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Apricot Bliss

Laura Ness
Laura Ness is an accomplished freelance writer offering travel tips and commentary on the California wine industry.
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Few born before 1970, says author Lisa Prince Newman, will forget the endless magic carpet of white blossoms that once covered the Santa Clara Valley. Prunes, apricot, peach and cherries trees dominated what was then known as the Valley of the Heart’s Delight, as far as the [...]

Charted designs

Mary Bartholomew
Mary Bartholomew
Mary Bartholomew
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More than 20 years ago, Teri Sanford Pharis walked away from a successful career in the tech industry and entered the more calculated, yet slow-paced world of needlecraft. Today Pharis owns a premier needlepoint store in the South Valley. “This is not your grandmother’s [...]

Mural Magnifico

Laura Ness
Laura Ness is an accomplished freelance writer offering travel tips and commentary on the California wine industry.
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Garlic may be top dog in Gilroy, but wine’s not far behind. And there’s a mural to prove it. At Fifth Street and Monterey Road, right across from the famed “Garlic Capital of the World” mural painted 25 years ago, you will find one depicting Santa Clara Valley wine [...]

Pumpkin parties

Wallace Baine
Wallace Baine
Wallace Baine is a staff writer for New SV Media with extensive experience covering community arts in the region.
Wallace Baine
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You can see the grounds of the Pumpkin Park at Uesugi Farms from the road. But to actually get there by car? That takes a journey. Once you turn off Monterey Road between San Martin and Morgan Hill to enter the park, you’ll soon find yourself in a transition, a bit like the [...]

Artist in the vineyard

Laura Ness
Laura Ness is an accomplished freelance writer offering travel tips and commentary on the California wine industry.
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Do you remember the smog-ridden ’80s in Los Angeles? Viticulturist Ron Mosley of Vinescape, a vineyard installation and management company dealing with more than 100 vineyards throughout the Santa Clara Valley and the Santa Cruz Mountains, sure does. “It was hell,” Mosley [...]

Local backcountry

Ron Erskine
Ron Erskine
Ron Erskine is a local outdoors columnist and avid hiker.
Ron Erskine
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“I have been meaning to get up there.”“It’s been 10 years since I visited the park. I have to go back soon.”When I talk to people in our community, many who have lived here for decades, I am surprised how often I hear remarks like this about Henry W. Coe State Park. [...]

Mr. Rough and Ready

Wallace Baine
Wallace Baine
Wallace Baine is a staff writer for New SV Media with extensive experience covering community arts in the region.
Wallace Baine
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The sky is an alarming swirl of gray and orange. You can’t tell just by looking if it’s day or night. Everything smells burnt. Chaos surrounds you. You’re standing in a parking lot of a WalMart in Clearlake, experiencing firsthand the Mendocino Complex Fire of 2018. Your [...]

Porch song

Wallace Baine
Wallace Baine
Wallace Baine is a staff writer for New SV Media with extensive experience covering community arts in the region.
Wallace Baine
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Before television, before radio, before the hundreds of beguiling distractions that have blessed (and cursed) the American family, there was the front porch. This modest architectural feature of the typical American mid-century home served a distinct purpose. It was the private [...]

A half-century on stage

Susan Rife
Susan Rife
Lover of arts & books; ukulele learner; therapeutic knitter; long-distance runner. Former Arts and Books Editor at Herald-Tribune.
Susan Rife
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It’s anyone’s guess which is more numerous along the crowded sidewalks of Manhattan, actor/performers or tourists. But earlier this summer, one group arrived in New York City checking both boxes. They numbered about 30, all from Gilroy, Morgan Hill or the surrounding area [...]
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