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Call Log Diaries #30: Saxophones, Subarus & Shenanigans
Welcome back to another thrilling Call Log Diaries – aka “Why Is This a 911 Call?” This week, we’ve got a tortoise on a joyride, a bear where it doesn’t belong, car alarm purgatory, and a saxophone…
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First Day of School Tips for Kids & Parents: Survive and Thrive
The first day of school always seems to come at us faster than we expect (while also taking too long to get here.) One minute, you’re buying popsicles and sunscreen, and the next, you’re staring at a…
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2nd Annual Back to School Night at the NSJ Community Center!
If you’ve been around the Ridge long enough, you know we do back to school a little differently here. We’re not just about shopping lists and shoe sales—we’re about coming together as a community to make sure…
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Parenting Made Easy: Nevada County Public Health Resources
If there’s one thing parenting will teach you, it’s that “winging it” only works for so long—usually until the first time you realize you’ve been giving your toddler fruit snacks for dinner three nights in a row…
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Surviving Small Town Gossip (And Using It to Your Advantage)
Small-town gossip is like wildfire—only faster, and without the courtesy of a CAL FIRE update. If you live in a place where the population is smaller than the line at Starbucks in the next county over, you…
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Nevada County’s Big Glow-Up: Roads, Broadband, and More on the Horizon
If you’ve been living in Nevada County for a while, you know that “infrastructure improvement” used to mean someone filled a pothole and maybe fixed a streetlight. But lately? The county is leveling up in some serious…
