Here are seven stories from the weekend that you will want to catch up on before the work week hits.
1) Heroes of farm-to-fork: Watanabe Farms scales back
In restaurants throughout the region, it is not uncommon to find “Heidi Watanabe tomatoes” listed on the menus, a sign that the kitchen is serious about quality, freshness and flavor.
2) How Sacramento’s transit chief landed a pension that exceeds federal limits
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How can an employee earn more sitting at home than going to work? And more than Internal Revenue Service limits?
3) Sacramento devotes $10 million to high-tech firms, but plan faces risks
If the ambitious and long-range plan works, Mayor Kevin Johnson believes Sacramento will shed its stodgy government-town past and become a youth-centric city of big ideas and thriving startups.
4) A talker: Gun rights activists say they won’t comply with California’s new laws
Fifty or so gun activists gathered Saturday morning at Sacramento’s Cesar Chavez Plaza to protest Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of six gun control measures they said would turn “law-abiding citizens into criminals.”
5) Popular on Twitter: 'Big George' wants to be part of Kings redevelopment
Though Georgios Papagiannis played sparingly during one season with Panathinaikos, he received substantial minutes and affected the final three games of the tournament, particularly on the defensive end.
6) Popular on Facebook: Billionaire Steyer sets out to stop supposed billionaire Trump
Shortly before praising farm laborers at a United Farm Workers press conference, billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer had some choice words for the supposed billionaire who aspires to be president.
7) Popular on video: Our 2016 annual fireworks review: What's worth your time, money
To accurately test the pyrotechnics available for sale in Sacramento County, our test team’s first order of business was simulating ideal fireworks-watching conditions.
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