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Day Around the Bay: 30-Acre Brush Fire Contained In San Jose

The Silicon Fire was likely sparked by a mylar balloon hitting electrical lines, the SFPD is investigating a Sunday shooting in the Tenderloin, and California is now giving away six "dream vacations" to the vaccinated in another lottery drawing.

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Day Around the Bay: 30-Acre Brush Fire Contained In San Jose

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Pfeiffer Falls Trail at Big Sur Reopens Friday After 13-Year Closure

After a 2008 wildfire destroyed much of the infrastructure of the most popular hiking trail in Big Sur, it's taken all these years to complete a $2 million project to replace it all. But now the public will finally get to hike down to Pfeiffer Falls once again, starting Friday.

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Pfeiffer Falls Trail at Big Sur Reopens Friday After 13-Year Closure

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Watch: Excellent ESPN Mini-Documentary Shows Tom Ammiano Getting His Long-Overdue Varsity Letter

You're gonna need a bigger box of Kleenex for this emotionally charged ESPN Pride month mini-documentary about Tom Ammiano's varsity letter saga, which includes the moment he received the sweater he?d been denied for 63 years.

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Watch: Excellent ESPN Mini-Documentary Shows Tom Ammiano Getting His Long-Overdue Varsity Letter

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The Chronicle Publishes a New Top 91 Restaurants In Four Parts, Ignores Wine Country

In the quest to do best-of lists at the Chronicle Food Department without actually replicating Michael Bauer's once-popular Top 100 Restaurants list, there have been some false starts since Soleil Ho began her tenure as critic two years ago.

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The Chronicle Publishes a New Top 91 Restaurants In Four Parts, Ignores Wine Country

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New Analysis Finds Younger Latinx Residents of Santa Clara County Were Far Likelier to Die of COVID-19 Than White Residents

Providing further evidence of the racial inequities of the pandemic, new analysis of COVID cases and deaths in Santa Clara County finds that the virus killed mostly elderly white residents, but deaths among Latinx residents skewed much younger.

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New Analysis Finds Younger Latinx Residents of Santa Clara County Were Far Likelier to Die of COVID-19 Than White Residents

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Billy Idol, Steve Martin, and Gogol Bordello Among Eclectic 2021 Lineup at Mountain Winery

Mountain Winery, the festive and picturesque outdoor concert venue in Saratoga, just announced the lineup for its 62nd concert season, following a year without concerts.

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Billy Idol, Steve Martin, and Gogol Bordello Among Eclectic 2021 Lineup at Mountain Winery

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Mid-Market Supportive Housing Building Burns, Displacing 80 Formerly Homeless Residents

A building near 7th and Market went up in a two-alarm blaze on Sunday night, displacing 80 formerly homeless residents and possibly causing damage to the Strand Theater next door.

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Mid-Market Supportive Housing Building Burns, Displacing 80 Formerly Homeless Residents

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Monday Morning Headlines: Stolen Yorkie Found!

A couple visiting SF for their anniversary was reunited with their stolen Yorkshire terrier, a new survey finds California teachers exhausted from distance learning, and Colma is having a party tomorrow to celebrate everything reopening.

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Monday Morning Headlines: Stolen Yorkie Found!

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Most of Santa Clara's Mass Vaccination Sites Are Closing Soon (But That's a Good Thing)

With 80% of eligible county residents vaccinated against COVID-19, four of the five mass vaccination sites in Santa Clara County will shutter in the coming weeks. Remaining vaccine appointments in the county will be handled through mobile efforts, pop-up locations, retail pharmacies, and clinics.

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Most of Santa Clara's Mass Vaccination Sites Are Closing Soon (But That's a Good Thing)

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Sunday Links: Triple-Digit Temperatures to Hit Parts of Bay Area by Wednesday

A three-alarm fire engulfed a West Oakland recycling plant Saturday, temperatures are expected to climb as high as 104 degrees in some inland parts of the Bay Area by mid-week, and a 12-year-old girl was arrested in relation to four separate fires in Berkeley Hills Friday.

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Sunday Links: Triple-Digit Temperatures to Hit Parts of Bay Area by Wednesday

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Healdsburg Declares 'Severe Drought,' Bans Use of Sprinklers and Drip Irrigation Systems

Officials of the Wine Country city declared Friday that because of "severe drought" conditions, all of its over 12,000 residents must reduce their water usage immediately – specifically announcing a ban on using automatic sprinklers and irrigation systems.

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Healdsburg Declares 'Severe Drought,' Bans Use of Sprinklers and Drip Irrigation Systems

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Drunk Driver Injures Two, Kills One After Crashing Into San Jose Outdoor Dining Area

A now-identified drunk driver careened into the outdoor seating area of San Jose's Agave Sports Bar Friday night around 9 p.m.; San Jose police confirmed two men and one woman were injured during the crash – though the woman, however, eventually died from her injuries at a nearby hospital.

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Drunk Driver Injures Two, Kills One After Crashing Into San Jose Outdoor Dining Area

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Drunk Driver Injures Two, Kills One After Crashing Into San Jose Outdoor Dining Area

A now-identified drunk driver careened into the outdoor seating area of San Jose's Agave Sports Bar Friday night around 9 p.m.; San Jose police confirmed two men and one woman were injured during the crash – though the woman, however, eventually died from her injuries at a nearby hospital.

2 days ago

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Drunk Driver Injures Two, Kills One After Crashing Into San Jose Outdoor Dining Area

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Saturday Links: 3 Fires Broke Out in Berkeley Hills; SF BART Reopens All Entrances Closed During Pandemic

Three separate fires erupted in Berkeley Hills, thirteen people were injured during a mass shooting in Austin, Texas " mind you: the state just passed its permitless gun-carrying bill " and all SF BART entrances closed during the pandemic have reopened.

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Saturday Links: 3 Fires Broke Out in Berkeley Hills; SF BART Reopens All Entrances Closed During Pandemic