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July 04, 2025

FRIENDS OF SAN PEDRO VALLEY PARK

July-August news

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June 30, 2025

SECOND HALF OF 2025 COULD GET QUITE WET

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June 28, 2025

GORGEOUS GARRAPATA

nature preserve

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OH, THE IRONY OF UNSTABLE DRESSERS NAMED ONME

GIKPAL Dressers Recalled Due to Tip-Over and Entrapment Hazards; Violations of Federal Regulation for Clothing Storage Units; Sold Exclusively on Walmart.com by ONME Direct.

[CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION]

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June 23, 2025

DOG DAYS BACK EAST

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June 21, 2025

SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS

It has been snowing in Tahoe City and Donner Summit, reports our Sierra Nevada correspondent.

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SAVE SANCHEZ ART CENTER & PACIFICA PERFORMANCES CONCERT HALL

2. General Plan Amendments,, Zoning Ordinance and Associated Land Use and Zoning Map Amendments (see more at the end of this email)

This action will rezone the Sanchez Art Center and Pacifica Performances Concert Hall to make way for multi-family housing.

To: [email protected]

Subject: Item 2, Planning Commission

Please do not approve agenda item #2 unless there is wording added to make it clear that the city intends to preserve the Sanchez Art Center exhibition spaces and artist studios and the Pacifica Performances Mildred Owen Concert Hall performance space on site 23.

Include your full name.

2. NEW PUBLIC HEARINGS:

File No. 2025-007 File No. 2025-007 – General Plan Amendments (GPA-108-25), Zoning Ordinance (TA-128-25), and Associated Land Use (GPA-108-25) and Zoning Map Amendments (RZ-216-25)

Implementing Rezoning Required under the 2023-2031 Housing Element.

Recommended CEQA Action: City Council certification of an environmental impact report (EIR), and adoption of findings of fact, statement of overriding considerations, and mitigation monitoring and reporting program (MMRP).

Recommended Action: Adopt a resolution initiating the Text Amendments to the General Plan and Zoning Ordinance, and General Plan Maps and Zoning Maps Amendments; and recommending certification of the EIR and approval of the text and map amendments to the City Council.

Dear Planning Commissioners,

I am writing regarding item 2 which I understand could dismantle the Sanchez Art Center and Pacifica Performances in order to build housing on the site which the City owns. Please understand that these 2 Cultural Gems are a part of what draws not only Pacificans to the venues but many out of town folks and, aside from our open spaces and great surfing etc. are what make this town a fabulous place to live. The City has supported both these venues over the years and I hope will not stop now. I am aware that we need housing. However Pacificans have benefited from the Art Center and The Performing Arts Center for over 30 years and hope to continue to benefit. Please do all you can to keep our cultural heritage intact at this site for current and future citizens to enjoy.

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June 19, 2025

POISON HEMLOCK POPS UP ALL OVER TOWN

news story

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June 13, 2025

BARBECUE SANDWICH SHOP @ SOUTHBOUND HIGHWAY 101

Someday I hope to meander off southbound 101 via the Pesante Road exit, taking two right turns to Orchard Lane and following my nose to the Prunedale Deli. If you beat me there, let me know how the barbecue sandwich is.

Your Wandering and Wondering John Maybury

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LINDA MAR WATER QUALITY STUDY RELEASED

Water Quality Coalition

Enterococcus: Bug Chart

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June 11, 2025

RIPTIDE COVERS SAN MATEO COUNTY COAST

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John Maybury, Riptide Editor & Publisher, P.O. Box 334, Moss Beach, CA 94038 (or Zelle me via Wells Fargo Bank)

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June 10, 2025

MAYBURRITOVILLE: WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP IT'S BEEN

My globetrotting brother Joel Maybury, a semi-retired foreign service officer, amassed this genealogical research on our Maybury ancestors in Europe and America, a work in progress. Joel's mileage included visits to graveyards, funeral homes, cemeteries, city halls, saloons, and pizzerias all over the Eastern Seaboard in search of living relatives, headstones, and birth and death records. If you have information to add to our family database, please let us know in the Comments section below or email mayburrito AT gmail.com

Maybury ancestry 1

Maybury ancestry 2

Joel also found information about our French Protestant (Huguenot) ancestors. Here are stories and pictures about them in Chervey, France, the land of Champagne grapes.

Chervey

Joel stumbled upon our father's birthplace in Lehighton, Penn.

Lehighton

Before The Mamas and The Papas, there was The Pentecostal String Band, starring our great-grandparents and their Bower in-laws.

Joel Maybury with his daughter Naomi and one of his sons, Adnan, new members on our family tree, visiting their grandparents' vault at Arlington National Cemetery.

JOHN MAYBURY

Editor & Publisher

Pacifica Riptide

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June 09, 2025

STEPHEN JOHNSON PHOTOGRAPHY

June newsletter

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June 07, 2025

TRUMP DEPLOYS CALIF. NATIONAL GUARD TO L.A.

"The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy [thousands of] soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions."

https://bsky.app/profile/governor.ca.gov/post/3lr2lgvyfek24

Posted at 06:36 PM in Government & Politics | Permalink | Comments (0)

June 06, 2025

PILLAR POINT HARBOR HATCHERY SALMON RELEASE

On June 7, there was a hatchery salmon release at Pillar Point Harbor. San Mateo County Harbor District, which endorsed the Bay Delta Plan a few years ago, hosted a special meeting on site so it could observe and discuss the release. Golden State Salmon Association, Tuolumne River Trust, and Coastside Fishing Club were invited to comment on closure of the salmon fishing season, the Tuolumne River salmon population, and the Bay Delta Plan. They met at the end of Johnson Pier at 8:45 a.m. for initial comments. The fish release began at 9 a.m.

Peter Drekmeier
Policy Director
Tuolumne River Trust
[email protected]

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June 03, 2025

SHARK BITES SURFBOARD, KNOCKS SURFER OFF @ MONTARA BEACH

news story

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May 24, 2025

TRUMP BLOCKS PACIFICA'S $50 MILLION FEMA GRANT FOR SEAWALL PROJECT

Trumpadump

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INDECENT-EXPOSURE SUSPECT FINALLY ARRESTED

press release

The suspect allegedly bared his genitals in three separate incidents in Linda Mar since October 2024 (see photos in press release above). Eventually he was arrested in a San Jose courthouse where he was involved in another matter.

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May 19, 2025

BREAKWATER BARBECUE REOPENS IN FORMER MONSTER SPACE ON HIGHWAY 1

restaurant review

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May 09, 2025

SOVIET SPACE JUNK CRASHES HARMLESSLY INTO INDIAN OCEAN

A Soviet-era space probe designed to land on Venus has returned to Earth. Because it was built to survive Venus's thick, acid atmosphere, Kosmos 482 survived reentry and crashed into the Indian Ocean on May 10. Full story: Spaceweather.com