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The allocation of nearly $3 million will help conserve the 903-acre Corda Family Ranch and the 344-acre Hicks Mountain Ranch.

Kingdom of 10,000,000 White Leghorns. Chickaluma. The Egg Basket of the World. These are all historic nicknames for Petaluma, a charming little city in the agricultural bosom of Sonoma County. By the early 1900s a booming poultry industry, driven by a locally designed egg incubator, saw the area producing 120 million eggs a year. There were Egg Day parades led by Egg Queens, the world’s only poultry pharmacy and more money on deposit in the banks, per capita, than any other place on earth. Tha...

Crews containing 32-acre vegetation fire in rural Marin County By KTVU staff Dolcini Fire in Marin County. July 14, 2021.  MARIN COUNTY, Calif. - Sheriffs deputies and fire crews are responding to a 32-acre wildfire Wednesday afternoon in a rural area of west Marin County near Rocky Hill, officials say.  Crews responded to the first emergency call, which came at around 1:30 p.m. to the 6900 block of Point Reyes Petaluma Road near Nicasio Reservoir and Hicks Valley. The incident, about 12 mil...

city hall on a controversy that comes one month before 20th anniversary of the east bay hills firestorm >> reporter: an irate homeowner gave us these foe toss. they show the unsafe and unkempt condition of the mayors home. we wanted to look for ourselves. around 6:30 tonight we spotted gardner cook clipping the vegetation at the mayors home. he told us the mayors daughter contacted him last night. >> got a text last night. >> what did it say. >> i have problems can you take care of i...

>> what did it say. >> i have problems can you take care of it a zap. >> reporter: thick vegetation obscure the mayors home. a fire official went door-to- door back in august and vivid residents they had two weeks to clear veg station around their homes. >> the trees need to be trimmed away from the house. they cant be touching the physical house. >> this house belongs to jean quan. i nome mate her as the queen of residential blight. >> reporter: he went before city council and complai...