PALO ALTO ISSUES Palo Alto running out of patience on Mitchell Park Library delays With the completion of Palo Alto's Mitchell Park Library and Community Center more than a year past due and the project's cost on an upswing, frustrated city officials have is... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 8, 2013 at 10:00 am There have been 57 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 12, 2013 at 12:46 pm.
AROUND TOWN Hopes rekindled for new police building in Palo Alto Palo Alto's plan to build a new police headquarters at 3045 Park Blvd. roared back to life Tuesday afternoon when city officials and their consulting architect announced a bre... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 7, 2013 at 10:46 pm There have been 9 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 13, 2013 at 10:13 pm.
AROUND TOWN Katsy Swan: The Midpeninsula's garden designer Katsy Swan traces her love of flower arranging and gardening back to her years at the University of Kentucky, where botany was her favorite class and she turned down a date wi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 7, 2013 at 8:23 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on May 7, 2013 at 8:23 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS District previews 'safe, welcoming schools' plan Palo Alto Superintendent Kevin Skelly Tuesday proposed a school-board-level committee as well as a summer task force to consider community concerns about bullying and harassme... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 7, 2013 at 4:37 pm There have been 17 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 10, 2013 at 8:17 am.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Palo Alto to launch class-action lawsuit against battery makers Palo Alto on Monday became one of California's first public agencies to charge into the legal battle against global companies accused of conspiring to fix prices of lithium-io... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 7, 2013 at 3:43 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 8, 2013 at 11:16 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Palo Alto to launch class-action lawsuit against battery makers Palo Alto on Monday became one of the first public agencies to charge into the legal battle against global companies accused of conspiring to fix prices of lithium-ion batteri... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 7, 2013 at 3:23 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on May 7, 2013 at 3:23 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Land deal could transform East Palo Alto freeway edge East Palo Alto's Ravenswood City School District is in talks to sell or exchange acres of property -- including its own headquarters -- to an office developer.
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PALO ALTO ISSUES Palo Alto to further debate manager salaries Palo Alto's drive to give its group of managers of professionals a 2 percent raise this year hit a speed bump Monday night when the City Council decided that the compensation ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 7, 2013 at 10:55 am There have been 25 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 16, 2013 at 4:25 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Palo Alto ponders ways to spend Stanford funds Two years after Palo Alto approved a dramatic expansion of Stanford University Medical Center, city officials find themselves in a pleasant quandary as they look for ways to s... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 7, 2013 at 6:19 am There have been 37 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 10, 2013 at 6:23 pm.
CRIMES & INCIDENTS Police roll out strategies against East Palo Alto gang violence Outraged by the Cinco de Mayo Day shooting of five people at a bus stop, East Palo Alto Police Chief Ronald Davis and Mayor Ruben Abrica vowed on Monday to hammer hard on two ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 7, 2013 at 12:54 am There have been 17 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 26, 2013 at 9:15 am.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Officials to present 'lessons learned' from civil rights probe Palo Alto school officials will present "lessons learned" from a federal civil rights investigation into a bullying case at a Palo Alto middle school in a public Board of Educ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 6, 2013 at 5:47 pm There have been 27 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 9, 2013 at 1:20 am.
SPORTS Local swimmers rank among the best in CCS Local swimmers rank among the best in the Central Coast Section heading into the section prelims on Friday and finals Saturday at the George F. Haines International Swim Cente... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 6, 2013 at 4:46 pm There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 7, 2013 at 9:54 am.
RESTAURANTS Shop Talk: There's the beef There's no question that the Peninsula is on the cutting edge when it comes to technology, but as for more traditional items, this area lags far behind. Take, for example, the... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 6, 2013 at 10:50 am There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 6, 2013 at 10:02 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Feds rebuke district over email to parents A letter sent to all Duveneck Elementary School parents on April 15 by the school's principal about a new investigation into bullying at the school brought a sharp and immedia... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 6, 2013 at 10:35 am There have been 84 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 9, 2013 at 4:38 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS School Board Prez Buries OCR Report, Cancels Discussion of PAUSD Bullying Policy In a hastily scheduled Tuesday morning "study session," the PAUSD school board will hear the first public report on the district's compliance with settlement agreements with t... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Curious, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood, on May 6, 2013 at 9:19 am There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 6, 2013 at 4:49 pm.
AROUND TOWN May Fete rolls through Palo Alto Revelers and parade-marchers alike flocked to downtown Palo Alto, Saturday, May 4, to cheer on and participate in the 91st annual May Fete parade.
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CRIMES & INCIDENTS Six people injured in East Palo Alto shooting Five people were shot and a 6-year-old girl was injured in East Palo Alto on Sunday afternoon near a McDonald's on University Avenue, according to police.
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CRIMES & INCIDENTS East Palo Alto shooting seriously injures one Police in East Palo Alto are investigating a shooting that left one man injured on Saturday night.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS Is Gunn High School's Pep Band a Divison of Stanford University? I attended the May Fete Parade on University Avenue yesterday and was quite confused when I saw the lead off act. It was the Gunn High School marching band. I was near the a... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Confused, a resident of the Triple El neighborhood, on May 5, 2013 at 3:31 pm There have been 20 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 17, 2013 at 11:11 pm.
SPORTS Paly boys, Gunn girls claim league track titles After both finished the dual-meet seasons with perfect records, the Palo Alto boys and Gunn girls had to back up those performances at the SCVAL De Anza Division Championships... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on May 4, 2013 at 5:25 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on May 4, 2013 at 5:25 pm.
AROUND TOWN Why is an article about a proposed Midtown trail re-posted with no comments allowed? On May 2nd, the Palo Alto Online editor posted a story about the proposed Matadero Creek trail in Midtown. The story is at:
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AROUND TOWN Smoke/Fire in Palo Alto Foothills? Was there an early morning fire in the Palo Alto foothills near Portola Valley? Los Trancos Road? READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by David, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on May 4, 2013 at 11:01 am There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 4, 2013 at 5:09 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS City urged to move Matadero Creek Trail The proposed Matadero Creek Trail is so disliked by Midtown Palo Alto residents that they have told the city to change the project's name.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS School Board to Authorize $140,000 for Law Firm Accused of Misleading the Board and the Public The Board of Education at its May 7 meeting is scheduled to authorize a $140,000 contract for legal services from the law firm of Fagen Friedman and Fulfrost (for details, see... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Curious, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood, on May 4, 2013 at 10:01 am There have been 12 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 10, 2013 at 8:21 am.