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Day Around the Bay: SF Police Looking for Truck in Western Addition Hit-and-Run

San Francisco police are looking for a box truck that struck a man in the Western Addition late Thursday night, Disney is requiring nonunion employees in the United States to be fully vaccinated, and at least 43 trees could be cut down in San Jose — just to make way for two digital billboards.

One Oak Project at Foot of Van Ness Seeks to Add 150 Units

The delayed 40-story tower at Oak and Van Ness, which has undergone redesigns and some financing hiccups in the last few years, is back before Planning in revised form.

Traffic Snarl Alert: Mission and South Van Ness Intersection Will Be Closed to All Traffic Next Week

About seven blocks worth of streets will be closed to traffic this coming Wednesday, and continuing til Monday, August 9, in the latest BS from the Van Ness BRT.

Deplorable Teens Arrested After Trying to Steal SF Man's Backpack on BART, Pepper-Spraying Him

Two teenage suspects were arrested Thursday after an attempted robbery aboard a BART train in which they allegedly pepper-sprayed the 61-year-old victim.

Arts & Entertainment

BottleRock Still On For Labor Day Weekend, Organizers Say Proof of Vaccination Will Be Required

The first festival to be back on the calendar in the Bay Area is BottleRock Napa Valley, and they will be requiring vaccination proof, but not masks — at least not yet.

Authorities to Resume Search for Missing Runner Philip Kreycik on Saturday

The search for missing Berkeley man Philip Kreycik is set to resume Saturday, three weeks after he went missing while on a run in Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park.

Provincetown Outbreak Partly Prompted CDC's Latest Mask Guidance; Internal Documents Raise Alarms Over Delta

The Delta variant is likely causing more severe infections, even though experts have not been saying this up until now, and the ease with which it spreads even among the vaccinated has the CDC raising internal alarms.

Friday Morning Constitutional: PG&E to Be Criminally Charged For Zogg Fire

The Shasta County DA announced coming criminal charges against PG&E for last year's Zogg Fire, hundreds of SF bars began asking for proof of vaccination on Thursday, and mask sales are once again booming.

Day Around the Bay: South San Francisco Police Retrieve Stolen Frenchie In Sting

A study of older patients finds significant data linking COVID-19 with long-term cognitive decline, police in South San Francisco staged a sting to retrieve a French bulldog stolen during a robbery, and SF mourns the loss of activist and poet Janice Mirikitani.

SF SPCA Offering Free Adoptions for Senior Pets, Large Dogs Through August 15

Adoption fees are being temporarily waived at the San Francisco SPCA for older dogs and cats, and doggos 30 pounds or heavier, through the middle of August.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Avocadocon Returns to SoMa on Saturday

District Six, the street food park formerly known as the SoMa StrEat Food Park, is hosting the fourth annual Avocadocon this weekend, to the delight of avocado fans all over.

Bay Area Sports

Eyeroll: 49er Nick Bosa Says He's Not Vaccinated, Still Weighing the Decision

When faced with the moral and medical choice of whether or not to get vaccinated, the 23-year-old defensive end from Fort Lauderdale is really looking to test your patience.

SF Couple Lands $475,000 Buyout After Renting Presidio Heights Apartment for 30 Years

A San Francisco couple in their 60s just got the largest ever tenant buyout from an SF landlord for the seven-bedroom apartment they've rented since the early 1990s.

The New Yorker Makes the Case That Chesa Boudin Needs Savvy, Not Stats, to Win Over Critics

San Francisco's progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin is again garnering a national spotlight in a piece in The New Yorker that tries to parse our current moment with criminal justice reform, and the polarizing position he has landed in.

SF Man Who Randomly Shot at People at Market and Montgomery Gets Five Years

A San Francisco man who says he was high and paranoid and was just firing "warning shots" has been sentenced to five years in federal prison stemming from a scary October 2020 incident in downtown SF.

Former Recology Exec Takes Plea Deal In City Hall Corruption Case, Will Cooperate With Feds

Another figure in the ever-unspooling SF City Hall corruption scandal has agreed to plead guilty to bribing former Department of Public Works head Mohammed Nuru, and this means one more cooperating witness for the feds in the cases against Nuru and potentially others.

Thursday Morning What's Up: Very Large Earthquake Strikes Alaska

An 8.2M earthquake on the Alaskan Peninsula may be the biggest U.S. quake in a century, the DEA says it's ID'd a large-scale fentanyl supplier in the East Bay, and SF and Berkeley are reportedly considering new mask mandates.

Day Around the Bay: Google and Facebook Make Employees Get Vaccinated

Google has pushed its back-to-the-office time until mid-October, the death toll in Monday's plane crash in Truckee has risen to six, and Martin Shkreli sold his Wu-Tang album to pay his court debts.

Supes Approve Vis Valley Dispensary That’s Just 68 Feet From Another Cannabis Dispensary

A dispensary the Planning Commission rejected for being too close to another won an appeal before the Board of Supervisors, but some Vis Valley residents complained that it’s corporate weed in sheep’s clothing.

Arts & Entertainment

Bay Area Theaters, Museums, and Venues Receive $326M In Federal Relief Grants

Those grants for cultural institutions that we talked about way back in December have finally been distributed by the Small Business Administration, and over 300 Bay Area theaters, music venues, museums, movie houses, and more have been awarded grants totaling $326 million.

Arts & Entertainment

Marin Theatre Company to Reopen With West Coast Premiere of 'The Sound Inside'

An acclaimed play that had its Broadway opening in the fall of 2019 is making its West Coast premiere in Marin County in September, and it will mark the first in-person performances at Marin Theatre Company since the start of the pandemic.

14-Year-Old Facing Murder Charges After Another Teen Is Found Fatally Shot In Fairfield

A North Bay teenager is likely facing murder charges following the violent death of a 14-year-old that was mistaken for a train accident.

Is An Indoor Mask Mandate Next For Bay Area? Probably. But This Surge May Not Last Long

Bay Area health officers likely don't want to order any more restrictions that will impact recovering businesses, but the pressure seems to be on to make a mask recommendation more of a mandate.

SF Supes Approve $12,000 Price Tag for Those Trash Can Prototypes, Down From $20,000

A trash-y Public Works project that has been in the works for three years is pushing forward, but the SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a lower budget for some pricey trash can prototypes than was originally requested.

Arrest Made In Alamo Square Hit-and-Run, Victim Expected to Survive

A hit-and-run last Wednesday next to Alamo Square Park shocked the neighborhood and gravely injured an 88-year-old woman. Now, an arrest has been made.