Pescadero News

As you travel on coastal Highway 1, you cross a bridge over water north of the road inland to Pescadero.

Sometimes my job at Sunset is incredibly demanding. Just to give you a recent example of just how grueling it can be: last weekend I had to go to Baja, Mexico to check out a brand-new luxury hotel, Rancho Pescadero , six miles from the artsy town of Todos Santos.

She wasn't the first and she won't be the last, but Ariana Torres was enthralled earlier this year by her first glimpse of a banana slug, which for her, as for so many others, came during her school's visit to science camp.

Word of a cozy happening music scene in Montara has been buzzing about for a while.

A pair of adjacent apartment properties totaling five units overlooking the ocean in Ocean Beach at 1488-1496 Pescadero Drive and 4873-4875 Pescadero Ave., San Diego 92107, have been sold for $1.85 million.

I'll be meeting a friend in Half Moon Bay on Saturday and then we'll leave one car and drive the other down to Pescadero and Duarte's. Any recommendations for where to meet and leave one car? Any updates on Duarte's? So far it's been the artichoke and green chili soups and fresh sauteed seafood, plus olallieberry pie.

"Exploring myths and realities of wildfire along the central coast of California: What can we learn from the past, what is similar and different compared to Southern California, and what can we expect in the future?" Join Michael Vasey, a research scientist at UC Santa Cruz, who will be giving a fiery talk on this very hot topic! Mike Vasey has ...

The goats, chickens, geese and large black llama that grace the pasture at the corner at Hacienda Drive and Woodside Road in Woodside will soon be gone.

Duarte's is a 100+ year-old small-town tavern where locals come to eat three square meals a day at mismatched tables and chairs in a knotty pine-paneled dining room.

There is something eerie and beautiful about a farm in the moonlight. As I walked up the dirt path past the goat paddock, the pigsty and the rooster cages, everything that had seemed dirty and dusty by day gleamed pure white under the full moon, which hung high above the trees.

Ask a Pescadero resident what they blame for the problems in the town's watershed, and you'll get a different answer every time.

Mary Peggy Mercier, 20, pleaded no contest to one count of commercial burglary for using a stolen credit card to buy $475 worth of merchandise at a Nordstrom department store, Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.

Here are photos of CAMPING WITH CPALS AT MEMORIAL PARK IN PESCADERO. FUN! Letters A ridesharing idea by way of Tech Tuesday An internet resource for understanding the need to reduce CO2 emissions is: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c1/page_15.shtml You will have to rejoin the separated lines of text to make your browser go to the ...

Veggie stir-fry, Caesar salad, and homemade tuna casserole sound more like restaurant fare than the daily lunch selection for students at one of the most under-resourced school districts in San Mateo County.

Oh, the dreaded days when parents and family members woke us up and dragged us to church, temple, mosque, bible study or wherever else we were persuaded to go.

After months of last-minute building repairs, students filed into classrooms in the La Honda-Pescadero School District on Aug.

A full volume test of the coast side tsunami warning sirens was executed at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept.

San Mateo County students who took the California High School Exit Exam for their first time as sophomores kept pace with their peers statewide, according to the 2008-09 results released Wednesday.

Naftali Moed in his home garden In Oceana sophomore Naftali Moed's home garden there are varieties of lettuce, rich and ruffled with their leaves of red and green.

Where better to celebrate the annual Jewish harvest festival than at the source? A farm, of course.