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Team USA women's gymnastics watch party in South Bay
Simone Biles and the U.S. women's gymnastics team are going for gold Tuesday at the Paris Olympics, and fans are gathering in the South Bay for a watch party. The party takes place at Twisters Gymnastics Center in Santa Clara, and the competition starts at about 9:15 a.m. Kris Sanchez...
Bay-Delta longfin smelt joins growing list of endangered fish in San Francisco Bay estuary
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The longfin smelt, a fish the length of a popsicle stick that once fed hundreds of San Francisco Bay animals including humans, was just added to a growing list of endangered species. The federal endangered designation goes into effect Tuesday in alignment with the...
The story behind St. George Spirits’ new orange blossom gin
Have you ever sipped a spirit that transported you to a different time and place? That’s the kind of magic the team behind the legendary Alameda-based St. George Spirits tries to create, says head distiller Dave Smith. The former English teacher and winemaker runs the distillery, which is known for its gins, vodkas, whiskeys and eaux de vie, alongside master distiller Lance Winters.
Oakland hopes sale of portion of Coliseum will be catalyst for more investments
Oakland city officials are celebrating a win with the sale of the city's 50% stake in the Coliseum complex."Today is the start of a boom-loop here in Oakland! Let's do it!" said Oakland City Council president Nikki Fortunato Bas, at a signing ceremony at Oakland City Hall.Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao signing the Terms of Agreement allows the city to sell its 50% ownership in the 112-acre Oakland Coliseum complex for $105 million. The city will get $63 million in several installments between now and January. The remaining $48 million will be paid by June 2026.RELATED: Oakland reaches deal to sell...
College of Adaptive Arts New Executive Director
Nicole Kim, the longtime professor and current director of College of Adaptive Arts’ School of Business, has been selected to take over at the helm as the organization’s new Executive Director. DeAnna Pursai, the school’s co-founder and current Executive Director, will stay onboard and pivot into her new...
Police Investigating Reported Robbery At Uc Berkeley Monday Morning
Police are investigating an alleged robbery Monday morning at University of California, Berkeley. According to police, they were alerted to a reported strong-arm robbery in the 2400 block of College Avenue around 7:10 a.m. They learned that the perpetrator approached someone from behind and grabbed the victim's bag. The victim...
Revolutionary WA-built hydrogen ferry could jumpstart zero-emission vessels back home
A hydrogen-powered ferry built in Washington state is operating in San Francisco Bay. Clean energy advocates are hoping it spurs action closer to home. The Sea Change is the first ferry in the world to run entirely on zero-emission hydrogen fuel cells. Its exhaust is water, which is safe to drink.
Rochester’s Carlson Discusses Fitzgerald’s Hot Streak
When your name starts being mentioned in the same category as Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds, you must be doing something right on the baseball field. Rochester graduate Tyler Fitzgerald has vaulted himself into elite company with an incredible hot streak for the San Francisco Giants that included five straight games with a home run, a twelve game hitting streak and eight home runs in ten games. Fitzgerald, class of 2016 at Rochester High School, is batting .319 this season with nine total home runs, 19 RBIs and a 1.021 OPS.
'It's lawless': 16 Oakland small businesses ransacked near Hegenberger corridor
Sixteen small businesses were burglarized and ransacked in one single office building in Oakland over the weekend.It happened near Collins Drive and Hegenberger Road. That's the same area that has seen multiple businesses close because of crime over the past several months."They kicked this one open here, you can see right there where they kicked it open," Ken Houston, director of the Oakland Beautification Council said.Door after door, Houston showed us 16 small businesses that were kicked in and ransacked early Saturday morning."This is the remnants of the cutting of our fence right here," he said.MORE: Here's why Gov. Newsom...
