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A smoke shop may be trying to open in west Menlo Park, again
A west Menlo Park smoke shop may be trying to open in the unincorporated exclave after the owner’s previous smoke shop was blocked from opening in the same space in August 2024.
Branch Services changing lives for adults with intellectual delays
In the community kitchen at Willow Commons, tenants are chopping vegetables, squeezing lemons and cutting tofu to prepare dinner. On the menu is Asian tofu salad with peanut sauce. The cooking program is one of many hosted by Branch Services to support adults with intellectual developmental delays.
From ‘Sesame Street’ to ‘Wonderland’: Award-winning writer Mark Saltzman brings a cappella ‘Alice’ musical to TheatreWorks
A new musical speculates on whether the real-life young woman who inspired “Alice in Wonderland” had a romance with a prince. Audiences can catch the show as part of TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival, running July 25-Aug. 17.
Palmetto Superfoods brings its signature acai bowls to Mountain View
Create your own colorful, fruit-packed acai bowl at the newest addition to The Village at San Antonio Center. Palmetto Superfoods, an acai bowl and smoothie spot with 10 locations in the Bay Area, is hosting the grand opening of its new Mountain View outpost Saturday, July 26.
From Mountain View High to the Olympics, this softball player is now pioneering a new pro league
Victoria Hayward has gone on to become an Olympic team captain and bronze medalist as well as a Division I head coach, now playing softball in her final professional season in a new league that she helped found.
Sushirrito co-founder launches Colander Kitchens, a San Mateo restaurant primed to offer at least a dozen original concepts
Sushirrito’s co-founder is crafting a lot more than sushi burritos at his newest restaurant – he’s producing fresh pastas, milling wheat berries for French Riviera-inspired pizzas and making tortillas for seafood tacos.
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