Scot Crocker
Scot Crocker runs a marketing and public relations firm Crocker Branding & Creative. As a lifelong Sacramentan, he founded the Sacramento Walk of Stars.
Dan Vierria
Dan VierriaGardening Columnist About This Author As a senior writer for The Sacramento Bee, Dan Vierria covered media, food, restaurants, pop culture/trends and home & garden. Currently, he is a freelance writer, social media page administrator and certified...
Walt Seifert
Walt SeifertTransportation Columnist About This Author Walt Seifert is a transportation writer and activist who has participated prominently in local transportation planning efforts and led an award-winning bicycle advocacy organization. Articles by this author Caged...
Out and About June 2020
Find out what is happening in Sacramento during June!
Let’s Be Fair
The Sacramento River Parkway levee is closed to public access. That’s a good thing. The closure means contractors for the Army Corps of Engineers are busy digging cutoff walls within the levee, burrowing anywhere from 35 to 135 feet below ground. The re-enforced levee will help protect Pocket, Greenhaven and the city from catastrophic floods.
Brother-Sister Act
Terry Grabowy purchased his “really old, really small” home, tucked away off a quiet road in Carmichael, in 1989. More than 30 years later, it was time to level the 1,200-square-foot dwelling and start anew.
“It was meant to be torn down and something new built because the house was just so old and the foundation was really lousy,” Grabowy says. “Part of it was raised and part of it was slab. The concrete was falling apart.”
