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From an 80-year-old cultural festival to a mystery tree poisoner at Lake Tahoe, this week brought a mix of tradition, transformation and troubling headlines across the region. Here’s a roundup of Sacramento-area stories you might have missed this week:
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- Thousands gathered at the Sacramento Buddhist Church’s 80th annual Japanese Food and Cultural Bazaar, an event started in 1947 as the community rebuilt following the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
- Construction is finally underway on the former Coca-Cola bottling plant on Stockton Boulevard, which will be converted into a 146-room Marriott Element hotel by early 2028, nearly a decade after Leeland Properties acquired the site. The 1936 bottling plant sat vacant for years after shuttering in 2013.
- California is phasing out one of the nation’s most widely used herbicides, paraquat-dichloride, after all manufacturers voluntarily cancelled their product registrations in the state. The herbicide has been linked to potential thyroid issues and birth defects in humans.
- State lawmakers are considering a bill that would require large retailers to preserve documentation of immigration enforcement activity on their premises, following ICE raids at Home Depot parking lots in Southern California last summer.
- An unknown person has been poisoning mature pine trees at Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village since 2022, with 16 more trees targeted this July and August — a case some suspect involves a wealthy resident trying to improve their view of Lake Tahoe.
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