The family of six was “busting at the seams.” Living in a small house in Oak Park, Micah and Emily Baginski and their four children needed a bigger place to call home. But there was a catch. The couple wanted to build a new home in the established neighborhood of Curtis Park, where vacant lots are few and far between. After a year of searching, the opportunity finally presented itself.
They present themselves as victims of robberies and assaults, but police data shows their streets are extraordinarily safe. They promise to sue the city, but never file lawsuits. They make threats and bark loudly, but never bite.Empty threats have worked wonders for a handful of Pocket and Greenhaven homeowners who claim they own public levees along the Sacramento River. The ownership claims are fantasy.
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge has rejected an attempt to stop construction of a concrete water vault under McKinley Park. In a nine-page ruling, Judge Richard Sueyoshi denied a lawsuit filed by an anonymous group calling itself Citizens For A Safe And Sewage-Free McKinley Park in late February. The group wanted to block the city from building the vault, which is designed to prevent water runoff and sewage from backing up into East Sacramento streets, driveways and homes during severe rainstorms.
A kid explosion in Kath Friedrich’s goat herd brought an early spring for the Carmichael mom. In barns at her Rio Linda farm and at home in Carmichael, Friedrich’s pregnant goats delivered sooner than expected. “The moms were all on course to deliver in March,” says the former law professor. “Then the big rains came in February. One of my first-time moms birthed three kids at Rio Linda.
I’ve been visiting gardens most of my life. I’ll never forget being an excited little girl in the hedge maze of the Governor’s Palace gardens in Williamsburg or a teenager stunned by the beauty of tulips in the Netherlands’ Keukenhof gardens. I’ve been to hundreds of gardens since then, and have never lost my initial joy and sense of discovery.
