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Environmental Protection Agency as part of the 2009 San Francisco Bay Area Water Quality Improvement Fund. "This opens the door to implement projects for watershed protection that we have been eager to see completed," said Jack Gibson, chairman of the...
Tags: Marin Municipal Water District, water quality, clean water, Richardson Bay Regional Agency, Novato, Environment, San Francisco Bay Area, Mill Valley California, Clean Water Act, Richardson's Bay
For years, the Jarvis Conservatory has drawn vocalists from around the Bay Area to Napa for its monthly Saturday Opera Night performances. Now building on its success to offer a new, expanded program, “It’s a Grand Night for Singers” which launches Dec.
Tags: San Francisco Bay Area, grand night, Napa, Jarvis Conservatory, San Francisco Opera, Napa California, Kate Michaels, Entertainment Culture
As state water managers Tuesday delivered a grim outlook for water supplies in 2010, forecasters with the National Weather Service said Northern Californians should brace for a serious wet weather thrashing beginning early next week. Images More Bay...
Tags: San Francisco, Weather, San Francisco Bay Area, Weather lore, Meteorology, Precipitation, Rain, National Weather Service, Disaster Accident, Pressure system
In a decision handed down Monday, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kevin Murphy ruled the water district must refund all $4.6 million, plus interest, paid to it in "groundwater extraction fees" by one of its main customers, the Great Oaks Water...
Tags: San Jose, San Jose California, Aquifers, San Francisco Bay Area, Milpitas California, Liquid water, Alviso San Jose California, Hydraulic engineering, Contra Costa County California, Fee, Santa Clara County California, Water, Geotechnical engineering, David D. Cortese, Groundwater, Law Crime
Carolee Hazard's once-modest goals have ballooned into something much bigger since a random act of kindness over a lost wallet in a Peninsula grocery store. The 43-year-old Menlo Park woman wants to ramp up the initial $93 donation she sent to Second...
Tags: Carolee Hazard, food bank, Silicon Valley, Larry Ellison, Jenni Ware, S. Andrew Starbird, Menlo Park, San Francisco Bay Area, Risk, Hazard, Venture capital, Facebook, Disaster Accident, Santa Clara County California
Martinez Mayor Rob Schroder has been appointed to the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. He has been mayor of Martinez since 2002 and president and chief financial officer of Schroder Insurance Services since 1977. The 56-year-old...
Tags: water quality, regional water, board appointments, quality control, control board, Lafayette, San Francisco Bay Area, Contra Costa County California, Contra Costa Canal, Martinez California
At a pullout along Grizzly Peak Boulevard above Berkeley, if you can take in a fall sunset across the bay by the Golden Gate, it's possible you'll never feel the same. If you climb Mission Peak above Fremont and hold your arms wide, it seems the entire...
Tags: San Francisco Bay, South Bay, UC Berkeley, regional parking, mission peak, golden gate, Fremont, San Francisco Bay Area, Mount Hamilton, Garin Regional Park, Mount Diablo, Mount Tamalpais, East Bay Regional Park District, Tilden Regional Park, Hospitality Recreation
Dear editor, When it comes to growth in Napa County, things are changing fast. We are lucky that the cities have urban boundaries in their plans, and that the county has a limit on residential growth. That limit has been set at about 1 percent a year,...
Tags: Napa Pipe, Ginny Simms / Napa, Napa County, Napa Sanitation District, Napa, San Francisco Bay Area, Napa Valley AVA, Napa County California, Napa California, American Canyon California
11/17/2009 05:35:41 PM PST Today College men's basketball: Oral Roberts at Stanford, 7 p.m...JC women's basketball: Marin at Contra Costa, 4 p.m.; Mission at Las Positas, 6 p.m. JC women's volleyball: Yuba at Los Medanos, 6 p.m.; Cabrillo at Chabot,...
Tags: jc women, Canada, Toronto, San Francisco Bay Area, Ohlone
State budget cuts slashed her home health care services salary by more than half. And that's how Nanette Spencer found herself third in line last week at the Concord Salvation Army's Christmas Basket sign-up event. "I'm here so I can have a nice holiday,"...
Tags: Concord, San Francisco Bay Area, McCormick, East Bay, Alameda California, Concord California, Contra Costa County California, Gardner, Christmas kettle, The Salvation Army, Christianity in the United Kingdom, Protestantism, Social Issues, Religion Belief