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San Pablo Voters Boost Sales Tax to 10% as Casino Cash Dries Up
San Pablo shoppers will soon pay a 10% sales tax on most purchases after voters approved Measure R, a temporary half-cent increase city officials say is meant to loosen the city's grip on a casino revenue stream that has stopped growing the way it used to. The measure passed to fund general services and reduce San Pablo's reliance on Casino San Pablo, which for years has bankrolled a majority of the city's budget.
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San Francisco Boomers Are Moving To This Lovely Outdoorsy City Just Under An Hour From Lake Tahoe
When Bay Area baby boomers — that's anyone born between 1946 and 1964 — decide it's finally time to move away from the misty air of San Francisco, there's one spot that seems to be drawing the eye more than others. It lies over the great Sierra Nevada Mountains to the east, on the bends of the Truckee River in Washoe County, on the far northwest edge of the state of Nevada. Its name? Reno.
Grandview Independent
marinbuzz.com
Named for a Marin Town Nobody Can Find
The world is a better place if everyone sings. Now open in Novato. After more than a decade teaching singers in San Francisco, Songbird Studios has opened their fourth Bay Area location at Vintage Oaks in Novato. It’s a voice-only studio, and lessons are in the styles people actually want to sing: pop, rock, musical theater and more. There are showcases and choirs too (the Songbird City Choir has sung the National Anthem for the SF Giants two seasons running).
SFGate
Contra Costa Herald
5th Annual Mount Diablo Beacon Lighting on Veterans Day Nov. 11
To be lit at sunset to honor those who have served in the U.S. Military. Join local veterans and the Mayor of Danville at 4:40 pm by the Flagpole in front of the Veterans Memorial Building in Danville as they press the button at 5:00 pm to light the Beacon atop Mount Diablo.
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Berkeley Approves Demolition Permit at Former Oxford School Site
Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York / Wikimedia Commons. A geotechnical study commissioned for Oxford Elementary found that the former school site lies within the actively moving Keith Avenue Landslide Complex. Berkeley Unified School District’s 2019 summary of the study reported average movement of about one inch a year, varying with rainfall, and estimated that an earthquake could produce between 2 and 20 feet of movement at the campus: Berkeley Unified School District.