When Megan Bre Camp opened Summer Solace on Claremont Avenue in Rockridge, she brought more than a skincare line. She brought years of experience in traditional food preparation, regenerative agriculture, and artisan craftsmanship.
Ask most people why they live in Rockridge, and you will quickly detect a group of common reasons: architecturally interesting housing stock, a vibrant pedestrian-oriented shopping and dining “main” street, great public and private transportation.
Welcome to Rockridge Voice, a new media platform for the Rockridge community. We are just getting started, so we decided to ask some of our neighbors... why do you love Rockridge?
Doug Yoshida came by his activism by accident….or did he? After practicing emergency medicine at Stanford, Alta Bates and SF General, he took a short stint at Bellevue in Manhattan where he was scheduled for an evening shift on September 11, 2001.
Growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Caroline Stern wanted to be an artist. Life initially took her in a different direction, and instead, she majored in English at Oberlin College in Ohio.
As urban planner Jonathan Pacheco Bell argues, planners should not plan from their desks but from within the communities they serve. I have taken that idea to heart. I plan from my front yard.
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