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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Blog TV
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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Camps, Clinics & Tryouts
ARCHERY: ORESTIMBA FIELD ARCHERS — Members have 14 field targets and 14 hunting targets open to club members. The range is five miles west of Stevinson, four miles east of Newman, next to the Rooster Ranch at Twin Rivers. Call Ron at 202-5563 or Bob at 594-4412
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Local Rotary Clubs seek Young Professionals for Group Study Exchange
Local Rotary Clubs are seeking young professionals to participate in a cultural/professional exchange to Mexico , for four weeks (approximate dates are April 5 through May 4, 2012). Through this program, the team will explore parts of Mexico —the states of Baja California ; Baja California Sur; Sonora and Sinaloa. During May/June 2012, a team from that area of Mexico will explore our local …
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Outgoing Ione city manager sits down for one last interview
The Ledger Dispatch sat down with Ione City Manager Kim Kerr June 29, her last day on the job, to talk about some of the issues Ione city leaders will be contending with in the future.
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Eureka calls special meeting on Nielsen; councilwoman: Special meeting called to dodge public input
With 25 hours notice, the city of Eureka called a special closed session council meeting for 1 p.m. today, at which the council is expected to consider approving the controversial firing of Police Chief Garr Nielsen.
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High Points
(June 30, 2011) Back in the day there were long-haired heads and crew-cut straights. Out of their separate habitats and in the same public space, they still experienced different worlds. Even the same words meant different things.
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Community Foundation distributes 0,000 in grants to 20 nonprofits
The great people at the Reno-based Community Foundation of Western Nevada recently announced their charitable gifts for the region.
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Holiday weekend is looking great for lake getaways
It’s a rare Fourth of July weekend with this kind of symmetry: Full lakes, hot weather and three days off – and space available at the major recreation lakes in Northern California. Usually one of these is fouled up….
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More Northern California hotels earning LEED certification
Does anybody really know how green their hotel is? Does anybody really care?
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Holiday weekend is looking great for lake getaways
It’s a rare Fourth of July weekend with this kind of symmetry: Full lakes, hot weather and three days off – and space available at the major recreation lakes in Northern California. Usually one of these is fouled up….
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More Northern California hotels earning LEED certification
Does anybody really know how green their hotel is? Does anybody really care?
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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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Roaming Through Redwoods: Prairie Creek A Destination, Not A Detour
SAN JOSE, Calif. —Two jovial women bounded down a soggy trail with a question: “Where’s the Big Tree?”
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Town Park closed July 3
Town Park in Corte Madera will be closed to the public on Sun., July 3, to ready the space for Fourth of July parade and picnic festivities.
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Best of the West: 10 top monuments
Build a great vacation around a spectacular island, forest, cliff dwelling, canyon, fossil bed, tower or volcano.
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Cargo containers create an ultra-modern cabin
share: digg facebook twitter Before dinner, fewer than eight hours after the containers arrived, workers from NorCal Construction in Santa Cruz, Calif., had ground the final bits of rust off the boxes and welded them together to create DeWitt’s two-story mountain retreat. Homes built from used cargo containers are a growing trend, but the Zayante cabin was a first for nearly everyone involved in …
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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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