PORTOLA VALLEY Portola Valley affordable housing issue: how to spend $2.88 million from Blue Oaks sale The issue about affordable housing in Portola Valley has boiled down to this: What should the town do with the $2.88 million it acquired in December from the sale of two topog... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 18, 2013 at 9:43 am There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 19, 2013 at 1:32 pm.
SPORTS All-stars capture national title Redwood Undisputed, an all-star basketball team of fourth-grade girls representing the Redwood chapter of the Silicon Valley Section for National Junior Basketball, captured t... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 17, 2013 at 8:15 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 17, 2013 at 8:15 pm.
MENLO PARK Home burglars make off with $15,000 in goods Burglars hit three homes in three different Menlo Park neighborhoods and stole jewelry, computers and construction equipment for a total estimated loss of $15,000, on Monday, ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 17, 2013 at 2:27 pm There have been 8 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 18, 2013 at 9:27 pm.
AROUND TOWN Runner says she was hit by car in Menlo Park A 61-year-old woman jogging along Ringwood Avenue in Menlo Park was left bruised and shaken after a hit-and-run encounter with a car, she said.
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OTHER TOPICS Should Government websites be searchable? In my struggle to make the Sequoia Healthcare District more user friendly, I suggested to CEO Lee Michelson that "Searchable pdf format would be smaller and more useful."
His... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Jack Hickey, a resident of the Woodside: Emerald Hills neighborhood, on Apr 17, 2013 at 11:10 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 17, 2013 at 12:00 pm.
MENLO PARK Update: Menlo council forms subcommittee to guide Stanford project on El Camino After a discussion that started on Tuesday night and stretched into Wednesday morning, the Menlo Park City Council decided to form a subcommittee to help figure out how to mak... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 17, 2013 at 7:39 am There have been 107 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 22, 2013 at 5:47 pm.
WOODSIDE Preserving historic properties in Woodside In Woodside, there is a list of 22 structures of historic significance to the town. Included are the Albert Shine house, a Victorian built near Canada Road in 1882 using mail-... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 17, 2013 at 7:28 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 17, 2013 at 7:28 am.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Helen Hausman to retire from community college board Atherton resident Helen Hausman, a trustee of the San Mateo County Community College District for 23 years, plans to retire from the Board of Trustees on May 1.
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MENLO PARK Tonight: MP council reviews Stanford project With many residents expressing opposition to Stanford's development proposal for 300-500 El Camino Real, the Menlo Park City Council will meet Tuesday night, April 16, to revi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 16, 2013 at 12:10 pm There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 16, 2013 at 3:13 pm.
OTHER TOPICS Grand jury dings San Mateo County for failing to rein in sooaring pension costs San Mateo County doesn't have enough money to cover promised retirement costs that could total $2 billion, not the $1 billion estimated by the agency managing employees' pensi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Susan Smith, a resident of the Woodside: other neighborhood, on Apr 16, 2013 at 4:31 am There have been 14 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 19, 2013 at 10:47 am.
ATHERTON [VIDEO] Atherton Finance Committee Apr 9 2013 Special Meeting TOWN OF ATHERTON
FINANCE COMMITTEE
APRIL 9, 2013
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The Town of Atherton assumed responsibility for recording Town meetings. The Athert... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by APOA, a resident of the Atherton: other neighborhood, on Apr 15, 2013 at 9:06 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 18, 2013 at 8:49 pm.
MENLO PARK Gardeners arrested on suspicion of burglary Two men were arrested after a woman arrived home in an unincorporated area of Menlo Park to find them inside her home stealing laptop computers, according to San Mateo Cou... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 15, 2013 at 2:10 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 15, 2013 at 2:10 pm.
MENLO PARK Pacifist, Kepler's legend Ira Sandperl dies at 90 Ira Sandperl, a well-known pacifist who worked for decades at Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park -- from the 1950s into the 1980s -- died April 13 at his home in Menlo Park. He ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 15, 2013 at 1:12 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 15, 2013 at 2:40 pm.
AROUND TOWN An Eagle-Eyed Investigator Catches Dr. Ayres at Trader Joe's Dr. William Ayres, child psychiatrist for four decades to both the offspring of the rich in San Mateo County as well as the juveniles and who was arrested for child molestati... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Lurker, a resident of another community, on Apr 14, 2013 at 2:42 am There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 14, 2013 at 6:47 am.
OTHER TOPICS At the top: Lt. Gen. Joseph F. Fil Jr. In a time of war but not of national sacrifice, of an official news blackout on photos of the flag-draped coffins of war dead, and of an all-volunteer military, those of us en... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 13, 2013 at 2:21 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 13, 2013 at 2:21 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Michelle Rhees, Superman movie and DC cheating scandals The editors removed my post and closed the topic on the Superman movie, Woodside High School and Micelle Rhees place in the movie. It would have been nice if they would have p... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by False idols, a resident of the Menlo Park: other neighborhood, on Apr 13, 2013 at 1:37 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 13, 2013 at 4:20 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Tonight: 'Design thinking' in Menlo Park schools Hillview Middle School in Menlo Park will hold a preview showing next Thursday of a PBS documentary, "Extreme by Design," and conduct a panel discussion on how the school dist... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 12, 2013 at 5:12 pm There have been 8 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 22, 2013 at 5:49 pm.
AROUND TOWN Feature story: Shaping the West It's a safe bet that few can now say what these four things have in common: asparagus, the sliding glass door, a wilderness vacation, and teaching teenagers to cook. According... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 12, 2013 at 1:45 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 12, 2013 at 1:45 pm.
MENLO PARK Saturday: Speier hosts gun buyback event U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, who held a gun buyback event in San Mateo County earlier this year, is planning another this weekend.
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AROUND TOWN Atherton: $92,000 in purses missing from home Atherton police called it grand theft in the April 5 log entry -- and it is definitely grand -- but they say they're investigating it as a residential burglary that may have u... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 12, 2013 at 12:20 pm There have been 16 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 14, 2013 at 7:55 am.
MENLO PARK Menlo Park: Changes in Stanford/Arrillaga project on El Camino please some, not others While some say Stanford and developer John Arrillaga took a step in the right direction by adding housing and reducing medical office space for its proposed El Camino Real dev... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 12, 2013 at 12:11 pm There have been 22 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 15, 2013 at 4:01 pm.
MENLO PARK Guest opinion: Can Menlo Park recover what it lost in specific plan? With the recent downtown Menlo Park project submitted by Stanford University, residents are waking up to the reality of a large development and the impacts brought about by bu... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Apr 12, 2013 at 10:29 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 12, 2013 at 10:29 am.
MENLO PARK Letter: CalPERs increase could cost $3 million CalPERS, (the California Public Employees' Retirement System) is on the brink of raising its required contribution rates by 50 per cent over six years beginning next year.
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ATHERTON Atherton Police Negotiations – Status is right here Is this "through the looking glass" or what? A letter just received from John Mattes. Cops expect the parcel tax to INCREASE. WOW!!!
April 4, 2013
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