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School district officials tonight will ask board members to reject independent study Pathways Charter School's petition to join the district.

I t's stomach season, so we're clearing out inventory." So says chef Mateo Granados as he dishes up a heaping scoop of embutido de chito , his Yucatan family recipe of baby goat stomach that's stuffed with blood, heart and kidney, then aged for three weeks into an inky black loaf.

Though rides and robotic warships were tempting, we instead made a beeline for the food at this weekend's Maker Faire as soon as we got in the gate.

One Southern California university president who asked not to be named recently repeated the managers' mantra from this recession: "Don't miss the opportunities presented by these bad times." In other words - and, sure, sad to say - but if people have to go, what better chance to get rid of some deadwood? We're sure many public-school principals ...

With much fanfare, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came to Carson in 2006 to announce plans to build a $1 billion "green" power plant.

The late John Kenneth Galbraith might have had next week's California special election in mind when he described politics as "choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." According to the most reliable polls, the state's voters already have chosen the former.

L ast year, I wrote an essay in the Bohemian that stated, "Growth and debt are the cure for everything, but they cannot expand endlessly.

I know I am not alone. I know that many of you are just like me: you work hard at a job you love for a paycheck you don't. Still, I have learned to live on my meager compensation, am even grateful for the opportunity to be not trendily but necessarily frugal.

Arrived at SFO last Saturday from NJ and after checking in with our son and girlfriend in Santa Rosa we went here for dinner.

River L. Cullen and Stephen K. Shoptaugh , both of Occidental, have announced their engagement.

T he kids in Occidental may be among the luckiest in Sonoma County, and perhaps in all California, when the Salmon Creek Falls Environmental Center gets certified.

An Occidental man faces life in prison with the possibility of parole after a Sonoma County jury convicted him of assault with intent to sexually assault a woman during a burglary at her home.

There's a little known historical site hiding on Crystal Springs Road that a nutty bunch of drinkers - um, historians - are going to memorialize this Saturday.

A SCENIC ride through the California wine country awaits participants in the third annual "Adventure Ride for the Arts 2009," a benefit for the San Ramon Arts Foundation.

A coalition of groups including California Common Cause, the Center for Media Justice, the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College and the LA Alliance for a New Economy are sponsoring ...

With a rare, vintage instrument in hand, Israeli cellist Amit Peled will perform in the small Sonoma County town of Occidental at 8:15 p.m. March 14, and in San Francisco at 2 p.m. March 15.

Dishes like pig's-ear salad and long-roasted lamb neck now appearing on fashionable San Francisco restaurant menus - from chefs embracing the 'whole animal' concept of putting all precious bits to good use - ...

14 at the Marin Art & Garden Center at 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Ross. Cost is $40. Call 455-5261 or go to www.magc.org . - Bob Hornback discusses ornamental grasses as lawn alternatives that take less ...

Three candidates for the top sustainability job at Portland State University begin to arrive next week for campus visits.

Pinot noir producers are always pushing new frontiers. In California, we are continually seeing pinot vineyards being planted in cooler and more extreme locations.