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And some moderate to heavy rainfall right along 680 into san ramon and heavy rain right now for the south bay. Sunnyvale right over san jose and down 101 into morgan hill. Tracking this rain for you with the storm system with rainfall rates almost 3 4 of an inch per hour. As we head through the day we are looking at mostly cloudy skies and widespread heavy rain tapering off to light scattered showers with mostly cloudy skies. Even catching some sun breaks as well. Delete the heaviest rain right ...

Local history 50 years ago: April 11, 1974 A major fire in Bellwood destroyed three businesses the previous night: Lloyd’s Rexall Drug Store, Sakmar’s 5 Cent to $1 Store and the K&M Restaurant. An apartment building and Mid-State Bank Office were damaged. Bellwood Excelsior, Tipton-Antis, Tyrone and Pinecroft Fire companies were needed to put out […]

Local history 50 years ago: June 23, 1973 A group called the Juniata Area Telephone Reassurance Service, Mrs. Charles Snyder volunteer, had been formed to c

Local history 50 years ago: June 2, 1973 Playing at the Twin 764 Drive-In Theatre were five feature motorcycle gang pictures: “The Sidehackers,” “The

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Photo by Robert Burroughs Andy Anderson, right; Mark Jennings, left. “This was a dead-stick tow, dead stick is when you have no power on the ship." “We’d come out here at low tide, bring the working hands out to the job, they’d work off the boat. We moved the tires that ring the bridge piers. They were state workers so they didn’t work too hard. We were sitting there three o’clock one morning, taking a break, and this one guy was telling ghost stories about people jumping off the br...