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SCHOOLS & KIDS
Local mom launches app to help kids lose weightJoanna Strober's 11-year-old son had a weight problem. Looking for advice and specific weight-loss tools, she took her son...
Original post made on Oct. 24, 2014Last comment by mathewmurdock, on Mar 11, 2015 at 1:01 am | 11 comments | 11960 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Foothill College vying to offer new, affordable four-year degreeFoothill College is in the running to become one of the first California community colleges to offer a four-year bachelor's...
Original post made on Jan. 5, 2015Last comment by Marie, on Jan 8, 2015 at 7:37 am | 4 comments | 11959 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Man killed by Caltrain Saturday is identifiedA middle-aged man who was struck and killed by a train at the California Avenue Caltrain station in Palo Alto Saturday morning...
Original post made on Nov. 19, 2013Last comment by Ramone, on Nov 19, 2013 at 9:13 pm | 1 comment | 11959 Views
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
A joyful 'Noise'From handmade acoustic instruments to powerful distorted electronics, from teenage phenoms to music-world veterans, KZSU's...
Original post made on Jan. 30, 2016Last comment by Mark Weiss, on Jan 30, 2016 at 11:23 am | 3 comments | 11957 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
JP Blanchard's mother: 'Empower our students'The mother of a Gunn High School student who died at the Caltrain tracks in May pleaded with the school board Tuesday night...
Original post made on Aug. 26, 2009Last comment by YSK, on Sep 1, 2009 at 2:21 pm | 61 comments | 11956 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
What makes a good coach good?What makes a good coach good? It's all about teaching and motivating, which require clear and direct communication, empathy...
Original post made on May. 14, 2010Last comment by Tyler Hanley, on May 14, 2010 at 8:53 am | 1 comment | 11954 Views
SPORTS
Coronavirus delays start of high school sports seasonsLocal high school sports teams won't be competing until at least December or January, the California Interscholastic Federation...
Original post made on Jul. 20, 2020Last comment by TimR, on Jul 21, 2020 at 2:51 pm | 6 comments | 11953 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Tanaka fined for campaign violationsPalo Alto City Councilman Greg Tanaka has agreed to pay $733 in fines after the California Fair Political Practices Commission...
Original post made on Sep. 11, 2017Last comment by Me3, on Sep 22, 2017 at 7:00 pm | 105 comments | 11950 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
A theater also risesPassersby might have noticed the massive 26,000-square-foot building whose skeleton has emerged over the last several weeks...
Original post made on May. 1, 2015Last comment by Crescent Park Dad, on Sep 14, 2015 at 11:31 am | 33 comments | 11948 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Utility rates set to rise in Palo AltoPalo Alto residents should brace themselves for a dramatic spike in their utility bills in July, with electricity, gas, water...
Original post made on Feb. 5, 2016Last comment by Anonymous, on Feb 14, 2016 at 10:12 am | 30 comments | 11947 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Stanford to launch new youth mental health servicesStanford Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’'s Hospital will be addressing in 2017 what they describe as "immediate...
Original post made on Dec. 20, 2016Last comment by Mama Bear, on Dec 29, 2016 at 12:20 pm | 13 comments | 11946 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Palo Alto High goes back to schoolPaly Alto High School's campus was hectic with a mix of excitement, nerves and some dread about the year ahead on the first...
Original post made on Aug. 15, 2016Last comment by Sally Kadifa, on Aug 18, 2016 at 9:43 pm | 16 comments | 11946 Views
AROUND TOWN
California Avenue redesign stalled by lawsuitsPalo Alto's ambitious quest to turn California Avenue into the next University Avenue or Mountain View's Castro Street is...
Original post made on Mar. 21, 2012Last comment by Evan Thomas, on May 2, 2012 at 10:51 pm | 94 comments | 11945 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Angry parents derail school-calendar voteA Palo Alto school district plan to shift first-semester final exams to before the December break starting next year was...
Original post made on Nov. 10, 2010Last comment by equality, on Nov 14, 2010 at 5:50 pm | 199 comments | 11943 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Civil-rights officials present harassment guidelinesMore than 100 people showed up Thursday night to a parent-education event in which representatives from the U.S. Department...
Original post made on May. 17, 2013Last comment by spectator at large, on Mar 31, 2015 at 1:20 am | 37 comments | 11942 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Critical Mandarin Immersion Presentation 12/120...
Original post made by Jamie Maltz on Dec. 8, 2006Last comment by 897, 898, 899, 9000!, on Dec 18, 2006 at 2:21 pm | 69 comments | 11940 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Pressing ahead with the gender revolution"Can we move beyond the stalled gender revolution?" Read the full story here http://paloaltoonline.com/print/story/2015/11/20/pressing-ahead-with-the-gender-revolution...
Original post made on Nov. 20, 2015Last comment by @Resident, on Nov 22, 2015 at 11:17 am | 15 comments | 11940 Views
AROUND TOWN
Palo Alto holds grand opening of Mitchell Park LibraryDroves of Palo Alto residents turned out Dec. 6 for the grand opening of the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center and...
Original post made on Dec. 6, 2014Last comment by Well., on Dec 15, 2014 at 9:33 pm | 34 comments | 11939 Views
AROUND TOWN
Kiki's Candy Bar, anyone?0...
Original post made by Puzzled on Aug. 13, 2006Last comment by Yes!, on Jun 23, 2009 at 8:11 pm | 10 comments | 11937 Views
AROUND TOWN
Labor talks sputter as Palo Alto approves major budget cutsPalo Alto concluded one of its most brutal budget seasons in recent memory on Monday night, when the City Council approved...
Original post made on Jun. 23, 2020Last comment by Rebecca Eisenberg, on Sep 13, 2020 at 9:12 pm | 28 comments | 11935 Views
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