Caltrain showcases its new electrified trains in San Carlos
After over 20 years of reimagining its design, Caltrain showcased on Saturday its new electric train, which will begin operating from San Francisco to San Jose in September.
Local bicycle coalition hosts Bike to Wherever Days offering free prizes to bicyclists
A cyclist bikes down E Meadow Drive in Palo Alto on July 14, 2021. Photo by Magali Gauthier. The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition is hosting Bike to Wherever Days – an annual celebration of local biking with free gifts and activities – from Thursday to Saturday. The celebration began 30 years ago as Bike to…
Holiday Fund grants announced
Seventy-three local nonprofit organizations have received grants totalling $636,000 from the Palo Alto Weekly’s 31st annual Holiday Fund program, bringing the total amount donated from readers, businesses and foundations and distributed to $10.6 million.
Building a strong foundation for local news
Our news organization was a nonprofit a long time before our official transition to a 501(c)3 foundation in January. We haven’t turned a profit in five years and it is likely that without government support during the pandemic, we would have joined the ranks of newspapers that have shuttered across the nation at the rate…
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Palo Alto pushes ahead with bathrooms at four local parks
Palo Alto’s push to provide some relief to park users when nature calls will accelerate…
Youth & Education
Newly renovated Tower Building at Paly gets warm reception from students
The newly renovated Tower Building at Palo Alto High School reopened this spring, garnering much discussion on campus as final touches to the renovation are…
People & community
Opinion: Farewell, Palo Alto
We chose to move to Palo Alto a decade ago because it wasn’t just a place where people slept or commuted to. The community told…
