http://www.almanacnews.com If it is local and useful, it is on AlmanacNews.com. en-us 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. ]]> A young man walking to his car was shot Friday afternoon in East Palo Alto, according to police.]]> 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. ]]> Should the town of Atherton consider outsourcing its police department? If not, how much should the town be willing to pay to keep residents safe, properties secure, and police officers feeling fairly compensated? ]]> For some, the semifinals of the Central Coast Section Track and Field Championships is just a mere stepping stone to the finals. For others, it's a much different story. Read this and other sports coverage at PASportsOnline.com. ]]> Silicon Valley Symphony, directed by Michael P. Gibson, will present its final concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 330 Ravenswood Ave. in Menlo Park. ]]> After years of legal wrangling, Dr. William Hamilton Ayres, an 81-year-old former San Mateo psychiatrist accused of molesting boys during examinations in the 1990s, has pleaded no contest to the charges against him. ]]> The Mid-Peninsula League of the San Francisco Symphony will celebrate "An Evening in Paris" with cocktails, floral displays, fine dining and musical entertainment on Sunday, May 19, at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton. ]]> Expanded version of earlier story. The Portola Valley Town Council by a 3-2 vote overturned a Planning Commission decision allowing the Woodside Priory School to use artificial grass on a soccer field. ]]> A former chief of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, Douglas Sporleder, will serve as interm chief while Chief Harold Schapelhouman recovers from injuries sustained from a fall. Chief Schapelhouman underwent back surgery Monday. ]]> Golden Shears barbershop, at 814 Santa Cruz Ave. in downtown Menlo Park, will hold a party from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 18, to observe its 50th anniversary. Refreshments and live mariachi music are planned. "The whole town's invited," says Golden Shears owner Louis Arenas.
]]> Kevin Keegan, an elementary school principal in the Santa Clara Unified School District, has been appointed the new principal of Ormondale School in Portola Valley.]]> With one council member calling the change "outrageous," the Atherton City Council last night (May 15) approved a compensation increase, that by some calculations is a decrease, for City Manager George Rodericks. ]]> State Assemblyman Richard Gordon is accepting applications from high school and college students for part-time summer internships. ]]> Geoff Aus, long-time Menlo Park Fire Protection District fire marshal, is changing employers, but not job titles – he has accepted a position as fire marshal for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.]]> A celebration of the life of former Portola Valley and Menlo Park resident Henry Martin Blume Jr. will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at All Saint's Episcopal Church in Palo Alto.]]> A lawsuit has been filed by Menlo Park physician Dr. Jean W. Gillon over an incident in the early morning darkness of Dec. 29, 2012, in which a Mercedes Benz she was driving collided with at least one of four Webb Ranch horses that had gotten loose and wandered on to the northbound lane of Interstate 280 just north of Alpine Road.]]> "Mitchell Johnson: Color and Shape," an exhibit of the paintings of Mitchell Johnson of Menlo Park, is on display at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View through Sunday, May 26. ]]> Running a stop sign can get you a ticket for at least $214, but as two men discovered on Tuesday, it can also rack up some jail time.]]> After tumbling off a ladder at his San Jose home over the weekend, Menlo Park Fire Protection District Chief Harold Schapelhouman is on the mend.]]> The new owner of the mansion at 360 Mountain Home Road in Woodside has applied to the town to redesign parts of the main house and three accessory buildings on this 8.74-acre estate that sold in November for $117.5 million. The sale was a new U.S. record for a single-family home, according to news reports.]]> Service was disrupted on the Caltrain tracks after a train in San Bruno fatally struck a pedestrian this morning (May 15), but is now back to normal, according to a Caltrain spokeswoman.]]> Robert W. Taylor, a Woodside resident for 30 years and a visionary in the development of computer networks and modern personal computing, including the availability of information online, has been inducted into the Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows in Mountain View.]]> Although no formal action was taken, Menlo Park City School District board members agreed on two key issues they discussed last night (May 13): The district must ask voters to pass a bond measure to build new facilities on its O'Connor campus, and the private school that now occupies that campus should be allowed to remain almost a year longer than its contract allows while the district plans the new campus.]]> Had public comment been darts, Sequoia Union High School District Superintendent James Lianides would have had puncture wounds aplenty after more than two hours on the stage of the Performing Arts Center at Menlo-Atherton High School on Monday (May 13).]]> It has been 25 years since voters approved funding to replace the Willow Road-U.S. 101 outdated interchange, Menlo Park City Council members tried to finally nudge the project closer to reality by giving a nod to one of the design options.]]> John McGrory, a La Entrada Middle School seventh-grader, recently performed with the prestigious California Band Director's Association All-State Junior High School Concert Band.]]> Crime reports from Atherton, Menlo Park and Woodside.]]> Woodside resident Nancy Reyering, an active volunteer in the civic affairs of the town, received the town's Environmental Champion Award for 2013 at the Earth Day Fair on April 27.]]> Expanded version of a story previously published online.
After much discussion, the Menlo Park Planning Commission voted 4-2 on May 6 that if the city turns over a piece of land in the public right-of-way on Louise Street to adjacent homeowners, it would follow the general plan.]]> I don't think we can expect the young – or home buyers of any age who've never gardened here – to understand the nature of the land they will inhabit. They need to learn how to sustain and care for its many gifts. ]]> Programs designed to help steer kids away from drugs, such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.), can be only as effective as the people who work face to face with the kids.]]> From A to Z -- from the fictional antidepressant Ablixa to the real drug Zoloft -- Steven Soderbergh toys with drugs, duplicity and their side effects. -- ST]]> Director Seth Gordon's action-comedy follow-up to "Horrible Bosses" proves far from perfect but ultimately difficult to resist, thanks to Melissa McCarthy and co-lead Jason Bateman. -- PC]]> ● Sports: Scores | Stories | Post a score on PA Online Sports
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