SF News Day Around the Bay: California Implements Permanent Farm to School Breakfast and Lunch Program Some Twin Peaks residents have been withholding their rent from a nightmare landlord for 32 months; activist Erin Brockovich highlighted Gilroy residents’ fight against a new Amazon data center; and California’s Farm to School program is now permanent
SF News Saturday Links: Santa Clara County Officials, State AG Rob Bonta Fight Plans For Gilroy Detention Center Trump called a New York Times reporter “treasonous” for questioning the success of his campaign against Iran; Lowell High will only have seven Black students next year; and Santa Clara officials are fighting a detention center that’s being built in Gilroy.
SF News Saturday Links: Toddler Fatally Struck, Adult Injured, While Crossing Street in Mission Bay The US and Israel launched a targeted strike against Iran Saturday, who said it will retaliate; the names were released of the sheriff’s deputies who fatally shot East Bay musician Anthony Ant earlier this month; and a two-year-old was killed while crossing the street in SF’s Mission Bay Friday.
SF News Sunday Links: Trump Will Not Be Attending Super Bowl, Calls Halftime Performers ‘Terrible Choice’ A man was arrested in Sonoma County for allegedly wearing Wolverine-style metal knuckles; a Cybertruck driver in Oakland reported his back passenger door flying open while on the highway; and Trump says he won’t attend the Super Bowl in Santa Clara.
SF News Saturday Links: Berkeley Police Arrest Man in Texas Connected to Seven East Bay Cold Cases The SF sector of the US Coast Guard is looking for the owner of a surfboard that turned up at Ocean Beach Friday; a man was killed and a woman critically injured by a teenage driver in Gilroy; and Berkeley police cracked some cold sexual assault cases, largely due to a state grant.
SF News Saturday Links: ‘No ICE at 2026 Super Bowl’ Banner to Fly Over Levi’s Stadium Sunday A Gilroy teen found a razor blade in her Halloween candy; a federal judge in Oregon has permanently blocked Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland; and the group MoveOn is flying an anti-ICE banner over Levi’s Stadium for two hours prior to Sunday’s 49ers game.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Salesforce's Marc Benioff Wants to Bring National Guard to SF, ‘Re-Fund’ SFPD The South Lake Tahoe church where Mayor Tamara Wallace embezzled funds said they caught her in the act; Two Gilroy elementary schools have encountered copper wire theft in the past month; and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff mistakenly thought SFPD was defunded at some point.
Arts & Entertainment Gilroy to Host First-Ever Pride Event August 2 After Long Grassroots Effort and City Resistance After years of organizing and advocacy by local volunteers, Gilroy will hold its first-ever Pride celebration on August 2, featuring folklorico, drag performances, and community resources — a milestone in the conservative South Bay town.
Arts & Entertainment Gilroy Garlic Festival Is Now Back, Though Much Smaller And Sold Out (But There's a Livestream!) Gilroy’s got its groove back, as the famed Gilroy Garlic Festival was resurrected in its reeking glory Friday morning. It’s much smaller than before, and sold out, but it now has a free livestream, and you can try your luck in a small ticket exchange.
SF News Gilroy's Garlic Shoppe Forced to Leave Long-Time Location Due to Eminent Domain The landmark pit stop property is being claimed under eminent domain so the county can build a new intersection.
SF News South Bay Man Admits to Killing, Dismembering Ex-Girlfriend to Avoid Rape Charge A Gilroy man has reportedly admitted to police that he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and burned her dismembered remains in order to cover up or retaliate for a rape accusation she had filed against him.
SF News Shots Fired at Santa Clara County Deputies During Armed Standoff in Gilroy Sunday Morning When deputies tried to perform a wellness check on a Gilroy man, he responded by pulling out a gun and firing at them, and the crisis negotiations team has been tryinng to de-escalate.
SF News Gilroy Garlic Festival Is Kaput After 43 Years, and One Mass Shooting The town of Gilroy is officially saying goodbye (for now?) to its internationally known, annual Garlic Festival, which was a major tourist draw over two summer weekends for four decades.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cleve Jones Says He Will Vacate His Castro Apartment Quietly After All Cleve Jones says he no longer wants to fight his new landlord to have to live in a unit below her, a member of the Gilroy City Council has been cited in connection with a fatal shooting at a Halloween party that occurred at her home, and Sonoma County authorities are seeking an abducted toddler.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gilroy Garlic Festival Returns This Weekend as Drive-Through Event Two years after a mass shooting at the event that killed three people and injured 17 others, the Gilroy Garlic Festival is returning in an altered, pandemic form, as a drive-through.
Arts & Entertainment Pumpkin Patch Near Gilroy Wants Armed Sheriff's Deputies This Fall Season; Sheriff Says No A popular pumpkin patch and fall festival locale outside of Morgan Hill is asking for off-duty, uniformed Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies to stand guard through the Halloween season. But the sheriff in those parts says they don't do that kind of thing.
SF News Early-Morning Earthquakes Rattle South Bay Just a few days after a 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit the San Jose area, a second cluster of quakes has rattled the South Bay, the United States Geological Survey reported this morning.
SF News Deplorable Teens Playing With Fireworks Accused Of Causing 130-Acre Fire In Gilroy #"Bally" wild fire grows to 130 acres above #EagleRidge dev in west Gilroy. Air attack going strong despite hazy skies. A few sprinkles. pic.twitter.com/rcRCFikPLO — @Rob Fladeboe kron4 (@KRON4RFladeboe)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gilroy Garlic Fries Roll Out At McDonald's Throughout The Bay Area Next Week Yes. They're here. Gilroy. Garlic. Fries.#garlicfries #mcdonalds #garlic #createyourtastesf pic.twitter.com/aKaYcmoJGh — McDonald's (@McD_SF) July 21, 2016 Previously available only at a couple locations down in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's Quickly Sells Out, Brings Back 'Gilroy Garlic Fries' After a surprisingly successful test run selling "Gilroy Garlic Fries" earlier this month, global conglomerate McDonald's has brought back their version of the garlic-chunk covered fries to four
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's Sells 'Gilroy Garlic Fries' In Bid For Bay Area Relevance Perhaps in an attempt to ride that locally sourced bandwagon, McDonald's this week announced it will begin selling "Gilroy Garlic Fries" in select Bay Area franchise locations. The chain
SF News Major Meth Bust in the South Bay... in a PT Cruiser Cops seized almost 40 pounds of crystal methamphetamine on Friday, hidden in concealed compartments of a PT Cruiser they pulled over in Gilroy. The stash was worth $430,000, fresh from Mexico, and
SF News Two Bank Heists (One Only Sort Of) Yesterday in Corte Madera and Gilroy So, a desperate-seeming and possibly mentally unstable Asian dude walked into a Bank of America in Corte Madera around 4 p.m. yesterday waving a gun around and raving about the corruption
misc American Football Spectacular: Welcome Back, Jeff Gilroy's second-favorite export is returning to the Bay Area. Chronically-underestimated warrior QB Jeff Garcia has signed a one-year deal with the Oakland Raiders. He'll be slotted
