Technology is designed to make our lives easier and more efficient. There likely aren’t many people in Davis these days who don’t own a smartphone—and feel like they can’t function without it. I know I’m guilty of relying on my cell to make my life easier. We use our smartphones…
Placerville residents are used to keeping forest fires, and diminished air quality, in mind during our scorching summers. This past June, we saw forest fires ravage more than 1,500 acres of land in El Dorado and Placer counties—nature can cause quite a bit of damage in our dry, arid climate….
El Dorado Hills isn’t at risk of freezing over anytime soon, even though, technically, it is autumn around here—it’ll probably be weeks before we really start to rev up our furnaces. But, we’ve had a couple of chillier nights lately, and some cold Sunday mornings that the local vendors at…
If you recently saw your kids head off to start a new school year, maybe leaving their elementary schools behind to join the ranks at either John Barrett or Winston Churchill Middle School, it may have left you a little sentimental, reflecting on their childhood, and how they have grown…
Our city has changed a lot in the past decade or two—there’s an IKEA in West Sacramento now, and it seems to me like a new restaurant or brewery is opening every other month. With all these new businesses comes new residents—and these new residents need places to live. Subdivisions…
It lurks, invisible, in your beautiful Vallejo home. Silently, it grows, multiplying and spreading over your furniture, floors, and anything else it can find. Then, you move a vase on the mantel and the inevitable happens—it flies into the air. Now you know it’s there because you can’t stop sneezing….
Fall in Tracy means Friday night high school football games and strolling through the San Joaquin Certified Farmer’s Market on Saturday morning—but, you’ll probably want to start bringing a sweater on your outdoor jaunts to fight off the upcoming chill. The change in weather is a signal for us to…
Many residents of Modesto remember the devastating New Year’s Day flood of 1997, when flood waters from heavy rains and melting snow caused the Tuolumne River to rise to an astonishing 71 feet. Most Northern Californians aren’t usually too concerned about flooding, but local experts are beginning to realize that…
Arden-Arcade is home to some of Sacramento’s prettiest communities, including Sierra Oaks, Arden Park, and the neighborhoods around the Del Paso Country Club. The area gets an average of 265 sunny days a year, but there are still a lot of concerns I seem to hear over and over again…
The artists baking in the sun at Roseville’s Third Saturday Art Walk, as well as the golfers playing a sweaty round of 18 holes at Diamond Oaks, can both probably agree on one thing—summers around here are hot. If it wasn’t for our air conditioners, a lot of us might…
