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$5K Grants Available For Small Businesses In Concord
The program aims to provide financial relief, through CARES Act funding, for 130 local firms hit hard by coronavirus.

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The program aims to provide financial relief, through CARES Act funding, for 130 local firms hit hard by coronavirus.

Outdoor seating and takeout services are still permitted.
Cases among county residents are on the rise, as well as cases at San Quentin State Prison.
Six new COVID-19 cases reported since Monday evening, health officials said.
The funds would provide emergency relief until state and federal emergency support becomes available.
Roughly 75 percent of Esperanza Elementary School families now are unemployed due to coronavirus shutdowns, organizers said.
"It's only a matter of time until the virus gets into Santa Rita and other jails," said Derick Almena's defense lawyer, arguing for release.
"I can't reiterate how important it is for all of us to comply," she said as the coronavirus battle wages on.
The ability to process 1,000-plus patient samples per day will boost Bay Area's testing capacity for COVID-19, health officials said.
Work focused on the system's electrification project.
Three other pedestrians also were struck and injured, and the driver of the vehicle involved was arrested, police said.
Union Pacific Railroad tracks were closed, and Amtrak Capitol Corridor trains were delayed.
The case against ex-Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski, formerly with Google's self-driving car program, involved driverless-car technology.
The fund will be used to help low-income residents, seniors, economically disadvantaged students and families throughout Marin County.
The elderly, Marin County couple were duped into taking out a loan to bail out their supposedly arrested grandson, officials said.
"Protection and preservation of tidal marshes and wetlands like these on San Pablo Bay are so important," one official said.
The suspect, 21, a former student at the school, was wearing mask and carrying replica AK-47 Airsoft gun near the school, officials said.
The homeowner fired a gun as he heard a person trying to break into the house through a window, police said.
The suspect denied involvement despite a bag with $2,700 of the store's merchandise found in her car, San Rafael police said.
HomeFirst, a local shelter and homeless advocacy organization, hosted a memorial where names of all those lost were read aloud.