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During my middle school years, the orchard around the corner was bulldozed and a shopping center erupted. Being that my friends and I were kids, it was our sacred duty to know everything one could possibly know about that jobsite.

The commercial Dungeness crab season in Central California opened Nov. 14 and started off great, until the weather took a turn and kept boats in port. The market is hungry for crabs, and consumers are paying top dollar to start the season.

Joseph Byron Burns was born at 2:43 a.m. Nov. 7, 2012, to Christine Michele Dahl and David Michael Burns, PhD, of Boulder Creek. Joseph weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces when he arrived at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View.

It’s getting to be the time of year when respiratory illnesses, such as colds, coughs and the flu, begin to make more of us ill.

The long political campaign is over. Endless hours of debates and political ads ended with not much change in Washington, D.C. Barack Obama is still president, Democrats still control the Senate and Republicans still control the House.

Have you noticed how many plant varieties are named after food?