Venerable Beacon columnist and humorist John Boston has won honorable mention in the 2010 National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual contest. John’s columns The Boston Report: Tarzan and the Moist Lions of Dr. Holly Peno ; The Boston Report: Coming this Fall: The Further Adventures of S.W.A.T. Monkey which appeared in The West Ranch Beacon and Stop Writing or We’ll Kill You from his own site, www.thebostonreport.net  all received Honorable mention in the Blog Column category which included the likes of Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times; Maggie Van Ostrand from the Huffington Post; Mary Curtis of AOL Politics Daily among others.

Despite only writing a handful of columns for the month of January of 2009 and having about half of those cut by management when he was brought back to The Signal, John Boston was named Best Humor Columnist in North America by The National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2009. He has been a weekly columnist for The West Ranch Beacon since July 2009 to the delight of his many fans.

This brings the total number of national writing awards for John Boston to an impressive 119 and counting. You can read John’s weekly column, “The Boston Report”, every Wednesday right here on The West Ranch Beacon, the Santa Clarita Valley’s most accurate, timely, and free online local news source!