SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Crashes Into Chinese Consulate, Driver Shot A car crashed into the Chinese consulate at Geary and Laguna and shots were fired; Newsom vetoed a bill that would have outlawed caste-based discrimination; and a beloved pumpkin patch in Morgan Hill was vandalized.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: 2,749-Pound Pumpkin Wins Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Contest, Sets New World Record The 2,500-pound largest pumpkin ever grown in California still wasn't big enough to win the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Pumpkin Weigh-Off, as a farmer from Minnesota drove in a pumpkin that won the contest and set a new world record at 2,749 pounds.
Arts & Entertainment 13 Best Bay Area Haunted Houses, Pumpkin Patches, and Halloween Whatnot For 2022 Submitted for your approval… 13 spooky Halloween weekend attractions in SF and the grave beyond for haunted houses, fiendish drag queens, spooky nights out, and family-friendly pumpkin patch spirits.
Arts & Entertainment Half Moon Bay Calls Off Its Pumpkin Festival For Second Year, But Pumpkin Contest Will Happen Out of an abundance of caution for the spread of COVID, the city council of Half Moon Bay voted this week to deny a special event permit to the annual pumpkin festival. Organizers now say they need a benefactor to step in to save the day.
Arts & Entertainment Napa Man Sets CA Record For Largest Pumpkin at Annual Half Moon Bay Contest A Napa pumpkin grower won the day at the annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh Off on Monday in Half Moon Bay, with a gourd weighing in at 2,175 pounds — a new California record.
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 Drought To Make Your Halloween Pumpkins Way Smaller Another unconsidered consequence of our intractable drought: smaller pumpkins! As CBS 5 reports, local farmers are reporting a shortage of medium- and large-format pumpkins as a result of there being less water to
