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The most beautiful Bay Area trail you’ve never heard of is protected, pristine & open to the public
The Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail, located entirely on property owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, offers stunning views of nearby reservoirs used to provide drinking water to Peninsula residents. Courtesy SFPUC/Robin Scheswohl. By Kate Bradshaw May 20, 2021 Hidden off a dirt road in the Skylawn Memorial Cemetery in the hills between San Mateo…
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‘It’s eerie’: Behind the lines of the CZU August Lightning fires
The Red Barn, a landmark in the La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve, is obscured in smoke on Aug. 23. Photo by Kate Bradshaw. By Kate Bradshaw August 26, 2020 With wildfire smoke blanketing the Santa Cruz Mountains in a hazy fog, Andy Kerr, co-owner of Alice’s Restaurant, loads up his truck three times a…
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‘Grief is difficult on a good day.’ How the coronavirus pandemic is reshaping the ways we mourn
Mark Comeau, the head embalmer at Spangler Mortuary, readies the tools he needs to embalm a body in the prepping room at the mortuary in Mountain View on April 7.Photo by Magali Gauthier. By Kate Bradshaw April 9, 2020 These days, death and the rites that come with it are quieter, more cautious affairs than…
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Striving for the Senate: Meet the seven candidates who want to represent you in Sacramento
Left to right, from first to second rows: The candidates seeking to represent District 13 in the state Senate are Josh Becker, Mike Brownrigg, Alex Glew, Sally Lieber, Shelly Masur, Annie Oliva and John Webster. Photos by Magali Gauthier. By Kate Bradshaw February 3, 2020 On March 3, and in the weeks leading up to…
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San Mateo County inmates win demands after 10-day hunger strike
Organizer Deyna Cortez addresses attendees of a protest outside the Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City on June 25. Her boyfriend, Rodrigo Prieto, was leading the hunger strike inside. Photo by Kate Bradshaw. By Kate Bradshaw June 26, 2020 Rodrigo Prieto and other inmates in a San Mateo County jail didn’t eat for 10 days,…
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Uneven Ground, Part I: How uneven land use harms communities in southern San Mateo County
The CalEnviroScreen 3.0 index identifies the environmental health burdens of communities by census tract. Pink indicates a census tract among the 10% with the greatest environmental health burden; dark green is among the 10% with the least environmental burden. The yellow, orange and pink areas share many of the same top burden factors, some of which are…
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Uneven Ground, Part II: Navigating food deserts and swamps
Green peppers and apples in Samaritan House’s pantry in Redwood City on Aug. 28, 2019. Photo by Magali Gauthier. By Kate Bradshaw September 9, 2019 When Kendy Mendoza of East Palo Alto and his wife experienced health scares over the last few years, they took action to turn their lives around. Eight years ago, when…
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Uneven Ground, Part III: Chasing equity in a changing climate
Traffic on U.S. 101, which cuts through the city of East Palo Alto, as shown from a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the highway. Photo by Selijah Meacham. By Kate Bradshaw September 17, 2019 East Palo Alto is a cut-through haven, observes Susan Barnes, who has spent the last year puzzling exclusively over how…
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Troubled Water
The Palo Alto Park Mutual Water Company in East Palo Alto on July 23, 2019. Photo by Magali Gauthier/The Almanac By Kate Bradshaw July 17, 2019 The day he left East Palo Alto to attend his grandmother’s funeral across the country, Justin Turner’s water was shut off. He had to leave his wife, nine months…
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Menlo Park: People of color speak up about personal impact of police stops
Jonathan Turner stands at the intersection of Chester Street and Menalto Avenue, where he and DeBraun Thomas were stopped by police in the Willows neighborhood on Dec. 19. Since the incident, he said he has stopped making Doordash deliveries to residences in Menlo Park. He said he is apprehensive about returning there on a cat-sitting…
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