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‘I don’t feel like I need to prove myself to anyone’
Skateboarder Kat Sy pauses at the top of a ramp at the Foster City Skate Park. The Foster City resident is featured in a new short film documenting her life through her love of skateboarding as she graduated college. Photo by Magali Gauthier. New film shares Foster City woman’s experience as a queer Asian American…
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From KQED to caregiver for mom in Menlo Park
Dave Iverson. Courtesy Dave Iverson. New memoir chronicles lessons from Dave Iverson’s 10 years with his elderly mother, and looks at how to navigate a broken system By Kate Bradshaw June 1, 2022 Around the time that some people start thinking about retirement, in 2007, Dave Iverson, nearing 60 and facing a recent diagnosis of…
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Q&A with Windsor Town Council member Rosa Reynoza
Windsor Town Councilmember Rosa Reynoza at Windsor Town Hall on Thursday, December 9, 2021. Christopher Chung / The Press Democrat. By Kate Bradshaw June 23, 2022 Windsor is a small town that made big headlines in May 2021 when its former mayor, Dominic Foppoli, eventually resigned after a number of women made allegations of sexual assault…
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Skyline Adventures
People ride horses on the San Mateo County coast. Photo courtesy David Ingram. By Kate Bradshaw July 2022 edition, PUNCH Magazine Running along the ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains from San Francisco to Los Gatos, Skyline Boulevard—or State Highway 35—offers some of the best Peninsula vistas around. Along the way, you’ll encounter old-growth forests,…
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Bike battle
Two cyclists on mountain bikes ride on a trail in Waterdog Park in Belmont on Dec. 10, 2021. Photo by Magali Gauthier. How a spat over open space access in Belmont could shape preservation on the Peninsula By Kate Bradshaw December 30, 2021 There’s a neighborhood on the Peninsula where the nature access is almost…
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Figuring out how to feed kids when they’re not in school
Norma Lazcano places potatoes in a bag at a food pick-up site at the Los Robles Ronald McNair Academy in East Palo Alto on May 19. When the pandemic forced school campuses to close, child nutrition staff had to adapt quickly to make sure families didn’t lose access to the school meals that they rely…
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From farms to families
Volunteers help load boxes of food into vehicles after asking drivers how many boxes of food they want on June 4, 2021, at a food distribution site in Palo Alto. Photo by Kate Bradshaw. How a federal program to help farmers during the pandemic is changing the local food landscape By Kate Bradshaw June 11,…
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When hazards collide: How local food systems are adjusting to a changing world
Farm boxes get loaded onto volunteers’ bicycles at Veggielution urban farm in San Jose. During the pandemic, the program delivered food to 40 families by partnering with Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition and has grown to serve 250. May 1, 2021. Courtesy Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition. By Kate Bradshaw June 27, 2021 As communities emerge from…
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The true story behind Palo Alto’s secret museum dedicated to watercolorist Tony Foster
Anne Baxter, co-executive director at The Foster, talks about Tony Foster’s “Bluebells—Looking WNW near the Top of Luxulyan Valley” (2014). The piece is part of the “Journey,” or series of works, called “Exploring Beauty: Watercolour Diaries from the Wild.” Photo by Magali Gauthier. By Kate Bradshaw November 18, 2021 As a kid, Palo Altan Jane…
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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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