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In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

  
 VIA Online: Livermore Valley Weekend Getaway
From the two dozen wineries clustered at the eastern end of the valley to the sidewalk cafés of Pleasanton to the romantic eccentricities of Sunol in the west, this is a place to slow down and wander.
Biking the Livermore Valley is a popular way to explore the various wineries and take in the spring wild-flowers as well.
The pairing of the 2001 Livermore Valley Chardonnay with the smoked Sonoma half chicken and sweet potatoes with sage-infused brown butter is a special treat.
www.viamagazine.com /weekenders/livermore03.asp   (1040 words)

  
 Livermore Valley Wine Country   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Livermore Wine Country is located southeast of Oakland, south of Danville and southwest of Mount Diablo.
Livermore wine is grown in a climate affected by both coastal and inland influences.
Livermore Valley wine is produced in some of the earliest recognized soils for producing high-quality grapes in California.
www.california-wine-tours-and-accessories.com /livermore-valley.html   (288 words)

  
 Livermore Valley Wine Country Events ::
Cozy barrel rooms of several Livermore Valley Wineries serve as unique and intimate theaters for the Festival.
The Livermore Valley Wine Country Championship is currently seeking Sponsors and Volunteers.
This event is co-presented by the Tri-Valley Conservancy and the Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association.
www.livermorewine.com /events.html   (998 words)

  
 Livermore Valley - Appellation America
Livermore Valley put California on the international wine map in 1889, capturing America’s first gold medal at the Paris Exposition.
Livermore Valley boasts one of the original U.S. appellations granted by the BATF way back in October, 1982.
Livermore Valley has always had a strong reputation for the Bordeaux white varietals and continues to produce remarkable Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon, all the while acreage devoted to these two stars continues to dwindle.
wine.appellationamerica.com /wine-region/Livermore-Valley.html   (336 words)

  
 Livermore Valley revival / Over a century ago it was California's leading wine region. Now it's emerging from the ...
Livermore Valley's future is in the hands of people like Katz, a construction foreman for a mechanical contractor.
Livermore still needs a few blockbuster wines to reach the standard of great California wine regions to which it once hewed.
Livermore still seems to have a stigma; although outside wineries buy grapes from Livermore growers, almost no wineries outside Livermore Valley use that appellation on the label.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/15/WIG5S7KVAH1.DTL&type=winepage   (3652 words)

  
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The Livermore Rotary Club is located in the historic Livermore Valley community of Livermore, California.
Livermore has many diverse activities from wineries to the world famous Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The Livermore Rotary Club is one of over 26,000 Rotary International clubs (one of the 57 clubs in District 5170) and is dedicated to serving the local community in various ways which benefit a wide variety of charitable activities as well as individuals needing special support.
www.livermore-rotary.org /index.html   (108 words)

  
 North Livermore Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Home to grazing cattle, rows of mowed hay, hawks and stately oaks, the valley has miraculously remained in an unspoiled state of haunting lovliness despite aggressive attempts by builders to convert its verdant rolling hills and scenic ranchlands into a wasteland of houses and asphalt.
Folks in these parts, including FRIENDS OF LIVERMORE, view the potential incursion of urban sprawl into North Livermore Valley as contrary to the vision of a community with balance between urban areas and open spaces.
Livermore citizens place high value on the enhanced quality of life currently afforded by moderate population, manageable traffic, not-yet-overstrained city services, and the close proximity of agricultural regions and scenic open spaces.
northlivermorevalley.org   (176 words)

  
 Epinions.com - Too short a visit to the Livermore Valley
Concannon is one of the few Livermore wines you can probably find at the local grocer (the other possibly being Wente) and is now corporate-owned, but is still run by the grandson of its founder and, having been legally allowed to continue operation through Prohibition, is the oldest continuously operating winery in the valley.
After a few questions, the pourer at Concannon discerned that I was a fan of Zinfandel and of offbeat wines; she gave me a map produced by the Livermore Valley Winegrowers' Association (http://www.livermorewine.com) and directed me to three other wineries on my route that she thought would suit my taste.
Livermore Valley Cellars' specialty, Zinfandel, was less offbeat but equally distinctive.
www.epinions.com /content_4308377732   (1214 words)

  
 Livermore travel guide - Wikitravel
Livermore is a suburban city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Livermore has at least one claim to fame: it is home to the longest burning incandescent light bulb in the world.
The Livermore Valley, which contains many wineries including the famous Wente Vineyards, is considered "wine country", and produces some of California's best wines.
wikitravel.org /en/Livermore   (380 words)

