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By Captain RayPublished: November, 2010 Summer (such as it was this year) has ended, and with it comes an inevitable decline. With the sun no longer heating the Central Valley to triple- digit temperatures, the pressure gradient between the coast and inland eases. The strong winds of summer, for which San Francisco Bay is […]
By Kati SchmidtPublished: November, 2010 While fall and winter seasons for many non-locals may be defined by the changing colors of leaves on trees or the first snowfall, Bay Area residents anxiously await a different celebration of Mother Nature—or Father Neptune, more appropriately: the opening of the Dungeness crab fishing season. Dungeness crab, […]
By Jah MackeyPublished: November, 2010 Last month, I generally discussed the Delta’s bustling inland ports. In this installment, I will take a deeper look into several organizations that call the Ports of Stockton and West Sacramento home. The Port of Stockton: Pacific Ethanol’s Reversal of Fortune In 2008, Pacific Ethanol started operations of […]
Published: November, 2010 Alameda County Sherriff’s Department Marine Patrol rescued a man from the water on October 6 after he fell overboard from his vessel near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. At 11:26 a.m., a concerned citizen reported a person in the water to Coast Guard Sector San Francisco. Alameda County Marine Patrol, already in […]
Published: November, 2010 Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke met with representatives from the Coast Guard, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and port partners on Yerba Buena Island in early October. During his visit, Locke toured Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) San Francisco, Coast Guard Sector San Francisco and a NOAA survey vessel and heard […]
Published: November, 2010 Huge Concert Archive To Be Auctioned Record label and concert producer 2b1 Multimedia Inc, known for promoting 40 years of concerts in San Francisco and partner of Chet Helms and the legendary “Family Dog” has placed its archive of audio and video masters for auction. It contains over 23,000 songs, 5,000 masters […]
Published: October, 2010
Published: October, 2010 Trash Dance Nina Haft & Company presents “DEBRIS/FLOWS,” the premiere of a dance performance and craft installation about landscape, rubbish and our efforts to control nature drawing inspiration from rocks, fungi, systems theory, road-kill, mudslides, oil spills, Little Red Riding Hood and other nature tales. This dance performance will be preceded by an interactive craft […]
By Bill PicturePublished: October, 2010 Petaluma-based Allied Defense Recycling (ADR) has announced ambitious plans for 16-plus acres of the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo. Those plans include blowing the dust off two long-dormant Navy dry docks, dredging a section of the Mare Island Strait to allow large vessels to reach those dry […]