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Historic rail excursions await the adventurous across the West.

Calbright failure is about the failure of government From a real-world perspective, the recent news [1] from the California Department of Finance isn’t really a big deal. The state’s population, which has for years been inching ever so slowly toward the 40-million mark, actually dipped by 182,083 people last year. It won’t mean anything for the budget, public policy or our individual lives. Yet, as  CalMatters columnist Dan Walters wrote [2], “national news organizations went a lit...

Sacramento Bee wins general excellence award, other honors at California Journalism Awards Sacramento Bee 6 hrs ago Michael McGough, The Sacramento Bee May 18—The Sacramento Bee took home numerous top honors this week from the California News Publishers Association, including first place for general excellence among online publications across the state. The CNPA announced winners and finalists this week for the California Journalism Awards, recognizing outstanding work publi...

Carrollton proclaims Pride May 12, 2021 | The Carrollton City Council issued a proclamation at its meeting Tuesday, May 11, marking June 5 as Carrollton Pride Day. The proclamation recalls the raid at the Stonewall Inn that marked the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights era and notes that the LGBTQ community “from youth to senior citizens, have the right to feel safe, not be discriminated against and not live with the threat of harassment and persecution.” It further states the “Carroll...

Two natural gas companies with operations in Pennsylvania say they plan to certify some of their gas as “responsibly sourced.”

In January 1848, six Mormon men bunked together in a small wood cabin along the South Fork of the American River in Cullumah, as the Nisenan named the land where they had lived for thousands of years, meaning “beautiful valley.” The men, part of the U.S. Army Mormon Battalion, had traveled from Iowa to San Diego to fight in the Mexican-American War, which, fortuitously or not, was close to an end upon their arrival. The war allowed the victorious United States to acquire m...

Prince Philip came to our county in 1983 The death of Prince Philip took me back a few years. In March 1983 Queen Elizabeth and Philip came to California. I was able to snatch press credentials to be at Sutter’s Fort when they visited there. We were told ahead of time not to speak to the queen unless spoken to. The limo pulled up and I’ll never forget her green coat and hat. She did look our way once as she walked up the dirt path, alongside a docent or actor playing John Su...

Theres so much more to Sonoma Countys Fort Ross than the Russian connection FacebookTwitterEmail The Russian Orthodox chapel is the centerpiece of Fort Ross State Historic Park in Sonoma County.Harry Shattuck / Hearst Newspapers 2001 Spring is when the days get longer and people start to dream about kicking the job and going off on long vacation: Paris, the Greek islands, New York in June. Big-time travel is not in the cards this year. Europe is locked down. The Canadian border is shut. The Cen...

Aside from stainless-steel pans and a platinum tooth, Máxima Acuña Atalaya doesn’t own any valuable metal objects. No rings or bracelets or necklaces. No costume jewellery or precious stones. She struggles to understand the fascination people feel for gold. One icy morning in 2015, Máxima Acuña is breaking rocks on a hillside with sharp, well-aimed blows, preparing to lay the foundation for a house. Despite being less than five feet tall, she can carry stones almost twice her own weight o...

Yes, California has milked cows for a long time John Oncken Recently, a reader of this column, Dean, called with a question: How could he get old copies of the column, especially those relating to dairying in California? I didn’t have a good answer other than that I have copies in my computer but don’t have a fast way to retrieve them, and there have been quite a few over the years.   While talking with Dean, an idea came to me: Why not write a bit of the history of California dairying...