  
 Livermore Valley NPRM
ATF has received a petition proposing an area in Alameda County, California, as a viticultural area to be known as "Livermore Valley." The area is one of the coastal intermountain valleys that surround the San Francisco Bay depression.
Starting in the east, the watershed area of the Livermore Valley is bounded by the Altamount Hills and Crane Ridge, to the south by Cedar Mountain Ridge and Rocky Ridge, in the west bythe Pleasanton Ridge, and in the north by the Black Hills.
The valley's geographic location is generally the area covered by the political boundaries of Murray and Pleasanton townships.
www.wineinstitute.org /ava/reference/fr/htm/livermore_nprm.htm   (2206 words)

  
 Livermore, California Hotels, Dining, Attractions : Livermore Valley Wine Country
The Livermore Valley Wine Country is one of California's oldest wine regions.
Now undergoing a renaissance, Livermore Valley wineries are producing a wide range of varietals, including petite syrah, pinot noir and award-winning California sauvignon blanc and chardonnay.
Livermore is home to public golf courses including The Course at Wente Vineyards, Las Positas Golf Courses and Poppy Ridge Golf Course.
www.livermore-california.com   (179 words)

  
 Livermore History - eLivermore.com
Livermore, Pleasanton, and the Tri-Valley have an interesting history, dating back to the 1800s.
Livermore is the home of the longest burning light bulb in history.
In Livermore the tracks were realigned with the Western Pacific route in about 1963.
www.elivermore.com /history.htm   (954 words)

  
 ContraCostaTimes.com | 04/16/2006 | Livermore Valley Opera fund-raiser hits all right notes
When opera lover Cheree Heathershaw of Pleasanton attended a public information event at the library about the Livermore Valley Opera, she was so wowed by director Raquel Holt that she became an LVO regular.
A LVO board member for a decade, she emphasized that this is an exciting time for the opera as it moves into a new theater.
Guild treasurer Judy McMurray of Livermore learned to love opera as a student at San Lorenzo High and saw joining the guild as a chance to benefit the community and get her opera fix at the same time.
www.siliconvalley.com /mld/cctimes/news/14355599.htm?source=rss&channel=cctimes_news   (723 words)

  
 Rotary Club of Livermore Valley
The Rotary Club of Livermore Valley was founded on April 9, 1985 and chartered by Rotary International on May 31, 1985.
Members of the Rotary Club of Livermore (the noon club) saw the need to form an additional Rotary club in Livermore, particularly one that would meet in the morning.
Livermore Valley Rotarians can be heard singing Christmas carols during the Senior Lights Tour, digging tree holes to beautify a parkway and stuffing back packs for needy school kids – it’s the highlight of being a Rotarian.
www.livermorevalleyrotary.com   (427 words)

  
 Independent Lens . LIVERMORE . The Place | PBS
Livermore has grown younger: the median age is 35.
As the science and tech industries transformed Livermore’s image as well as its landscape, residents have struggled to preserve, as well as redefine, the town’s identity.
Livermore’s 22 square miles expanded with the implementation of the South Livermore Valley Area Plan, which devoted more acreage to vineyards and parks.
www.pbs.org /independentlens/livermore/place.html   (704 words)

  
 Livermore Valley Mortgage Home Page
Livermore Valley Mortgage is your local mortgage lender, serving the Tri-Valley area and beyond.
The people at LVM live and work in Livermore, and they know and love this area.
Being locally owned and operated, it is Livermore Valley Mortgage's desire to provide our clients with exceptional service and a wide array of loan products tailored to fit their specific financial needs.
www.livermorevalleymortgage.com   (87 words)

  
 Real Estate - Relocating - Livermore, Alameda County, California
Livermore is located in the Tri-Valley region, East of San Francisco.
Livermore was the largest and fastest growing city in the region,.
In 1918, many Livermore ranches which sparked the Livermore Rodeo began to raise funds for the Red Cross during World War I. Later, during World War II brought significant changes to the region.
www.drelocation.com /California/alamedaco/Livermore.html   (343 words)

  
 Nationwide Tour invades California wine country for the Livermore Valley Championship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Livermore Valley Championship is the first Nationwide stop in northern California since the 2003 Monterey Peninsula Classic.
LIVERMORE, Calif. (Sports Network) -- The inaugural Livermore Valley Wine Country Championship, the first Nationwide Tour event to set up shop in California Wine Country, tees off on Thursday due east of San Francisco with a very strong field.
The Livermore Valley Wine Country Championship is the first Nationwide Tour event in northern California since the second and final Monterey Peninsula Classic in 2003.
www.pga.com /news/tours/nationwide/livermore032806.cfm   (566 words)

  
 Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District
Livermore schools receive less money per student than the statewide average.
Livermore school trustees Tuesday unanimously authorized their lawyers to begin eminent domain proceedings against a funeral home to gain more room for Livermore High School.
Spanish teachers are a hard-to-fill position and to remedy the problem the Livermore district tapped into the main source-by importing two teachers from Mexico.
www.livermoreschools.com   (2277 words)

