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Mother Nature puts on a show at Black Butte Lake

Mother Nature puts on a show at Black Butte Lake

Snow isn’t usually the focal point when the highest elevation of the hike is 764 feet. But it was on this last Saturday of February. The bitter cold storm that inundated all of California brought the white stuff to sea level. While there were splotches of snow along...

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Museum captures history of California’s missions

Museum captures history of California’s missions

While it’s possible to find a slice of California’s mission history throughout much of the state, the one place that captures all 21 of these sites is in Sonoma County. It’s appropriate that the California Missions Museum is tucked into a back corner of the Cline...

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Lake Tahoe to lose key advocate when Feinstein retires

Lake Tahoe to lose key advocate when Feinstein retires

Growing up in the Bay Area it would be hard not to at least know of Dianne Feinstein. I was in eighth grade in 1978 when she became mayor of San Francisco after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. I’m sure I didn’t know who she was...

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Bidwell museum an education about founder of Chico

Bidwell museum an education about founder of Chico

If it weren’t for John and Annie Bidwell, Chico likely would not be the city that it is. Panel after panel, exhibit after exhibit explores these early California pioneers who transformed this swath of Northern California into an agriculture oasis, with a university,...

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New vehicle is like learning to drive all over again

New vehicle is like learning to drive all over again

  I should have known better. I should have known I was buying and not just looking. Well, I knew I was buying this month. I just didn’t know I would be putting down a deposit on my looking day. Sigh …. Like any vehicle shopper I had a few criteria about what I...

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