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Lowest Gasoline Price: Can You Beat This?
With gas prices approaching or exceeding $4.00 per gallon, and expected to go higher this summer, it behoves us to find the lowest gasoline prices in town. In Menlo Park the a...
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Accident causes huge gusher in Menlo Park
Jim Lewis submitted this photo (taken by Todd Temple of Menlo Park) to The Almanac. Mr. Lewis said an accident Monday at the corner of Santa Cruz Avenue and University Drive i...
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Developing open space: Should voters decide?
A broad coalition of environmental groups wants to qualify an initiative in Redwood City to require two-thirds of city voters to approve any new development in the city's ope...
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Kepler's Best Sellers - 3/9/08
Hardcover Fiction
Palace Of Illusions, Chitra Divakaruni
Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
Age Of Shiva, Manil Suri
Lush Life, Richard Price
Appeal, John Grisham
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Man jailed for nearly killing MaryAnn Levenson
A 77-year-old man convicted of felony drunken driving for striking and severely injuring Menlo Park bicyclist MaryAnn Levenson was sentenced Friday to eight months in county j...
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Atherton: John Johns loses legal round
The saga of Atherton's ex-finance director added some new twists last week, as a judge told John Johns he had to decide between suing the town and avoiding incriminating himse...
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High-speed trains could be headed this way
Imagine boarding a train in the Bay Area, and two and a half hours later, you're in downtown Los Angeles. This may be a dream come true for transit officials and travelers. Bu...
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Kepler's Best Sellers - 3/2/08
Hardcover Fiction
1. Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
2. People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
3. Senator’s Wife, Sue Miller
4.Beginners Greek, James Collins
5. Be...
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Kepler’s Weekly Bestsellers 2/24/08
Hardcover Fiction
1. Appeal, John Grisham
2. People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
3. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
4. Reserve, Russell Banks
5. Incomplete Revenge,...
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Judge sentences driver in Halberstam fatality
A University of California-Berkeley journalism student who was driving during a 2007 Menlo Park crash that claimed the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberst...
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Kepler’s Weekly Bestsellers 2/10/08
Hardcover Fiction
1 People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
2 Appeal, John Grisham
3 Senator's Wife, Sue Miller
4 World Without End, Ken Follett
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Super Tuesday in Portola Valley, Atherton
Barack Obama supporters in Portola Valley applaud his speech on TV on election night, Feb. 5. They are, from left (seated on the couch) Joan Polinsky, Samira Amid-Houzour, Noo...
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Atherton boys lead water polo team
Senior Marker Anderson and sophomore Grant Villeneuve, both of Atherton, led Deerfield Academy — a college preparatory school in Deerfield, Massachusetts — to its ...
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Editorial: Church and state in Menlo Park
A guest opinion on these pages last week suggesting that the city of Menlo Park was violating the separation of church and state by renting the City Council chambers to the Ch...
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Exhibits: Black, white and wondrous
"Tide Pool, San Mateo Coast" is one of the black-and-white photographs by Alan McGee of Portola Valley on exhibit from Feb. 1 through 29 at the Portola Art Gallery at Allied A...
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Religious event ignites debate
As the debate continues over whether it was appropriate for a religious event to be held in the Menlo Park City Council Chambers, the verdict is in from the city attorney: If ...
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Kepler's Best Sellers 1/27/08
Hardcover Fiction
1. People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
2. World Without End, Ken Follett
3. Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
4. Out Stealing Horses, Per ...
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UPDATE: Theatre investigation related to thefts
A burglary last June and thefts at the Palo Alto Children's Theatre are linked to the investigation of "financial crimes" that caused the City of Palo Alto to close the belove...
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