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Weekend Edition Sunday , January 4, 2009 Weekend Edition Sunday kicks off the New Year with a month-long series celebrating seniors called "The Ninth Inning." The series celebrates the stories of people who are ...

In this July 7, 2008, file photo Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., checks his BlackBerry in St.

K nowing Chester Aaron has been one of the genuine pleasures of my life, one I surely share with dozens of folks around the country.

Embedded in both urban and suburban lot design is the "pave and pipe paradigm," according to Brock Dolman, director of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center's Water Institute.

When Laura Davison decided to spend some of her inheritance on landscaping the weedy slope next to her house, she knew she wanted a garden that would nourish both the land and her family.

Brock Dolman signs off his e-mails this way: "Mostly Water, Brock." He considers storm water a crop to harvest just like sugar snap peas.

I t's not often that diners find Snoopy, Clo the Cow and Saint Nicholas entertaining them as they eat.

At bars with rentable storage space, the lockers are for booze and cigarsa 'not socks and sneakers.

Congrats to Renga Arts in Occidental, CA on some great coverage on CNN, go Joe and Sherry! Sherry heads up our Maker Faire efforts and Joe has been working with us to on a lot of the behind the scenes database ...

It won't be a surprise to most who follow this column that I am a huge fan of the wines of Joseph Phelps Vineyards, especially their proprietary red, Insignia.

Paola Bouley unscrews the lid on the fifth in a line of bulging plastic barrels behind the storage shed and leans forward, peering into its murky depth.

The Fortuna Senior Services Hiking Group will walk the Salt River, starting and ending at Occidental Ranch on Friday, Oct.

Roots? I'm not talking about your family tree, but of the root structure of your plants.

T he guys from Sigma Nu were one pitcher of beer into a game of "baseball" when I took a seat at their table in USC's on-campus bar and asked for an interview.

A bill that would allow for additional onshore oil drilling in the Port of Long Beach and could potentially feed the cash-strapped city $130 million over 10 years cleared the state Assembly Sunday and headed to ...

It's a little off the beaten track for a design showroom, but Valley Ford in rural Sonoma County was perfect for Sharon Eager and Craig Collins when they moved from Marin County six years ago.

Summer is almost over and kids are heading back to school, tourists are going home and we're all trying to get our last licks in before the rains start - please let the rains start! NOW is the time to get out ...

In May 2000, the city of San Diego's code compliance department received a complaint from a tenant at the Coast Hotel, a residential hotel located Downtown: "Noise, dirt, gnats, roaches, beatles [sic], moths, ...

As college students gear up for annual back-to-school parties, a group of university and college presidents in California and across the country this week pushed for a national debate over whether the drinking ...

Join us for this informative and lively discussion Tuesday , August 19, 2008 at 6:00pm. Many thanks to the Young Architects Forum and the Committee on the Environment for organizing this joint program.