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    Skydiver


    Sky High

    When the weekend comes, Brooktrout Technologies employees look for adventure


    On any given Saturday or Sunday, Bob Eikel, Linda Falsitto, Scott Plautz and Bob Green, employees of the Los Gatos division of Brooktrout, steal away from faxes, cell phones and anything else to do with telephones. They zip into jumpsuits, strap on parachutes and climb into a plane. There they join maybe 15 others packed in knees-to-chest on the plane's floor while it grinds up up up to 15,000 or 18,000 feet. One or two at a time--some grinning like little kids, some with terror in their eyes--they all scoot quickly toward the rolled-up door and leap into the big blue sky.   More

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    Saratoga Parks and Recreation

    October brings new commissioners, revival of 'hub' concept for city playfields.
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    Sister Cities Celebration

    Representatives from Muko, Japan visit Saratoga.
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    Orchard of Artists

    Villa Montalvo to display plans for Artist Residency cottage complex.
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    Saratoga Horticulture

    Research foundation holds fall sale.
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    Seniors

    Healthy Centenarians

    Advanced old age is not necessarily synonymous with pain and suffering.
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    Saratoga Style

    Autumn Kitchen Tour

    Fundraiser features guided tours through selected local kitchens.
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Local Brooktrout Inc. employees find adventure in skydiving

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Villa Montalvo's Orchards of Artists project

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Parenting Continuum focuses on rearing sons in today's world

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Hillbrook School sponsors Autumn Kitchen Tour

Hakone Gardens hosts annual national meeting of the American Bamboo Society

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Saratoga Horticultural Research Foundation's fall plant sale

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Most Americans would like to live to 100-but only if...

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