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Boulevard Bites
Tracey Rolandelli
### Happy Chinese New Year! To ring in the Year of the Rat, stop by the Laurel Elementary School (3750 Brown Ave.), on Saturday, February 16, 10 a.m. to noon.
To Your Health
Paulette Avery, R.N., M.S.N., I.B.C.L.C.
Caring for Winter Dry SkinAlthough we've had no shortage of moist air recently, the lower humidity sometimes common in winter and heated indoor air can lead to...
Get Organized. Join Your NCPC
Did you resolve to be more organized this year? Do you have ideas for civic improvement, building community, ending violence? Here's your chance.

Back From Extinction " a Women's Bar Emerges in the Laurel
Meredith Florian
Back in the disco days women's bars flourished in the Bay Area, but now you are as likely to encounter one as see a woolly mammoth on MacArthur.
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Imperfect Gardener
Adina Sara
My gardener's stars have been out of alignment these past few months. I was either out of town, hosting a cold, or intending to weed, but that was the weekend of ...

Mills and the MacArthur Corridor
Nancy MacKay'
Have you ever been curious about Laurel Elementary School in the '50s? Retired Oakland History librarian Bill Sturm can tell you all about it.
On the Road to Success: Rettig Avenue
Hugo Evans
On a dark, cold night in late November, over 70 residents crammed into the Redwood Heights Rec Center preschool room and poured into the doorways and halls.
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