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sacramento connect NPR.orgGoomba’s, the new Italian restaurant in Grass Valley, opened this weekend to a packed house — without even posting an “open” sign in front. Goomba’s, at 450 Colfax Avenue, is a true family owned operation. Its pizza oven and dough press is imported from Italy. The oven — a gem — is the only one [...]
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The last living survivor of the Titanic has died at the age of 97. Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on board, a two-month-year-old baby. Dean died in Southampton after catching pneumonia. The details from The Guardian in the U.K. are here.
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As I wrote last week, the budget debacle is forcing the state to propose closing almost all state parks — including Empire Mine, South Yuba River SP and ones at Tahoe and Donner Lakes. But the parks and campgrounds run by U.S. Forest Service offer an alternative. Consider Meeks Bay on the West Shore of [...]
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We bought our house in Nevada City from a guy who worked at the Nevada Irrigation District for years. He was an industrial one: building a long picket fence from scratch and cutting the pickets in the machine shop at work. My wife and I are native Californians, so we know full well about the [...]
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As if Trader Joe’s didn’t have enough of a cult following, a guy made a video of his trip to the store, complete with a song. He put it up on You Tube, and it’s become a hit. Though no photography is allowed inside TJ’s, he made the video on his cell phone. I grew [...]
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The county’s reserves are projected to drop to $16.9 million in the coming fiscal year from $19.2 million, because the state is borrowing money to deal with its own budget crisis, officials said Friday in a memo. Otherwise, the county’s reserves would have remained unchanged, thanks partly to $4 million in labor savings. Some service [...]
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Here’s a small-town scooplet: The building across from Dedrick’s Cheese on Commercial St. in downtown Nevada City will become the APPLE “Sustainability Center.” The center will open this summer. It will provide exhibits to help explain the benefits of recycling, energy efficiency and composting, among other activities. It also will provide a resource library. As [...]
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No word in the local media yet, but Empire Mine State Park, Malakoff Diggins and South Yuba River State Park are among the 220 state parks slated to close under The Terminator’s latest budget cut proposal. Popular parks at Lake Tahoe, including Donner Memorial SP, D.L. Bliss, Sugar Pine Point and Emerald Bay SP, also [...]
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The roll-down ads running on www.sacbee.com are extremely annoying to me. Until you learn to navigate around them, they roll-down and block your reading. “We lower 6,000 prices every week,” it shouts at you, advertising Raley’s and other grocery store chains. OK. Enough already. I shop at Raley’s sometimes. This is back to the future [...]
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Here’s a small-town scooplet from this morning: Lazy Dog ice cream and Way Yum sushi are going to get to participate in the Thursday night Farmers Market in Grass Valley after all. The decision came after a lengthly discussion at a meeting of the Grass Valley Downtown Association on Thursday. The dispute, first reported here, [...]
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