while the slogan was met with intense objection and all things came to a (temp ...