from the Almanac news staff
Teen killed, two others injured in shooting
Police in East Palo Alto are investigating a shooting that killed one teen and injured two others Sunday night. (Monday, 7:55 AM)
City clerk leaving Menlo Park
Menlo Park needs to break out the recruitment ads once again. City Clerk Margaret Roberts gave two weeks' notice that her last day will be Friday, May 24. (Monday, 8:23 AM)
Public asked to help families devastated by fire
Redwood City officials are asking the public to help families who lost everything in an apartment building fire in the unincorporated North Fair Oaks neighborhood May 15. (Sunday, 9:16 PM)
Obama to attend June fundraiser in Portola Valley
President Barack Obama will attend a $32,400-a-head June 6 fundraising dinner at the Portola Valley home of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his wife, Neeru. (Sunday, 9:17 PM)
Menlo Park ... 1927
Downtown Menlo Park, including the building at right that now is known as the British Bankers Club, was photographed in 1927, the year the city incorporated. Photo courtesy of the Menlo Park Historical Association. (Monday, 8:33 AM)
Tuesday: Talk on black holes and galaxies
It turns out that, like everything else, black holes and galaxies go through love-hate relationships. (Sunday, 9:20 PM)
Report: School inequity threatens U.S. prosperity
"Not every kid's going to be as lucky as I was," says Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuellar, whose work ethic and smarts propelled him from a mediocre high school on California's border with Mexico to Harvard University, Yale University and an endowed professorship at Stanford Law School. (Sunday, 9:52 PM)
Monday: Screening of 'Tapestries of Hope'
As part of their senior project at Woodside Priory School, Clara Johnson and Stephanie Brugger are hosting the screening on May 20 of the film, "Tapestries of Hope," a documentary on young rape survivors in Zimbabwe. (Sunday, 9:16 PM)
Decorator Show House runs through Friday
The Peninsula Decorator Show House is a "California Monterey Colonial," built in Woodside in 1938 and updated some 20 years ago. It is situated on 21 acres that include gardens and stables.
(Sunday, 9:29 PM)
Paly, Menlo survive but SHP doesn't in playoffs
CCS baseball: It was nearly an improbable day for three local baseball teams in the Central Coast Section quarterfinals on Saturday. But, two out of three certainly wasn't bad. Read this and other sports coverage at PASportsOnline.com. (Monday, 10:50 AM)
Highs and lows at CCS track and field semifinals
Gunn High coach PattiSue Plumer probably said it best following a roller coaster day for local athletes at the Central Coast Section track and field semifinals on Saturday at Gilroy High. Read this and other sports coverage at PASportsOnline.com. (Monday, 10:49 AM)
Saturday shooting: Juvenile hospitalized
Police in East Palo Alto are investigating a shooting that hospitalized a juvenile male Saturday night, police said Sunday. (Monday, 8:04 AM)
Friday shooting: Victim probably shot himself
A 19-year-old man injured in a shooting in East Palo Alto Friday afternoon probably shot himself, Police Chief Ronald Davis said. (Monday, 8:00 AM)
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• Golden Shears celebrates 50th year (Friday, 12:50 PM)
• Prosecutor: Ayres verdict brings relief to victims (Friday, 8:27 AM)
• Interim chief named while injured chief recovers (Friday, 7:51 AM)
• Atherton residents address police contract issues, from outsourcing to pensions (Friday, 11:15 AM)
• Ormondale principal named (Thursday, 3:10 PM)
• Portola Valley council vetoes artificial grass (Friday, 8:01 AM)
• New owner applies to remodel $117 million Woodside mansion (Wednesday, 7:58 AM)
• Atherton city manager gets compensation boost, sort of (Thursday, 11:57 AM)
• Lawsuit filed over collision with horses on I-280 (Thursday, 8:57 AM)
• Fire marshal leaving Menlo Park Fire Protection District (Thursday, 9:18 AM)
• May 23: Service for Henry Blume, engineer, sportsman (Thursday, 9:03 AM)
• Assemblyman seeking summer interns (Thursday, 9:54 AM)
• Menlo Park traffic stop turns into drug bust (Wednesday, 10:03 AM)
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