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Christmas in the Park going dark? SJ holiday tradition needs spirit of giving to stay afloat
DOZENS OF PEOPLE crowd around hundreds of trees wearing Santa hats and reindeer antlers, hanging ornaments and laughing. San Jose’s beloved Christmas in ...
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Newsom vows to reinstate EV rebate program if new administration ends federal tax credit
Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to reinstate California’s rebate program for zero-emission vehicles, or ZEVs, if a federal tax credit for them is ...
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Truckin’ into Christmas: Sonoma celebrates the season with 2nd Lighted Tractor Parade
Ablaze with red and green lights, Christmas trees and all manner of decorations, a procession of rather unconventional vehicles will circle the city of ...
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Panto in the Presidio brings a wild ‘Peter Pan’ to San Francisco for the holidays
Since 2021, the local theater troupe Panto in the Presidio has made it a holiday tradition to take beloved characters—Aladdin once, Sleeping Beauty ...
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Piedmont turns annual Thanksgiving event into memorial for three killed in truck crash
PIEDMONT’S NORMALLY JOYFUL annual Turkey Trot began Thursday morning as a memorial for three young people who died in a car crash Wednesday. “A ...
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Novato public safety grant will help improve officer training, reduce dangerous driving
The Novato Police Department has been awarded a $119,000 state grant for traffic safety enforcement, according to officials. The grant from the California ...
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Animal groups push back on federal plan to kill 500,000 barred owls, including Bay Area
Two animal welfare organizations have filed a federal lawsuit to stop the hunting of a half-million barred owls across several states, including in ...
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Interfaith Winter Shelter program returns for season, expanding SF’s shelter bed capacity
San Francisco has opened its Interfaith Winter Shelter for the season. Now in its 36th year, the program officially operates through March 30 and ...
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Best Bets: Christmas in the Park, ‘Waitress,’ Scrooge, sock skating, ‘Merry-Achi Christmas’
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ACT debuts ‘A Whynot Christmas Carol,’ a comedy about putting on a play
Last year, American Conservatory Theater Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon was overseeing the final production of predecessor ...
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San Jose hits some homelessness goals, misses others: ‘We can and will do more’
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Bay Area will have something to look forward to on Thanksgiving — a reprieve from rainfall
An extended period of rain that has seen some parts of the Bay Area receive nearly two dozen inches of precipitation in the last week is expected to end ...