Albany Today, Aug. 24

After 50 years working with horses at Golden Gate Fields, Faith Taylor, like many of her fellow trainers, found herself "lost" in the years following the park's closure.

Now, she’s building a new chapter with the animals she’s always loved.

A life behind the scenes at Golden Gate Fields

Faith Taylor rose from hot walker to exercise rider to trainer, building a career inside one of Bay Area racing’s most storied tracks.

Albany ScannerAllyson Aleksey

In other news

Of the 6,107 monitoring sites visible on a state-run "Safe to Swim" map, which displays bacterial sampling results including E. coli, enterococcus and fecal coliforms, only 611 have been updated in the past year.

From Bay Nature: "Even Andrew Hamilton, an assistant deputy director at the State Water Boards’ Office of Information Management and Analysis, which publishes the map, recommends swimmers check elsewhere. He calls the Safe to Swim map 'somewhat aspirational.'"

Why California Can’t Tell You Where It’s Unsafe to Swim

For most lakes and rivers, the state’s official map of fecal bacterial contamination shows data that’s more than a year old.

Bay NatureAnushuya Thapa

In case you missed it

A career crossroads brought Mads Tolling to Albany

Tolling performs at Herbst Theatre with the San Francisco Civic Summer Workshop this Sunday.

Albany ScannerAndrew Gilbert

Albany Hill eucalyptus will come down. What about the monarchs?

A new grant-funded plan balances fire safety, butterfly conservation and climate restoration.

Albany ScannerAllyson Aleksey

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