Author: BAY CROSSINGS STAFF REPORT

Published: October, 2004 Oct. 13th, Safari West Gala with Dr. Laurie Marker, recognized as one of Time Magazine’s Heroes for the Planet, is a guest for a very special evening and dinner among the some 400 African animals in Santa Rosa. A Celebration of Speed and Elegance, this evening benefits the Cheetah Conservation Fund. The […]

Published: October, 2004 September 18, 2004, was the perfect overcast Saturday morning to stay in bed — but the grey weather didn’t deter more than 200 enthusiastic Berkeley and Albany residents from turning out to ride the specially chartered ferry from Berkeley to San Francisco. Berkeley has not had working passenger ferry service since 1989, […]

  Published: October, 2004 A report commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) in its role as the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) affirms the conclusion drawn earlier this summer by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) that seeking new bids for construction of a self-anchored suspension span for the eastern portion of the San […]

Published: October, 2004 Many travel by ferry to Tiburon to take a quick look around and have lunch while enjoying the Million Dollar views. One can’t but notice from the moment they get off the ferry there are many restaurants to choose from all within walking distance to the docks. The town buildings are so […]

By Dianne Boate and Robert Meyer  Published: October, 2004 De La Montanya Winery the apple of our eyes. This story developed over 3 separate days in Sonoma County during very hot weather, but never mind, when the sun hits the earth, the ripening grapes, and an apple orchard, there is an elixer in the air […]

Published: October, 2004 It’s a shame you’ve lost me because I agree with so many of your positions regarding the importance of ferries. I find it intellectually lazy to take the easy shot and insinuate that every GG bridge driver is well off. I’m almost glad you haven’t removed me from your list yet, as […]

Published: October, 2004 Ed Zelinsky was a very kind man and was considered a visionary and major moving force in the community of Tiburon. Any committee with Ed on it was going to make a difference in the small southern Marin town on the edge of the Bay. It was Ed who dressed up the […]

By Guy Span  Published: October, 2004 Not long ago, your curmudgeon got the chance to take the train to Portland, OR from the Oakland station in Jack London Square. The departure is 9:40 pm, which affords time to visit the lounge car and spend the next hour looking at Bay views as the train winds […]

By Guy Span  Published: October, 2004 We call it “Urban Sprawl” and bemoan the little towns, fields and woodlands around our big cities getting gobbled up for townhouse developments, some as far as 80 miles from the urban centers. The automobile (increasingly, the politically incorrect SUV) is indeed the engine that drives this cancer-like growth […]