122 days ago - Charlie Brown and Linus would be pleased. There won’t be just one Great Pumpkin at this year’s Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival on Oct. 18-19, but several. Organizers of the event in the world pumpkin capital are calling for entries for the third annual Poster Design Contest, which kicks off now and has a Sept. 15 deadline.
175 days ago - A transient who alerted authorities to a fire near Half Moon Bay on Tuesday was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of starting the blaze, police said.
176 days ago - Months after football players and fans from Half Moon Bay High School were accused of spewing racial epithets at Sequoia High School players during a league game, the San Mateo County civil grand jury is investigating the alleged incident.
177 days ago - A child’s baptism in an unincorporated area turned bloody after a guest was nearly stabbed to death in what prosecutors are calling a “depraved” crime.
188 days ago - With a growing budget deficit and mounting financial worries, Half Moon Bay officials are placing their hopes on Tuesday’s ballot with a proposed 2 percent hike in a hotel guest tax.
188 days ago - As a bill to rescue the city’s budget heads to the state Senate, environmentalists who oppose AB 1991 say they’re looking forward to a fairer fight.
209 days ago - The parents of a fourth-grader are suing multiple county agencies, claiming that sheriff’s deputies interrogated and traumatized their son after school officials accused him of making violent threats days after the Virginia Tech massacre.
217 days ago - Officials expressed cautious optimism Wednesday as a bill designed to rescue their city from financial strain squeaked through its first legislative hoop.
241 days ago - A former varsity athlete who claims he was disfigured after being hit in the face with a baseball has filed a lawsuit against Half Moon Bay High School, Cabrillo Unified School District and his former coach, claiming he was made to perform a risky, improperly supervised drill.
243 days ago - Residents in the tiny coastal village of Montara are preparing to file a lawsuit against the Half Moon Bay Airport, claiming that airplanes have been flying too low over their neighborhood, some barely flying “above the treetops.”
246 days ago - Months of hand-wringing by residents, speculation about bankruptcy and legal wrangling by both sides of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit could be over — if a bill passes the state Legislature, city officials announced Tuesday night.