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Sacramento is at the national forefront of athletic charity fundraising. But gathering money for athletic accomplishment via pledges, race entry fees or donations can be a sensitive proposition.

The Team In Training organization has helped thousands of runners complete marathons, all of whom have to commit to fundraising. The athletes get expert training, set goals and work together. And they ask friends, family and colleagues for money.

The outcome defines synergy. ...

Like any thriving metropolitan city, Sacramento's landscape is seemingly changing daily. Reminders of yesteryear are dwindling at an all-too-rapid pace. But sidewalk stamps to the old faded painted signs on the sides of downtown buildings, anything that reveals a sense of the past deserves respect.

It's sad, for instance, when an ancient walnut tree is destroyed or when a long-standing business like Crown Cleaners in East Sacramento meets ...

Several years ago, I was given an electronic pole saw with the unusual brand name "Woodzig." Used properly, it can reduce the expense of commercial tree-trimming services to a job even a non-handyman like me can handle without great sacrifice.

Used improperly, the saw can break and end up collecting dust in the garage. The latter was my fortune. As hard as I looked, no one I called or e-mailed around ...

The second Amgen Tour of California will be held Feb. 18-25 and will feature a course of more than 650 miles that will extend from San Francisco to Long Beach.

Beginning with a traditional prologue through the streets of downtown San Francisco and traveling over the next week on a newly created course, the event will includes 18 domestic and international teams of eight riders each

The field will ...

The Jed Smith Ultra Classic, now in its 29th year, is scheduled Saturday, Feb. 4 at Gibson Ranch in Elverta, just north of Sacramento.

The event, which includes race distances of 30 kilometers (18.6 miles), 50 kilometers (31.2 miles) and 50 miles, is held on a nearly flat, 3.31-mile loop course that's 50 percent asphalt and 50 percent dirt.

Runners progress around the ...

On sunny morning last summer, John Hazelton, 26, of Sacramento, was sitting in the N Street Cafe (2022 N Street) enjoying another of the expanding Sacramento conveniences — free wireless, high-speed Internet access.

Starbucks may have been the first coffee establishment to offer easily accessible remote access to the Internet. But a growing number of coffeehouses and other businesses also now offer WiFi (Wireless Fidelity), the popular ...