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Menlo Park VA plans for 62 units of affordable housing along Willow RoadThe Menlo Park Planning Commission reviewed a proposal for a 62-unit affordable housing building at the Veteran’s Affairs...
Original post made on May. 18, 2023Last comment by LO Resident, on May 18, 2023 at 4:36 pm | 1 comment | 2953 Views
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'Completely unacceptable': Community members respond to M-A student arrestStudents, current and former staff members, and others expressed disappointment in how an April arrest of a student right...
Original post made on May. 17, 2023Last comment by Peter Carpenter, on May 17, 2023 at 9:39 pm | 21 comments | 5987 Views
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Judge rules Menlo Park failed to make findings for its utilities tax, and may have to refund the moneyA San Mateo County Superior Court Judge issued a tentative ruling Monday that Menlo Park that favored plaintiffs who claimed...
Original post made on Apr. 5, 2023Last comment by Menlo Voter., on May 12, 2023 at 7:39 pm | 15 comments | 13530 Views
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Letters to the editor: Ending cooperation with ICE & Caltrain noise along the PeninsulaThis week, readers weigh in on San Mateo County's reluctance to work with ICE and the loud and never-ending sound of Caltrain...
Original post made on May. 7, 2023Last comment by ln, on May 9, 2023 at 12:24 am | 3 comments | 3704 Views
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Letters to the editor<B>San Mateo makes the right move ditching ICE Read the full story here https://www.almanacnews.com/print/story/2023/05/05/letters-to-the-editor...
Original post made on May. 6, 2023Last comment by ABC7 Viewer, on May 6, 2023 at 7:10 am | 1 comment | 1062 Views
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Tired of train horns, Menlo Park and Palo Alto advance plans for 'quiet zone'Palo Alto and Menlo Park have joined forces to combat a common foe: blaring train horns. But an analysis shows that one of...
Original post made on Apr. 27, 2023Last comment by Peter Carpenter, on Apr 27, 2023 at 1:52 pm | 1 comment | 4526 Views
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Menlo Park family fights 'dangerous dog' designation, petitioning court to overturn decision for their golden retrieverThe owners of a three-year-old golden retriever are petitioning the superior court of San Mateo County over a dangerous animal...
Original post made on Apr. 21, 2023Last comment by Hmmm, on Apr 24, 2023 at 4:41 pm | 10 comments | 46735 Views
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Friends remember slain Atherton arborist as generous, hard-workingThe friends of Kathy Hughes Anderson, former Atherton arborist who was murdered in her Menlo Park home, don't want her defined...
Original post made on Apr. 14, 2023Last comment by Hmmm, on Apr 19, 2023 at 2:41 pm | 2 comments | 5952 Views
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State officials: Menlo Park's adopted housing element misses the markThe Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) asked Menlo Park to revise its housing element, pointing out that...
Original post made on Apr. 13, 2023Last comment by new guy, on Apr 13, 2023 at 3:06 pm | 3 comments | 4439 Views
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Ravenswood school district ready to ink development deal for Flood School housingThe Ravenswood City School District board is expected to approve a contract with a developer this week to build dense housing...
Original post made on Mar. 8, 2023Last comment by MP Resident, on Apr 11, 2023 at 12:24 pm | 58 comments | 5347 Views
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West Menlo mailbox theft leaves resident with $18K in fraudulent chargesWhen Kate Mulligan dropped checks in the roadside mailbox outside the Menlo Park Avy Avenue post office, she thought her...
Original post made on Apr. 7, 2023Last comment by mark wilson, on Apr 7, 2023 at 5:19 pm | 1 comment | 4955 Views
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Middle Plaza's retail development offers local luxuryWith Menlo Park's downtown poised for revitalization, eyes are turning to the luxurious Middle Plaza development at 500 El...
Original post made on Mar. 29, 2023Last comment by Menlo Voter., on Apr 7, 2023 at 7:13 am | 9 comments | 8648 Views
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Seeking a reprieve from loud horns, Menlo Park residents push for Caltrain quiet zoneMenlo Park residents are fed up with blaring train horns waking babies and rattling their nerves. At a March 24 community...
Original post made on Mar. 27, 2023Last comment by Dave Boyce, on Mar 31, 2023 at 10:16 pm | 15 comments | 6386 Views
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Interim shelter programs are heralded as the homelessness solution that California’s been waiting for. So why aren’t they working?Underlying the challenges that interim shelters face in getting their residents housed is something that no shelter or city...
Original post made on Mar. 31, 2023Last comment by Running hard to stay in place, on Mar 31, 2023 at 12:20 pm | 1 comment | 3518 Views
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Menlo Park's deficit spending, expected to be in the millions, shrinks to $15KMenlo Park's budget outlook this year is much better than its prior gloomy predictions, with a new report showing that an...
Original post made on Mar. 30, 2023Last comment by MP Father, on Mar 30, 2023 at 1:03 pm | 1 comment | 2866 Views
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City accuses residents of breaking the law without any evidenceDear Ms Chen, I am in receipt of your letter of March 20, 2023. First, I find it disturbing that the City would send...
Original post made by Peter Carpenter on Mar. 23, 2023Last comment by New Menlo Park Resident, on Mar 30, 2023 at 11:36 am | 11 comments | 1232 Views
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Menlo Church leadership acknowledges abuse from decades agoA Menlo Park megachurch is apologizing for several instances of abuse from decades earlier at the evangelical Presbyterian...
Original post made on Mar. 30, 2023Last comment by AMarkum, on Mar 30, 2023 at 6:27 am | 1 comment | 6404 Views
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Menlo Park should rethink nixing parking on Middle AvenueThe primary objective of Menlo Park's Middle Avenue Project is to improve the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians, and last...
Original post made by dana hendrickson on Mar. 17, 2023Last comment by Menlo Voter., on Mar 24, 2023 at 3:46 pm | 1 comment | 1140 Views
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District: Menlo Park's $2.5 million endowment won't be enough to offset enrollment costs from Stanford's new faculty housing projectMenlo Park school board officials say the $2.5 million endowment slated to cover the costs of extra students from Stanford's...
Original post made on Mar. 5, 2023Last comment by Iris, on Mar 17, 2023 at 9:45 am | 28 comments | 15865 Views
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Peninsula cities pummeled by weather-induced power outagesLarge swaths of the Midpeninsula were still without power on Wednesday, with outages blamed on the gusty storm that toppled...
Original post made on Mar. 15, 2023Last comment by MP Father, on Mar 15, 2023 at 12:51 pm | 1 comment | 9632 Views
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