Who were they? And should we care? We’re talking about the seniors caught by the cops having sex in the back seat of a Ford Taurus parked at a Sonora barbecue joint last month. And doing it in broad daylight, in plain view of customers going in and out of the restaurant. In an incident
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This year it came early.   Tuolumne County enjoyed its annual 15 minutes of fame on Feb. 12, when a woman, 72, and a man, 62, were caught by the cops naked and having sex in the back seat of a Ford Taurus. They were cited for indecent exposure. That the couple was nabbed in
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By Dr. Eric Freedman Suzanne’s mother, Jane, is 84 and was recently placed in a care home because of progressive dementia. She was referred to
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“Burger Bash” screamed the banner in front of Sonora’s Perko’s restaurant. The new McDonald’s at Standard suddenly doubled the Tuolumne County availability of Double Quarter Pounders with Cheese (750 calories before you get to the XXL fries and the two-gallon Coke). Then Jimmy Buffett’s “Cheeseburger in Paradise” blared over an oldies station: “I like mine
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I will always remember my first bike, a Schwinn Stingray with a banana seat and suicide handlebars. The only bike cooler in 1969 was Peter
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By Wendell Nicholls As told to Mary Louis  I was born in Sonora, California on April 30, 1921. My family lived in Soulsbyville, just up the hill from Sonora. I lived there for the first 25 years of my life. My parents were Evelyn and Royal Nicholls. I had four siblings. Aileen, Ruth, and Francis
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