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Menlo Park: Huge apartment complexes nearing finishThe 3600 block of Haven Avenue in eastern Menlo Park may look like a daunting mass of building frames, but it will soon become...
Original post made on Jan. 12, 2017Last comment by Why Affordable Housing Doesn't Get Built, on Jan 17, 2017 at 4:03 pm | 15 comments | 9865 Views
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Menlo Park: Fire district offers $175K for special stoplightsWhile the governing board of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District on June 20 agreed to pay half the cost of two pedestrian-activated...
Original post made on Jun. 22, 2017Last comment by Tricia Barr, on Jun 24, 2017 at 4:43 pm | 15 comments | 6060 Views
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Menlo Park: City could name park after WWII hero Carl ClarkTwo residents in Belle Haven have asked the city of Menlo Park to consider renaming their neighborhood's Market Place Park...
Original post made on Jun. 23, 2017Last comment by Favorite Will D. , on Jun 26, 2017 at 8:04 pm | 15 comments | 5100 Views
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New ladder truck serves bayside of Menlo fire districtThe Menlo Park Fire Protection District now has ladder trucks on both sides of Highway 101, with the addition of a new $1...
Original post made on Jun. 30, 2017Last comment by JBCHAM, on Jul 3, 2017 at 1:02 pm | 15 comments | 6388 Views
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Menlo Park firefighter injured battling house fireA firefighter with the Menlo Park Fire Protection District was injured late Friday night working to extinguish a fire in...
Original post made on Aug. 20, 2017Last comment by Citizen, on Aug 22, 2017 at 8:15 am | 15 comments | 5346 Views
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Menlo Park: City already reaching downtown development limitsIt took five years for Menlo Park to come up with the plan to rezone downtown -- about as long as it has taken a stream of...
Original post made on Dec. 29, 2017Last comment by James, on Jan 5, 2018 at 12:28 pm | 15 comments | 6329 Views
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Priorities shift in Menlo Park: Library out, parking structure, Guild inProgressing through a series of votes during a goal-setting meeting yesterday (Jan. 29), the Menlo Park City Council slowly...
Original post made on Jan. 30, 2018Last comment by dana hendrickson, on Feb 6, 2018 at 11:06 am | 15 comments | 8296 Views
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Menlo Park: committee selects favored election mapsAfter hours of discussion in intensive meetings held over the past month or so, Menlo Park's Advisory Districting Committee...
Original post made on Feb. 23, 2018Last comment by very reasonable, on Mar 9, 2018 at 10:09 pm | 15 comments | 5035 Views
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Today: Public workshop on FAA study of San Carlos Airport noiseA fourth public information workshop, designed to provide an update on the progress of a Federal Aviation Administration...
Original post made on Mar. 21, 2018Last comment by Dan, on Apr 5, 2018 at 7:06 pm | 15 comments | 4758 Views
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Complaint against Ravenswood superintendent alleges discriminationThe sudden mid-year removal of a principal credited with turning around a long-struggling elementary school in the Ravenswood...
Original post made on Mar. 30, 2018Last comment by ABCs of Belle Haven Teachers, on May 20, 2018 at 3:37 pm | 15 comments | 6182 Views
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Menlo Park: Three new downtown buildings get Planning Commission nodThree new buildings planned for the site now occupied by the Mid-Peninsula Animal Hospital and its neighboring businesses...
Original post made on May. 16, 2018Last comment by Menlo Voter., on May 17, 2018 at 7:59 pm | 15 comments | 10821 Views
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Menlo Park family helps raise more than $16 million to reunite immigrant familiesAfter seeing a striking photo of a 2-year-old child crying after being separated from her family by border patrol agents,...
Original post made on Jun. 21, 2018Last comment by VernL, on Jun 22, 2018 at 5:55 pm | 15 comments | 9540 Views
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Charter city measure coming to Menlo Park votersWith a 3-1 vote on June 19, the Menlo Park City Council agreed to ask voters in November to decide on whether to make their...
Original post made on Jun. 22, 2018Last comment by unbiassed perspective, on Jul 2, 2018 at 7:58 pm | 15 comments | 4549 Views
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Menlo Park: New building proposed along El Camino RealA new three-story building could appear at the corner of Cambridge Avenue and El Camino Real in Menlo Park, next to the former...
Original post made on Jul. 10, 2018Last comment by really?, on Jul 13, 2018 at 11:34 am | 15 comments | 7070 Views
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Menlo Park elections update: Six council candidates, two more possibleMenlo Park is expected to have a full roster of candidates running in its inaugural year of district-based elections. Read...
Original post made on Aug. 10, 2018Last comment by what we?, on Aug 14, 2018 at 7:39 pm | 15 comments | 5690 Views
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Tuesday: Menlo Park council to evaluate its travel policiesThe Menlo Park City Council may update its policies regarding taxpayer- and third-party funded travel at its Sept. 11 meeting. Read...
Original post made on Sep. 10, 2018Last comment by correction, on Sep 12, 2018 at 12:57 am | 15 comments | 4699 Views
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Street Smarts: How do we slow down traffic on neighborhood streets?Street Smarts, written this week by Jen Wolosin, discusses the importance of slowing down traffic on neighborhood streets...
Original post made on Sep. 19, 2018Last comment by David Roise, on Sep 22, 2018 at 2:12 pm | 15 comments | 8134 Views
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Councilwoman's trip to Ireland coincided with Facebook executives' presenceAmid false rumors that Menlo Park Councilwoman Kirsten Keith traveled to Galway, Ireland, last year with Facebook executives,...
Original post made on Sep. 28, 2018Last comment by Skeptical , on Oct 1, 2018 at 1:11 pm | 15 comments | 5578 Views
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Menlo Park council splits on law to help displaced renters relocateA proposed law to help renters forced out of their homes for no cause or because they cannot afford major rent increases...
Original post made on Feb. 13, 2019Last comment by Jen Mazzon, on Feb 16, 2019 at 10:34 am | 15 comments | 9820 Views
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Menlo Park: Commission to review plan to redevelop Feldman's Books siteA proposal to build a three-story, nine-unit apartment building where Feldman's Books and a youth mental health clinic sit...
Original post made on Mar. 8, 2019Last comment by Progressive, on Mar 10, 2019 at 11:03 am | 15 comments | 7683 Views
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