Bay Briefing: A San Francisco legend passes
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter, owner of City Lights bookstore, dead at 101.John O Hara
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Wednesday, Feb. 24, and San Francisco has a history of not keeping its buildings in one place and we’re not talking about earthquakes. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
Soul of the S.F. scene
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, publisher, painter and pivotal figure to the Beats and about every other counterculture literary movement in San Francisco, has died at 101.
“We’ve lost a great poet and visionary,” Nancy Peters, co-owner and retired executive director of City Lights Bookstore and Publishers, told The Chronicle on Tuesday. “Lawrence was a legend in his time and a great San Franciscan.”
How Gov. Newsom became an ardent advocate of school reopenings
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California Gov. Gavin NewsomPatrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images
California’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic has been, to say the least, erratic, with ever-changing state decrees on business openings and closings and personal conduct and, most recently, a chaotic rollout of vaccinations.
There has been, however, one constant. The state’s public schools quickly shut down when Gov. Gavin Newsom declared an emergency and assumed one-man command of the crisis, and with few exceptions they have remained shuttered ever since.
The shutdown, coupled with other restrictions, effectively quarantined 6 million schoolchildren in their homes while school authorities attempted, with uneven success at best, to continue classes via the internet.
The city of Napaâs various areas will fall into one of five categories of land uses, according to the latest draft of the general plan intended to guide the next two decades of development.
Consultants advising Napa on its next general plan, intended to govern zoning and land use through about 2040, on Thursday outlined a set of designations for residential, commercial and industrial development across the city, as well as open spaces and mixed-use projects like the Napa Pipe community intended to take over the former Kaiser industrial site in the south of town.
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An elderly woman was shopping at Safeway in American Canyon at 1:15 p.m. Thursday when she was distracted by a female while another female stole her wallet from the shopping cart, police reported.
Following the wallet theft, the thieves went on a shopping spree at Target in South Napa Market Place in Napa at approximately 1:36 p.m., American Canyon police said.
The suspects used two stolen credit cards to purchase $700 in gift cards. Additionally, the elderly victim lost over $400 in cash and stimulus checks she just received, police said.
American Canyon police posted fuzzy images on Facebook Friday that capture images of two suspects and their vehicle. To see the photos, go to facebook.com/American.Canyon.Police.Department