The San Mateo High School "Pit” hosted its last hurrah Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002.
For San Mateo coaches and players, San Mateo High School’s gymnasium, known as "the Pit” and built in the 1920s, was an incredible home-court advantage. Fans were on top of the players, and the coziness of the confines suffocated opponents.
The Pit played host to its final basketball game, a 58-33 victory by the host Bearcats over league rival Hillsdale. The team will move into a new facility on the school’s campus next season.
Labor center moves ahead
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The city of San Mateo took a small step toward creating a day labor center the week of Feb. 10, 2002 when an East Bay nonprofit group submitted the first part of a proposal to operate it.
The proposal calls for the hiring of an outreach worker who will organize community meetings with the laborers, neighbors, businesses and city leaders. That worker was to have been hired by the end of February, said Zakkiyyan Nazeeh of Volunteers of America, which already operates a day labor center in Oakland.
Police crack down on downtown bar
A month after San Mateo police asked the state’s Alcohol Beverage Control department for assistance with the Latin American Store, the troublesome bar had its liquor license suspended for 20 days the week of Feb. 10, 2002.
In a letter that San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer sent to the Alcohol Beverage Control board, she wrote that since June 1999, the police department has received 101 calls related to the Latin American Store that have resulted in numerous arrests.
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