Stanford University's Larry Horton to retire
Larry Horton, Stanford University's longtime senior associate vice president and director of government and community relations, will step down at the end of this calendar year, he told the Weekly Tuesday. (Tuesday, 5:15 PM)

City floats parking-permit plans to residents
About 40 people showed up to a meeting Tuesday night hosted by the City of Palo Alto that was held to draw feedback on a set of potential residential parking plans for the Downtown North neighborhood. (Wednesday, 9:25 AM)

Contentious Maybell development wins approval
After several false starts, Palo Alto's bitter and deeply emotional debate over a proposed housing development on Maybell Avenue finally reached its conclusion Monday night when the City Council unanimously granted a zone change that would make the project a reality. (Tuesday, 1:21 AM)

School board brainstorms ideas for 2013-14
The need for more sharing of ideas among Palo Alto teachers emerged as a theme Tuesday as members of the Board of Education gathered for their annual retreat. (Wednesday, 9:55 AM)

VIDEO: Palo Alto rocks out at annual World Music Day
More than 45 musician and dancing groups performed music from all over the world in downtown Palo Alto on June 16, 2013 for the 5th annual Palo Alto World Music Day. (Tuesday, 11:55 AM)

Skelly moves to fill school vacancies
Palo Alto School Superintendent Kevin Skelly said he has extended a job offer to a prospective communications officer for the school district and also has chosen a finalist to replace departing Director of Secondary Education Michael Milliken. (Wednesday, 9:19 AM)

Peery Foundation to help raise funds for Junior Museum
The board of directors of the Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo announced Monday that it is partnering with the Peery Foundation to create a matching-gift challenge to help rebuild the museum and zoo as part of the Master Planning project for Rinconada Park, according to a press release. (Tuesday, 9:38 AM)

East Palo Alto re-opens Woodland Ave. after flood repairs
Residents of a flood-prone neighborhood in East Palo Alto can rest easier now that the first phase of repairs to the San Francisquito Creek bank have been completed. (Tuesday, 3:18 PM)

Palo Alto bids farewell to popular planning director
Palo Alto on Monday gave an emotional sendoff to Planning Director Curtis Williams, whose mild-mannered leadership, passion for community engagement and encyclopedic knowledge of local zoning laws won praise from even some of the city's most vehement land-use critics. (Monday, 9:32 PM)

Bloomberg to grads: 'Harness Stanford's spirit of innovation to pursue American dream'
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today, June 16, urged Stanford graduates to harness Stanford's spirit of innovation to pursue the American dream for themselves, and to help extend it to others. (Sunday, 3:54 PM)

Revived local leadership program graduates 19
A hopeful crop of aspiring civic leaders celebrated a Palo Alto graduation last week. With an oft-cited shortage of volunteers stepping up for city commissions and other community-service roles, the reinvigorated fellowship program known as Leadership Palo Alto aims to help fill the void. (Monday, 9:03 AM)

VIDEO/MULTIMEDIA
A compilation of video content from the Palo Alto Weekly and Palo Alto Online staff. (Monday, February 4, 2013, 4:58 PM)

• Firefighters extinguish two weekend residential fires (Monday, 9:26 AM)
• In-depth report: How a federal inquiry is changing the way schools respond to bullying (Friday, 8:31 AM)
• Freecycling: out with the old and in with the 'new' (Sunday, 2:04 PM)
• School budget: more local funds, less state and federal (Monday, 9:07 AM)
• New budget signals Palo Alto's economic turnaround (Friday, 9:45 AM)
• District rebuts Duveneck Elementary bullying complaint (Friday, 9:42 AM)
• Palo Alto seeks truce in Maybell zoning battle (Thursday, 9:52 PM)
• Using X-Rays, Scientists uncover 200-year-old opera ending (Friday, 4:10 PM)
• PUBLIC AGENDA: Mitchell Park Library, school board retreat, Mayfield (Friday, 11:17 AM)

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