MODESTO — For more than a decade, Ceres resident Jim Gollnick has been sending a handcrafted piece of home to troops serving overseas. Gollnick, 70, creates elegant pens made of pink ivory wood, ...

MARTINEZ — Patty Winsor’s life turned upside down about a year ago when she was laid off from her 26-year job as an insurance underwriter. “Devastated” at the time, she had no idea that a chain of ...

A group of local woodturners have "turned" their hobby into a way to say thank you to area veterans. They're coming close to putting a cap on their pen project. TV5 made sure they were dotting the I's ...

EBENSBURG – It takes about two days of work to make a pen. Blocks of wood or acrylic need to be drilled, shaped and sanded before they are polished, sealed with wax and assembled. It can cost anywhere ...

CANTON, Ga. - With just a single ink pen, Tim Cullen can tell a story that spans generations. Out of his home workshop in Canton, Cullen crafts exquisite writing tools, doing his own wood and ...