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After the storm

A storm that hit the region Saturday left downed tree limbs and other damage in its path, including a fallen tree that landed on two cars in Tyrone. Rich Riggle, a bucket truck operator for Reader Timber Services, works on downing a tree on Monday damaged by the storm Saturday in ...

Hard at work

Jim Sheehan watches his great-great-nephew, Finley Matthew, 5, attach a chain to his Tonka dump truck in the driveway of his sister-in-law’s home, Finley’s great-grandmother, in Patton recently. Finley was emulating the nearby demolition of a bridge on Ridge Avenue. Mirror photo by ...

A little help from my friends

Darien Nguyen (center) helps friends Karen Sanjuan (left) and Emily Sanjuan with their garden at their Railroad Street home in Lilly recently. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

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Bleak Week festivals a celebration of human experience

Bleak Week, a film festival celebrating “cinema of despair,” started as a contrarian response to cries for feel-good movies after the pandemic. Programmers at the American Cinematheque, a nonprofit arts group that curates for several historic theaters in Los Angeles, heard the cries for ...