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Bridge School Benefit concert canceledCiting personal reasons, Neil and Pegi Young announced this week they were calling off the Bridge School Benefit Concert...
Original post made on Jun. 16, 2017Last comment by Neighbor, on Jun 23, 2017 at 4:08 pm | 6 comments | 6560 Views
ELECTIONS
Legislation introduced to allow Caltrain sales taxState legislation introduced Wednesday would allow Caltrain to seek voter approval for a new sales tax to help cover capital...
Original post made on Jun. 22, 2017Last comment by omvmyr, on Jun 23, 2017 at 3:33 pm | 10 comments | 4846 Views
ELECTIONS
Startups push to preserve net neutralityMountain View's tech startups are girding themselves for a big political fight over the data vital to their businesses. Smaller...
Original post made on Jun. 23, 2017Last comment by Only money is heard, on Jun 23, 2017 at 11:57 am | 1 comment | 6892 Views
AROUND TOWN
Former Army housing site eyed for North Bayshore schoolLike manna from heaven, a school campus-sized site may have opened up in North Bayshore to serve the thousands of new households...
Original post made on Jun. 22, 2017Last comment by Wow, on Jun 23, 2017 at 9:20 am | 10 comments | 6791 Views
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Pumar sentenced to one year in jailMatthew Pumar, the driver who hit and killed a Mountain View man last summer, was sentenced to one year in county jail and...
Original post made on Oct. 22, 2013Last comment by Bill Wares Niece, on Jun 21, 2017 at 11:26 pm | 25 comments | 19176 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Eight arrested at Brad Paisley concertMountain View police arrested eight people at the Brad Paisley country concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre over the weekend,...
Original post made on Jun. 20, 2017Last comment by Reader, on Jun 21, 2017 at 5:26 pm | 12 comments | 5751 Views
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Chez TJ, Tied House team up for mixed-use projectThe owner of Chez TJ, the city's high-end restaurant serving gourmet tasting dinners from inside a historic Victorian house...
Original post made on May. 4, 2017Last comment by Jeff T, on Jun 21, 2017 at 10:50 am | 17 comments | 13352 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Heat wave this week prompts weather advisory, Flex alertA heat advisory for the Bay Area issued by the National Weather Service has been extended through 9 p.m. Thursday as sweltering...
Original post made on Jun. 20, 2017Last comment by Robyn, on Jun 20, 2017 at 4:03 pm | 1 comment | 3610 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Navy hits pause on dissolving Moffett RABFollowing pushback from local residents and political leaders, U.S. Navy officials announced Friday they would hold off on...
Original post made on Jun. 17, 2017Last comment by Neighbor, on Jun 19, 2017 at 10:59 pm | 2 comments | 5057 Views
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Record heat at Moffett Field on SundayHigh temperatures in nine San Francisco Bay Area locations were new records for Sunday's date, including at Moffett Field,...
Original post made on Jun. 19, 2017Last comment by Uhg!, on Jun 19, 2017 at 3:56 pm | 2 comments | 4516 Views
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Guest opinion: Fighting floods begins now with stream maintenanceEvery summer since 2001, the Santa Clara Valley Water District has undertaken a five-month-long effort to maintain and improve...
Original post made on Jun. 19, 2017Last comment by dot dot dot, on Jun 19, 2017 at 1:54 pm | 3 comments | 2629 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Man arrested over parking space disputePolice arrested a 25-year-old Mountain View man last week after he allegedly punched two men for taking a parking spot he...
Original post made on Jun. 16, 2017Last comment by See? SEE?!?!, on Jun 19, 2017 at 7:06 am | 9 comments | 4727 Views
ELECTIONS
Rent control committee preps for a flood of landlord petitionsMountain View inched a little bit closer to establishing its new rent-control program and deciding how to settle the myriad...
Original post made on Jun. 16, 2017Last comment by The Business Man, on Jun 19, 2017 at 12:26 am | 14 comments | 5249 Views
RESTAURANTS
Hobee's Restaurant sold to new ownersThe family who has owned Peninsula breakfast institution Hobee's Restaurant for 43 years sold the business to two longtime...
Original post made on Jun. 14, 2017Last comment by clay, on Jun 18, 2017 at 5:24 am | 14 comments | 11073 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Children from new North Bayshore housing would flood local schoolsAs Mountain View's City Council approaches a final decision on whether to allow nearly 10,000 new homes to be built in North...
Original post made on Jun. 16, 2017Last comment by Steven Nelson, on Jun 17, 2017 at 8:53 pm | 12 comments | 5104 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Books Inc moving to new Castro St. homeMountain View's landmark bookstore, Books Inc., is planning to leave its downtown location of 15 years But it won't be going...
Original post made on Mar. 1, 2017Last comment by lan, on Jun 17, 2017 at 4:44 pm | 19 comments | 17395 Views
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NASA seeks coders for ultimate challengeFor a programmer, this is a challenge equivalent to climbing Mount Everest. Officials at the NASA Ames Research Center announced...
Original post made on Jun. 8, 2017Last comment by , on Jun 17, 2017 at 12:39 am | 2 comments | 2559 Views
ELECTIONS
Guest opinion: Consider more land options for new school siteSince the passage of the Los Altos School District's Measure N, 31 months ago, our school board has focused exclusively on...
Original post made on Jun. 16, 2017Last comment by Back to the Future(s), on Jun 16, 2017 at 5:26 am | 3 comments | 3682 Views
OTHER ISSUES
SummerWinds nursery closing due to high rentMountain View is losing its SummerWinds Nursery. Palo Alto will become one of three remaining Bay Area locations after the...
Original post made on Jun. 13, 2017Last comment by YIMBY, on Jun 16, 2017 at 12:49 am | 27 comments | 11068 Views
AROUND TOWN
Affordable housing for vets breaks groundOn Monday, Mountain View dignitaries gathered for a groundbreaking for the $33 million Eagle Park Apartments at 1701 El Camino...
Original post made on Jun. 15, 2017Last comment by MV Resident, on Jun 15, 2017 at 3:38 pm | 2 comments | 5533 Views
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