Tim Rumsey News Today

For Bill Doherty, leader of the wind band, a book about how awe can transform a person's life led to “Tears, Chills, and Whoas: Musical Stories of Awe," a Friday concert in the Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre.

Rosemarie Reger-Rumsey believed in offering those in need an extravagant welcome. Reger-Rumsey served as the executive director of Listening House of St. Paul, a drop-in center for the unhoused, for 20 years. The nonprofit organization is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. “She just had uncompromising compassion for the people she served,” said former St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman. ...