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Watsonville chef turns castoff produce into culinary treasures
In a grocery world that dotes on the perfect looking peach or apple, Watsonville chef Tabitha Stroup is a devotee of the idea of perfection within imperfection.
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San Francisco attorney fights to gain legal rights for forests
If Mother Nature is the sergeant-at-arms of the forest world, then Missy Lahren might just be head of its legal branch.
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California's salmon fishing season could face second year of total closure
Fishing regulators are poised to potentially shut down California’s king salmon season for the second time in two years, and just the third time in history.
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San Francisco celebrates renovations of two historic SRO hotels
San Francisco celebrated Tuesday the reopening of a pair of residential hotels in the city’s Tenderloin. It was a welcome reopening in a neighborhood that has become ground zero in the city’s drug and homelessness crisis
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Park advocates want more green for California parks
A new report by the California State Parks Foundation released in early March called attention to the impacts on climate change already occurring in parks while pointing out the need for increased funding to support a response.
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Historic foundry helps Bay Area railway staying on track
In an unusual sort-of time-traveling-industrial-kinship, a historic Bay Area train steam engine in need of new parts is getting a helping hand from an equally historic gold country foundry. The history-inducing connection — brake shoes.
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New film shines light on famous national park ranger's musical past
It turns out Betty Reid Soskin, the East Bay woman who famously became a national park ranger at the age of 85, also has a musical past — a little known fact soon to become common knowledge through a new documentary film and a musical play.
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Women winemakers make their mark on Livermore
With the rise of women winemakers in Livermore, Jessica Carroll and sister winemakers banded together to create a Women’s Wine Collective of Livermore Valley as a support group and resource.
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Traveling exhibit pays tribute to Marin City's history
A traveling exhibit is currently on display in the Marin County Board of Education building in San Rafael running through the end of May.
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San Francisco students help historic fire-damaged town plan its future
Few students studying architecture get actual real world experience designing a town from the ground up, but the fire-ravaged mountain town of Greenville is giving that very opportunity to a group of San Francisco students.