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Shop Talk: Piazza's adds 4000 square feet
A sigh of relief has swept over Piazza's Fine Food at 3922 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto's Charleston Shopping Center. The nearly $2 million, year-long expansion has finally c... |
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on Apr 5, 2013 at 9:35 pm by YSK, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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Sandberg to women: 'aim high, believe in yourselves'
Author and Facebook Chief Operating Office Sheryl Sandberg exhorted a Stanford audience Tuesday to stand up and do the "hard work" of ending gender stereotypes.
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on Apr 5, 2013 at 2:00 pm by Pat, a resident of the Embarcadero Oaks/Leland neighborhood |
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Editorial: For now, a required 'public benefit' slips away
There is plenty of blame to go around in any assessment of why Miki's Farm Fresh Market will have to close its doors next week, after less than six months as the anchor tenant... |
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on Apr 5, 2013 at 8:08 am by \"Neighbors Helping Neighbors\", a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Facebook reveals 'Home' launcher for Android
"We're not building a phone," Mark Zuckerberg said April 4, finally putting to rest months of rumors. What Facebook has done, however, is build what they bill as "the best ver... |
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 7:45 pm by Jim H, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
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Unemployment rate edges up in Palo Alto, county
While the California unemployment rate stayed flat in January at 9.8 percent, the rate crept up in parts of the Bay Area, including Palo Alto and Santa Clara County as a whole... |
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 6:54 pm by hahahahaha, a resident of Woodside |
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Microsoft co-founder to open Palo Alto investment office
Vulcan Capital, which manages investments for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, announced today that it would open an office in downtown Palo Alto.
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 4:32 pm by Fool Me Twice, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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President Obama's visit draws small crowd to Atherton
About 50 people gathered in the vicinity of Valparaiso Avenue and Alameda de las Pulgas in Atherton this morning to watch the presidential motorcade.
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 11:10 am by Anon, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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President Obama fundraises in the Bay Area
President Barack Obama is in the Bay Area for a series of fundraisers in San Francisco and Atherton Wednesday and Thursday, and protesters with a variety of messages are mobil... |
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 10:18 am by protector in chief, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood |
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Tesla announces new financing plan
Tesla Motors chief executive and co-founder Elon Musk announced April 3 a new financing plan for its Model S electric cars that's aimed at making them affordable for more peop... |
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 9:47 am by More-Money-For-Musk, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Stanford Electric Works to move to Mountain View
After 99 years of calling Palo Alto its home, Stanford Electric Works will move to Mountain View at the end of June, according to the store's owner.
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on Apr 3, 2013 at 3:22 pm by chris Machala, a resident of Mountain View |
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Embarcadero underpass to be Vikings' realm
The Embarcadero Road tunnel underpass next to Palo Alto High School may soon look a lot like Viking territory.
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on Apr 3, 2013 at 9:54 am by CrescentParkAnon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Palo Alto struggles to find the meaning of 'benefit'
Philosophers may rack their brains over the meaning of life, but for Palo Alto's developers, neighborhood leaders and elected officials, the meaning of "public benefits" is in... |
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on Apr 3, 2013 at 6:48 am by lost, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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Chopper?
Anyone know what the deal is with the helicopter currently hovering over the Addison School area? |
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on Apr 2, 2013 at 6:19 pm by anonymouse, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Rattlesnakes biting in record numbers in Santa Clara County
Rattlesnakes are biting people in record numbers throughout California, according to Stuart Heard, executive director of the California Poison Control System. And calls genera... |
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on Apr 2, 2013 at 6:03 pm by Dan, a resident of another community |
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Help Miki's Mkt Employees & Other 'Gap Households"
Neighbors Helping Neighbors - Provides Groceries to Gap Households
RE: MIKI's Market Employees Who Live in Palo Alto
Dear former Miki's employees, perhaps you remember ou... |
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on Apr 2, 2013 at 1:13 pm by Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Tesla announces first-quarter profitability
Tesla Motors today announced March 31 that it will achieve profitability in the first quarter after selling more of its Model S sedans than it previously expected.
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on Apr 1, 2013 at 4:58 pm by John is Right, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Stanford leaps ahead on creating biological computers
A team of Stanford University bioengineers has created a biological transistor that allows engineers to compute inside living cells.
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on Mar 31, 2013 at 8:10 pm by CrescentParkAnon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Blossom Valley
Once a field of orchards, Blossom Valley is now filled with houses, many with young children. Families stroll with their pets and zoom by on bicycles along the wide intertwini... |
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on Mar 30, 2013 at 11:43 pm by HUTCH 7.62, a resident of the Monroe Park neighborhood |
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Mod costumes help move Oscar Wilde play into swinging '60s
TheatreWorks artistic director Robert Kelley huddles with designers in the costume shop, peering at purple swatches of wool and wool blend. The air is heavy with indecision. C... |
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on Mar 30, 2013 at 3:51 pm by Oscar fan, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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News Digest
Three arrested for burglaries in Palo Alto garage
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, March 29, 2013, 12:... |
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on Mar 29, 2013 at 9:54 am by Greenmeadow Resident, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood |
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Open Space District launches massive 'vision plan'
A vision plan to determine how the public wants open space to be used was launched by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District on Tuesday, March 26.
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on Mar 29, 2013 at 12:18 am by musical, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
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Gun-violence rally in Palo Alto this evening
Adding their voices to the national gun-control debate, Palo Alto residents plan to hold a rally today, Thursday, March 28, at 5:45 p.m. at Middlefield Road and University Ave... |
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on Mar 28, 2013 at 9:59 pm by wmartin46, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood |
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Palo Alto sees three big startup buys
Palo Alto has seen three startup acquisitions over the past two weeks, and the collective cost of the buys may be over $120 million.
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on Mar 28, 2013 at 8:55 pm by John, a resident of Mountain View |
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Editorial: High school counseling reforms inch forward
For those who don't have kids in the schools or don't carefully follow the nuances of school policy and governance, it must seem surreal that the subject of high school counse... |
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on Mar 27, 2013 at 4:24 pm by village fool, a resident of another community |
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Why no Daily News?
I've not been able to locate a copy of the Daily News this week, either at a newspaperstand on the street or at a branch City Library, and when I asked at the Library, I was t... |
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on Mar 27, 2013 at 2:08 pm by Joy O, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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