Local news briefs
‘Tokyo Tramps’ at Winnekenni Castle The Winnekenni Castle lawn will be the setting for some lively summer music by The Tokyo Tramps on Sunday, July 17, at 2 p.m. Contestants for the International Blues Challenge 2011 in Memphis, the Tokyo Tramps have been on the Boston music scene for 10 years. These three Japanese musicians play American blues in their own unmistakable style. The concert will …
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Photos among man’s talents
At age 74, Daniel Ryan does not leave himself much time for sitting around his Columbia home. He’s an avid amateur photographer and will have 23 pictures on display at the Mother Lode Fair in Sonora, which begins today and goes through Sunday. A retired history teacher, he focuses on Civil War history as a hobby, attending roundtable discussions on that epic time of American history and learning …
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Patty Norris, whose great-great-great grandfather and seven other relatives were murdered at Mountain Meadows more than 150 years ago, was overcome with emotion at Thursday’s news that the southwestern Utah site has been designated a national historic landmark.
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Resorts, hotels hoping for a full house for July Fourth
SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz Redwoods RV Resort is expecting a full house for the Fourth of July. The Felton RV park will offer guests an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast Saturday for $ 2 and a cookout Sunday afternoon for $ 5.
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Gas price drop? So what, Fourth of July travelers say
With fuel costing more than last year, experts predict a drop in driving trips this weekend.
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Wills, Kate off to Canada, U.S. in first tour
It sounds like a bit of a racket: $ 4,000 for a three-course meal and a chance to see a polo match up close.   It gets better when you throw in the chance to rub shoulders with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in southern California, where bragging about having a glass of wine with the new royal couple may be the ultimate Hollywood glamour trip.
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Squid Studies: “A dream hangs over the whole region, a brooding kind of hallucination”–J. Steinbeck and E.F. Ricketts …
Editor’s Note: William Gilly , a professor of biology at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, embarked on new expedition this month to study jumbo squid in the Gulf of California on the National Science Foundation–funded research vessel New Horizon . This is his sixth blog post about the trip. [More]
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CALENDAR for the week of July 1, 2011
Shoppers will save a bundle when Great Mall presents its July 4 Super Sale Weekend July 1-4. Shoppers will enjoy added value on a wide range of products from apparel and accessories, electronics and home goods to health and beauty products.
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Yolo featured in new travel app
California’s Central Valley’s new smart-phone app, The NorCal Guide, gives travelers thousands reasons to stop, see, taste, and experience the hidden secrets around them. Developed for the iPhone and iPad, this new free app puts all of the information people need to plan a Northern California
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Wills, Kate off to Canada, US in first tour
It sounds like a bit of a racket: $ 4,000 for a three-course meal and a chance to see a polo match up close.
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Celebrity golf: Kidd, Rodgers are champs in lockout mode
February 7, 2011; Dallas, TX, USA; Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (right) is presented with the MVP trophy from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell during the MVP and coach press conference at the Super Bowl XLV media center.
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Patty Norris, whose great-great-great grandfather and seven other relatives were murdered at Mountain Meadows more than 150 years ago, was overcome with emotion at Thursday’s news that the southwestern Utah site has been designated a national historic landmark.
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Couple travel the nation asking strangers about KC
Nothing unusual about a long car trip this time of year, although we’d bet a gallon of gas that your summer vacation won’t look much like this one. First of all, Steve Bayman and wife Angie Dreher-Bayman are moving — from Lawton, Okla., to Kansas City. But they’re taking an especially meandering route. So far, they’ve hit a dozen states (including both Florida and California), and no, they’re …
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Church News
1. St. Francis’ Episcopal Church By Ellie Mahouski Fortuna’s St. Francis’ Episcopal Church will have a pie booth at 13th and Main Street on July 23, the Saturday of Fortuna’s AutoXpo.
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Canyon briefs
The American Canyon Community Church annual rummage sale is June 10-11, 7:00 a.m.-12 p.m., 2 Andrew Road, American Canyon. The sale raises money for upcoming Vacation Bible School, a free ministry to our community.
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Belmont setting new wages for firefighters
Belmont officials are set to establish a new salary and benefits plan for a stand-alone fire department come October that includes a 10 percent reduction in wages from what firefighters currently make with the Belmont-San Carlos Fire Department.
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9 fun and funky vacation hotel stays
Tired of the usual chain hotels? You’ll be way off the beaten path in these lodgings.
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It’s worth stopping along California 99
Taking the highway south from Sacramento to Bakersfield leads to museums of bugs, military aircraft and farm equipment; tasty tri-tip and Mexican food; and farms you can visit.
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MOVIES: ‘Cars 2,’ ‘Bad Teacher,’ & ‘The Trip’
Following are Susan Granger ‘s latest reviews of movies playing in area theaters. Perhaps the “Cars” franchise is so inexorably tied to Paul Newman that it should have been part of Newman’s Own.
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Mountain Meadows now a national historic landmark
Mountain Meadows now a national historic landmark By Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jul 1, 2011 09:24AM MDT Patty Norris, whose great-great-great grandfather and seven other relatives were murdered at Mountain Meadows more than 150 years ago, was overcome with emotion at Thursday’s news that the southwestern Utah site has been designated a national historic landmark. “I’m …
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