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Letter: Gateway should watch out for rising tides
If the Menlo Gateway project is built, it will be submerged under water when global warming causes sea and Bay levels to rise. For details, check the map in Al Gore's book, A... |
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on Aug 13, 2010 at 10:05 pm by POGO, a resident of the Woodside: other neighborhood |
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CHP reopens U.S. 101, traffic remains heavy
The California Highway Patrol has reopened U.S. 101 in San Mateo this morning after downed lines prompted full closures of north and southbound lanes for more than an ... |
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on Jun 15, 2010 at 7:25 am by Editor, The Almanac Online |
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Hundreds march in May Day parade
The town of Woodside continued its 88-year-old tradition of parading through the streets on May Day in a colorful display of homegrown pageantry on Saturday, May 1.
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on May 6, 2010 at 7:29 am by Editor, The Almanac Online |
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'Where do Stars and Galaxies Come From?'
Stanford University physics professor Tom Abel will give a free talk at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 13, on "Where do Stars and Galaxies Come From?" The Cafe Scientifique program wil... |
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on Apr 13, 2010 at 2:43 pm by Martin Engel, a resident of the Menlo Park: Park Forest neighborhood |
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A walk into ... adventure, fame, love, heartbreak -- you be the guide.
This is the beginning of a story, but only the beginning. It is your role, if you choose to accept it, to add a paragraph or three (as a comment at the bottom), then let someo... |
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on Apr 6, 2010 at 3:38 pm by Joe, a resident of the Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park neighborhood |
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Kepler's Bestsellers - March 28, 2010
Hardcover Fiction
1 Help Kathryn Stockett
2 Man From Beijing Henning Mankell
3 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson
4 Too Much Happiness Alice Munro
5 Unnamed Josh... |
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on Mar 29, 2010 at 12:28 pm by Pam Grange, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood |
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Kepler's Bestsellers as of March 21, 2010
Hardcover Fiction
1 Spellwright Blake Charlton
2 Help Kathryn Stockett
3 So Much For That Lionel Shriver
4 Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver
5 Too Much Happiness Stories Alice... |
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on Mar 22, 2010 at 11:50 pm by Pam Grange, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood |
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Kepler's Bestsellers - Week ending 2/7/10
Hardcover Fiction
1 Where The God Of Love Hangs Out Amy Bloom
2 Unnamed Joshua Ferris
3 Help Kathryn Stockett
4 Lost Books Of The Odyssey Zachary Mason
5 Bloodroot Amy... |
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on Feb 8, 2010 at 4:06 pm by Pam Grange, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood |
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Free flu shots in Woodside, Menlo Park
Looking ahead to flu season, the San Mateo County Health Department is offering free vaccinations to eligible residents over coming months in Woodside and Menlo Park.
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on Oct 29, 2009 at 12:30 pm by Andrea Gemmet, Almanac staff writer |
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Fire board candidates respond to flap over ads
With a contract dispute unresolved and an election looming, the union that represents 93 firefighters in the Menlo Park Fire Protection District has provoked the ire of one bo... |
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on Oct 22, 2009 at 1:20 pm by Peter Carpenter, a resident of the Atherton: Lindenwood neighborhood |
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Kepler's Best Sellers - Week of October 11, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
1 Bang Ditto Amber Tamblyn
2 Lost Symbol Dan Brown
3 Help Kathryn Stockett
4 Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson
5 Best American Short Stories 200... |
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on Oct 12, 2009 at 2:21 pm by Pam Grange, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood |
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Kepler's Best Sellers - Week of October 4, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
1 Lost Symbol Dan Brown
2 Help Kathryn Stockett
3 Hardball Sara Paretsky
4 Gate At The Stairs Lorrie Moore
5 Spire Richard Patterson
6 South Of Broad... |
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on Oct 6, 2009 at 4:58 pm by Pam Grange, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood |
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Two reports of mountain lion sightings
Two mountain lion sightings were reported in San Mateo County Wednesday afternoon -- one near Edgewood County Park and the other in Half Moon Bay, according to authorities... |
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on Jan 28, 2009 at 8:25 pm by Yomamma, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood |
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The search for bigfoot goes on
A prominent researcher in the search for Bigfoot works out of Menlo Park. My immediate question: why Menlo Park?
I think it goes back, way back, to Thomas Edison in Menlo ... |
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on Aug 29, 2008 at 4:05 pm by Joe, a resident of the Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park neighborhood |
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Menlo Park hires full-time 'community engagement' director
Cherise Brandell, a 19-year employee of Battle Creek, Michigan, has been hired as Menlo Park's "community engagement" director -- a new full-time position formed to make the c... |
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on Mar 28, 2008 at 2:59 pm by Joanna, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood |
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Former MP city manager ousted from manager post in Scottsdale
Jan Dolan, Menlo Park's city manager from 1990 to 2000, has been ousted from her post as city manager in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to a news reports.
The Scottsdale Ci... |
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on Mar 20, 2008 at 3:43 pm by Joanna, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood |
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Letter: Meat production has big role in warming
I was very impressed with Leonardo DiCaprio's powerful documentary "The 11th Hour."
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesd... |
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on Sep 11, 2007 at 3:09 pm by Jeff, a resident of the Menlo Park: The Willows neighborhood |
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Uncle
Uncle
The boy has little chance of becoming a man.
Tall, gangly and uncoordinated, lacking neither emotional nor physical confidence, basic human goals appear out of his... |
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on May 31, 2007 at 8:21 am by The Mentor, a resident of the Atherton: West of Alameda neighborhood |
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Innocence - a work of fiction
Innocence
Every Tuesday we would meet in the park. It wasn’t much of a park, but it was equidistant between our apartments, and the curved wooden bench proved a surpr... |
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on Dec 22, 2006 at 11:38 am by Anonymous, a resident of another community |
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Town may regulate commercial use of tennis/sports courts
A regulation is in the works in Portola Valley that would establish criteria to determine when a professional such as a tennis instructor will need to obtain an agreement with... |
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on Dec 31, 1969 at 4:00 pm by Editor, The Almanac Online |
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