The Coffee House

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:00:00 +0100

At Sonoma County's only shelter specifically for homeless teens, intensive family counseling is the ticket to getting the kids safely back home again. And most of the time, it works.

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Sesame Street's 41st Year

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Over the past 40 years, Sesame Street has transformed our expectations of what children’s television can and should be. And they’re still at it. {play}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/9-28-10.mp3{/play}

Chocolate is at least 3000 years old, and we have the ancient Mayans to thank for it. By way of the conquistadors, that is.

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When a child is born or diagnosed with deafness or hearing impairment, both medical responses and educational interventions are available. But how are parents to make informed choices? That’s the subject of a bitter debate right now in Sacramento.

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Fort Ross

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Fort Ross, the only Russian outpost ever established on what is now the continental United States, celebrates the 198th anniversary of its founding with an annual Cultural Heritage Day on Saturday, July 31.

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Cannabis Training University

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Medical marijuana has grown from an “only in California” curiosity into an expanding realm of business opportunities—which some are now calling the Cannabis Industry. Among them is an entrepreneur who sees a niche in training workers for that budding industry.

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Red Cross Heroes 2010

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0100

For the seventh consecutive year, the Sonoma and Mendocino Counties chapter of the American Red Cross is honoring a group of 10 local citizens as Real Heroes among us. Continuing our own informal tradition, the North Bay Report has prepared these profiles of this year's honorees in two categories.

Good Samaritan, Youth:

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SWAT Team Training

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

There were no real “bad guys” loose on the Santa Rosa Junior College campus yesterday, but five dozen real police officers were there to train in tracking and capturing some simulated shooters.

Expanding Your Horizons

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0100

More women than ever are going to college, and they are graduating in record numbers, too. Expect in certain subject areas, such as math and the hard sciences. A local group believes that the way to change that is to start early.

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Keeping Kids Safe Online

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100

Keeping kids safe when they’re online isn’t about technology so much as trust and communication.

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