AROUND TOWN
High-speed rail route through Peninsula chosen
The California High-Speed Rail Authority Board on Wednesday chose Pacheco Pass as the preferred California high-speed rail route, meaning passenger trains traveling up to 220...
|
AROUND TOWN
Kepler's Best Sellers 12/16/07
Hardcover Fiction
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
2. The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, Lemony Snicket
3. T is for Trespass, Sue Grafton
4. World Withou...
|
AROUND TOWN
Sea level rise could flood east of Bayshore
The San Francisco Bay of the future will be significantly larger, rising between 4 inches to more than three feet by 2100, official warns Palo Alto leaders.
Read the full s...
|
AROUND TOWN
Local A Cappella group finalist in CBS contest
According to an e-mail I received this afternoon (and their http://www.hook-slide.com ), Hookslide, a Menlo Park-based A Cappella group, has been chosen as one of five nationa...
|
AROUND TOWN
Kepler's Best Sellers 12/09/07
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, Lemony Snicket
2. T is for Trespass, Sue Grafton
3. World Without End, Ken Follett
4. A Thousand Splend...
|
AROUND TOWN
Holiday events: Caroling, holiday train
Downtown caroling. A holiday train. Toys for Tots. No enforcement of downtown parking limtis. These are among many holiday activities going on in Menlo Park this month.
Rea...
|
AROUND TOWN
LETTERS
Bring back the big yellow school bus
Read the full story here http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=5350 posted Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 12:00 AM
|
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....
|
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,...
|
AROUND TOWN
Kepler's Best Sellers 11/18/07
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Chase, Clive Cussler
2. The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, Lemony Snicket
3. World Without End, Ken Follett
4. Gentlemen of the Road, ...
|
AROUND TOWN
Rosewood rooms: $400-$450 a night
Further details about the Stanford University/Rosewood Hotel, being built on Sand Hill Road near Interstate 280 in Menlo Park, were unveiled Thursday during a press event at t...
|
AROUND TOWN
Career con man avoids prison for check fraud
A 64-year-old Menlo Park man who prosecutors claim is a career con artist who once tried to sell a man the Golden State Warriors basketball team, but whom his attorney says ha...
|
AROUND TOWN
Kepler's Best Sellers 11/11/07
Hardcover Fiction
1. World Without End, Ken Follett
2. The Chase, Clive Cussler
3. The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, Lemony Snicket
4. A War of Gifts, Orson S...
|
AROUND TOWN
Kepler's Best Sellers 11/04/07
Hardcover Fiction
1. A War of Gifts, Orson Scott Card
2. The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, Lemony Snicket
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
4. The ...
|
AROUND TOWN
Kepler's Best Sellers 10/28/07
Hardcover Fiction
1. World Without End, Ken Follett
2. The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta
3. The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Ho...
|
AROUND TOWN
Check Out the Corn Maze in Dixon, CA
I just read an article in the Chronicle about a corn maze in Dixon. Here is a link to the online version
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/26/BAOVSTQ...
|
|