  
 Livermore
Although Livermore has grown into an attractive suburban community where high tech industries are increasingly visible the area's allure is being one of California's first historic wine districts.
Members of the Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association are promoting their area as an alternative to the Napa Valley, pointing out that it's less crowded, the wines are generally less expensive and it's closer to most of the San Francisco Bay Area's seven million residents than Napa or Sonoma.
To the southwest, Santa Clara Valley and the Livermore Valley merge northeast of San Jose, near present-day Freemont.
www.rimcorp.com /OurHotels/Tours/Livermore/livermore.html   (1136 words)

  
 Winexpression » Blog Archive » Episode 1 - Profile - The Livermore Valley Wine Country   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Robert Livermore came to the area in 1846 and planted the first vineyard in the area with the wealth he accumulated selling hides and tallow in Santa Clara, California.
Growers still liked the rocky soils and the diverse Microclimates of Livermore, but most grew for quantity not quality, resulting in mediocre wines lacking the body and development of the neighbors to the north.
Kirstin came to Livermore by chance from South Africa, when her husband’s job moved them to Silicon Valley.
winexpression.com /2006/04/18/episode-1-profile-the-livermore-valley-wine-country   (1491 words)

  
 Livermore Chamber of Commerce
The Livermore Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to advancing the economic vitality of Livermore.
Located in the beautiful Livermore Valley - our wine country provides us with a business we are most proud of - the wine business.
Much of the appeal of Livermore can be found in its historic Downtown area, a treasure of restaurants and shops that reflect the city’s growing art community and popularity.
www.livermorechamber.org   (456 words)

  
 Livermore Amateur Radio Klub
The Livermore Amateur Radio Klub was incorporated on July 30, 1959, as a nonprofit association of persons commonly interested in amateur radio.
LARK serves the communities of Livermore, Pleasanton, and Dublin California, and the surrounding Tri-Valley area.
We support the Livermore Valley and Mines Road sections, up to the Mt. Hamilton summit.
www.livermoreark.org   (471 words)

  
 Tri-Valley Cares - Beware of Geeks Bearing NIFs!
NIF, it is claimed by the Livermore Lab, will reach the break even point and beyond, producing more energy than it takes to start the reaction.
The Livermore area is already saturated with elevated levels of tritium.
Lab analyses have found that Livermore Valley wines purchased off the shelf have four times the tritium content of other California wines.
www.trivalleycares.org /geeks.htm   (1541 words)

  
 Livermore California Real Estate - Pleasanton California Real Estate
Location is just one reason the Tri-Valley area (consisting of the Dublin, Livermore and Pleasanton, California real estate markets) is such a jewel.
Situated amid rolling hills and lush valleys filled with local wineries and windmills, three Tri-Valley towns are perfectly positioned within the Greater Bay Area.
California real estate is not generally known for being affordable, but homes for sale in Livermore offer great value along with exceptional schools.
www.kurtzer.com   (473 words)

  
 Tri-Valley CAREs Home Page
Livermore Lab "Site 300" on Dept. of Homeland Security List to be Announced Today: Community Group Opposes "Mixing Bugs and Bombs" at Nuclear Weapons Lab, Cites Health and Environmental Concerns
Having this much plutonium in Livermore presents enormous, unstudied risks - such as making the lab a terrorist target, leaving the San Francisco Bay area vulnerable to environmental releases from accidents or routine operations, and provoking other countries to follow suit and increase their stockpiles of nuclear materials.
It makes even less sense considering that DOE is now planning to move all the plutonium out of Livermore by 2014.
www.trivalleycares.org   (1530 words)

  
 Press Release - MAME Awards for City of Livermore
South Livermore Valley homebuilders claimed the top prize in five categories including the “grand prize” designation of Community of the Year at the 2003 Major Achievement and Marketing Excellence awards sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Northern California.
These award-winning residential projects are located within the City of Livermore’s South Livermore Valley Specific Plan area.
The City’s South Livermore Valley Specific Plan envisions residential neighborhoods that reflect the Valley’s unique character and wine-country tradition.
www.ci.livermore.ca.us /MAME_awards.html   (346 words)

  
 Livermore Wine - Thomas Coyne Winery - Wine Country - Livermore Valley, CA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Livermore Wine - Thomas Coyne Winery - Wine Country - Livermore Valley, CA Vallecitos Road Livermore, CA 94550
Over looking the charm of rustic old barns, lush vineyards and Mt. Diablo as a backdrop is Thomas Coyne Winery; located in South Livermore Valley, CA.
The grapes are purchased from the Livermore Valley, El Dorado County and Contra Costa County.
thomascoynewinery.com   (222 words)

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