Brandon and Molly Weber were pioneers in the shared office space business when they started The Urban Hive 18 years ago. Now it’s an expanded industry, adapting to workplace trends.
At its fourth and largest location, the Downtown business is where individuals and companies meet, work and socialize. The Urban Hive long ago replaced cubicles with motifs of work by local artists. Drab hallways became open spaces with high-beam ceilings.
“I don’t see us as selling desks,” Brandon says. “A lot of co-working spaces, that’s their business. But I don’t want to talk about widgets. If we start talking about that for 30 minutes, then we become a widget manufacturer.”
About eight years ago, Andrew Noseworthy and his mother, Victoria Rosario, recognized a disappointing trend.
“We were talking about how more kids these days are calling college a sham and are really staying away,” the Sacramento attorney says. “It’s a mindset we noticed.”
The mother-son duo decided to help counter the phenomenon. They wrote a book. With Andrew as author and his mother, a long-time educator, as collaborator, “ABCs to College” was self-published last November.
When Campus Commons Golf Course welcomed the public back in 2025 after a four-year hiatus, David Levin played on opening day. The lifelong golfer loved the greens and volunteered to repair ball marks.
His enthusiasm was noticed. Levin was offered a job as a starter on the nine-hole layout that parallels the American River Parkway near the Tara O’Sullivan Memorial Bridge.
Levin, 79, works Saturdays for six hours beginning at 6:30 a.m. He’s in a golf cart near the first hole. He greets players, answers questions and keeps the flow of play steady on the par-3 course that opened in 1971.
“I’ve always enjoyed getting along with people,” Levin says. “I know how to deal with people. You can get people to agree with you if you present something, you know, in a certain way that’s acceptable to them.
About 50 years ago, Tracy Broshar defied her mother and bought a motorcycle. The riding hobby eventually became a family affair. It also saved Broshar’s life.
Much has happened since the East Sacramento woman, at age 18, purchased a Honda XL75, a small bike built for trail riding.
Since then, Broshar, 67, has bought several motorcycles. She also overcame physical limitations prompted by a motorcycle crash and persevered through the loss of a long-time partner and personal despair.
Society for the Blind’s Braille Production & Training Program has one principle.
“Braille is literacy,” says Jill Guilbeau, program manager and lead Braille instructor. “You can read digital books, but that’s not reading. To be able to sit down and read a book in braille, it’s powerful to me because you’re using your skills to read. It’s part of being independent.”
For more than 70 years, Society for the Blind has offered programming to help blind and low-vision youth, adults and seniors lead more independent lives.
When the opportunity arrived to acquire Sacramento Braille Transcribers in 2021, the society jumped at the chance.
Linda Franzoia met Erick Feil at Club 2-Me, the East Sacramento pub. She was a customer. He was a bartender and general manager for Club 2-Me’s owners, the Mier family. It was a long time ago.
Erick and Linda fell in love and got married. Life evolved with complex histories of families and friends, stories of bartenders and the lore shared by neighborhood bars.
They owned Lucky Café in Midtown and opened Stingers Sports Pub on La Riviera Drive. Erick died in 2018. Now Linda runs Stingers, which celebrates its 33rd anniversary in July. Through it all, she never forgot about Club 2-Me.
