<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=32SBLk_1GzvA2rd00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=32SBLk_1GzvA2rd00" width="960" height="640" ><figcaption>The PM afternoon news roundup logo. (Bay City News) Bay City News</figcaption></figure>The ceremony, sponsored by the county, honored Americans who served in the military, with a special focus on Marin County veterans. This year, the event marked the 108th anniversary of the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World War I. The Marin County United Veterans Council hosted the event with its president, U.S. Army veteran Sean Stephens, serving as master of ceremonies.Hundreds of veterans, supportive family members, and neighbors from all over the county gathered at the Marin County Fairgrounds to attend the ceremony. The crowd funneled into Exhibit Hall where the band kicked the event off with a performance of various patriotic songs.Article continues below this ad-0-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made five arrests Tuesday throughout San Mateo County, according to the county's Rapid Response Hotline and Office of Community Affairs.Two arrests were reported in East Palo Alto, one around 6 a.m. at a Chevron gas station and another at 9:45 a.m. at Woodland Avenue.Another arrest occurred at 10 a.m. in the parking lot of Dollar Tree and Home Depot in San Carlos.Article continues below this adTwo additional arrests were made in the city of San Mateo, the first at 7:45 a.m. at Chavez Supermarket and another at 11 a.m. at South Idaho Street.The arrests were confirmed by alerts from Faith in Action Bay Area, an organization that operates the Rapid Response Hotline for the county, a coalition of immigrant rights activists that connect people to resources who are impacted by immigration enforcement. The San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs also sent out a notice of the arrests.Faith in Action Bay Area also says that ICE enforcement in the county has increased recently, with at least 16 people being detained by ICE in the last 10 days.-0-Article continues below this adThe Oakland City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend its data center moratorium until next October.The 10-month-and-15-day extension is designed to give city staff enough time to research and develop new regulations and development standards for any future requests to built data centers in Oakland.In October, the City Council passed an "urgency ordinance" that established an initial 45-day moratorium.Following that vote, the city's Planning and Building Department developed a process by which any new regulations will be proposed, including public outreach, a project website and research into how other cities handle data center development requests, among other things.Article continues below this adThe extended moratorium will give the city until Oct. 5, 2027 to draft and approve new regulations.Other Bay Area cities that have approved similar moratoriums include San Francisco, Gilroy, Richmond, Brisbane, Oakley and Hayward.-0-The Oakland Roots soccer team has a new game-day home in Alameda thanks to a unanimous Planning Board vote this week.Article continues below this adThe vote Monday allows the organization to transform its current practice facility at 1150 and 1220 Harbor Bay Parkway into a game-day venue.The Planning Board's decision follows a previous approval by the Alameda City Council and allows the team to install modular stands, stadium lighting and other temporary facilities in order to host up to 27 matches with up to 8,000 fans and several smaller sports events every year, according to city documents.It also allows the club's women's team, Soul SC, to host up to seven matches with up to 3,000 attendees.The Roots Alameda facility was the long-time practice space for the former Oakland Raiders football team.Article continues below this ad-0-The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved Tuesday an ordinance that will allow the city's vendors to sell food cooked in their homes, provided they comply with state food safety regulations.The ordinance is in line with a 2019 state law that allows for Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations, or MEHKO. Under this program, street food vendors can potentially get permits to cook the food they sell in their own homes, but individual counties have full discretion in authorizing and implementing their own MEHKO programs.Other counties like Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara have operationalized their own MEHKO programs, and the Marin County Board of Supervisors also adopted a three-year pilot program in September.Article continues below this adBut San Francisco had not rolled out their own MEHKO programs until now.-0-Representatives from 34 nonprofit organizations and housing agencies in nine Bay Area counties are working on a 2028 ballot measure that could generate billions to finance affordable housing projects.The regional stakeholders met Monday for a brainstorming session at the College of Marin in Novato. They discussed voter sentiment and options to take if a ballot initiative does not work out.Article continues below this adA similar initiative was attempted through a bond measure in 2024, but voters never saw it. Regional Measure 4 was pulled from the ballot due to a technical error. It would have authorized $20 billion in funding for about 70,000 apartments and homes.If a 2028 regional housing measure were to be approved by voters, the money would go to cities and counties either directly or through grants from the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, which is housed within the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments.In a 2024 report, the authority said the Bay Area needs $9.7 billion to create over 40,000 homes that were in predevelopment.-0-Article continues below this adA man riding a skateboard suffered "significant" injuries when he rode into the path of a vehicle and was hit in Santa Rosa on Tuesday afternoon, police said.The collision was reported at 2:33 p.m. at the intersection of Marlow and Guerneville roads.According to Santa Rosa police, investigators determined that a Toyota Highlander driven by a 36-year-old woman was heading south on Marlow and approaching the intersection with a green light when the man on the skateboard entered a crosswalk west against the traffic light and went into the Toyota's path.Police said the man had significant injuries from the collision and was taken to a hospital. An update on his condition was not immediately available Wednesday.Article continues below this adThe Toyota driver remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators, who do not believe impairment was a factor in the collision.Copyright © 2026 Bay City News, Inc. All rights reserved. Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area.</div></body>

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The ceremony, sponsored by the county, honored Americans who served in the military, with a special focus on Marin County veterans. This year, the event marked the 108th anniversary of the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World War I. The Marin County United Veterans Council hosted the event with its president, U.S. Army veteran Sean Stephens, serving as master of ceremonies.

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