SCHOOLS & KIDS Ravenswood wins 'inclusive' school award Ravenswood City School District, in East Palo Alto and east Menlo Park, announced Tuesday that it has been named as the nation's most promising inclusive school district by an... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Dec 7, 2007 at 11:01 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Dec 10, 2007 at 9:25 am.
OTHER TOPICS Building hope Gifts to the Almanac's Holiday Fund benefit the Service League, which provides services to jail inmates and their families. The organization is located in a historic brick lau... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Dec 7, 2007 at 8:18 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Dec 7, 2007 at 8:18 am.
THE LOCAL DISH La Honda Winery vintner offers sampling of wine from grapes grown in Peninsula's backyard Anyone who thinks of winemakers and wine aficionados as pretentiously, overbearingly serious really should meet Ken Wornick.
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OTHER TOPICS No more public oversight for Sequoia Hospital The public will no longer play a role in the governance of Sequoia Hospital, built with taxpayer funds in Redwood City some 57 years ago to serve much of the Midpeninsula as a... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Dec 6, 2007 at 11:38 am There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Dec 7, 2007 at 8:47 am.
AROUND TOWN LETTERS Bring back the big yellow school bus
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PORTOLA VALLEY Roberts market could get use permit this week The Portola Valley Planning Commission may issue a conditional use permit this week for the new Roberts market going in where John's Valley Foods used to be, near the corner o... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Dec 5, 2007 at 3:37 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Dec 5, 2007 at 3:37 pm.
OTHER TOPICS Family of cyclist Rodney Smith files wrongful death lawsuit A more detailed picture of the circumstances surrounding the car accident that killed cyclist and former Altera Corp. chief executive Rodney Smith of Portola Valley in May ma... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Dec 5, 2007 at 1:46 pm There have been 11 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jan 2, 2008 at 9:57 am.
OTHER TOPICS Menlo College professor killed in car accident Laura Marschall, 44, associate professor of biological sciences at Menlo College in Atherton, was killed Saturday in a head-on collision on Highway 92, just west of the state ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Dec 5, 2007 at 11:58 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Dec 5, 2007 at 11:58 am.
OTHER TOPICS Twice yearly Woodside rummage sale involves the whole town On May 10 and 11, a twice-yearly Woodside institution will once again take place — the rummage sale at the Woodside Village Church.
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PORTOLA VALLEY Roberts Market could get use permit this week Unfortunately, I can't be at the meeting about this at the historic schoolhouse tomorrow night, but I certainly hope the use permit is issued without further delay. I think ha... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Judy Lurie, a resident of the Portola Valley: Portola Valley Ranch neighborhood, on Dec 4, 2007 at 8:37 pm
WOODSIDE Longtime Woodside firefighter dies at 71 John Clifford "Cliff" Andrews, a firefighter with the Woodside Fire Protection District for 33 years, died Oct. 12. He was 71.
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THE LOCAL DISH Red Currant bistro opens at Allied Arts The Red Currant bistro is open for business at the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park. The proprietors are Nir and Ayellet Perry, a young Israeli couple who own the Cassis Cateri... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Dec 3, 2007 at 1:41 pm There have been 7 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 17, 2008 at 2:56 pm.
AROUND TOWN Kepler's Best Sellers 12/02/07 Hardcover Fiction
1. The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, Lemony Snicket
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
3. Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
4.... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Susan Lider, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood, on Dec 3, 2007 at 11:08 am
MENLO PARK BEAUTIFUL SAFEWAY - but parking ??? Having attended the grand opening Friday morning at 8:00 AM and returned Sunday afternoon to do some shopping, I come away with some thoughts.
The new Safeway is a beautifu... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by MP shopper, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood, on Dec 3, 2007 at 7:53 am There have been 13 comments on this topic, the most recent on Dec 10, 2007 at 12:50 pm.
SPORTS Palo Alto stops M-A, 14-7 for CCS football title Junior quarterback Will Brandin lofted a 14-yard scoring pass to senior receiver Mike Scott with 13.6 seconds to play, lifting the Palo Alto football team to a 14-7 victory ov... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Dec 1, 2007 at 3:28 pm There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jan 17, 2008 at 12:15 pm.
ATHERTON Judge OKs release of report on Atherton's fired finance chief The investigator's report that led to Atherton Finance Director John Johns being fired must be released to the public, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge John Runde ruled ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Dec 1, 2007 at 11:22 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Dec 1, 2007 at 11:22 am.
MENLO PARK DOWNTOWN BLOCK PARTY A few months ago, on August 1st and August 15th, both a Wednesday, a City-wide BLOCK PARTY was offered in Downtown Menlo Park along Santa Cruz Avenue.
The question is, shou... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Hometown Citizen, a resident of the Menlo Park: Park Forest neighborhood, on Nov 29, 2007 at 5:24 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Dec 13, 2007 at 1:00 pm.
THE LOCAL DISH Miller Design Co. returns to Woodside After four years in Portola Valley, interior designer Robert W. Miller is back in Woodside with a new partner and a new studio.
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PORTOLA VALLEY New Roberts Market as a gathering place The town of Portola Valley has been without a grocery store since July 2006, when John's Valley Foods closed after 29 years.
The new Roberts Market is likely to open in th... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by David Boyce, Almanac staff writer, on Nov 29, 2007 at 2:12 pm
OTHER TOPICS Protect vital records from fire, CPA group says In the wake of the recent fires in Southern California, the California Society of Certified Public Accountants has put together this list of important documents to protect in ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Andrea Gemmet, Almanac staff writer, on Nov 29, 2007 at 11:50 am
SCHOOLS & KIDS School communities take up climate change on their own California's official campaigns against global warming may be taking a hands-off approach to K-12 public school greenhouse gas emissions, but without much fanfare, local schoo... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Nov 28, 2007 at 2:18 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Nov 28, 2007 at 4:16 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Local Boy Scouts collect a ton of food Menlo Atherton Boy Scout Troop 206 collected over a ton of food for the needy in the annual pre-Thanksgiving Scouting for Food drive. Scouts distributed door hangers in the Fl... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Phil McHale, a resident of the Menlo Park: Suburban Park/Lorelei Manor/Flood Park Triangle neighborhood, on Nov 27, 2007 at 4:14 pm
SPORTS M-A rolls over Aragon, into CCS football finals The Menlo-Atherton football team is at the doorstep of perhaps its second Central Coast Section championship since 2002. All the Bears need to do now is walk right in.
READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Nov 27, 2007 at 12:24 pm There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Dec 1, 2007 at 11:59 am.
AROUND TOWN Kepler's Best Sellers 11/25/07 Hardcover Fiction
1. The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, Lemony Snicket
2. Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
3. World Without End, Ken Follett
4. The Chase,... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Susan Lider, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood, on Nov 26, 2007 at 10:18 am
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