Who will be among the important local leaders in the Tampa Bay area in 2021? Only the future knows, but here are a few names to keep your eye on in the coming year. Michele Rayner-Goolsby [ MARTHA ASENCIO RHINE | Times ] Michele Rayner-Goolsby. She’s the first openly queer […]
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Bay City temporarily closing municipal offices due to coronavirus pandemic
BAY CITY, MI – You’ll want to make alternate plans if you’ve got business to do with the City of Bay City. All municipal City of Bay City offices will be closed to the public as of Wednesday, Nov. 18 due to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services […]
Santa Cruz, Bay Area health officials release Thanksgiving recommendations
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Calif. (KION) Health officers from Santa Cruz County and counties and cities around the Bay Area issued recommendations for celebrating Thanksgiving safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The recommendations encompass gatherings, travel and recommended steps to reduce risk. “While we have made progress in reducing disease transmission and […]
Candy recipes, Bay area cupcake kits and pastry boxes
How will you celebrate Halloween this year? Watching horror movies while stuffing your face with store-bought candy? Creating a brief candy hunt for your downtrodden kids? Both? Either way, take comfort in the cavity-free dentist’s report they’ll get six months from now. And the many Carol Baskin costumes you won’t […]
Coronavirus live updates: Cases reach more than 106,000 in Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact across the world and also in cities across Northern California. The latest number of confirmed cases in the U.S. can be found at the CDC’s 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the U.S. page. (The CDC updates the webpage on […]
How COVID-19 is fueling a new wave of Bay Area transplants to the Sacramento region
Jesse and Shanni Burke were working on their laptops a few feet apart in their cramped Silicon Valley apartment this spring, sweltering without air conditioning, when it dawned on them. The coronavirus pandemic that was virtually imprisoning them in their tiny downtown San Jose walk-up also offered an unexpected escape […]
Colleges using COVID dorms, quarantines to keep virus at bay
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — With the coronavirus spreading through colleges at alarming rates, universities are scrambling to find quarantine locations in dormitory buildings and off-campus properties to isolate the thousands of students who have caught COVID-19 or been exposed to it. Sacred Heart University has converted a 34-room guest house […]
Over 1 million California acres have burned since July as monster fires rage in Bay Area
More than 1 million acres have burned in California since July as monster fires rage around Bay Area
East Bay Teens Found Nonprofit, Make Coronavirus Care Packages
EAST BAY, CA — When rising Dublin High School senior Sky Yang founded nonprofit Break the Outbreak in March, he had a website and a vision of outfitting essential workers with protective gear. “Our operations were small at the time, and we had to finance them on our own,” Yang […]
The MLB Couldn’t Keep COVID-19 At Bay, But We Still Think Schools Stand A Chance?
As a huge baseball family, there’s been a hole in our lives since spring. Every March and April we all anxiously anticipate watching those first few pitches. As we see our favorite players run out onto the field on the big screen in our living room, my husband and I […]