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CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Police arrest nursing assistant accused of sexually assaulting patientA woman recovering from surgery at Webster House Medical Center reported she was sexually assaulted by a nursing assistant...
Original post made on Aug. 15, 2019Last comment by Lawyer Time, on Aug 15, 2019 at 8:26 am | 2 comments | 5874 Views
SPORTS
Palo Alto football has a chance to make history this seasonPalo Alto has a chance to become the winningest football program in Northern California history this season. The Vikings...
Original post made on Aug. 13, 2019Last comment by Ben Dan, on Aug 15, 2019 at 6:28 am | 2 comments | 3661 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
It's back to school for Palo Alto's middle, high schoolsTuesday marked the first day of a new school year for thousands of middle and high school students in the Palo Alto Unified...
Original post made on Aug. 13, 2019Last comment by Downfall, on Aug 14, 2019 at 11:51 pm | 12 comments | 8665 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Police: Woman fights off two robbers in MidtownPalo Alto police are looking for two men who they said attacked a woman during an attempted on Monday afternoon in the city's...
Original post made on Aug. 13, 2019Last comment by CarlitoWaysman, on Aug 14, 2019 at 6:24 pm | 19 comments | 9392 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Family fears for safety of missing disabled womanA 20-year-old East Palo Alto woman with learning disabilities and a medical condition disappeared six weeks ago, leaving...
Original post made on Aug. 14, 2019Last comment by Concerned, on Aug 14, 2019 at 9:21 am | 1 comment | 6206 Views
AROUND TOWN
County supervisors calls for federal assault weapons banTwo Santa Clara County supervisors are calling for a nationwide ban on assault weapons, calling it a common-sense action...
Original post made on Aug. 11, 2019Last comment by From Another Galaxy & Time, on Aug 13, 2019 at 9:00 am | 22 comments | 8409 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
East Palo Alto nonprofit seeks back-to-school donations for students in needWith the new school year fast approaching, East Palo Alto's Ecumenical Hunger Program is encouraging community members to...
Original post made on Aug. 10, 2019Last comment by Patti, on Aug 12, 2019 at 7:15 pm | 2 comments | 5634 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Behind UC's 'admission by exception' side door: sports, money, diversity — and secrecyWhile it's unclear if admissions by exception played a direct role in the college cheating scandal, it has surfaced as a...
Original post made on Aug. 10, 2019Last comment by No Smoke, on Aug 12, 2019 at 12:36 pm | 2 comments | 7514 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Guest Opinion: To create lifelong civic leaders: Lower the voting ageVote16 Palo Alto is a youth-run organization that has proposed lowering the voting age for Palo Alto school board elections...
Original post made on Jul. 26, 2019Last comment by Influencing young minds, on Aug 12, 2019 at 12:24 pm | 47 comments | 7895 Views
AROUND TOWN
Around Town<B>HAZY VISION ...</B> Last March, more than 100 residents and city leaders packed into Ventura Community Center to present...
Original post made on Aug. 9, 2019Last comment by Staying Young Through Kids, on Aug 12, 2019 at 9:48 am | 3 comments | 4931 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Ravenswood could embark on districtwide naming processCommunity concern about losing East Palo Alto's recognition of Cesar Chavez with the phasing out of a middle school named...
Original post made on Aug. 9, 2019Last comment by The Name Game, on Aug 11, 2019 at 5:37 pm | 7 comments | 4606 Views
AROUND TOWN
Gunn sending 24 student-athletes to the next levelFrom basketball to swimming, find out which colleges two-dozen Gunn High student-athletes will be attending this fall. Read...
Original post made on Aug. 11, 2019Last comment by Mark Weiss, on Aug 11, 2019 at 5:06 pm | 1 comment | 3937 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Judge denies bail to man arrested after 29-hour standoffSaying he posed a public danger, a county Superior Court judge on Wednesday refused to grant bail to Adam Allen Smith, a...
Original post made on Aug. 8, 2019Last comment by eileen , on Aug 11, 2019 at 3:58 pm | 4 comments | 6757 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto veers away from lawsuit against Federal Aviation AdministrationDespite rising community frustrations about airplane noise, the Palo Alto City Council decided Monday night not to launch...
Original post made on Jun. 11, 2019Last comment by Resident 1-Adobe Meadows, on Aug 11, 2019 at 11:23 am | 124 comments | 13047 Views
AROUND TOWN
Police arrest peeping Tom who lurked at Palo Alto apartment complexA man was arrested Wednesday for alleged peeping and lewd conduct at an apartment complex in Palo Alto's Barron Park neighborhood,...
Original post made on Aug. 8, 2019Last comment by TD, on Aug 9, 2019 at 8:49 pm | 7 comments | 6489 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Community activist Stephanie Munoz dies at 86Stephanie Munoz, one of Palo Alto's staunchest and most passionate advocates for the less fortunate, died on Aug. 1, city...
Original post made on Aug. 9, 2019Last comment by Ray, on Aug 9, 2019 at 5:17 pm | 1 comment | 4377 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
New rules could force hospitals to publish prices negotiated with insurersFederal regulators want to give patients a clearer picture of what they will spend during a hospital visit, with a more accurate...
Original post made on Aug. 7, 2019Last comment by Anon, on Aug 9, 2019 at 1:25 pm | 4 comments | 4041 Views
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
'Village People' prepare to close up shopVillage Stationers, a family-owned stationery store with locations in Menlo Park and Los Altos, will be closing its doors...
Original post made on Aug. 8, 2019Last comment by Don, on Aug 9, 2019 at 9:45 am | 12 comments | 5421 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Customers follow their noses to Michoacán Market's charcoal-grilled chickenWhen Janet and Ruben Robles first started cooking whole chickens to bring in more business to their Menlo Park market, they...
Original post made on Jul. 31, 2019Last comment by Crispy Skin, on Aug 8, 2019 at 5:18 pm | 11 comments | 6254 Views
AROUND TOWN
Palo Alto celebrates second annual National Night OutMore than 300 community members attended National Night Out outside Palo Alto police headquarters on Tuesday for an evening...
Original post made on Aug. 7, 2019Last comment by Not Naive, on Aug 8, 2019 at 12:51 pm | 7 comments | 4350 Views
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