HeyJaredKerry Benefield
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 22
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for mercurynews.com
- Top 100K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 9, 2026
Latest articles
Benefield: A match made in 6th grade: Santa Rosa couple weds with their former teacher officiating (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Cynthia Villalobos remembers catching sight of Leo Sanchez on the playground at Luther Burbank Elementary School in Santa Rosa and being immediately smitten. She thinks they were both in the fourth, maybe fifth, grade. He was cute, she remembers thinking. He had nice hair. So nice, she recalled, she even touched it once, uninvited. She couldn’t help herself. But then, almost as quickly as Leo had caught her eye, he was gone. She didn’t see him around campus anymore. Unbeknownst to Cynthia, Leo w
Benefield: For 55 years, this Oakmont group has crafted books for the visually impaired (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Jann Jakukiec was working in the library when the captain of her team of volunteers made a suggestion. Might she be interested in using her skills to help the Oakmont Visual Aids Workshop? Jakukiec knew not a thing about the group. But she trusted her friend. “She said, ‘If you don’t like it, you don’t have to come back,'” Jakukiec remembered. Such is the pull of good works and good company among those who make the Oakmont Visual Aids Workshop run, that this all-volunteer, donation-funded, 501(c
Montgomery High, SRJC wrestling standout falls to his death in Yosemite (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Five years ago, Ian Hesz was a wrestling coach at Montgomery High when a freshman, just coming off of football season, walked into the wrestling room. He was enthusiastic about joining the team, Hesz remembered, but far too heavy to legitimately compete. Undeterred, that freshman, Ryan George, got to work. “He worked really, really hard and he got his weight down,” Hesz said. And he never complained, never grumbled. He was always smiling, always helping, his coaches said. He was a stellar teamma
Bay Area residents find each other 7,000 miles from home while serving in Sierra Leone (opens the original)
Read excerpt
It was midsummer and Anna Plante, a recent college grad, had just touched down at an airport in Sierra Leone. A class of 2022 Tamalpais High School graduate and brand new member of the Peace Corps team, Plante was picked up by Tim Miller, the Peace Corps’ country director in Sierra Leone. “The first thing Tim said to me was ‘How is Marin County?’” Plante said. “It was just awesome.” “The first thing the country director says is ‘How is home? How is our home because you saw it more recently than
North Bay residents find each other 7,000 miles from home while serving in Sierra Leone (opens the original)
Read excerpt
It was midsummer, and Anna Plante, a recent college grad, had just touched down at an airport in Sierra Leone. A class of 2022 Tamalpais High School graduate and brand new member of the Peace Corps team, Plante was picked up by Tim Miller, the Peace Corps’ country director in Sierra Leone. “The first thing Tim said to me was ‘How is Marin County?’” Plante said. “It was just awesome.” “The first thing the country director says is ‘How is home? How is our home because you saw it more recently than
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 100K sites
For mercurynews.com, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.