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Clock-maker's apprentice Maxwell Nesbet, fixes a pocket watch at his desk at Dorian Clair's clock repair shop in Noe Valley, San Francisco, California, on Friday, March 11, 2016. Maxwell may be helping Dorian Clair reset the time on the Ferry Building clock this year for daylight savings.

Photos of the Week

This week we look at rising water levels, flooding on the outskirts of the Bay Area and beautiful clock pieces.

Sharon Whelan MacSweeney, co-director and co-owner, teaches during championship class at the Whelan-Kennelly Academy of Irish Dance on Monday, March 7, 2016 in San Francisco, California.

Reels in the Sunset

THE REGULARS: The rhythmic clatter of hard shoes on wood, Irish melodies and the “5, 6, 7, 8!” of Sharon Whelan MacSweeney, teacher and co-owner, rang out at the Whelan-Kennelly Academy of Irish Dance ...

From the Archive

The train City of San Francisco Streamliner was stuck in snow drifts near Yuba Pass in the Sierra Nevada for 4 days. Ken McLaughlin used skis and snow shoes to get to the train long before any other journalists

Snowbound in the Sierra: 3 days of hell on a train in 1952

The Regulars

Zac Majors, a six-time U.S. Hang Gliding National Champion, flies over Fort Funston on January 23, 2016. He has been flying at Fort Funston for about 20 years.

Surfing above the clouds: Hang gliding at Fort Funston

From the Archive

1962: San Francisco Giants player Willie Mays looking at his bats during spring training on February 23, 1962. (Photo by Rogers Photo Archive/Getty Images)

Giants in the desert: Spring training gold mine unearthed

The Regulars

Joe Bynes practices tai chi with a sword at Madison Square Park in Oakland, Calif. on February 25, 2015. He joins the regulars there every weekday morning.

Nature in harmony: Tai chi at Madison Square Park

Andrea Rodriguez (center in red) dances with family and friends in the backyard of the Mosqueda family home at the Mosqueda family farewell party on Saturday, August 23, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.

Projects

Geese swim past the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge in Clipper Cove at daybreak in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014.

Our Photographers

Ariyahn Hills, 4, searches for oranges in the fridge in the kitchen at her family's apartment March 8, 2014 in Ingleside in San Francisco, Calif. The new design for Nutrition Facts labels on food packages, proposed by the FDA, might help families similar to Calloway's. Rheema's Aunt, who has both cerebral palsy and diabetes, has to have her diet monitored carefully. Rheema's sister, Rheneka, also has diabetes.

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David Bewley, a founder of Save Dublin Open Space, which opposes the development walks along Doolan Road which cuts through Doolan Canyon near Dublin, Calif., as seen on Thursday Sept. 25, 2014. Dublin voters with decide whether to annex Doolan Canyon for a planned development of 2,000 more homes or leave it as open space.

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