Arts

Badge wearers and bandits of the Wild West face off with gusto in Gunsmokin’

By Caleb Wiseblood

The sheriff of Rooster Punch doesn’t pull any punches for those who desecrate a sacred Santa Maria tradition, during the Great American Melodrama’s latest farce set in the late 1800s. When top cop Kit Carter (Austen Horne) hears word about a band of bandits traveling through her jurisdiction, she suspects they’re scheming to steal a local ranch’s prized cabbages...