By Georgia LambertPublished: November, 2010 Four innovative climate-education programs scattered around the Bay Area are taking top honors in the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s 2010 Transportation Awards Program. Based in Marin County, Alameda County and San Jose — and making waves far beyond their home turf — the four Grand Award winners are helping schoolchildren […]
By Teri Shore Published: November, 2011 Just outside the Golden Gate, critically endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles are now gorging themselves on jellyfish. These mysterious ocean dwellers swim 6,000 miles across the Pacific from distant nesting beaches in Indonesia to feed here during summer and fall. More than 20 sightings have been recorded by sailors […]
Published: December, 2011 The battleship USS Iowa was towed to her temporary berth at Richmond Harbor’s Pier 3 in late October with a volunteer crew from Suisun Bay and the Port of Benicia. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary facility vessel The Yellow Boat with coxswain Tommy Holtzman and crew from Flotilla 35 in Sacramento accompanied the […]
