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As an audience member, you will love this production - or hate it.

County supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday in approving a resolution to request that Caltrans join together with the county on a joint powers authority regarding the Highway 156 expansion – a move that could allow for fewer complications in using eminent domain to obtain a needed property, officials hope.

It's spring, and a high school senior's fancy turns to … deciding on a college. You see, once teens apply and then endure the nail-biting wait for acceptance, the letters of admission start coming. And your college bound child will instantly forget what school he wanted most, which means you get to go on all those college tours again. Lucky you.

To no one’s surprise, the Bureau of Land Management has, essentially, decided to close permanently the approximately 31,000 acres of public lands in the Clear Creek Management Area (CCMA) and portions of BLM-administered lands located in southern San Benito and western Fresno Counties. We should cease calling them public lands because with the coming fences, gates, GSA-approved padlocks, special passes and fees; the land is public in name only.

According to the Persian legend of King Jamshid, wine was discovered about 8,000 years ago. The story goes that the king banished one of his harem girls after she had angered him. The harem girl became so distraught that she searched for something to end her life. Finding a box of old, rotten grapes, labeled “poison” in the kitchen cupboard - she took a deep drink. To her surprise, she started to feel quite happy and no longer wanted to end her life. The harem girl took her discovery to the king - who also tested the grape liquid. After he, too, became quite cheerful, he proclaimed that from that day forward, all grapes grown in his kingdom would be grown for the sole purpose of making wine.

South Valley residents are invited to an important event at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 22. Morgan Hill's Advent Lutheran Church (16870 Murphy Ave.) is hosting a concert to benefit Reach Out, the local food pantry affiliated with the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Emily Mae came to us on a golden day in April 2009. Born 22 months after her sister Gracie, Emily was a bouncing baby girl weighing a hair more than 9 pounds.

Take “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Anderson and add writer Rosa Guy, who loosely bases a Caribbean flavored novella on the story, then add book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty and you have the latest offering from TheatreWorks: “Once On This Island.”

The county water district has announced it obtained $4.1 million from Proposition 84, passed by state voters in 2006, to help offset costs from several upcoming projects.