Diana Marcum writes about life in the small towns and rural areas of California for the Los Angeles Times. In 2015, she won the Pulitzer Prize for narrative portraits of farm workers, farmers and others in California’s drought-stricken Central Valley. She is the author of “The Tenth Island, Finding Joy, Beauty and Unexpected Love in the Azores.”
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Emotions spilled forth in the Ramirez household after mom and dad, both doctors, received their second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The man known as the godfather of California’s organic farming died of cancer at the farm where he loved to work.
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La camioneta avanzaba traqueteando por un camino de terracería donde se destacaba por la nube de polvo que dejaba en su camino, estaba pintada con colores que semejaban el glaseado de un pastel de cumpleaños y las luces del árbol de Navidad, confeti rojo-púrpura-amarillo-azul.
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In the dusty fields of the San Joaquin Valley, “El Profe” brings masks, music and help to farm laborers, some of whom are barely scraping by.
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Mientras los proveedores médicos suplican a sus comunidades que les ayuden a controlar el coronavirus, algunos trabajadores y empresarios dicen que no pueden permitirse el lujo de escuchar.
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As medical providers plead with their communities to help them control the coronavirus, some workers and business owners say they can’t afford to listen.
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Column One: Armenian Americans marvel at an elder’s generosity as they grieve over an ancestral home
Column One: Armenian Americans marvel at an elder’s generosity as they grieve over an ancestral home
Clara Margossian, 102, built a life in Fresno after her family fled the Armenian genocide. With the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, she has given $1 million to help Armenia, a homeland she’s never seen.
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It’s no secret that Stan Yagi hires ex-convicts. He makes it his mission to teach them about life.
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En un pueblo pequeño, puede ser difícil ser diferente. Pero a veces una persona puede ser tan parte del tejido de la vida social que establece sus propias reglas.
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In a small town, it can be hard to be any kind of different. But sometimes a person can be so much a part of the fabric of life that he sets his own rules.