Sonoma properties to be auctioned off after real estate investment company's collapse
A real estate holding company that allowed a group of Sonoma properties to lapse into foreclosure has left investors and the city itself with an uncertain future.On August 8th, the first dozen properties are scheduled to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. The property purchases began very quietly, with dozens of homes being bought, often in off-market sales. They were followed by familiar businesses in the heart of downtown, as the Sonoma Cheese Factory, Cottage Inn and Spa and the Sojourn Cellars tasting room were snapped up as well."Then it became, quite quickly, a concern about one person buying up...
Day Around the Bay: Oakland Completes Sale of Coliseum
The City of Oakland has reached a deal to sell its share of the Coliseum complex to a development team. The city will be spared budget cuts as a result. [Chronicle]. A suspect was arrested for allegedly lighting multiple brush fires along I-880 in Oakland Monday afternoon. [SFGate]. A BART...
Hayward police investigate fatal shooting of 16-year-old girl
HAYWARD, California — A 16-year-old girl was fatally shot and a 41-year-old man injured in a shooting incident on West Tennyson Road, police said. Officers responded to the report of a shooting near the 900 block of West Tennyson Road at approximately 11:15 a.m. on July 28, 2024, according to a press release from the Hayward Police Department. Upon arrival, they found a 16-year-old female suffering from gunshot wounds. She was transported to a local hospital where she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced deceased.
Fourth juvenile arrested in fatal Sunnyvale shooting in April
(KRON) — A fourth juvenile was arrested in connection to a fatal Sunnyvale shooting that happened in April, the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety announced Monday in a news release. The suspect, who was not identified because of his age, was arrested without incident on Thursday, July 25 in San Diego. He was brought back […]
Advocates Launch ‘Vote YES for Ocean Beach Park’ Campaign
Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. Some fifty volunteer safe-and-livable-streets advocates assembled on the Great Highway Park at the end of...
Sylvester, SF’s Disco Diva, Gets the HiFi Treatment at SFMOMA
Since 1978, Sylvester’s megahit “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” has been the soundtrack to those epic dance floor moments that feel spiritually healing. It’s the kind of song that makes the world’s worries melt away — fitting for a San Francisco disco star who became an icon of queer, Black freedom while conquering the Billboard charts.
"Cash Not Drugs" program would give San Francisco residents up to $100 weekly for staying clean
Eligible San Franciscans could soon receive payments of up to $100 per week for abstaining from illicit drugs under a proposed "Cash Not Drugs" legislation.Accompanied by a crowd of approximately 50 supporters, District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey announced the legislation on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Monday morning. Mayor London Breed, District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and six community leaders also gathered to support the legislation, which they heralded as a potential remedy to the city's devastating drug crisis.Del Seymour, founder of Code Tenderloin, was one of the community leaders at Monday's event."I'm real tired. You know...
Piedmont officer injured after stolen SUV crashes into patrol vehicle, suspect at large
(KRON) — A Piedmont Police Department (PPD) officer was injured after a stolen SUV crashed into a patrol vehicle Monday morning, the department announced on Facebook. Piedmont police initially received a report of a stolen Chevy Suburban entering the city. Officers then spotted the SUV on Warfield Avenue and attempted a traffic stop, PPD said. […]
Berkeley police investigate attempted murder case
Berkeley police are investigating a domestic violence stabbing over the weekend that sent a man in his 50s to the hospital, authorities report. The incident took place Sunday on the east side of the railroad tracks near Heinz Avenue between 7-9 a.m., Berkeley police said in response to a Scanner inquiry.
Why an Oaklandside reporter is suing Alameda County over its sideshow law
Sideshows are a problem. They’re loud, sometimes accompanied by gunfire, they destroy street infrastructure that costs millions to repair, and all too often people are run over and maimed by swerving 4,000-lb. hunks of metal and rubber. Dangerous sideshows appear to have grown in number over the last few...
Temple Beth Torah’s new senior rabbi ready to ‘spread her wings’
Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Once Rabbi Sarah Weissman gets to know Temple Beth Torah in Fremont a bit better, she plans to dive into her twin passions: adult education programming and pastoral care. “I’m just learning how...
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