Daly City — Northern San Mateo County children will have access to expanded athletic offerings soon with the completion of two new middle school gymnasiums and a new athletic field, school and municipal officials said Thursday.
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Daly City political consultant Margaret "Peg" Collier was sentenced to one year of misdemeanor court probation and 120 hours of community service in San Mateo County Superior Court Thursday after admitting she submitted false invoices to the South County Fire Protection Authority.Collier, 68, could have received up to 30 days in jail and two years probation, but Judge John Runde said he was inclined to give her a lighter sentence because of her "long record of positive community service."
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SAN CARLOS — A consortium of cities including most of Silicon Valley and parts of the East Bay is moving forward with plans for what is expected to be one of the world’s largest continuous wireless Internet networks.Service to more than 35 cities and counties from Daly City to Santa Cruz to Newark is scheduled to be put out to bid by the Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network in conjunction with the San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority, or SAMCAT, today.
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OK, so one more nod to the Great Earthquake anniversary and then we are done with it.My reader known only as "Raz" checks in with the following tale: There is a story of the San Franciscans caught in an earthquake down south at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Everyone immediately heads out into the halls and the San Franciscans state in a large voice, "We are from San Francisco and when there is an earthquake we stand in the doorways!" From down the hall they hear, "I’m from Portland, Ore., where the heck do I stand?"
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In a chaotic scene, one person was killed in an accident that resulted in flames enveloping several parked cars on Castro Street on Thursday evening, a San Francisco Fire Departmentspokeswoman said.
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When an electronic IRS filing surfaced earlier this week linking pro-choice Assembly candidate Fiona Ma to an anti-abortion governor of South Dakota, it seemed like great political fodder for her opponent and fellow Democrat Janet Reilly.Reilly's campaign circulated the document to the media, an abortion rights group and an elected official to discredit Ma, while Ma strenuously denied any link to Gov. Mike Rounds, and her campaign called the document "dirty Nixonian tricks."
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Assembly candidate Janet Reilly has accused a Sacramento political action committee of making illegal campaign expenditures on behalf of her opponent in the race for the Democratic nomination for the 12th Assembly District.Reilly’s campaign said Thursday, it has filed a complaint with the state attorney general, San Francisco district attorney and a state political watchdog commission after a group, "Leaders for an Effective Government", bought $33,000 worth of cable TV ads supporting Fiona Ma’s campaign.
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Sacramento native Scott Pruett returns to Northern California and one of his favorite racetracks next week when he defends his Rolex Series championship in the U.S. Sports Car Invitational at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas.The three-day event begins with qualifying and practice May 4 and May 5 and races the next two days.
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It took 11 innings and nearly four hours of hard-fought baseball, but Lowell was able to eke out a 6-5 come-from-behind victory over Academic Athletic Association rival Lincoln, with the sun still barely hanging in the sky Thursday at West Sunset.After going hitless in his first five at-bats, sophomore Max Newman pushed a line-drive single into right field to drive home leadoff man Jack Lazarus and break a 5-5 deadlock in the top of the 11th inning. Trailing 5-0 as late as the fourth inning, the 6-5 lead was the first for the Cardinals in the game — and the only one they needed.
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Terry Hird thinks most people don’t see the forest through the trees when they approach a business negotiation. "Businesspeople tend to focus on signing the contract," he said. "We’ve learned that there are deals that look good on paper but don’t come to fruition because people focus more on tactics and beating the other side as opposed to creating interest and value." Hird is the founder of Negotiation International, a San Francisco training and consulting company that teaches businesspeople to approach negotiations in the most efficient and effective manner.
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Each summer for more than five decades, the North Beach Festival has drawn large throngs of celebrants enjoying the neighborhood’s attractions, atmosphere and cultural significance. But a recent decision to ban alcohol at Washington Square Park, a centerpiece of the free event, is causing concern among event organizers and some business owners — and raising the specter of payback politics.
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More than 20 tenants filed a lawsuit against one of The City’s largest apartment management companies Thursday, accusing it of using threats and intimidation — including employing armed men — to get tenants paying low rents to leave its buildings.The "mass action" lawsuit filed inSan Francisco Superior Court accuses Citi Apartments, LLC, of making the threats a systematic business practice at many of the more than 100 buildings it owns around San Francisco.
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The Lowell baseball team didn’t waste any time lighting up the scoreboard against Academic Athletic Association rival Lincoln on Wednesday afternoon at Big Rec, striking early and holding on for an 8-5 victory.Six of the first seven Cardinals (13-7-1, 8-1) reached base, translating into a four-run first inning. While the Mustangs (11-4, 9-2) were able to erase the early deficit, Lowell took the lead for good on Javier Padilla’s fifth-inning single, which scored junior Elan Lavie.
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A small grease fire at AT&T Park on Wednesday forced a partial evacuation but did not affect preparations for the Giants-Mets afternoon game, officials said.The fire broke out at about 9:20 a.m. in the Acme Chophouse restaurant in AT&T Park. A dispatcher said it was initially reported as a cloud of smoke from the third floor, and that a single alarm response declared it under control at 9:53 a.m.
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A controversial measure aimed at stemming a wave of evictions related to real estate speculation passed the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee on Wednesday.The approval sets up a showdown between renters and property owners.Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s legislation would restrict condo-conversions in buildings where there have been evictions in multiple units or the elderly, seriously ill or handicapped have been displaced. The legislation applies to evictionsafter January 1999.
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