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AROUND TOWN
Chabad Palo Alto ready to celebrate first night of Hanukkah with public menorah lightingChabad Palo Alto, a Jewish outreach organization, is continuing its 40-year tradition of celebrating the first night of Hanukkah...
Original post made on Dec. 14, 2022There are no comments yet. 1845 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Food donations rise after implementation of new lawA new state law allowed Santa Clara County businesses to donate almost 5 million pounds of food during the first half of...
Original post made on Dec. 14, 2022Last comment by smorr, on Dec 14, 2022 at 2:31 pm | 1 comment | 2848 Views
ELECTIONS
Mountain View’s draft Housing Element doesn’t meet state requirements yet, Sacramento saysThe city of Mountain View will have to go back to the drawing board on its draft Housing Element after state officials identified...
Original post made on Oct. 4, 2022Last comment by Shane, on Dec 14, 2022 at 1:43 pm | 56 comments | 6794 Views
AROUND TOWN
False rumors swirl around shopping centers closing in Mountain ViewIn response to some rumors and misinformation floating around town, the League of Women Voters and city officials want to...
Original post made on Dec. 12, 2022Last comment by Jerry, on Dec 13, 2022 at 9:47 pm | 5 comments | 7298 Views
AROUND TOWN
Crypto exchange founder Bankman-Fried faces federal fraud changesSamuel Bankman-Fried, a Bay Area native and son to two Stanford professors, is being federally charged with various counts...
Original post made on Dec. 13, 2022Last comment by Johnny Yuma, on Dec 13, 2022 at 2:28 pm | 1 comment | 2240 Views
AROUND TOWN
‘Police isn’t the way you deal with this’: Mountain View residents express frustration over city’s RV responseWhen Mountain View began enforcing its RV rules at the beginning of October, “RVs started to appear on the street, and...
Original post made on Nov. 21, 2022Last comment by l2zhang, on Dec 12, 2022 at 11:03 pm | 21 comments | 10161 Views
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Local law enforcement owns millions of dollars in 'military equipment.' A new state bill seeks to regulate all of that.California's police departments and sheriff's offices are facing unprecedented oversight of their so-called "military equipment"...
Original post made on Dec. 12, 2022Last comment by Concerned, on Dec 12, 2022 at 3:41 pm | 1 comment | 2701 Views
AROUND TOWN
VIDEO: As Apple employees watch helplessly, thieves take $35K in merchandise on Black FridayTwo people who entered the Apple store in downtown Palo Alto on Nov. 25 during a busy Black Friday sales event made off with...
Original post made on Dec. 1, 2022Last comment by CA Native, on Dec 12, 2022 at 3:15 pm | 4 comments | 4139 Views
SPORTS
COVID levels in Santa Clara County sewershed reach pandemic highWhile transmission of RSV has begun to plateau in Santa Clara County, the county's top health official said Tuesday that...
Original post made on Dec. 7, 2022Last comment by JAFO, on Dec 12, 2022 at 6:26 am | 6 comments | 6310 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Ellen Wheeler honored for two decades on Whisman school boardMore than a dozen local leaders turned out on Thursday night, Dec. 8, to honor long-time Mountain View Whisman school board...
Original post made on Dec. 11, 2022Last comment by Ellen Wheeler, on Dec 11, 2022 at 4:16 pm | 2 comments | 3534 Views
AROUND TOWN
Becker bill looks to transform parking lots into energy generatorsSeeking to transform parking lots into generators of clean energy, state Sen. Josh Becker has proposed a bill that would...
Original post made on Dec. 9, 2022Last comment by Free Speech, on Dec 10, 2022 at 6:11 pm | 6 comments | 2918 Views
OTHER ISSUES
State officials announce another delay to start of Dungeness crab seasonState officials said Wednesday that the opening of commercial Dungeness crab season would be delayed for the third time this...
Original post made on Dec. 9, 2022Last comment by Shane, on Dec 9, 2022 at 2:42 pm | 1 comment | 2124 Views
RESTAURANTS
Two sisters open a new Uyghur restaurant in downtown Menlo ParkAlmira and Kalbi Tursungjan grew up in a foodie family. In their home region of east Turkistan, their parents ran a restaurant...
Original post made on Dec. 9, 2022Last comment by harvardmom, on Dec 9, 2022 at 7:10 am | 1 comment | 5439 Views
AROUND TOWN
Convicted Theranos executive Sunny Balwani sentenced to nearly 13 years in prisonA federal judge on Wednesday sentenced former Theranos president and chief operating officer Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to a...
Original post made on Dec. 8, 2022Last comment by JAFO, on Dec 8, 2022 at 7:18 pm | 2 comments | 1888 Views
AROUND TOWN
Community briefs: Tree lighting, Castro Street traffic signal update and mental health care for the 'missing middle'This week in community briefs, the city of Mountain View puts on its annual tree lighting tradition, the traffic signal at...
Original post made on Dec. 1, 2022Last comment by CA Native, on Dec 8, 2022 at 2:37 pm | 4 comments | 4076 Views
AROUND TOWN
Peninsula residents flock to Mountain View tree lightingDowntown Mountain View filled with cheers last evening as string lights wrapped around the branches of a tree in front of...
Original post made on Dec. 7, 2022Last comment by Tina, on Dec 7, 2022 at 4:23 pm | 1 comment | 4357 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Santa Clara County district attorney to leave Twitter due to hate speech, calls on other DAs to follow suitDistrict Attorney Jeff Rosen plans to deactivate his office's Twitter account due to the recent rise in hate speech on the...
Original post made on Dec. 6, 2022Last comment by J Randall, on Dec 7, 2022 at 12:41 pm | 5 comments | 3449 Views
AROUND TOWN
Mountain View City Council slated to vote on Montecito Ave. affordable housing projectA 100% affordable apartment complex that would add 84 units to the city’s below market rate housing stock is slated to...
Original post made on Dec. 6, 2022Last comment by AC, on Dec 6, 2022 at 9:15 pm | 1 comment | 4002 Views
AROUND TOWN
Stanford to investigate university president's research over scientific misconduct allegationsThe review comes after a student news outlet detailed suspected problems with Marc Tessier-Lavigne's research papers. Read...
Original post made on Dec. 4, 2022There are no comments yet. 3352 Views
AROUND TOWN
Man arrested for suspected hate crime against maintenance worker at downtown Mountain View post officeThe suspect allegedly cursed at the victim, yelled racial epithets at her, threatened to attack her and charged at her with...
Original post made on Dec. 1, 2022There are no comments yet. 3550 Views
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