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- Pepperluma Countdown
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- Pints, Pies and Not-so-Proper English - Saint George's Day in Petaluma
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- Famous Five U11A Petaluma Rivercats Take on International Indoor Elite
- Part Two of Petaluma Gap Growers Talking Wine
- Petaluma Gap Wine Alliance Gains Momentum
- Roxie Rocks Chicago at Petaluma High
- Beekeeping 101 - An 'On-the-Spot' Instruction
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Pepperluma Countdown
With a little over a week to work out the kinks on the tastiest chili and salsa in town, 38 competing teams will take the great Petaluma Chili Festival challenge on Saturday, May 9th.
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Walk the Vineyards of the Petaluma Gap
Ever dreamed of planting your own vineyard? Here's an insider's invitation to embrace your inner vintner!
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Roxie Rocks Chicago at Petaluma High
All the way from the bright lights of Broadway to Petaluma High, based on a sensational true story of Prohibition-era Chicago, this is one hot musical every bit the smash hit you would hope it to be.
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Beekeeping 101 - An 'On-the-Spot' Instruction
Beekeeping sounds like a solitary sort of affair. You'd think that all that off-putting protective equipment would make it pretty hard for interaction with random passersby. Yet Petaluma's Bee Lady, Ettamarie Peterson proves that all sorts of folk tend to make a bee-line to have some dialog on her bee preservation patrol!
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Artistic Rendering of Saint Vincent's Sporting Future
Patience is indeed a virtue! For half a century, Saint Vincent De Paul High School in Petaluma has been holding out for a top-flight sports field. Now the hopes and dreams of three generations of sporting students should be finally coming to fruition.
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Haircuts for History - An American Revolution!
Time for a trim? Have a haircut for history and help elementary school kids recreate a slice of Colonial America.
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Frances Rivetti: Off The Cuff
Frances Rivetti scribbles daily on-line and for a variety of magazines, periodicals and newspapers throughout Northern California wine country and beyond. Trained as a general news reporter in rural Cambridgeshire, England, back in the late 80s, she duly discovered a very personal preference for uncovering the peculiarities of daily life over the deliverance of scandal and scoop. With some twenty plus years of international freelance 'lifestyle' journalism and public relations shaping the way she looks at community life, this long-time British American is deeply rooted along the edge of rural West Petaluma, juggling the daily adventures of her three school aged sons, antics of a hobby winemaker husband, wine country cooking and catering to a unruly menagerie of assorted family pets. 'Off the Cuff' is Rivetti blogging in her own backyard!
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