Oct 25
For the last few weeks I’ve spent most of my online time working on CorningUnionFootball.com so I’ve neglected my blog here.
The feedback on the football site is overwhelming. I began tracking statistics on the website using Google Analytics since Sept. 20 and as of Oct. 25 the site has 894 unique visitors and 4,247 page views.
To put that in perspective, Corning has 7,220 people and the high school has just under 1,000 students.
The Facebook page has 140 fans so far [...]
Oct 06
This week is Corning Union High School‘s football homecoming, the biggest event of the year in this town. There’s a huge build up with weeks of flower parties and a week of float building culminating with a parade on Friday and then the game. When I was in high school the football team was really good – from 1995 to 2002 Corning played in the section championship game seven times, winning three.
Last year Corning passed West Valley and Lassen in [...]
My name is Kirk Barron and I grew up in the small town of Corning about 115 miles north of Sacramento on Interstate 5.
In the winter I enjoy spending time tumbling down double black diamonds and I try to spend as much of my time during the summer avoiding black bears in the mountains of Northern California. Oh, and I eat at taco trucks way more than any human should.