Imagine a 1,000 foot circumference, 300 foot wide floating ADA dock with a community pool in Princeton Harbor. It is visitor serving, but what if we partnered with ride sharing companies like Lyft, … [Read More...]
Bedtime Stories – When Dinosaurs Came With Everything
Podcast. Read and produced by Michelle Dragony reading from the children’s book “When Dinosaurs Came With Everything”, written by Elise Broach and illustrated by David Small. When Dinosaurs Came … [Read More...]
Bedtime Stories ~ The Little Red Hen
PODCAST. The Little Red Hen is an old folk tale of the fable type, most likely of Russian origin. The story is applied in teaching children the virtues of work ethic and personal initiative. Read by … [Read More...]
Want to Know More About Cannabis Starts? Ask Farmer John or Dustin Cline
VIDEO / PHOTO-ESSAY / PODCAST / LINKS. You can find him at his Pumpkin Patch on Hwy 1. “Farmer John” Muller is hoping a new crop, cannabis, will alleviate the burden of a struggling farm. Other Half … [Read More...]
Can a Camper Permit Solve the Housing Shortage on the Coastside?
We are in the midst of a housing emergency and a social crisis. If we don't solve this problem fast, we will continue to lose service workers, and social service recipients will not be able to age in … [Read More...]
Bedtime Stories ~ Velma Gratch & the Way Cool Butterfly
PODCAST. It’s hard to be Velma, the littlest Gratch, entering the first grade. That’s because everyone has marvelous memories of her two older sisters, who were practically perfect first graders. Poor … [Read More...]
Lizet Cortes is Running for Cabrillo Unified School District. Listen In.
PODCAST. Raised on the coast, Lizet went to Hatch, Cunha and HMBHS, then local college. She is Latina and wants to help the 50% CUSD Latino population. Having gone through the CUSD system as a ESL … [Read More...]
Abundant Grace’s Coastside Clean Team ~ Part of Homeless Solution
ARTICLE. Since 5/15/18, Eric DeBode of Abundant Grace's Coastside Clean Team has picked up 9,000 pounds, 485 bags of garbage in 51 clean ups! They average 185 pounds per morning. They pick up Friday, … [Read More...]
Bedtime Stories ~ The Tale of Ferdinand
PODCAST. The Story of Ferdinand (1936) is the best known work written by American author Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson. The children's book tells the story of a bull who would rather … [Read More...]
Spanish and Mexican Years on the Coastside and Bay Area: Las Californianas
VIDEO. This month’s meeting of the Half Moon Bay History Association is about the rarely described years between those of the Natives and those of the California Gold Rush. These were the times of the … [Read More...]
Bedtime Stories ~ Koala Lou ~ Read by Diana Purucker
PODCAST. Listen to Farallone Elementary School's third grade teacher, Diana Purucker, reading Koala Lou, by Mem Fox. Koala Lou was published in 1988 by HMH Books for Young Readers. Reader/Listener age … [Read More...]
Hikianalia Wayfinding to the Global Climate Action Summit
ARTICLE / VIDEO. Polynesian voyaging canoe Hikianalia has made landfall in Northern California. After sailing approximately 2,800-miles over 23 days, the 13-person crew arrived in the Half Moon … [Read More...]
7.3 – “The Coast is Flat” ~ Neighborhood Communications Exercise
ARTICLE. You ready for a BIG EARTHQUAKE? Find out Saturday, October 27, 2018. ACTION PLAN for ~ 7.3 - The Coast is Flat This scenario is a 7.3 earthquake occurring along Highway 280, west of … [Read More...]
Bedtime Stories ~ Skippyjon Jones
PODCAST. Enjoy the adventures of a Siamese kitten, that believes he is a sword-fighting Chihuahua called Skippito Friskito! Skippyjon enters his closet to find himself in the desert of old Mexico. He … [Read More...]
Cannabis “Starts” Operation in Salinas
PHOTO-ESSAY. I went on a tour of the Commercial Cannabis operation, Pacific Reserve Nursery in Salinas, with Dustin Cline and Eric Hollister, of Keiki's nursery, today (2/7/2018). James Fryn, a … [Read More...]
Number 21855: One Coastsider’s Experience In The WWII Japanese Internment Camps
KHMB PODCAST. A poignant recording of Naomi Patridge, a Half Moon Bay public figure, sharing her experience during World War Two as a Japanese-American. Naomi recently told her story about being in … [Read More...]
Save the Tick, Test the Tick
ARTICLE / VIDEO. Ticks are Here on the San Mateo County Coast. And so is lyme disease (see Robert Buelteman's video below). San Mateo County reports a low lyme disease case count. But many on the … [Read More...]
Bedtime Stories ~ Harold and the Purple Crayon
PODCAST. "Harold and the Purple Crayon was one of my favorite books as a kid. I loved the idea of creating your own world. Something I think is really important today. Create the world you want to see … [Read More...]
Let’s Talk About Housing Presentation
City of HMB is deciding how to spend $2.1 million in housing funds. Many people were surprised at the statistics of the SMCo Home For All survey presentation, held earlier in August. Get the facts. … [Read More...]