“Truth, Lies, & Beauty”:  That’s the motto of Studio 142.  No, it’s not a spy novel.  It’s a photography studio run by M Blaze Miskulin. “Beauty is not only skin deep, and the camera always lies. The skill is in finding the lie that reveals the greater truth about a person’s beauty.” explains the photographer. 
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A Growing Endeavor Lodi Farmers’ Market On any Friday afternoon in the Summer, you’ll find Lyn Lorenz sitting in her lawn chair in the parking lot of the Northern Edge restaurant.   But it’s not as strange as it sounds:  Lyn is watching over the weekly Farmers’ Market.  She’s got a smile and a hearty greeting
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Three Generations In 1936, Don Steckleberg stopped fixing boats in his spare time and started fixing them as a business instead. That was the start of Don’s Marine–a business that is still running strong, over 70 years later. For almost 40 years, Don ran his business out of the barn on his farm outside of
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Coming full circle In the spring of 2005, Annette Fassbender moved into a quaint little building in downtown Lodi with the intent of taking a Lodi landmark and bringing it back to it’s former glory. The landmark wasn’t the building, it was what was inside: The Downtown Cafe. Over the last 50 years, the little
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