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Published: 8:24 AM December 22, 2020    Updated: 12:07 PM February 3, 2021 Read on to see our full list of winners! - Credit: Archant The Kent Life Food & Drink Awards finalists, as nominated by our readers, are all local heroes in our opinion – meet the 2020 winners We are delighted to announce the winners and highly commended in the Kent Life Food & Drink Awards 2020. And what a difficult decision it was for our judges, who we heartily thank for their diligence. With the impact of the tier system and further restrictions continuing, it is more important than ever that we continue to su...

More Cubs vs. American League pitchers By JohnW53 on Jan 29, 2021, 6:38am CST + The previous posts in this series looked at the success -- or lack thereof -- against American League pitchers in All-Star Games of Cubs greats who never batted in the World Series, and only 1 of whom batted in a handful of interleague games. Five players were featured: Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, Ryne Sandberg and Andre Dawson. Each post detailed the player's performance through the lens of the pitchers' ranking among all AL hurlers in total Wins Above Replacement from the first through th...

Jan 8, 2021 After being involved in a prison book club with students from Palma School in Salinas, California, some inmates were moved to help a young man get ahead. Jason Bryant, now a former inmate, led the charge after reading “Miracle on the River Kwai,” which is about prisoners of war who shared everything they had. And he was inspired to do the same. Bryant and fellow inmate Ted Gray enlisted others to help a struggling student at Palma pay for the private school’s tuition. California inmates make as little as eight-cents an hour at jobs like sweeping floors and building furnitu...

By Mark Robertson side view of african american prisoner reading book A group of nearly 800 California inmates at Soledad State Prison saved for three years to raise $24,000 from their paltry prison salaries, which had another $8,000 donation added from outside the prison, to put together the $32,000 for a teen's school scholarship. Jason Bryant, who's now a former inmate, had been taking part in a prison book club in 2016 with students from Palma School, a private all-boys Catholic school, when they read Miracle On The River Kwai, which tells about prisoners of war who shared everything th...

By Alexa Rodriguez Jan 8, 2021 California inmates make as little as eight cents an hour sweeping floors, building furniture, and clerking. If they have an industry job, they can do better, making $1 an hour, or around $100 per month, per CBS News. That's why it took three long years for a group of nearly 800 inmates at Soledad State Prison to amass $32,000–that's $24,000 of their own money, plus an $8,000 donation from outside the prison—which they swiftly gave away. Jason Bryant, now a former inmate, had been taking part in a prison book club in 2016 with students from Palma School, a ...