The clatter of rocks falling from the sky woke us up around midnight on Thursday night in Montara. Another reader reported hearing them coming west down the street, "Awesome!"

There will be two sets.  First, KRIYA Octet treats listeners to styles and influences ranging from swung, modal and ECM-styles to Latin and West African strains. Second, MIRABAI ENSEMBLE brings together the styles of Middle Eastern, Pakistani, and Western plainchant with extended jazz harmony, odd-time art rock, and solo dance improvisation for an a capella tour de force. In the finale, the Kriya Octect and Mirabai joint performance.

Online samples are available from Kriya on their label’s website.

Details: Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, 311 Mirada Road, Miramar, Parking is in the back of the building. Doors open at 3 pm for buying tickets and saving seats. Music starts at 4:30, goes to 7:30 with an intermission. Reserved priority seating for members. $26, with a $5 discount for those under 25.

The school board is forming a special committee to work with the architect, Superintendent John Bayless, and Cunha principal Mike Andrews on design development for the new middle school.

If you’re interested, you can contact Charles Gardner at [email protected], or come to the school board meeting on Thursday night. That will be the last opportunity for interested parties.

The main topic of this Thursday’s special school board meeting will be the proposed parcel tax for the June ballot.  The school bus situation in

Salmon fishing could be banned between Point Sur in Monterey County through northern Oregon.  The Pacific Fisheries Management Council is considering that option to save chinook salmon, and will make a recommendation on limits to the National Marine Fisheries Service in April, according to an AP story in the Mercury News.

For the third year in a row, the number of mature chinook salmon leaving the ocean to spawn in the Klamath River is expected to fall below the required 35,000 minimum, which could lead to new regulations to combat overfishing.

Even with an outright ban, only 29,000 spawning salmon are expected to return to the Klamath this year, Tracy said.

The season typically lasts from May through September. Last year, it didn’t start until July and lasted until October 15 and was far short of expectations.

A hit-and-run on Highway 92 by a juvenile DUI who says, “I didn’t mean to hit that guy; is he OK?”, someone in El Granada had four tires punctured, a rock was thrown through a kitchen window in Moss Beach, an unlocked car was liberated of $20, a DUI in Montara and in El Granada and in Miramar, two cases of public drunkenness in Pillar Point Harbor, a woman needing a psychiatric evaluation walking on Highway 1 in Miramar, a felony warrant arrest in El Granada, a theft from a home in Moss Beach, an office chair thrown through a window on Airport, domestic violence in Moss Beach, keys stolen from a car in Moss Beach, a car is broken into at Pescadero State Beach, a possible hazardous material drum in Princeton turns out to be benign, and a burglary arrest in Princeton (covered earlier on Coastsider).

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The National Weather Service is forecasting particularly foul weather for the Coastside for Sunday night and on Monday. The forecast includes rain, gale to storm force winds, very steep seas, a high surf advisory, and a coastal flood watch.

The powerful storm and its swells are coming from the southwest. This will expose ports—such as Princeton Harbor, which is normally sheltered from storms from the northwest—to very steep seas .

The strong winds, steep seas, and particularly high tides may produce some coastal flooding and beach erosion, particularly on south to southwest facing beaches

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The low tides this weekend are expected to be expecially low, according to the Chronicle, and it would be an especially good time to visit the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve and see the variety of sea life it protects. Saturday at 3:39pm and Sunday an hour later there will be a low tide of minus one foot (one foot below sea level). The Chron also recommends Miramar Beach for beachcombing, but cautions readers to stay north of the State Beach, where it’s illegal to take anything off the beach.

Zoe Kersteen-Tucker of Moss Beach has been named to fill the Coastside seat on the nine-member SamTrans board, which oversees local bus service, as well as Caltrain, according to the County Times. Keersteen-Tucker was one of eight Coastside applicants.

Tucker holds a doctoral degree in experimental neuropsychology from the UC Berkeley and serves as vice president for the environmental group Committee for Green Foothills. She’s also a co-founder of Friends of Coastal Open Space and serves on the Devil’s Slide Tunnel Advisory Committee and the Peninsula Policy Partnership board of directors.

I was at my storage container this afternoon when a guy jumped over the fence and hurried right past me—making his way diagonally to the far corner where he virtually walked up and over the corner of the barbed wire, up onto the roof of a storage shed that’s kitty corner to our yard and then disappeared down between the containers and the vehicle parked there.

In annoyance that this guy had just walked through my life by casually traversing barbed wire fences, I climbed up onto my shipping container and was hailed by a fellow on the next street over who saw me there, "Hey did you just see a guy go through there? The Sheriffs are after him!"

So I went out the gate to the nearest deputy and led him back through the gates to the yard where the runner was last seen. A brief search of vehicles there yielded nothing so we continued out to the back street where I opened up the next adjacent storage yards for the deputies to search. When the German Shepherd showed up it was just a matter of 15 minutes before a search of that adjacent yard led the deputy to open a back corner of the boat cover and discover the subject hiding in the enclosed cockpit area.

Find enclosed pictures I took from the shipping container and the next door yard, as the deputies rousted and detained the suspect.

The chase had begun 20  minutes earlier when the subject was spotted in an other storage yard a few streets over, humping a load of booty he’d accumulated presumably from burglarizing parked boats and RV’s. The suspects vehicle was seized but the suspect ran down the street and was spotted in the marsh on the west side of the fence of the Princeton lumber yard; "Driftwood". Tom the owner and Tom the younger gave chase and co-ordinated the deputy search effort down towards my part of the block where I took my place in the ultimate capture of the transgressor.

Compliments to all for a job well done. I do wonder though how that would have gone down on a stormy night, or even a calm one. Nonetheless Princeton-by-the-Sea has prevailed with the concerted efforts of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department and a half a dozen or so watchful and involved neighbors.
 
Another burglar out of commission for a month or two.

Michael Valentine Goldsun
Princeton
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