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Sue Dremann

Staff Writer, Palo Alto Weekly / PaloAltoOnline.com

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About Sue
Sue Dremann is a veteran journalist who joined the Palo Alto Weekly in 2001. She is an award-winning breaking news and general assignment reporter who also covers the regional environmental, health and crime beats.

She has covered plane crashes, murders, police shootings and other breaking news stories. Sue has written about the Bay Area's dwindling water supply, drought, wildfires and COVID-19.

Her feature stories have included a series on families' struggles to help loved ones with severe mental illness, immigration and deportation, a man's search for his father's killer, a local Native American tribe's quest for recognition, a couple's tale of being lost in the wilderness, an investigation into the city of Palo Alto's flawed response to a 911 call and tracking a local serial killer's deadly trail.

When not working, she enjoys being with her husband, their pets. She can often be found seeking out interesting natural environments and wildflowers.
Stories by Sue
Mi Pueblo officially emerges from bankruptcy
Mi Pueblo Foods, the San Jose-based grocery chain that has a market in Mountain View, announced its formal exit from Chapter 11 reorganization Wednesday.
[Wednesday, June 4, 2014]

Judge accepts Mi Pueblo reorganization plan
Mi Pueblo supermarkets received a thumbs-up from a federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday, May 14, after he affirmed the company's amended Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan, Robert Harris, an attorney for the 21-store chain confirmed.
[Friday, May 16, 2014]

Santa Clara County creates human-trafficking commission
Addressing a growing need to combat local human labor and sex trafficking, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday, April 29, to set up a human-trafficking commission.
[Tuesday, April 29, 2014]

Supervisors vote to fund North County shelter
An East Palo Alto shelter will open its doors to Palo Alto and other northern Santa Clara County homeless people with help from a $76,650 grant, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has announced.
[Thursday, April 24, 2014]

Grocery Outlet opens Thursday at Alma Village
Discount food store Grocery Outlet will open its first Palo Alto store on Thursday, April 3, with a ribbon cutting and a grand-opening celebration on Saturday, April 5.
[Wednesday, April 2, 2014]

Eshoo opens inquiry into Silicon Valley toxic cleanup
U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, has opened an inquiry with the Environmental Protection Agency into shortfalls in the federal government's Superfund toxic cleanup program, including sites it operates in Mountain View and Palo Alto.
[Tuesday, April 1, 2014]

Open space district purchases secluded INE Ranch
For decades, coyotes, hawks and dusky-footed woodrats have roamed the secluded INE Ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Few other creatures, domestic or human, have been on this 148-acre Palo Alto parcel off Skyline Boulevard in the last 15 years.
[Friday, March 21, 2014]

Drought affects wildlife on first day of spring
The sunny, warm weather may be a pleasure for humans, but it is showing signs of negatively impacting local wildlife, a Midpeninsula Open Space District biologist said.
[Thursday, March 20, 2014]

Medical community rallies around injured Egyptian woman
When Gehane Guirguis set out for a short vacation in July 2012, she could not have foreseen how the trip from Cairo, Egypt, to the Red Sea would change her life in unthinkable ways.
[Wednesday, March 19, 2014]

Rare, polio-like virus striking Bay Area children
A polio-like illness has stricken 25 children in California, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital officials announced Monday at a press conference.
[Tuesday, February 25, 2014]