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SCHOOLS & KIDS
Family sues school district for potato-gun injuriesThe parents of a Palo Alto Unified School District student who faces long-term eye damage from an injury sustained during...
Original post made on Feb. 14, 2018Last comment by An Engineer, on Feb 24, 2018 at 1:01 pm | 37 comments | 11906 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Smoke from fires coming down peninsulaSmoke from the massive wildfires in In Northern California is now reaching the Bay Area, prompting an alert from public officials...
Original post made on Aug. 15, 2015Last comment by Teacher, on Aug 16, 2015 at 8:12 am | 13 comments | 11905 Views
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Stanford oncologist faces child pornography chargesA Menlo Park physician who is affiliated with Stanford Cancer Center has been charged with possession of child pornography,...
Original post made on Aug. 22, 2021Last comment by Li Zhao, on Aug 22, 2021 at 12:23 pm | 2 comments | 11904 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Santa Clara County hopeful about slowed growth in COVID-19 casesIn the latest sign that the Bay Area shutdown is effectively containing the spread of the coronavirus, Santa Clara County...
Original post made on Apr. 7, 2020Last comment by Anon, on Apr 14, 2020 at 11:02 am | 26 comments | 11901 Views
AROUND TOWN
Shop Talk: Bloomies goes high-tech, Common Ground closesA brand new Bloomingdale's opens at the Stanford Shopping Center, Mac's Smoke Shop and Gryphon Stringed Instruments celebrate...
Original post made on Oct. 20, 2014Last comment by Kim, on Feb 4, 2015 at 5:50 pm | 12 comments | 11900 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Hotels nearly empty as coronavirus 'recession' hits Palo AltoLike other Bay Area cities, Palo Alto has seen its hotel industry screech to a halt, a development that is particularly ominous...
Original post made on Mar. 24, 2020Last comment by Elizabeth, on Mar 25, 2020 at 11:22 am | 20 comments | 11899 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
To sleep, perchance to dream of changeThe Palo Alto Weekly article (Jan. 9) on the sleep assembly at Gunn High School continued a lively discussion on how we can...
Original post made on Jan. 16, 2015Last comment by Parent, on Jan 23, 2015 at 1:59 pm | 57 comments | 11897 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
When dogs biteMuffin got lucky the day a large labradoodle attacked him and his owner during a walk in their Crescent Park neighborhood....
Original post made on Jul. 31, 2015Last comment by Walk with a stun gun, on Sep 5, 2015 at 6:49 am | 56 comments | 11896 Views
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
East Palo Alto's COVID-19 positivity rate triples the county's, raising concerns among city officialsEast Palo Alto city officials are concerned about the city's COVID-19 positivity rate of 15.4%, more than three times higher...
Original post made on Sep. 21, 2020Last comment by Anonymous, on Sep 21, 2020 at 10:33 pm | 3 comments | 11893 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
District proposes new school calendarUnder a proposed calendar negotiated with the Palo Alto school district's teachers union, students and staff would have a...
Original post made on Mar. 27, 2017Last comment by Marc Vincenti, on Mar 29, 2017 at 6:36 pm | 19 comments | 11891 Views
AROUND TOWN
School board approves 12 percent pay increases for teachersThe Palo Alto school board approved Tuesday night in a 4-to-1 vote a 12 percent base salary increase for teachers over three...
Original post made on May. 25, 2016Last comment by I Remember Too, on Apr 26, 2017 at 3:52 pm | 61 comments | 11891 Views
AROUND TOWN
Palo Alto may sue state high-speed rail authorityPalo Alto community outrage and City Council skepticism will not stop the state agency in charge of the high-speed rail project...
Original post made on Mar. 3, 2009Last comment by Sharon, on Mar 14, 2009 at 7:57 am | 171 comments | 11890 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Laurene Powell Jobs to invest $3.5B towards climate change initiativesLaurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, plans to invest $3.5 billion...
Original post made on Sep. 30, 2021Last comment by Joe Tighe, on Oct 4, 2021 at 3:46 am | 3 comments | 11886 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto set to approve new bike bridgeThey were looking for "Wow!" in the new bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101. Having failed, Palo Alto residents and city leaders...
Original post made on Nov. 24, 2017Last comment by Curmudgeon, on Nov 28, 2017 at 9:34 pm | 58 comments | 11885 Views
RESTAURANTS
To rescue restaurants, this new campaign asks people to pledge to spend $25 per week on takeoutRestaurant Rescue hopes it will help bolster Palo Alto and East Palo Alto eateries that have suffered losses during the COVID-19...
Original post made on Feb. 17, 2021Last comment by MM, on Feb 19, 2021 at 3:30 pm | 6 comments | 11883 Views
AROUND TOWN
Palo Alto police sergeant involved in forceful Buena Vista arrest no longer employed in cityWayne Benitez, the police sergeant who was captured by a surveillance camera slamming a man onto a car hood during a 2018...
Original post made on Oct. 16, 2019Last comment by Harvard, on Oct 20, 2019 at 9:21 pm | 14 comments | 11881 Views
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Stanford undergraduates will no longer come to campus this fallStanford University has reversed course on reopening, announcing Thursday that undergraduate students will not be coming...
Original post made on Aug. 13, 2020Last comment by Duveneck, on Aug 15, 2020 at 2:51 pm | 9 comments | 11880 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Disappeared without a trace: Alice Ku never returned from her 2019 trip to Taiwan. Was she murdered?Taiwan authorities want to arrest the husband of Mountain View woman Alice Ku for her alleged killing. Her body has not been...
Original post made on Feb. 10, 2023Last comment by maryakatiff, on Feb 10, 2023 at 8:55 pm | 1 comment | 11878 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Club sports add challenges to school athleticsThe emergence of "club sports" in the past 20 years has created a pool of experienced coaches in high school athletics --...
Original post made on May. 14, 2010Last comment by Tyler Hanley, on May 14, 2010 at 9:01 am | 1 comment | 11877 Views
AROUND TOWN
Airbnb landlords may owe Palo Alto taxesSince its founding in 2008, Airbnb has exploded in popularity. Its website states that there are listings available in 33,000...
Original post made on Jun. 9, 2013Last comment by Roderick, on Mar 5, 2015 at 5:48 pm | 48 comments | 11874 Views
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