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CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Armed Robbery Greenmeadow
Around 9 pm last night a pizza delivery man was robbed a gun point making an ficitious delivery to a neighborhood home and was robbed at gunpoint upon return to his car. This...
 
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on Jan 11, 2011 at 7:52 am by Greenmeadow Resident, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Friend doubted Schipsi wrote him a message
Jaber Al Suwaidi had known Bulos "Paul" Zumot and Jennifer Schipsi for more than two years and over that time he had exchanged hundreds of text messages with both. So when he ...
 
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on Jan 10, 2011 at 10:05 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online
AROUND TOWN
Electrical wires caught fire on Woodland
A telephone pole outside my house just has arcing wires. Fire dept. here now. I thought someone was welding or setting off fireworks. But no, the wires were on fire. It went o...
 
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on Jan 4, 2011 at 6:12 pm by Wowza, a resident of East Palo Alto
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Woman at Stanford Assaulted
I just read a news brief from Stanford law enforcement that a woman was assaulted at Manzanita Field by a white male, 40s. I hope the weekly keeps us updated.
 
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on Jan 3, 2011 at 8:08 pm by Hmmm, a resident of East Palo Alto
AROUND TOWN
Cell phone takes center stage at Zumot trial
Less then an hour before Palo Alto firefighters found the charred remains of 29-year-old Jennifer Schipsi in a burned cottage on Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, her boyfriend, Bu...
 
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on Jan 3, 2011 at 7:51 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
East Palo Alto murder trial begins
An attorney for an East Palo Alto resident accused of fatally shooting a man said Monday (Jan. 3) that his client was justified in his actions because he was defending himself...
 
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on Jan 3, 2011 at 6:31 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online
AROUND TOWN
2010: Year in Photos
2010 was a year filled with emotion and events that changed the community, from a tragic plane crash in East Palo Alto to tense Midterm elections in November. Photos by Veroni...
 
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on Jan 3, 2011 at 2:02 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Stanford endowment jumps 10 percent last year
Stanford University is working its way back to financial health following devastating investment losses in 2008-09. But Stanford remains "wary" of the volatility of financial ...
 
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on Jan 3, 2011 at 1:53 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
acid bomb explosion in front of Palo Alto home
Attack was Friday morning. Police say the homeowners have been attacked in the past. Story in the Mercury-News: Web Link
 
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on Dec 31, 2010 at 9:40 pm by resident, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG
Ad Libs: My top arts events from 2010
Every year I sew together a patchwork of my 10 favorite local arts moments and happenings from the past 12 months. A little bit of this, a little bit of that from the mix of s...
 
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on Dec 30, 2010 at 12:09 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly
AROUND TOWN
AT&T fixes iphone problem in San Francisco, would Palo Alto NIMBYs kill this fix here?
AT&T is deploying wide-area WiFi hotspots around downtown San Francisco and Fisherman's Wharf to give iphone users data connectivity where the 3G cell signal sucks. No complai...
 
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on Dec 28, 2010 at 3:15 pm by fanboi, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood
AROUND TOWN
Implications of the Castro St (and other) Caltrain Ped Crossing Project
The project to "upgrade" the Castro St (Mountain View) pedestrian crossing is taking shape. They are putting in permanent steel fences to funnel all sidewalk traffic through f...
 
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on Dec 23, 2010 at 5:32 am by maguro_01, a resident of Mountain View
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Paly Football State Champs!
Paly 15 -Centennial 13
 
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on Dec 17, 2010 at 10:33 pm by palo alto mom, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood
AROUND TOWN
Palo Alto's most elusive resident is named Time Magazine's Man of the Year
He was renting a house in College Terrace a couple of months ago, but then moved out and left no forwarding address. Anyone know if he is still in town? Time Magazine's per...
 
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on Dec 15, 2010 at 8:05 am by Facebookie, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Another Manager for Palo Alto CSD
Why in this time of reductions and cut backs is the city adding another manager to the ranks in the Community Services Department? The Open Space, Parks and Golf division is r...
 
David
 
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on Dec 13, 2010 at 1:59 pm by David, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Train Tracks.
I passed by the train tracks and saw police on Meadow and one in Charleston right at the entrance of the tracks, it was after 2:00PM. Does any one knows what happened? I looke...
 
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on Dec 11, 2010 at 9:20 pm by Wondering, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood
AROUND TOWN
Zumot murder trial to focus on domestic violence
In the weeks and months before firefighters found Jennifer Schipsi's body in a burnt cottage on Palo Alto's Addison Avenue, the 29-year-old real estate agent repeatedly compla...
 
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on Dec 10, 2010 at 5:14 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online
AROUND TOWN
Menlo-Atherton's Annual Canned Food Drive
Do you wonder what teenagers today are up to over the holiday season? It seems as though our culture is so worried about what our teens might be up to that we don’t like, we ...
 
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on Dec 10, 2010 at 11:07 am by Kelly Todd, a resident of East Palo Alto
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Lewd incident at Palo Alto Bowl
I'm thinking there must be a mistake in characterizing Grant Willner as a transient. He's a 1972 graduate of Gunn High School; I remember him, though didn't know him. He liv...
 
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on Dec 10, 2010 at 9:50 am by lindaloo, a member of the Gunn High School community
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Cancun Climate Change Conference
Interesting article about the Climate Change Conference... Web Link It would have been be...
 
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on Dec 10, 2010 at 7:29 am by common sense, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
PALO ALTO ISSUES
California High Speed Rail Gets Another $624 Million
The United States Department of Transportation has redirected $1.195 billion in high speed rail funds originally designated for Wisconsin and Ohio to 14 states, including up t...
 
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on Dec 9, 2010 at 3:37 pm by Herb Borock, a resident of the Professorville neighborhood
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG
PALY Girls Volleyball Are State Champions!
My son Nathan, a 2005 PALY grad, and I went to San Jose Saturday evening to watch the PALY girls volleyball team against Long Beach's "POLY" team compete for the State title i...
 
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on Dec 5, 2010 at 1:25 pm by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto
AROUND TOWN
Battelle 18k/22k Jewelry Show at Nature Gallery this Weekend
You won't wan to miss this opportunity to see some exquisite 18k/22k and gemstone jewelry designed by Battelle this weekend at Nature Gallery. Stones in the collection incl...
 
Carol Garsten
 
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on Dec 3, 2010 at 12:37 pm by Carol Garsten, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Heisman Trophy Voting
There is some sort of voting going on for the Heisman - ordinary people can do it. Go to <www.google.com> and type in Heisman Trophy. In one of the first entrie...
 
Bob
 
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on Dec 1, 2010 at 10:02 pm by Bob, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood
AROUND TOWN
Groupon coming to Palo Alto
The Groupon shopaholic company issued a press release today saying that they are opening an office on California Ave. They will be hiring 100 people in the next few months. ht...
 
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on Dec 1, 2010 at 10:58 am by Facebookie, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood


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