Pescadero News

SAN MATEO COUNTY a ' The statea TMs budget problems could make it harder to visit your favorite beach.

Heather Murtagh/Daily Journal Larry Jacobs and Sandra Belin began work in Pescadero as a small family farm specializing in organic herbs, which were then sold to restaurants in San Francisco.

The Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to loan as much as $2.5 million to the troubled La Honda-Pescadero Unified School District to make sure the district's four schools can reopen in August with enough safe classrooms to house all students.

Over the past two years, the number of volunteers we have had helping out with our beach and creek bacteria sampling efforts has dwindled.

Beans are underrated - and because of their gas generating quality, they get a bad rap.

Cioppino at Duarte's. Again, this is *half* an order! Photo: D Gough I spent this past weekend at a yoga retreat in Pescadero, California, about an hour south of San Francisco, and there I had two important epiphanies.

A state appeals court on Friday dismissed on procedural grounds a lawsuit brought against the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency by a small Monterey County water supplier.

When Larry Jacobs and his wife Sandra Belin bought a small Pescadero farm in 1980 with the intention of growing produce without pesticides, the farmers in the area laughed at them.

Let's go find summer. There are many times, particularly this time of year, when I turn to Wayne and say these four words.

Just in time for summer vacation driving trips, examiner.com columnists across California are featuring attractions along the state's world-famous Highway One .

For Pescadero artist Logan Payne, meditation and serenity made their humble beginnings as scrawled words on a scrap of paper given to her by a friend.

Pescadero artist Logan Payne will share her creative journey through mindfulness meditation during a talk Friday, June 5 at 7 pm at the Half Moon Bay Public Library, 620 Correas Street, Half Moon Bay.

Ten San Mateo County beaches, including an elephant-seal rookery and a popular hostel and lighthouse, could be closed if Gov.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to close 25 Bay Area state parks and beaches, including Pacifica, Montara, Gray Whale Cove, Half Moon Bay, Ano Nuevo, Bean Hollow, Pigeon Point, Pescadero, San Gregorio, plus Montara Mountain and San Bruno Mountain.

There are times I think blondies are a poor substitute for brownies, their richer, chewier cousins.

Santa Cruz's Gabriella Cafe and Pescadero's Pie Ranch will team up June 7 to put on a fundraising dinner for the "Grow a Farmer" campaign, which will help build permanent housing for apprentices of the UC Santa Cruz organic farming course.

Local schools found out where they ranked today, and just how much road must be covered by next year, as the state released the 2008 Academic Performance Index growth targets and school rankings.

Members of the HMB HS Interact Club and supportive adult volunteers helping with gardening and rebuilding a deck.

Recipients can pick up their booklets and reception tickets starting at 9am at the info booth.

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