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Happy New Year, Anyway
Well we have come to the end of another year and the start of a new one. So far in 2012 we survived the Mayan apocalypse and soon we shall find out if we will survive the fisc... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 7:00 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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San Ramon is back in DSRSD
Ed Duarte put San Ramon back into the Dublin San Ramon Services District. Ed, who won election to the District, was sworn in as a Director on December 18th along with the two ... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 3:39 am by \"Did\", a resident of Dublin |
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Answering Patch posters
It's Labor Day weekend and I wasn't going to post a blog this Monday, but after reading the San Ramon Patch about widening Bollinger Canyon Road I felt it necessary to answer ... |
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on Dec 21, 2012 at 2:48 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Video of DSRSD meeting now online
The Dublin San Ramon Services District tried to stream live video of their Board of Directors meetings last summer but failed due to insufficient band width. Sue Stephenson sa... |
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on Dec 17, 2012 at 12:46 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Teeth
This Friday's blog is about my teeth. No wait, wait, it's not as bad as it sounds. It's about adult orthodontics and new innovations in teeth straightening. If you have crooke... |
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on Dec 14, 2012 at 1:46 am by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Disposition of Mudd's
The Oversight Board for the dissolution of the assets of the San Ramon Redevelopment Agency finally got around to considering what to do with the Mudd's Restaurant property. T... |
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on Dec 10, 2012 at 11:09 am by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Chanukah Miracle
Chanukah started Saturday night. I missed it. Well I couldn't miss it because it is 8 day, but I thought it started Sunday night, so I put two candles and the shammash, the on... |
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on Dec 9, 2012 at 8:49 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Invitation to the Chamber Awards Dinner
Wednesday I received a call from Kat Fanning at the San Ramon Chamber of Commerce offering me a free ticket to the Chamber Awards Dinner at the Bridges Golf Club Thursday nigh... |
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on Dec 6, 2012 at 11:45 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Lost Wallet
I lost my wallet three weeks ago on November 5th around 4 pm at the Valero gas station on Market Place across the street from the Library. I filled up my Focus with gas and us... |
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on Nov 28, 2012 at 6:43 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Harvesting Wealth
Thanksgiving celebrates the bountiful harvest and coming of winter. The first Thanksgiving was an informal celebration between Pilgrims and Indians in 1621.
This was prob... |
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on Nov 22, 2012 at 8:50 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Special Spaces for special kids
I literally bumped into Nancy Tatarka last week. I was walking down the refrigerated isle in the Nob Hill Market when a woman turned around from the dairy case and to my surpr... |
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on Nov 18, 2012 at 11:50 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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The Pancake Man
(Sung to the tune of The Muffin Man)
Oh do you know the pancake man,
The pancake man, the pancake man?
Do you know the pancake man,
That lives in San Ramon?
You can f... |
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on Nov 17, 2012 at 2:07 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Getting excited about art!
Normally I post my Friday blog late Thursday night or early Friday morning so it is here in the morning, but today the Arts Advisory Committee was meeting with |
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on Nov 16, 2012 at 11:31 am by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Election Suprises
The first surprise was that President Obama trounced Gov. Romney in both electoral votes and the popular vote. Polls were touting a close race with maybe Obama squeaking throu... |
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on Nov 15, 2012 at 7:34 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of Alamo |
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Eye of the beholder
Beauty or artistic merit is in the eye of the beholder. Last week the Arts Advisory Committee voted on 32 entries for exhibits in galleries around San Ramon.
The city's pr... |
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on Nov 12, 2012 at 10:14 am by mloliver, a resident of San Ramon |
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Think Small
I recently heard from Tom Spargo, whom I wrote about in a blog on water walls and RainSaucers back in September ... |
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on Nov 7, 2012 at 10:23 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Visiting Maine
I took my annual trek to Maine last week. Actually I skipped going last year and I was almost ready to skip this year. I was a worry wreck for a month preceding since I had a ... |
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on Oct 31, 2012 at 7:37 am by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Art Summit
Wednesday night, October 17th, the Arts Advisory Committee held an Art Summit at the San Ramon Community Center. The purpose of this was to meet with members of the artistic c... |
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on Oct 19, 2012 at 12:32 am by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Ed Duarte and DSRSD
Ed Duarte is a candidate for Director of the Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD). I've been trying to reach him for an interview since last week. I wanted to add his in... |
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on Oct 16, 2012 at 9:30 am by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Fireworks vote ends Friday, October 5th
The City website has been taking votes and comments on what to do for the 4th of July celebration next year. The most votes so far are to bring back the original show in Centr... |
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on Oct 4, 2012 at 6:28 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Crowdfunding
I just received a brand new product from a company called Lumi Co. The product is an Inkodye set, which is described on the package as "Amazing dy... |
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on Oct 1, 2012 at 3:28 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Lunch with Lou
Louis Dagen left a message on my answering machine at 2:49 pm on 9/13. Unfortunately it kept fading in and out, so I couldn't understand what he was saying. He was trying to t... |
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on Sep 28, 2012 at 6:15 pm by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |
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Nora Ephron & Me
Tom Cushing, who writes the Raucous Caucus Blog in the San Ramon and Danville Expresses, complemented me on my last blog about blogging, "I don't know how you do it twice-a-we... |
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on Sep 25, 2012 at 9:25 am by mloliver, a resident of San Ramon |
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Blogging about blogging
In the old newspaper days when news was printed on paper there were two categories of writers – Reporters who covered news, and Columnists who wrote whatever they wanted to bu... |
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on Sep 19, 2012 at 8:00 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of Alamo |
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Scenario #3
In my blog on 4th of July Options last month, I described my participation on the Research subcommittee of the 4th ... |
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on Sep 14, 2012 at 1:14 am by Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer |