Read Redwood Bark? Here's Why Redwood High School (Larkspur) Readers Should Also Check CALWIRE
Redwood Bark exists for a good reason: nobody covers Redwood High School (Larkspur) the way people who are actually on campus can. If you're part of the community at Redwood High School (Larkspur), keeping Redwood Bark in your rotation makes sense.
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Where a campus paper naturally runs out of room is everything OUTSIDE the campus: state-level decisions on school funding and student rights, breaking news elsewhere in California, or live public-safety information in the moment. That's the gap CALWIRE is built to fill.
What Redwood Bark does well
Redwood Bark's real edge is proximity — actual reporters on the ground at Redwood High School (Larkspur), covering student government, clubs, sports, and campus life in a way no outside newsroom realistically can.
Where CALWIRE fills a different gap
The rest of California. CALWIRE tracks the whole state — Bay Area, LA, San Diego, Sacramento, the Central Valley — so a state-level story touching Redwood High School (Larkspur) shows up even when it started well outside campus.
Scanner and traffic, live. A running police/fire scanner feed and real-time traffic cameras are built into the site — infrastructure a campus paper isn't set up to maintain.
No academic calendar. CALWIRE's wire and staff desks publish year-round, which pairs naturally with a campus paper that runs on a semester schedule.
More California local news comparisons
This is one piece in an ongoing CALWIRE series looking at how California readers can round out their local news diet. Related reads: CALWIRE vs. GV Wire and CALWIRE vs. Front Page Index.
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Frequently asked
Does CALWIRE have any connection to Redwood High School (Larkspur)?
None. CALWIRE is a separate, independently operated California news site.
Should CALWIRE replace Redwood Bark?
No. Redwood Bark is still the better read for on-campus news; CALWIRE is meant to run alongside it for everything statewide.
Put simply: Redwood Bark handles Redwood High School (Larkspur) from the inside, CALWIRE handles the state around it, live — and reading both beats relying on either alone.