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Woodside council hits back hard on felling trees without a permit
It isn't the first five-figure penalty the Woodside Town Council has assessed on a property owner for felling mature trees without first obtaining a $50 permit, but at $26,250... |
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on Apr 25, 2013 at 12:02 pm by long timer, a resident of the Atherton: other neighborhood |
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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-... |
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on Apr 17, 2013 at 7:28 am by Susan Smith, a resident of the Woodside: other neighborhood |
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Higher permit fees may be in county's future
Residents of unincorporated San Mateo County with building or planning projects may soon see their permit costs go up. But first, the Board of Supervisors has asked county pla... |
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on Apr 10, 2013 at 10:29 pm by La Honda, a resident of the Woodside: other neighborhood |
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Tennis pro Bradley wins Lifetime Achievement honors
Longtime local tennis coach and pro Chris Bradley recently won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.S. Professional Tennis Association.
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on Apr 7, 2013 at 12:56 pm by Michelle, a resident of the Woodside: other neighborhood |
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Sewer rates to jump for Woodside customers
Woodside is semi-rural and most of the town's 2,200 properties use septic tanks in lieu of sewers, but for some 157 properties that do not, the annual cost for sewer service w... |
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 4:47 pm by POGO, a resident of the Woodside: other neighborhood |
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Woodside environmentalist Ollie Mayer dies at 94
The Devil's Slide tunnel groundbreaking in 2005 was a triumph for Olive Mayer of Woodside. She wasn't there to cheer the tunnels completion at the party held March 25, 2013, h... |
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on Mar 29, 2013 at 1:43 pm by Fatima Tehranchi, a resident of the Atherton: Lindenwood neighborhood |
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Woodside resident helps
arrest theft suspect
Retired San Francisco police officer and Woodside resident Bill Gilbert brought some of his professional skills to bear early on the morning of Aug. 30 near his home on Olive ... |
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on Mar 26, 2013 at 7:44 pm by antje Quante, a resident of the Menlo Park: Fair Oaks neighborhood |
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American made: Woodside's Adolph Rosekrans restores farming implements from the days of the horse-drawn plow
It requires a leap of imagination to visualize it now, but there was a time when growing crops commercially in the United States meant entering the domain of draft horses and ... |
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on Mar 23, 2013 at 1:01 pm by Borut Prah, a resident of another community |
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Woodside shifts focus in road-repair program
Residents of Old La Honda Road have long successfully lobbied Town Hall for money to address dangerous conditions of their steep and winding road. This year's road budget appr... |
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on Mar 22, 2013 at 6:38 am by jimmae, a resident of the Portola Valley: Los Trancos Woods/Vista Verde neighborhood |
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Woodside ignores SugarDaddie offer
A recent offer by a dating website to pay Woodside $11.65 million to rename the town SugarDaddie.com was meant to generate a lot of free publicity for the site and perhaps som... |
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on Mar 15, 2013 at 9:59 am by resident, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood |
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Woodside to open new farmers' market
Woodside residents interested in purchasing locally produced food directly from its producers will soon have one more option very close to home: a weekly farmers' market right... |
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on Mar 14, 2013 at 3:38 pm by canada rd., a resident of the Woodside: Emerald Hills neighborhood |
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Woodside: Bag ban goes back to drawing board
The Town Council in Woodside is doing some trailblazing as it moves the town toward a presumably greener future. The council intends to ban single-use plastic bags at checkou... |
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on Mar 1, 2013 at 3:53 pm by Michael G. Stogner, a resident of another community |
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Cyclist's account of Woodside road-rage event
A Portola Valley resident said he was among 100 or so cyclists at the scene of a road-rage incident involving a pickup truck on Saturday, Jan. 26, in Woodside.
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on Feb 19, 2013 at 11:21 am by John, a resident of another community |
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Buck's in Woodside among targets of burglars
Of four burglaries reported late last week, two involved breaking and entering and two showed no obvious clues as to how entry was made, according to reports from the Menlo Pa... |
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on Feb 13, 2013 at 3:57 am by susan smythe, a resident of the Woodside: Skywood/Skylonda neighborhood |
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Driver: Bicyclists attacked my truck in Woodside
The driver of a pickup truck says a group of some 50 bicyclists attacked his truck on Canada Road in Woodside on Saturday, Jan. 26.
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on Feb 5, 2013 at 4:10 pm by John, a resident of another community |
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Woodside bans plastic bags at checkout counters
To encourage the use of reusable shopping bags, Woodside will follow the lead of county government and ban flimsy plastic bags at retail checkout counters starting on April 22... |
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on Jan 25, 2013 at 12:51 pm by Jim, a resident of the Woodside: Woodside Heights neighborhood |
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Tonight: Woodside revisits plastic bag ban
With the county Board of Supervisors banning the flimsy "single-use" plastic bags at retail check-out counters in unincorporated communities, the town of Woodside will follow... |
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on Jan 21, 2013 at 11:32 am by Editor, The Almanac Online |
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Woodsiders hope for return of Nativity scene figurines
Figurines from a Christmas Nativity scene were stolen from a Woodside corner sometime between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day and community members are hoping someone knows ... |
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on Jan 11, 2013 at 1:25 pm by rferran, a resident of the Woodside: Mountain Home Road neighborhood |
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'Pay raise' actually a cut for county manager
A unanimous San Mateo County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 11 introduced a measure to raise the annual salary of the county manager to $300,000. If the board approves the measu... |
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on Dec 21, 2012 at 4:25 pm by Renee Batti, news editor of The Almanac |
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New law calms loud television commercials
A law authored by Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, D-Menlo Park, that turns down the volume on TV commercials went into effect Thursday.
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on Dec 15, 2012 at 3:05 pm by Steve, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood |
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Woodside: Man fled to neighbor's after attack
A Woodside man fled into a neighbor's house after he was attacked with a shovel Wednesday afternoon. The suspect was later Tased by sheriff's deputies while he was taken ... |
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on Dec 13, 2012 at 8:42 pm by POGO, a resident of the Woodside: other neighborhood |
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Woodside: Mountain lion spotted on street
A newspaper delivery person reported spotting a mountain lion in the 350 block of Raymundo Drive in Woodside at around 4:40 a.m. this morning, the Sheriff's Office reported.
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on Dec 11, 2012 at 11:15 pm by John Q. Public, a resident of the Woodside: other neighborhood |
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Fixing Woodside's 'structurally deficient' bridges
For at least 100 years in the rural community that is now Woodside, three two-lane, single-span bridges -- on Kings Mountain Road, Portola Road and Mountain Home Road -- have ... |
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on Dec 8, 2012 at 5:29 pm by Donald, a resident of another community |
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Woodside High grieves over death of freshman
Sadness pervaded Woodside High School last week as students and teachers remembered Leyla Beban. The 14-year-old Redwood City freshman died Nov. 26 at Stanford Hospital after ... |
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on Dec 4, 2012 at 3:32 pm by Sad Day in Community, a member of the Woodside High School community |
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Noise from low-flying aircraft still troubles towns
For years, at Peninsula community roundtable discussions with noise-abatement officials, representatives from Portola Valley and Woodside have complained about arriving commer... |
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on Dec 4, 2012 at 9:13 am by Grant, a resident of the Woodside: Woodside Hills neighborhood |
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