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A longtime Rancho Murieta business is for sale, and a relatively new business continues to grow. Here's the latest from a couple of our business neighbors. Read more » Read more » about Businesses: Spreading out, moving on

If you’re eager to sample the food at the Murieta Inn and Spa, they’re previewing it for the public right now – with special availability on Super Bowl Sunday. Read more » Read more » about Inn restaurant opens with limited menu

The first announced event at the Murieta Inn and Spa is a May 19 all-day music event – with jazz, country, rock and blues – to benefit the Sacramento chapter of Guitars for Vets, a nonprofit organization that helps vets struggling with physical and emotional problems. Read more » Read more » about First entertainment event announced at hotel

The Murieta Inn and Spa has set Feb. 1 as its opening date for the public. Before then, there will be customer testing of the facility, with guests from equestrian events and friends and family. The date was announced at last week’s Community Services District meeting by development representative John Sullivan and confirmed in a subsequent interview with Carol Anderson Ward, lead investor in the hotel and owner of the Murieta Equestrian Center. Read more » about Murieta Inn sets Feb. 1 public opening

The Murieta Inn and Spa – more than three years in the building – will open to the public Feb. 1. In this video, owner Carol Anderson Ward shows you around and answers questions about the restaurant, spa and other facilities and why the hotel took so long to build. (Ward is the longtime Equestrian Center owner and one of the investors in the North development.) The hotel has 83 rooms and rates of $189 a night and up, depending on season, according to Mary Orlando, general manager. In the coming days, there will be traffic as the hotel is guest-tested, with invited horse-show visitors and friends and family previewing the rooms, food and other services in advance of the official opening. The hotel staff emphasizes that all of Murieta will be more than welcome once the facility is fully open, but for now they ask that you await the official opening before stopping by. Read more » about Video: Tour the new Murieta Inn and Spa

The holidays aren’t far off, so it’s time to start thinking about Sweats for Vets, the annual collection effort headed up by Kiwanis. They’re seeking items for men and women – sweat shirts (and sweatpants and jackets), thermal underwear, sports bras, socks, warm gloves and hats, jackets, blankets and tennis shoes. Items will be donated to the Sacramento V.A. Medical Center at Mather. Drop off your donations by Dec. 10 at the Rancho Murieta Business Center.  Read more » about Start planning donations to Sweats for Vets

The Sacramento International Horse Show has been in residence over the last week at the Murieta Equestrian Center. Neighbor Paul Anderson, whose work was recently featured as part of the SOLOS calendar, got this shot. (Click photo for larger image.) Read more » about Up and over at the Equestrian Center

Seven-year-old Julia Garcia wasn't the only person to take a photo of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile during its Sunday stop at Murieta Plaza, but she might have been the youngest. It was quite an attraction, with slamming car brakes and people drawn by some unseen force to the wheeled wiener, where, we swear, some of them sang Oscar Mayer commercial jingles. (Because you asked, the vehicle is 27 feet long, 11 feet high and weighs seven tons.) At the lunch hour, the Murieta Market by Raley's people, being good hosts, wheeled out a bunch of hotdogs for everyone's enjoyment. At the star attraction they were handing out Wienermobile whistles and postcards. Click photos for larger images Read more » about You wish you were an Oscar Mayer wiener...

Two real estate companies with roots in Rancho Murieta are merging, the companies announced Friday. Town and Country Real Estate, and owners Ina and Ron Semrau, and Paul Frank, president and CEO of the PDF group of real estate companies, said the merger will be complete this spring. The merged company will take the name of Frank’s residential real estate company, PDF Realty. Read more » about Real estate companies announce merger

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The sun wasn't up yet, but a dozen Murietans were waiting Saturday at 7 a.m. when Raley's opened its interim store in Murieta Plaza. At left, the new store employees (many of them familiar faces) and Raley's representatives gathered on the sidewalk to thank the shoppers lined up at the entrance.

Friday evening, after a pre-opening gathering for employees at the new Raley’s in Murieta Plaza, store leader Steve Thomas joked that, hey, maybe there will be people waiting at the door when the store opens in the morning. He thought he was kidding. Read more » about Yes, Rancho Murieta, there is a supermarket