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<title>Frances Rivetti: Off The Cuff: Community</title>
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<description><![CDATA[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 &apos;lifestyle&apos; 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. &apos;Off the Cuff&apos; is Rivetti blogging in her own backyard!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pepperluma Countdown]]></title>
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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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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:40:09 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pizza Politano Top Pick for Petaluma Parade Nosh!]]></title>
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Discovering Butter and Eggs Day brick oven delights.
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:37:59 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pints, Pies and Not-so-Proper English - Saint George's Day in Petaluma]]></title>
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SoCo Anglophile's unite for a pub-style celebration of Saint George's Day.
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:13:51 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Walk the Vineyards of the Petaluma Gap]]></title>
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Ever dreamed of planting your own vineyard? Here's an insider's invitation to embrace your inner vintner!
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<title><![CDATA[Famous Five U11A Petaluma Rivercats Take on International Indoor Elite]]></title>
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Five fearless young Petaluma Rivercats U11 Lacrosse players have made the grade for the first Northern California<b> <a href="http://www.boxlacrosseacademy.com/calilax.htm">BOX lacrosse</a></b> travel team set to compete on an International level in Calgary, Canada, this summer.
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<title><![CDATA[Part Two of Petaluma Gap Growers Talking Wine]]></title>
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By the way, thanks to Paul Clary, of Clary Ranch Wines for taking the initiative, Petaluma Gap's grape and wine community will have a float in the Butter &amp; Eggs Day Parade for the first time, this April!<object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zndczE3e55E&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"  ...
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:31:17 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Petaluma Gap Wine Alliance Gains Momentum]]></title>
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Follow your local grape growers and wine makers in this first of a two part video
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:27:38 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Roxie Rocks Chicago at Petaluma High]]></title>
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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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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:02:36 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Beekeeping 101 - An 'On-the-Spot' Instruction]]></title>
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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  ...
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:06:09 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Artistic Rendering of Saint Vincent's Sporting Future]]></title>
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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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