A personal tour of the City of St. Francis
Your phone rings: the caller ID is from a distant area code. It turns out they are friends or family announcing plans to visit you and tour the area. They have never been to San Francisco. There is a lot to see, you only have one day and they expect you to be the expert being you LIVE here!
VOLLEYBALL: Gavilan sends five players to next level
Over the course of the last six months, five players from the fall 2011Gavilan College moment's volleyball program have signed scholarship offers to play at colleges all over the country.
Tobacco tax Prop 29 too close to call
Tobacco companies have reason to be confident after waking up with a 51-49 lead against an initiative that would raise cigarette taxes by $1 per pack in California, but neither side was prepared to declare the Proposition 29 race over this morning.
Alejo, Monning move to November ballot
Assemblyman Bill Monning is vying for the 17th state Senate seat effectively vacated when Sam Blakeslee decided not to run again.
Raymond G. Lanini March 4, 1942 – June 5, 2012
Ray grew up, raised his family, worked and retired just where he wanted to be: on the family farm where he owned and operated a dairy with his father and brother.
Margaret Marie Robinson June 2, 1923 – May 25, 2012
Margaret Marie Robinson, 88. Margaret was born to John and Helen Wilke Mathew Soltis at home in Superior, WY on June 2, 1923. Margaret passed away at Adventist Medical Center in Hanford, CA on Friday, May 25, 2012.
San Jose passes pension measure, unions lament
Voters in San Diego and San Jose overwhelmingly voted to pare back retirement benefits for city employees, setting the stage for a showdown over public pensions in Sacramento later this year.
Vinyl records make a comeback
Cam Bentley walked into a Fort Lauderdale record store this dreary afternoon, head nodding to Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” streaming from iPod to headphones. She walked past the CDs to the Soul section of the vinyl department – stacks and stacks of LPs stuffed between Alternative and Blues – on an earnest hunt for the same song on wax.
