The funeral of Pope John Paul II will begin about 1 a.m. our time tomorrow. That's right in the middle of when our presses are rolling in Camarillo for tomorrow's edition. The funeral is expected to last around four hours.

So, by dawn tomorrow, when you are picking up your newspaper with the latest news, the funeral will be over ... and it won't be reported in The Star.

It's the worst of timing for a daily newspaper.

So, here's what we're going to do. We're going to have coverage of the funeral throughout the night here on our website. When you wake up, you can log on to www.VenturaCountyStar.com and read the latest coverage, complete with photos.

Tomorrow morning, we will be producing a special section covering the funeral. It will be wrapped around the outside of the Saturday morning Star. When it's completed, PDF versions will be posted on our website late Friday morning, or early afternoon. The special section will contain all the news of the funeral; the regular Saturday paper will have the rest of the news.

Speaking of the rest of the news, here's what we're looking at for tomorrow's page one:

Final coverage of the lines of people filing into St. Peter's today. There will be a local story talking to dozens of county residents who met the pope and whose lives were touched by the pope. Staff writer John Mitchell (jmitchell@VenturaCountyStar.com) has been putting together this piece this week.

We're also looking at the involvement of a local man as a defendant in a lawsuit being filed today against the California Department of Education over the decision to hvaae its performance tests in English only. Education writer Erinn Hutkin (ehutkin@VenturaCountyStar.com) is doing that story.

We're following on the pesticide incident yesterday in Moorpark to see if there is any potential longterm impact from the exposure to the farm workers.

Oxnard city writer Raul Hernandez (rhernandez@VenturaCountyStar.com) is writing a piece on the surprising comments this week by a pair of Oxnard city council members expressing an interest in slowing down growth in that city.

And, we are looking to talk to local pharmacists on alternatives to Bextra, the Pfizer painkiller that the FDA today said should be taken off the market.